dVerse Poetics – Playtime

Hi, today at dVerse the poetics prompt is hosted by Lisa, and the theme is play – https://dversepoets.com/ after all, play is great at any age – helps to keep us young 🙂

Creative Wordplay

Charles Dickens invented the word ‘boredom’ and William Shakespeare gave us ‘bandit’ and gossip, along with over 1,700 other words that previously didn’t exist in the English vocabulary! So writers have a long history of inventing new words, it happens when we encounter a concept and have no way of expressing it. Poets also look