dead weight

dead
dead end
deadeye
deadlock
deadpan
deadweight
I love flipping through a dictionary
making notes
sometimes for later poems
but this time for this one
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Delegans Avatar
December 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Love this. I find word play is a necessary skill as a poet to keep things sharp. Sometimes it is what is standing between us writing and never writing again. Keep stoking the fire of creativity, Caren!
Krutsinger Avatar
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
thank you Christopher
Swan Avatar
December 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Yes, the page-flick of things you forgot or never heard of that lie sleeping in the big book - all neatly lying next to each other, but always forwards, never backwards like 'undead' (except online where they go in one eye and out the other) J:)
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December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I love my Thesaurus and my dictionary and my scientific facts for children books
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