Words

I love words, in what they can convey

I like using a variety of words to say

What I want to, therefore my efforts to increase

The breadth of my vocabulary never cease..

But unfortunately my shrinking brain cells

No longer in learning new words serve me well

To expand my vocabulary is a battle uphill

My word-specific memory has many gaps to fill

The tongue-twister names of new medications I have to memorize

And that limits my ability to learn other words, I’ve realized

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New words that manage to stick in my mind

Are those that leave an impression- I find

That random words plucked out of a dictionary

Are unlikely to have a lasting place in my memory

Whereas words that come with interesting associations

Get lodged in my brain at a permanent station

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I find joy in discovering words previously unknown to me

When I read, clever placement of words I tend to see

Languages are rich, may I continue

To learn words that to me sound new