Genre: Life, Rhyme, Drama, Angry
Glossing the Junior Dictionary
Outside my window words like atoms dance.
Outside are living things defined,
by Oxford University Press no less,
expunged as being
“irrelevant to modern childhood.”
I look out and the pasture disappears,
buttercups supping underneath the melting snow.
The willow catkins tickling a bee’s chin
Never will arrive this spring, nor their nectar.
What use the fun of conker or acorn?
Do away with dandelion’s sun,
poison the price of a pretty lawn.
How yawn-making a woodland walk must be
among the ash, hazel and beech trees,
ivy-clad trunks and limbs
an honour guard to the bluebell dell.
The weather lore of heron flying inland – gone.
Along with kissing under the mistletoe.
Who will remember that cygnet
is what you call a swan’s awkward offspring?
All lost to the lexicon of childhood.
A glossary from the latest edition gracing school bookshelves:
celebrity, chatroom, bullet point, cut-and-paste.
Definitions for a 21st century child’s proper preoccupations.
Blog your nameless panic at world’s unmet.
Block-graph that.
Bee Smith is the author of “Brigid’s Way: Celtic Reflections on the Divine Feminine” available as an ebook on Amazon. BrigidsWay: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brigids-Way-Reflections-Celtic-Feminine-ebook/dp/B00SQP9ASY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422294663&sr=1-1&keywords=Brigid%27s+Way
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