Thursday, August 11, 2022

A Gold-plated Necklace Of Words Comic poem 156 by Angela Lansbury - also known as Hazel Nutter



When you need a simple rhyme

There's no need to waste your time

Type synonyms and a Thesaurus

Roget's done the hard work for us


D'you need new words? Just look online

No need to spend a single dime

Synonyms crowd the thesaurus

Repetition needn't bore us


If syllables outrun your line

Count on your fingers, you'll be fine

Don't let all life's stresses gnaw us

When you're tired, write a chorus


When big news is all grime and crime 

Small positive words seem sublime

Good words open new doors for us

That's why readers all adore us


In the daytime, or after dark

Poets and speakers leave their mark

Life has found a new job for us

All our keen readers implore us


You do not need to waste your time

Wracking your brains to think up rhymes

Roget wrote in his thesaurus 

He's done all the hard work for us.


Each proud nation's patriots climb

Place ads at stations, flash flags and signs

Even those who never knew us

Send songs, hymns, and prayers, to us


Recycle, improve what went before

Words links chains, change people, add more

Thought and research prove chains are true

I'll pass these gold-plate words to you.

-ends

Photo of discarded, damaged, gold-plated tap, upcycled, glued, preserved, to make a glittery paperweight. 

Chains in a necklace was what I was thinking, not chains holding you down.


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