Posted on 28th Jan 2022
You say tomato It is mottos or mottoes, Ghettos or ghettoes, Can be cargos or cargoes And mangos or mangoes. Even banjos or banjoes Or halos and haloes, Tornados, tornadoes, Volcanos, volcanoes. Not heros, just heroes, Nor potatos, but potatoes, Never vetos, it's vetoes, And tomatoes, who knows!
Posted on 29th Oct 2021
Words Cheeky little blighters, silent enough to slip unspoken through the tightest security. Audacious, irreverent, helping us laugh, chuckle, giggle, forget our troubles for a short while. Collect them, select them, a pride of nouns, a mischief of misdemeanours, a wholesome snicker of double entendre. Intoxicating creatures, painting pictures, whispering undying love, lifting spirits, breaking hearts. Chastising, praising, nurturing, raising. Essential little hand tools for describing, explaining, trying to fathom the beauty and the mystery of life. Powerful bastards, weapons on the lips of politicians and presidents. The potential to heal scars, stop wars or cause them, build empires, obliterate countries, save the world or destroy the planet. Words, black as tadpoles, ubiquitous as death.
Posted on 28th Oct 2021
That’s all folks
Inquisitive Paul
researched the word caul
in his dictionary, small
finding that wasn’t all
that he had the gall
to not know, like scall.
It made him fair waul
to find the word orle
in his erudite trawl
through the absolute sprawl
of words such as pawl,
schorl, meatball and squall,
bookstall, wherewithal,
netball and jackal,
completely enthralled,
it was Paul’s wonderwall.