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Rated: E · Poetry · Writing · #1380379
A poet and a dictionary are inseparable.
AN ODE TO A DICTIONARY


I can’t write if I don’t have
You, my dictionary.
Without you, my writing would
Be just ordinary.

I can’t write without you a
Poem, O lexicon!
To look you up, by nature,
I am so often prone.

You help me find words that rhyme
And have proper accent.
One wrong word suffices to,
A poem’s beauty dent

I am a traditional
Poet, my words matter.
You are the flower from which
Sweet nectar I gather.


• Written in abcb, 7-6-7-6 format.

• Initially written as entry no. 432951 in the book MISCELLANEA, {item: 963917}. Posted as an independent item on 26 January 2008.



M C Gupta
12 June 2006
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