General Poetry posted August 15, 2018 Chapters:  ...224 225 -226- 227... 


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A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities

An important announcement

by CD Richards

 
There's something I have been anxious to say;
I meant to tell you this the other day,
and now it's time to let the truth be known,
before the issue gets quite overblown.

So, I'll reveal this little fact to you
and leave you not a moment more to stew;
then when I've told you what it is, you'll see
why it's been weighing heavily on me.

To get this out is taking a long while,
though circumduction's really not my style;
but you'll agree this topic's rather hot.
So what's the news?

It seems that I forgot!

 




Today's word: circumduction (n.) a longwinded, roundabout route or course of action.

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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