What Do Words Mean? Comical poem 748 by Angela Lansbury.

 

What do daily words really mean?

Wales has one word for blue and green

You could translate both as turquoise

Translators spread visual joys

Eskimos have more words for snow

Renamed Inuit, there you go 

Dialects have, as they all know 

Ten to a hundred kinds of snow

Slush, powder, falling, icicles

Bikes, motorbikes, trikes, tricycles

Cakes, tarts, desserts, sweets, puddings, pies

Lies, half truths, polite words, white lies

Adjectives in front, French behind

Words help the deaf, songs hide the blind

Hard snow, soft sand, all kinds of touch

I didn't know I knew so much.

Alliteration, assonance, rhyme

Crosswords and Scrabble, great pastimes

Which fill with skill and give us pride

Sweep cobweb stress, words glow inside.

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A Poet's Promise comic verse 192 by Angela Lansbury

 Angela with her large pencil and pink diary in which she wrote this poem. Photo selfie by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Every day I'll write a couplet

Even though it's just a droplet

Just to prove I am a poet

'cause I want the world to know it

How much more can I achieve

With just small progress every day?

With my tiny bite-size effort

Tasks don't seem like work, just play

I could learn another language

Wait 'til twenty years go by

Dull days drip out like hourglass sand

Decades pass fast, like a blinking eye

Will my dead diary just show shopping

Doctor, dentist, hospital?

If I add, 'Write daily poem!'

Obey alarms, it will enthrall

Yes, every day I'll write a couplet

Even though it's just a droplet

Just to show that I'm a poet

Bequeath a book, the world will know it.

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