The Joy of Text

Perhaps I should feel a bit guilty at not having posted for a while, but I'm not really. Nevertheless, I need to maintain some degree of momentum  - so here's one I wrote recently for my writing class. It's an example of a Collin's Stanza.

The Joy of Text
The English language is a joy to use
So many words, it’s easy to effuse.
The thesaurus and dictionary thrill,
but sometimes words from these don’t fit the bill.
Embusic, thrumble, droofy – ev’ry one’s
a word that I invented just for fun.

Some words sound like they should be in a song,
Mellifluously flowing ‘cross the tongue.
Severe words like ‘tenebrous’ set the tone,
weird ones like ‘malarkey’ and ‘trombone’.
But nupic, gendenephry – ev’ry one’s
a word that I invented just for fun.

The little words that act as sentence glue
Can help build lines of beauty, clear and true.
Finding complex ones that you can learn’ll
Help you read a scientific journal,
Though diactic nephrulation  – ev’ry one’s
a word that I invented just for fun.

I know that it sounds crazy but it’s true.
I like the sound and feel of words – I do!
Like arblaitry cendric endulation
and predistental teps in agrimation,
Sometimes I give them meanings – ev’ry one’s
a word that I invented just for fun.