Sunday, September 29, 2013

617 : Huzzah!


I was thrilled to receive an email from a lady at work recently that included the word ‘huzzah’. 
There is hope for the world yet, when brave people use more than the standard vocabulary.
The poem is not specifically about her, it is more broadly meant, 
but she does has the honour (or otherwise) of being the sixth person at work 
who has been responsible for prompting a poem.  
Wildflowers – pick them where you find them.  

Huzzah!

If there is one thing that I fear,
Alone, within a crowd,
It’s having no one to receive
My messages, as put out.

I’ve found 
No seeds grow 
On barren ground.

Relief, however, 
When from afar,
A message comes through 
Loud and clear,
There’s life out there!
Huzzah!
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013
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24 comments:

  1. Bung Ho YippsSeptember 29, 2013

    I say old chap, this is a damned fine piece of good fortune, what?

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  2. Are you allowed to pick wildflowers?

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  3. I feel that there is an air of verisimilitude in what you are saying.

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    1. Can I be frank with you? Probably not, as you are Frank with me, but there is a wee bit of difference between bravery and pretention, si?

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  4. How can a message in a bottle be loud and clear?

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    1. It looks like the ocean but they are really radio waves.

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  5. Is it not being enough that you are having my regal personage as a reader? Are you being in a state of dissatisfaction with me? Please be thinking carefully before you are penning a response to this question.

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    1. I am still waiting for the response that is not coming to my question!

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  6. Alone within a crowd. I know that feeling.

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  7. Feeling lonely? Give me a call! ;-)

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  8. I agree with Anonymous, it's not a nice feeling. But don't you provide your own crowd?

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  9. How lovely to find a kindred spirit at work... Though sometimes alone in a crowd seems the only sane place to be.

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  10. Yup. A message like that is a peephole in a solid wall.

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  11. gosh, love your little verse as well as your explanation. hello!

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  12. Alone or ignored in a crowd. The worst sort of loneliness. Affirmation. Vital to existence.

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  13. I also approve of the use of Huzzah! Thanks for sharing

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  14. I enjoyed the comments in here as much as the poem. Tho my brain balked at verisimilitude as I am too tired to get out my dictionary:)

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  15. Huzzah!
    It is always a treat to see a grand old word incorporated into modern speech. Gadzooks and Avaunt are two of my faves :)

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  16. felicitations and salutations, good sirrah

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  17. Lovely to receive such a beautiful message

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  18. The image of the message in the bottle - bread upon the waters, as it were - is most apt, Cos. How wonderful that people at work share their enthusiasm for your poetry. That, in itself, is a gift - and a testament to your work ethic. I mean, people don't follow the blogs of folks who are a-holes to them in the workplace, right? wink Amy

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  19. When surrounded by "drought" it is nice to know it is raining somewhere. :) Huzzah is fabulous word.

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