[Critique Group 1] pieces due today

[Leonard Tuchyner]

Hi group1,

Our pieces are due today. Mine is below.

Leonard
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Where Did That Word Go?

 

It was here not more than a minute ago,  

a word I wanted to use in a phrase. 

I dropped it off the tip of my tongue, 

and it ran away to elude this one.

Heretofore it had been a friendly word, 

always ready to help me express -- 

but what that was, escapes me presently. 

 

That seems to happen these elder days. 

More and more familiar words slip away. 

It isn’t as though I miss their gist.

Their concept is there as good as ever, 

but the words themselves are simply gone. 

Somewhere in time they will come back to rest, 

like wayward birds returning to nest. 

They will stay with me for a little while 

then flit off again as has become their style. 




 
 
Leonard I. Tuchyner, Author
 
https://www.dldbooks.com/tuchyner/

 
  
 
 

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