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Letter to the OED

...Dear Oxford English Dictionary editors,
     Please consider the following words for inclusion in your next edition: 

Amazone - the addictive, ensnaring vortex of shopping online. "She's...

Categories: oxford english, words,
Form: List

Anglophone Aficionado Exudes Infatuation With English Language Number 1

...Versus me 
(chilling as an outsize ego freezer)
profusely perspiring 
and heavily panting
experiencing one after another 
stuff whet dreams are made
frolicking in autumn mist
(think Maxfield P...

Categories: oxford english, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Complete Jackass Collection - From Bad Seed Press

...GONE with the JACKASS
SOMETHING JACKASS this WAY COMES
Of MICE AND JACKASSES
The GRAPES of JACKASS
MOBY JACKASS
JACKASS in the RYE
I KNOW WHY the JACKASS SINGS
The GREAT JACKASS
JACKASS of th...

Categories: oxford english, allegory, humor, literature,
Form: List

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Poetic Dilemma In Fits and Starts

...My dilemma is this

I am not , never a poet

Could try my level best to pose
for one but in all credibility not
seriously pass myself
off as one neither profess
to claim or be an artist even
...

Categories: oxford english, allegory, slam,
Form: Free verse

The Oxford English Dictionary

...The Buddhists say: "If you used a raft to cross the river, there is no need to drag it along further". Oh, my good old dictionary! You're my raft in the great water of English language. Alas, we'll a...

Categories: oxford english, language,
Form: Haibun

Tattarrattat- a Palindrome

...Tattarrattat


…amazing how things change over time, from a simple knock at someone’s door, smoke signals, walking & serenading to the Pony Express, and now Cell Phones…what next, microchi...

Categories: oxford english, community, culture, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Innocent Omission of a Lower Case M

...Top notch legal scholar Erin Go Braw
     (less concerned about being fair versus
     abominable, irrevocable, and execrable
     unforgivable oversight most holy "M" & nonce)

cabinet of high ...

Categories: oxford english, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Word

...In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring

So therefore no adjective was needed to describe it or deplore it
No pr...

Categories: oxford english, humor, language, philosophy, words,
Form: Rhyme

Ou Allons Nous: Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Where Are We Going By T Wignesan

...Où allons nous? Translation of Oodgeroo  Noonuccal’s “Where are we going” by T. Wignesan

Ils sont venus dans une petite ville
Une bande à moitié nue soumise silencieuse
Tout ce qui restait de...

Categories: oxford english, discrimination, grief, horror, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Key

...Key is only 3 letters,
Small like an ant,
The big Oxford English escaped,
Writing what is key in 258 letters!
Key is an opener like my poem,
Married to locks long ago,living together in peace,
...

Categories: oxford english, adventure, creation, history, planet,
Form: Light Verse

Pennies From Heaven

...The hands of twilight amble through glazed clouds
Soothing my emptiness, a  heart’s debris, 
Although one longtime wish rattles aloud
Warm is the breeze that flutes in symphony. 

Soothing my ...

Categories: oxford english, life, uplifting, heaven, heaven,
Form: Pantoum

Word Set

...Never has there been a word
With more meanings, I have learned
Than this trinity of letters
That set so nice when together

The Oxford English Dictionary
set down 62 columns, so worthy
Which w...

Categories: oxford english, funny, on writing and
Form: Quatrain