The Spondonicle Chronicle

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Shelley Hansen
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The Spondonicle Chronicle

Post by Shelley Hansen » Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:36 pm

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!
Shelley Hansen
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")

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Stephen Whiteside
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Re: The Spondonicle Chronicle

Post by Stephen Whiteside » Mon Oct 31, 2016 9:43 pm

Great word! Great poem!

The original billy lifters:
http://spondonicles.piapplications.com.au/Spons.aspx
Stephen Whiteside, Australian Poet and Writer
http://www.stephenwhiteside.com.au

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Wendy Seddon
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Re: The Spondonicle Chronicle

Post by Wendy Seddon » Tue Nov 01, 2016 10:31 am

Shelley,

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

Post by David Campbell » Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:20 pm

Good fun, Shelley! One of the joys of rhyming verse is playing around with unusual words.

Cheers
David

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