Choice of words

CHOICE OF WORDS

‘Working’ is shorter,

saves syllables, characters.

‘Working’ as gerund/

participle/adjective

does ‘profession’ plus most things.

Is ‘professional’

training? taking payment? class?

viring between those?

Oh, the viring. Slippery.

Weasel word, professional.

I plan to retire

and be a working poet.

Working works, say I.

Mind, that’s aspirational.

I am not talking class here.

The above poem made it to the 'Highly commended' list in the 2019 Hastings Litfest competition.

I hope to blog more frequently over the next few weeks, having posted several works to the 'Places of poetry' online map and thus made them ineligible for further entry in competitions.  Watch this space.