General Poetry posted November 10, 2018 Chapters:  ...313 314 -315- 316... 


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A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities

Accountability

by CD Richards

 
With weasel words, they duck and weave, and circumvent the truth;

"But why should indagation threaten honest folk?" I ask.

The road to hell begins, most likely, at a polling booth;

be thankful there are still some left to take the rogues to task.

 
 



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indagation (n.) investigation; a searching or questing.

Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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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