Excellent A free verse A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities : The icon by CD Richards

It's not a graven image, a false idol, a monument to evil, representing unholy alliance between clay and diabolical sculptor. It's not a salty pillar, an ancient reminder of the uselessness of doubt and the folly of regret. It's not a holy apparition, a stone Madonna, bleeding in despair at the wickedness of apostacy. It's just a petrifact. A likeness. An observation. Maybe, more often than we think, a statue is a statue. Pass up the Kool-Aid, take the photo.   Author Notes Today's word: petrifact (n.) a stone artefact or statue. I rarely attempt free verse. There's probably a good reason for that; still we must occasionally challenge ourselves. 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.

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