Gleanings
Gleanings
Day 24: write a poem inspired by a reference book. Open it at random and use the two pages as your inspirational playground. I found a copy of The Reader's Digest Encyclopaedic Dictionary [1976 ed] and opened it at pages 374-5: glaucoma to gnu. What a treasure trove!
Such glorious glimpses can be gleaned
Between these pages, losing their glue
Glimmering in the gloom, like a gnarled old hand
Poised in its glove, whilst hidden from view.
A glaucous glaze gleams amid the gloom
Words glittering, glistening, gleefully glib
A gnomic glossary, a gloating glut glints,
A feast for a word glutton, pure glycerine.
But they glide through your brain, buzzing like gnats
Which inhabit a glen in the gloaming
You snap the book shut, with a glower, and groan
Enough! Some different pages need combing!
© Copyright 2019. Chris Auger. All Rights Reserved
Day 24: write a poem inspired by a reference book. Open it at random and use the two pages as your inspirational playground. I found a copy of The Reader's Digest Encyclopaedic Dictionary [1976 ed] and opened it at pages 374-5: glaucoma to gnu. What a treasure trove!
Such glorious glimpses can be gleaned
Between these pages, losing their glue
Glimmering in the gloom, like a gnarled old hand
Poised in its glove, whilst hidden from view.
A glaucous glaze gleams amid the gloom
Words glittering, glistening, gleefully glib
A gnomic glossary, a gloating glut glints,
A feast for a word glutton, pure glycerine.
But they glide through your brain, buzzing like gnats
Which inhabit a glen in the gloaming
You snap the book shut, with a glower, and groan
Enough! Some different pages need combing!
© Copyright 2019. Chris Auger. All Rights Reserved
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