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Robert Brewer's Wednesday Poetry prompt~28/05/2014~new words Poem

30/5/2014

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For this week’s prompt, use a new(er) word in a poem. Merriam-Webster recently added 150 new terms to its collegiate dictionary, including tweep, hashtag, selfie, unfriend, paywall, big data, social networking, and more.Click here to check out some of the definitions. Of course, you don’t have to restrict yourself to this list. If you are hip with the lingo, get all jive with your bad self (or selfie–or whatever)



MISUNDERSTANDING
By John Yeo

Downloading the data of the day
I study my i-pad with care
I wonder if past generations would see
An i-pad or a babies diaper there.

My tablet is my pride and joy
The oldies took tablets for illness.
Whenever I need to decipher new words
I can download an App. for this.

Some words have altered in a very strange way.
I wonder what our Grandparents would say?
They probably would consider it very unhealthy
To take a picture of oneself and call it a “selfie”.

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