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A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities

The clumsy traveller

by CD Richards


On finding I had cause for celebration,

the thought arose to take a perfretation.

But as I went to board the ship,

I tumbled down and broke a hip—

a fact which caused the crew some consternation!

 



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Today's word: perfretation (n.) a sea voyage or crossing.

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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