Semantics

Part of the daily antics

David Rudder
1 min readSep 11, 2020
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Hit me with hyperbole
the arcane and absurd
stun me with semantics
lets keep the meaning blurred!

Mixed meanings and semantics
twist a tricky word
part of the daily antics
a word that’s rarely heard.

Is it a connotation
or simply something said
created by causation
part of our daily bread.

Words have many meanings
translations broken too
alternative type leanings
that fly out of the blue.

Misheard selective hearing
easily misunderstood
the gleaning disappearing
don’t flick me more falsehood.

Are we speaking the same language
or is translation lost
conversational outage
who will pay the cost?

Semantics word selection
the difference is profound
meaning is detection
words left in the lost and found.

Speak to me more clearly
I need to know the meaning
I ask you most sincerely
otherwise I’m dreaming.

Please, please pretty please
don’t pass the poison chalice
living here in wonderland
using the pseudonym of Alice!

©

David Rudder
12th September 2020

Thanks for reading.

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David Rudder
David Rudder

Written by David Rudder

Top writer in Poetry. I am a diarist and write poetry to reflect my thoughts.

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