2013 1218: I lost a word the other day. A poem

I lost a word the other day;

when I looked around it had run away.

And yesterday when I was out,

another found its way about.

So there was I, feeling bereft and sad,

wondering where my words had gone.

I didn't know the what and when

or the who, the why or the where,

but I knew that I had loved those words

and really searched around.

I've always loved the sound of words:

the shape and colour and feel,

the way that words sing out to me 

from page and song and screen.

To lose the word is never nice,

and to have it happen twice 

leaves me wondering what I had done 

and where my words had gone.

If I had watched with greater zeal

Perhaps my words'd stayed

and how I'll  find them I don't know;

So now I can only say, 

with great dismay: 

"I lost some words the other day".

Jimali Mckinnon 

18 December 2013

submitted to AllPoetry.com as my first poem in mid April 15.   

submitted as a pre-write to AllPoetry.com contest "Quickie No 4" hosted by shoutevenshy 24 July 15.  Closes one day or 15 entries.