In the days when I worked in a project office in the electricity industry, we would often enliven the humdrum of the week by setting word challenges - for example, find a new and relatively unknown word, and then find a way to use it in a staff meeting, or even better - in a presentation to management!
One of the men discovered "spondonicle" which is a tool used for lifting hot containers from a stove or fire. Well, that absolutely had to inspire a poem! When I retired they presented me with a "retirement survival pack" of all sorts of imaginative things ... including of course, a spondonicle!
I do apologise for the inverted phrases - but rest assured it is not destined for entry into a competition!
The Spondonicle Chronicle
(c) Shelley Hansen 2014
Adventures astronomical
across the deep blue sea
to places quite iconical
can so relaxing be.
But problems anatomical
you’ll have – it seems to me –
forgetting your spondonicle
to lift your billy tea.
Results would be so comical –
Your dance … not one of glee!
The boom could be quite sonical
as words fly fast and free!!
You wouldn’t need your monocle
your blistered hands to see.
You might require a tonical
and bandaids – you’ll agree.
And that would be ironical …
your weekend – fine and free –
would turn pear-shaped (that’s conical) …
no longer bringing glee.
The moral of this chronicle
is very plain to see …
Remember your spondonicle
for breakfast, lunch and tea!
The Spondonicle Chronicle
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The Spondonicle Chronicle
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"Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends,
fer 'atin' never paid no dividends."
(CJ Dennis "The Mooch o' Life")
Lady of Lines
http://www.shelleyhansen.com
"Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends,
fer 'atin' never paid no dividends."
(CJ Dennis "The Mooch o' Life")
- Stephen Whiteside
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Re: The Spondonicle Chronicle
Great word! Great poem!
The original billy lifters:
http://spondonicles.piapplications.com.au/Spons.aspx
The original billy lifters:
http://spondonicles.piapplications.com.au/Spons.aspx
Stephen Whiteside, Australian Poet and Writer
http://www.stephenwhiteside.com.au
http://www.stephenwhiteside.com.au
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Re: The Spondonicle Chronicle
Shelley,
Your workplace seems harmonical,
I'm sure that it was so
and totally platonical
but only you would know!!
Your workplace seems harmonical,
I'm sure that it was so
and totally platonical
but only you would know!!
Wen de Rhymewriter There is nothing mundane about the ordinary.
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Re: The Spondonicle Chronicle
Good fun, Shelley! One of the joys of rhyming verse is playing around with unusual words.
Cheers
David
Cheers
David