loss
cowslip
catkin
kingfisher
culled
from a newly minted glossary
Blackberry a glossy substitute
for juicy blackberries
acid slipping between leaves
of grass
consonants drift
like dandelion seeds
words crumble
like cremated bones
[I wrote this poem in response to reading that a children’s dictionary was no longer going to feature a number of words to do with the natural environment. In their place would be words from socia media. I also wanted the poem to link somehow with my painting.]
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I like your painting and poem very much. Could you send me info on the children’s dictionary? If you don’t mind, I’d like to do a post on it. Thanks, Gone Wild
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Hi
It’s the Oxford Junior Dictionary. Sorry I don’t know when it was published. I read about it in an article about language by Robert Macfarlane. In Guardian books.
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I suppose it is a sad reflection on our time but social media words often change fast and ironically I don’t think kids need to look them up. Anyway if a kid sees the word cowslips they are likely to google it and come up with an image so maybe not all could be lost!
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I agree with @navalsolanature, children are learning so many things now that nature is second priority in some ways. By the way, I like your poem very much
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