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Friday, February 3, 2023

Word Garden Word List--George Hitchcock

 

Hello poets, and welcome to the new and improved yet old-fashioned Word List, now with more Friday! Nobody seemed to be coming by mid-week, leaving the Word List lonely and mopey, so now it has new permanent digs--it will appear from now on on Friday afternoons. 


This week's List is taken entirely from a slim volume of poetry entitled The Piano Under The Skin by George Hitchcock. It's an amazing collection. Here's a sample, called On the Edge:

you're on the threshold he said
take the knife and cut the river
loose from its mooring put away
that syllabus you're on your own
all the monuments have been recited
too often it's time to trim
their beards and slaughter
their stone horses and what is
this tiny cyst in the middle
of the last crusade?


George Hitchcock (1914-2010) was a jack of all trades--an actor, poet, labor activist, publisher and playwright. The volume I have taken your List words from is from 1978. What we do here is to take at least 3 of the 20 words provided and use them in a new original poem. Then just link up, visit others, and marvel at your own incredible virtuosity! And now, your List:

butter
cicada
cinders
confetti
consumptive
exploded
fractions
geysers
gibbering
gong
lions
mandolin
mask
masquerading
pagoda
plumed
revolver
scaffold
syllabus
wag

8 comments:

  1. As always your lists are like going to a beautiful museum and enjoying and learning and leaving the building with more than when you came in. I will try to get this book. I love what I have heard so far. I will try my best to be back...if I do not make it I will still be reading yours and some of the participants. I think the Friday change is a wonderful idea Shay. Have a great weekend my friend!

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  2. Wow, what a great poem. I wish I'd written that. TGIF! (Is that a restaurant or poetry site? Hmm....)

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    1. Don't you love those "wish I had written that" poems?

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  3. i am late to the game again but am working on something this morning and look forward to this Friday's word list as well.

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    1. You are not late, Margaret. I consider the post open all week.

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  4. OK. I worked on a new version of Josephine Bake with a few new words. Thank you. Off to visit and comment and last week's and this weeks poems. Thank you!

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