 |
Poor Sam...
A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities
:
The tightrope walker
by CD Richards
|
|
|
A young schoenobatist named Sam
joked and waved while traversing the dam;
but the rope it was wet
and the lad had no net;
now poor Sam looks like strawberry jam.
|
Author Notes
Image: Valet tightrope, Ian Burt. Unaltered. CC2 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode). Downloaded from https://www.flickr.com/photos/oddsock/9125510233.
Today's word: schoenobatist (n.) tightrope walker.
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.
Thanks for reading.
|
|
©
Copyright 2024.
CD Richards
All rights reserved.
CD Richards
has granted FanStory.com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work. |
