Etymology Poems - Poems about Etymology

The eaten word even truer ...Read the rest...

Punch line ...Read the rest...

on the still strand our footsteps ebb&flow...Read the rest...

A word that surely had to go Folks pronounced it 'Knee-grow' Just as with 'shi-tte' ~ It took a...Read the rest...

ENTHUSIASM: zest & zeal have divine origins, "en theos" or In God...Read the rest...

PUNICA GRANATUM So you had a bad day? Think Pomegranate; the inside universe ... that inspired grenades, etymology, history, Jewish numerical blunders ... Roman blunders into Carthage again. Jewish Numerical Blunders as in estimating each Pomegranate has 613 seeds,...Read the rest...

PUNICA GRANATUM Yes, in Paradise, Adam and Eve ate pomegranate No, to apple-etymology - No, to The French "Grenade" No, more or less 613 seeds (sorry Pharisees and thy 613 Law) Yes, Malum Granatum, no origin in Carthage, Latin...Read the rest...

Where does a word originate? Latin or Greek? What kind of meaning doth the new word seek? Who decided it would be wise to have too, two, and to? Or was this confusion in the language of...Read the rest...

we all write together -no independence - words, thoughts, were made for us...Read the rest...

I What weather will welcome roaming? Any, if it's sunny, she says Off they go, Thomas Hardy tales recalling ... Roaming the veld, let me count the ways - II If we were cattle, we would range If we were bandits we...Read the rest...

the roots – i.e. genealogy of words long held me (no pun intended) held spell bound e'en upon fertilization of ova and sperm viz – conception, an acute sensory means...Read the rest...

The etymology of my daughter's name is beauty---Jacinda. My daughter was named after beauty; she has found much more in her name: Earth. I, have discovered a deeper meaning within the fabric of the...Read the rest...

The origin of any word May be, on close inspection, Quite obvious, if one inferred The cause of its connection. What brings this up was my surprise When noticing in "smother" That hiding there, without disguise, Is everybody's "mother." Coincidence or little jab? We...Read the rest...