You Know Your Word

It’s Quadrille Monday again at the dVerse Poets Pub; time to create a 44-word poem using the word (or encompassing the concept of) Inglenook.

Thanks to Linda Lee Lyberg for hosting and getting us started.

— For those of you not familiar with the word, here is a definition:
INGLENOOK (noun,English)- A close intimate corner by a fireplace where people gather for warmth; from ingle, a hearth (Scots) —

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You Know Your Word

I have never used the word inglenook
in any poem I’ve ever written, or even
in any poem I might consider writing.

Icky words like inglenook belong
in that basket that all good writers
always carry around for words like:
(fill in the blank).

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dVerse Poets Pub
Quadrille Monday #118
~ Inglenook ~

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15 thoughts on “You Know Your Word

  1. I write “those” words on one of my vocabulary pages. Still I don’t look for one of them usually. I think of enough words to get by, I guess.

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