Lewis Raynes Poet Quatrain

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homonym

'h?m?n?m/

noun

 

1. each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins (e.g. pole¹ and pole²)

Homonyms

Homonyms are words with
Two meanings that we know,
Words like gross and match and light, 
And pile and park and row,

Your boat out deep into the river 
But be careful what you drink,
Because the last thing you want to see 
Is your boat begin to sink,

On the kitchen bench
Right beneath the clock, 
And the sink has been made from
A granite sort of rock,

The baby too and fro, 
Until she is resigned,
To a lullaby made of homonyms,
Like down and just and kind.

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Maurice Rigoler February 7, 2018 at 10:05 PM I too have great fun with homonyms, Lewis. Many thanks for reading my humor. / M

Vijay Pandit February 7, 2018 at 6:42 AM Good play on words..cleverly depicted, Lewis. Lewis Raynes February 7, 2018 at 8:58 PM Cheers, thanks Vijay, i'm glad u liked this one :)

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart February 7, 2018 at 12:05 AM I LOVE homonyms! I delight in using more than one meaning at once. I thoroughly enjoyed this Lewis! Sweet ink :) xomo Lewis Raynes February 7, 2018 at 8:58 PM its a fun play on words, puns and the like, thanks for ur comment :)

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton February 6, 2018 at 9:24 PM Inventive and clever... love this. For some reason it brings back images of my father sitting at the kitchen table with us over homework making games out of homonyms and synonyms. Those were the days...Imagery of this poem fabulous as well, moving from "row" to ...out deep into the river, drinking and sinking.. Lewis Raynes February 6, 2018 at 10:03 PM thank you Leanne, glad u could relate this to ur youth, thanks :)