674 : Facilitate

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #145) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

country, facilitate, aspect, sent, strands, state,

sustain, write, time, plans, embrace, juggling

Facilitate

fa-cili-tate – a transitive verb, 

A verb that needs an object,

An awful word,

It gives the impression

Of stern officers of the state

Sent in with allotted time,

With clipboards and plans,

With small neat writing

On gridded paper.

Dot points

Capture all the strands,

All the aspects

Of a meeting of bodies

But not of minds,

A meeting that embodies

But doesn’t build,

That’s held

But is not upheld,

That devours the spirit

Not sustains it.

A facilitated meeting:

The arid country

Of juggled agendas

And compromised outcomes

That encompasses everything

And embraces nothing.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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