Unknown Origins

Struggling with Free Verse, I mean to set it right.

 

If Diction isn’t ary

          Then I’m a Lexicon.

I haven’t any Marry,

          Or Wed, or Hitched, or Bond.

My problem is The Saures,

          I cannot make it out.

Am I a whit less Larry,

          Or Ted, or Mitch, or Ron?

 

 

If Diction isn’t ary

          Then I’m a Lexicon.

I haven’t any Marry,

          Or Wed, or Hitched, or Bond.

My problem is The Saures,

          I cannot make it out.

Am I a whit less Larry,

          Or Ted, or Mitch, or Sara?

 

 

          There’s a tome in my house that for years was left unopened. My children were afraid that out of its yellowing pages there lurked some previously unknown monster, “Intelligence’. We used to play games with the ‘Funk and Waggoner’ –

 

“Lets See What’s In the W’s?”

 

          All to no avail. The boys would get stuck on ‘War’, and the girls on ‘Wedding’. Each one would insist that their view was right. There was no mediation, no midnight tours of the ‘White House’ for visiting diplomats, just hard work on the part of the kitchen staff (I’m dishes)…

 

          Excuse me, I’m back. My neighbor’s kid, Mary keeps knocking on my door, She wants to know if she can play outside with my three boys, Theodore, Ronald, and Richard. But we, of course, are not done with our game.

Larry

Author's Note

I had good advise to practice some different approaches to my writing problem. I thought a composite compilation might express and expose my humorous bent to laugh at myself as I grow.

Reviews

[Legion]

I like the all overness of this while still keeping to the underlying theme. Glad to see you are working on it. It is coming along nicely. :) Oh, I sent you something in free verse to help show you how powerful something can be without the rhyme or being lengthy for that matter. Hope you like it. Keep 'em coming.

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'Unknown Origins'
LSS,
Between your kids involved in looking up words: "boys- war and girls- wedding it was fun to imagine the use of the English language and it's slang. Confusing but challenging when words can sometimes have different meanings for the same word or sound the same but are spelled different. You did a nice job with free verse.
Blessings,
Kathy

[T]

JUST what are we gonna do with you???? keep going I likes!!!:)t