General Poetry posted October 24, 2018 | Chapters: | ...296 297 -298- 299... |
With apologies to WS
A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities
The garden
by CD Richards
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Today's word: polyanthea (n.) a literary collection, an anthology.
I love today's word, I think it has a sweet sound to it. Since I've just recently published my first own little anthology (a collection of poems), I thought it appropriate to use that as the subject. Also adding to the appeal of today's word is that it literally means "many flowers", hence the garden theme. My scribblings may not mean much to anyone but myself, but to me they are very much like a garden, on a number of levels.
Thanks for reading.
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 occured 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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and 2 member cents. I love today's word, I think it has a sweet sound to it. Since I've just recently published my first own little anthology (a collection of poems), I thought it appropriate to use that as the subject. Also adding to the appeal of today's word is that it literally means "many flowers", hence the garden theme. My scribblings may not mean much to anyone but myself, but to me they are very much like a garden, on a number of levels.
Thanks for reading.
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 occured 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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