Tongue in cheek

Posted byGeorge Potter 4 Comments on Tongue in cheek 

 
 By naming the Tower of Babel
 Wasted speech was given a label
 But then it was language,
 Designed to discourage
 The ambition of builders-too-able.
 

 Now comes the Power of Mad Screech
 Supposedly some kind of speech
 Where the new predilection
 To hustle one’s diction
 Puts understanding, quite beyond reach.
 

 Like announcements in DIY stores
 A confusion of noise and no more
 The objective should be 
 To improve clarity
 Not to drive me, full speed, for the door.
 

 As hearing falters, it’s less differential
 Making the clarity all more essential
 For my pleasure each day
 I silently pray
 For a word rate more clear and gentle.
 

 George Potter

Published by George Potter

A retired Chartered Mechanical Engineer, still adept at getting my hands (and clothes) dirty, inventor of all sorts of non-commercial, but novel solutions, amateur carpenter and occasional writer of poems and painter in watercolours.

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  1. You ditty’s and poems even your prayers at charter meals always make smile. You are so good with words.

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    1. Thank you Chris. I need a few tolerant and helpful contacts to help me learn how this all operates, before I post older stuff. You can always ‘unfollow’! I am not sure if Harry would be as obliging!

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