We must declare an armistice, a brief and passing truce;
lest all our vitriolic slurs be running out of juice.
Let's pause, and take a break, so we can laugh and joke and play;
I'll shoot your dogma down in flames, with glee, some other day.
So please accept this olive branch, it's my eirenicon;
forgive me if I don't exhort you all to "soldier on".
But rest assured, hostilities resume after the feast;
for peace and amity are not the nature of the beast.
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Author Notes
Today's word: eirenicon (n.) a statement or proposal intended to bring peace; an attempt at reconciliation.
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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