Thank you, Horace Walpole,

for SERENDIPITY:

‘the happy knack of making

unexpected and delightful discoveries by accident’

(Cassells, Hertfordshire, UK)

‘the faculty of making happy discoveries by accident’

(Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK)

Hmmm – ‘knack’ and  ‘faculty’ -

words of repetition

indicative of a predisposed nature

a pattern of behavio...

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“Mummy,” queries Oliver, “What does serendipity mean?”

“Let me see your teeth, Ollie. Are you sure you brushed them clean?”

“Well?” persists the little lad as she rushes him out the door.

Words like that, she thinks to herself, should be against the law!

She chats about the day ahead, his attention goes astray.

But now it all comes back to him as they are on thei...

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Somewhere out there in the

Ether

Raymond M

Entreated verse

Naming him and faming him and

Duffy isn’t here, so

I thought that I could try, but

Post a rhyme that breaks his rules

Insert a line break here and there, finish them with ‘so’ and ‘and’, then make them long and short

This will teach him to desire shallow eminence from fish!

Yes Ray, no...

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It’s not a goal, I suppose,

more like a corner or a throw-in,

but I wish I could be

in somebody else’s poem.

It would be fame, of a sort,

though not the kind that should be sought.

It happens by chance

and is in another’s hands….

…..unless it might be planned.

Can it be so hard

to locate a versifier?

An unsuspecting bard,

the type who ...

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