I don’t now often pick up on the writing prompt given in our writers’ club, Writing on the Wharfe, but that for today – Poem in the Pocket – appealed. So, picking up my fountain pen I saw the words pouring out into my little primary school exercise book. For certain, as I had the day before read the latest offering from one of my preferred blogging poets, Jenni Winterburn (a Yorkshire lass, the optimistic pessimist) – you might say my absolute favourite – I have to acknowledge that it’s been influenced very much by her poetry.
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poem in the pocket
among the coins
screwed up tissues
words
and things better forgotten
a poem jostled by the little ones
1p, 2p, 5p, even 10p
which no longer buy anything
just wear holes in the pocket
so the poem slips out
word by word
lost for ever
unless you’re careful
longish beautiful words
like happenstance
which i’ve been trying to fit
into a poem for ages
slip out too
lost for ever
even floccinaucinihilipification
might escape
thus preventing sesquipedalian texts
or poems
and logomachies
disrupting our writers’ club meetings
somehow this little ‘poem’ did not get away
but those long words
better
lost for ever?
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Grumpytyke 
February 5, 2019 at 7:37 am
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February 6, 2019 at 9:24 am
Wow Iulia! Sacks of stardust for that 😉😘
February 4, 2019 at 9:50 pm
Oh my, now I’m going to have to google search. I like the word happenstance I will make it a target to use it correctly in a sentence this week 😊
February 6, 2019 at 9:17 am
It’s a wonderful word, isn’t it.
February 2, 2019 at 3:44 pm
Great stuff 🙂 You had me searching for a few of them long words, I just wish I had a few of my own for this comment. I can see the Jenny influence, which reminds me I must pop in and check out her latest burst of activity.
January 29, 2019 at 1:09 pm
This is superb! The best poem I have read all year 🙂 (Thanks for the shout out too, most kind)
February 2, 2019 at 9:45 am
I’m speechless Jenny. Thank you 🙂
January 26, 2019 at 5:31 pm
Lovely poem Roger! Thanks for sharing it at the meeting today Those annoying little coppers do always seem to slip through any hole and thank goodness the higher value 50p piece has 7 chamfered edges that better cling on to my raggedy pockets! Cheers James
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January 27, 2019 at 7:54 am
Thank you James. It’s so ‘nice’ to get a comment, particularly about my scribblings. I’ll be emailing you about ‘the other thing’.