Verbiage Veritas

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 Verbiage Veritas

“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an action

before it is a place.”--Martha Graham.

Verbing can be exhausting.

I have no trouble jamming or troubling,

but hurricaning and lightninging

is much harder than

thundering and storming.

I can’t be running these days,

so I spend time experting

about film & poetics.

In this media crazy age,

less folks enjoy jawing,

preferring jousting 

with their thumbs.

I’m informed that I must

be emoting not emotioning,

and romancing

rather than romanticing.

One drives a car,

because caring

morphs into affectioning.

I could be punching and kicking

because knuckling and toeing

become murky, and fisting

is something sexual.

I like gardening, but radishing

                                carroting,

                                onioning,

                                meloning,

                                peaing,

                                corning,

                                wheating,

                                mustarding,

are all feral verbs that snag 

on your tongue and sting your ears.

I can be standing and balancing

but erecting strikes a different tone.

I am a knowing person,

but perhaps not knowledgable,

often annoying

but never jocularing,

or ponderousing.

Friending is now more acceptable,

but enemying or adversarying

is harder to pull off.

Meanwhile,

I will continue poeting

on my merry way. 

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at d'Verse Poet's Pub MTB