Monosyllabic Word Poems | Examples

  ~ To the Melody of "Home on the Range" ~

       Home, Home of the Brains
       Where Scrabble is endlessly played
          Where seldom is heard 
          A monosyllabic word
       And American English is forbidden, btw

Bricabrac. Old and sick in Krakow, Czeslaw complained of his to a fellow (Irish) Nobelista. My fate too (though I am not a poet, I think, and so do I deserve it?)? Like alphabet soup. Lots of letters. Enough to make a small book. Swimming, refusing to join others in the sparest, most economic, incarnation - a monosyllabic word. Let alone a sentence that might be read front to back. Bricabrac.

2016 June 29

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