Depeditation

My word: Depeditation - in medical terminology, a depeditation is the amputation of a foot.

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This word has no significance to me whatsoever. But I love all words, so in that, it has a place in my heart.

Penny's challenge opens me up to exploring vocabulary which is not in my everyday vernacular and whilst, I'm perhaps more adventurous and contrived in my word choice when writing, there is a tendency to choose from words already known. Therefore, it's good to explore and experiment and that's what I've chosen to do here.

I also have a love for nonsense verse. Poetry, for me, is about expression and it doesn't have to be centred on one thing: love, nature, loss. Poetry can be about anything and if it prompts a reaction in you on a human level, whether that's emotional, philosophical or merely an appreciation for the way that the words have been put together, then it's done its job.

One of my favourite poems is from a collection that I bought to feed poetry into the minds of my impressionable young sons and one of the poems made an impact on my eldest. I can't remember the poet nor the title of the poem but it lists a lot of cakes and then ends with the line mentioning how the poet has ended up with "stummer cake". I'm going to leave that with you to work out for yourself but the play on word sounds that that engenders is just brilliant in my opinion.

And so, to a daft and macabre poem about depediation.

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A man forgot to lock his doors,

Forgetting is the worst of flaws,

The key turn he could not recall

Was cause for literal downfall,

As door unlocked, a thief did enter

And from his leg, a foot dismember.

Too late, he sensed "Something's afoot"

And now, he's left with just a foot.

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53 words

You can read about Penny's challenge here:

You can check out some of my nonsense verse here: