Sometimes a word

/ Kait King

Touching many
or touching none,
the joy it brings
just touching one –
with a torrent of words
cleverly writ,
from the coolest phrases
in ancient Sanskrit
or perhaps a scribe in
a guttural foreign word
is the sweetest thing
anybody ever heard
And the English language
with it’s redonkulous rules
where no matter how good you are
it still makes you a fool…
sometimes

© Kait King, 2016

42 thoughts on “Sometimes a word”

  1. This is so good. I love how you build from that opening, touching many or touching none, just that one, and then spiral through all the languages, all the ways words can fail us and save us at once. “Redonkulous” is perfect because it proves your point while making it. English really does make fools of us all, no matter how carefully we craft. But somehow that’s not the tragedy, the tragedy would be not trying. The fact that you can make beauty out of Sanskrit and guttural syllables and ridiculous spelling rules all at once? That’s the actual magic.

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  16. “And the English language with it’s redonkulous rules
    where no matter how good you are it still makes you a fool
    sometimes” – this gave me a hearty laugh (haha😅). I said to myself oh, this is so me and English language, the relationship we are in is right and wrong, incorrect and correct, smart and fool.😉

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