Today’s theme is assonance and alliteration, larding “a poem that explicitly incorporates …the use of repeated consonant sounds and …the use of repeated vowel sounds.”
All the Beautiful Words
Conjure them into a list
Coaxing and crooning your wish
For serendipity, synergy, synchronicity
Treasure them like a new found horde
Peat-preserved, bronze cups and cauldrons,
Torcs and cloak broaches to hold
The cloth against a cold breeze
Box some. Archive others. Some set free
To live their wildish lives in poetry
Wandering moors, setting off on
Peregrinations out to sea in corracles
Commit them to memory
Seal it with a kiss. Learn them by heart
(which in Irish is crói)
Do not be slavish to language bigotry
Add ones picked up on your travels like
Seashells from the shore, necklaces found in the souk
Made from antler and bone
Like zeitgeist or milagro
The breath upon the matix of creation
Amazement
Survival of the persistent
Or the spirals made by sunflower seed
Or the helix within a pine cone staircase
Lexical diversity aside
Let us not be dictionary driven
Let our ears hear and delight
In all the beautiful words
So many still to meet
Bounty, booty, bought
Some sold to the highest bidder
Boxed, archived
Some set free
Sojourning Smith 