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A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities

That sinking feeling

by CD Richards


This story is not a distortion,

a ship set to sea without caution.

In twain it was cleft,

just lagan was left—

a wreck of Titanic proportion.


 



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Today's word: lagan (n.) goods or wreckage lying on the sea bed.

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

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