Reading in the jungle of the English language
I begin to feel swamped Lost for derivative words of nouns adjectives and verbs
Hiding behind exclamations, conjunctions, prepositions.suffixes
Making my path for meaning foggy as I see thousands of obsolete words Lay by the wayside.
Without rhyme or reason we ride the syllabified rhythm as we speak
Wading in our lifetime through over one hundred thousand syllables.
My kingdom for a horse to ride over the mountain of words we never use,
Sympathetic syzsygy symbolism twisting the mother tongue
Ironically it sinks into children with the number one beginner being
Mammy and Daddy as the words are giggled and sung.
Now as these words envelope us into the English language we must
In today's world use the best words more like I love you, hug me, show mercy
To move forward in harmony across the world hand in hand.
Ken e Hall
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jungle-of-the-english-language/
