Wishing for a Word ~ by Lorrie Orr

 

This woebegone writer wonders how to choose

a word that starts with W.

Will I go for whimsy or wisdom,

wild or winsome?

Perhaps wolfish or warthog, wurzel or wibble.

Who, what, when, where, and why are

wonderful for winning readers.

But what about winks, wisecracks, and witticisms –

A wee bit of humour goes a long way to wrangle a smile

when writing about the wilderness of life we wander through.

I don’t want to be wishy-washy, but surely there is room for

wonder and wistfulness, whiffle, and widdershins.

Which words add wit to writing as 

Worcestershire does to Welsh Rarebit?

A wordsmith can always find a workaround to any problem,

But waffling between warbling and whining

I find myself unable to choose and

since I will not wander away without posting today,

I proffer this word salad of W’s.

Lorrie Orr writes from Vancouver Island and can easily dither over which words she wants to use.