Double Meanings

Double Meanings

The tiny king said, “What’s the news?

With morning cup, I’ll read the views

of all my loyal subject folk.”

The paper told a tale of spoon,

of dish and cow, of magic moon,      

of little dog and artichoke

and dainty princess and a pea.

He read some more and sipped his tea

and said, “It’s all an equivoke.”

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Notes: The form is Nove Otto.  The above picture is by Michael Sowa from The Little King, and was used as the prompt from Magpie Tales this week. 

In keeping with my love of learning cool new words, I discovered the word 'equivoke' today, which means an equivocation, a pun or a double meaning.  

A Mooooving Story

 

I found an interesting site thanks to Sharp Little Pencil, called Three Word Wednesday.  Each week, they post three words and the challenge is to write a poem using those words in some manner.  This past week, the words were Dabble, Lean and Utter.  There were many thoughtful, well-written poems created from this prompt (which are linked to the site, if you want to check 'em out - and I highly encourage it.) 

But...

...of course, since my mind works in a strange, wordplay kind of way, well...this is what I got:

Utter Bull

Dabble? He lean and hungry dude

but haz no utters dat protrude.

Dat iz becuz he ain’t no cow,

so Mutter Nature can’t endow.

And on that note, guess I'll be moooooving along.  Cheers!

Acutezza

I just learned a new word today, courtesy of Changing Minds.org.  It's 'acutezza' and it means the use of wit or wordplay.  I think it just might be my new favorite word!

There's a whole lot of very cool figures of speech on that page, actually.  

Like, f'r instance, 'Dogberryism' (which sounds very Dilbert-ish, doesn't it?  It means the same thing as malapropism, which means replacing a word with one that sounds similar, but is generally just wrong!)

I also found 'aureation' (the use of fancy words) and 'glossolalia' (fabricated, meaningless speech) which are just wonderful, dontcha think?!

Well, that's it, except...to everyone, I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!

(How's that for a bit of 'paraprosdokia' with regard to today's post???)