Inspired
By
A girl
-Are not so many things?-
Who marvels at
Newly discovered words.
This aspect is
The inspiring seed
Which brings me
Incentive to nuzzle
The common terms
Aside in pursuit
Of vocabulary spectacular
The inky gems
Nestled in newspaper
Articles; like fragile
Antique tea cups
Or buried deep
Beneath tomes, dust,
And peerless age.
Each word, carefully
I pen them
Like exotic butterflies
In winding lists
             In winding lists
Within my notebook,
Permitting the cadence
Of the river
Of inky descriptions
To travel autonomously
Following the fascinating
History of words
The curious examples
Of a word's
More early usage
And thus, term
After term fills
My little journal
Making a poem
Of curious variety
And "lagniappe"
Sits by "imbroglio"
Terms frivolous and weighty
Resting side by side
And these words
Preserved twixt pages
The ultimate museum
Of English's curiosities
And all this
Inspired
By
A girl
-Are not so many things?