Sand
For Paul's "Most Favourite and Least Favourite Words Poetry Challenge"
Sand
I hear some people hate it
It’s coarse
It’s rough
It gets everywhere
In between your toes,
And in your sheets
Gritty
Pervasive
I get it, but
I don’t mind it
A remnant of an adventure
Of a story perhaps untold
Even if it's a sad story
I’d rather see it unfold
Even if I should try
I could never despise
Something that brings to others
A possible sense of joy
No,
If there is a collection of letters
I am to despise
It is failure
And its dreadful deride
Even its cadence sings
A horrid minor key
“A lack of success”
Who decreed this?
I took a hundred classes
Passed a thousand tests
But the one I failed
Taught me more than the rest
So let’s stop painting failure
As a land of boiled bones
To be avoided and shunned
And embrace it as
The greatest teacher of all
Ohh,
And Paul
I almost forgot
Since you asked nicely,
I’ll offer up
without comment, mind,
That my favorite word
Is Snollygoster
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Written for Paul's "Most Favourite and Least Favourite Words Poetry Challenge"
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Comments (18)
There are several words I hate the most, but ma favourite word is pussy : )
I LOVED THE STAR WARS REFERENCE!! The whole poem was fantastic and the ending was great!
Beautiful poem, Matthew! Snollygoster is a new one for me. Off to look it up now!
Nice free form, and I agree with you about failure. For some reason, Snollygoster reminds me of gobstoppers or something Willy Wonka would call someone lol.
Very clever... I love the beach, so sand gets my tick of approval. 'Snollygoster' entered our home for the first time!
Ooh, love this! Snollygoster is indeed a beautiful word for a not so beautiful person. My favorite kind of word-collection. ;D I really like your take on the words. More the manifestation of the word that you like or hate, rather than the word itself or how it sounds/looks.
Well done, I have no idea what Snollygoster means but you did a great job with writing this.
I don't know what SNOLLYGOSTER means, but I love it already! Thank you for adding it to my life 😁
Great poem Matthew! I only hate sand when it’s hot as hell outside, but failure?! Yeah i usually hate that, unless it’s teaching me something.
This is beautiful. And I absolutely LOVE snollygoster. lol. What a great word.
Snollygoster hahahahahahaha. Thank you for teaching me a new word. Love it and this poem was stunning, my friend. Failure is a bad word, but one we can learn from, sand is cool though, and I love the Star Wars references (of course) lol. Thank you for entering and offering up this mighty fine work for my little challenge! :) Adding it to the post now!
What a wonderful reflection on sand, failure, and the beauty of words!
Oooo, snollygoster! I learned a new word today! Also, land of boiled bones, I really loved that. Your poem was awesome!
Nice....My son hates the sand and dwe live on the west coast. I like you word
Spectacular sand poem!!! Love it!!!💕❤️❤️
Such interesting choices. Love 'Snollygoster' sums up so much, so aptly. Failure is such a funny one. If you learn from it can it ever be as it says on the tin? Really well done 🤍
Let me start off by taking my turn at being "that guy" and saying, check the definitions of "course" and "coarse." Other than that, I think "failure" is too important a word to despise. You said it yourself in this, it's how the word is interpreted and acted upon, no? A great entry for Paul's challenge, regardless!
I love this, the generosity holds through both the sand and the failure, so what I take away is something vivacious.