Attention: Word Nerds--------- the Eight Parts of Speech

---------------------- "Word Nerds" (like me)...
************Please Have Fun & Read VERY Closely:)***********


now and again
a word 
sneakily obscure
approaches the fog in me
screams its name 
suddenly 
apropos adverbs appear
clearly 
startling 
perplexing 
precarious adjectives
slick little nouns
caught hiding 
beyond babbling brooks
sent to exile
defiling crooks
"pro"fessional nouns
jailed
beneath eight parts of speech
preposition'ed 
pre'fixed subjects
elusive predicates
slithering suffix'ation
turn-ing key
delicately 
through holes
freeing vocabulary
trapped 
within prison walls
synonyms 
pen bars 
filled in the past 
participles
plagued 
like Job's tedious job 
of siphoning
deciphering 
homographs from heteronyms 

words never mind...
 
they wind the mind
gliding 
in the wind...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011


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Date: 11/27/2011 11:37:00 AM
SO ~J s l,, either you have a way with words or not,,however as long as it "goes" though why one never knows...? your verses are kind'a.. "well" funny and hot:) all the best Joe..!
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Date: 11/18/2011 8:47:00 PM
Yes it is almost sensually erotic....yet I keep seeing chalk boards.....like it!!
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Date: 11/10/2011 5:55:00 PM
You've just given me a headache :) these slick little nouns versus the swanky pro -fessional ones. Deciphering's a good word :) ...cheers margaret
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Date: 11/10/2011 11:50:00 AM
Hi there, JS :) Well this sure is a clever write-- shucks now I don't feel like too much of a word nerd when I read this, heehee :) I definitely liked your last stanza here, the play on wind there was cool :) Thanks for telling me about this! And haha, I super enjoyed your comments in my poems, you got me laughing, thanks :) See this hand? Looking up now & Waving in front of you just to say HI! You're a tall guy! ^_^
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Date: 11/10/2011 2:00:00 AM
very interesting, this one... thnx for stopping by
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Date: 11/9/2011 5:59:00 PM
by the way, I'll see ya tomorrow here. My trucker coming home tonight. No soup for me tonight!just me and honey bear!
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Date: 11/9/2011 5:56:00 PM
I sure hope you are well versed in your knowledge of all these parts of speech. It will serve you well in your portal! heehee. This glided on down to its clever conclusion. They wind the mind gliding in the wind. Also that was funny job's tedious job!! (i had to think a second it was two different job's!)
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Date: 11/9/2011 3:33:00 PM
Yes, words glide in the wind..Enjoyed reading your work today..I am glad that I chose this one as one of the ones that I could read this eve..Your presence at my work was uplifting...Sara
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Date: 11/9/2011 12:21:00 PM
There really is a wonderful flow to this poem, Joey, and I love the way you describe all the parts of speech. This from an old English teacher. Great work! Love, Carolyn
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Date: 11/9/2011 10:05:00 AM
What a flow!!!Geez! Just ripp'in it!...Nice~~
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Date: 11/9/2011 8:07:00 AM
Great pen. like a verbal drug, a person just can't get enough of it. :)
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Date: 11/9/2011 7:28:00 AM
Thanks for the comments and kind words on my poems. You know, I was in Uruguay (Montevedio) in the year 2003 attending World Congress of Poets' conference. A few of my poems are translated in Spanish, JS
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Date: 11/9/2011 4:58:00 AM
In the beginning was the word. It's all there is. Tony
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