Tag Archives: words

The Game of Words

June 22, 2022poem, Poetrypoem, poetry, wordsThe Cheesesellers Wife

Onamatapiec doesn’t cover it all
Thalweg is riverine, twisty and wet
Perpendicular sounds as sharp as it should

Mimic

November 18, 2017philosophy, poem, Poetryphilosophy, poem, poetry, silence, wordsThe Cheesesellers Wife

Words are blunt instruments
Poetry sharpens them
Tries to bring them to a point
To break the silence

Scrabbling

October 15, 2017Chickens, garden, Life, poem, Poetry, weatherchickens, garden, Life, poem, poetry, wordsThe Cheesesellers Wife

I am scrabbling for a word
To describe the noise of chickens
Scrabbling in the garden

It isn’t rustling
The leaves above are doing that
Rustle is a high pitched word
I need a lower pitich
Mustle, grustle
Tustle is what one hen is doing with a worm

Now there’s a sudden outbreak of snail football
The snail always loses

It’s life

On this sunny late October afternoon
Maybe its scrabbling after all