Flummox is a word
I really like.
Seldom use it, hardly
ever hear it used.
It beats the other “f” word
we hear all the time.
I admit I throw it around
like a tongue-axe, sometimes
to split a guy’s head open, but
mostly out of bad habit.
I think I’ll start telling folks
to flummox off,
get flummoxed, or
no flummoxing way!
Watch their expression go
from gut-cutting anger
to complete perplexity,
scratching their head
as they walk away.
(all rights reserved Pat Paulk 2006)
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I "f"'n agree with you - :)
Have you met Mompoet, kazooist?
Here is a poem she wrote but notice the phrase on the sideblog.
yeah!
quite right
great word
onomatopaeic too
two marshmallows flummoxing
:)
What a word! Reminds me of the phrase ‘go knit youself a piece of cake’. Much shorter, though. Great word economy at work!
Thanks guys! Man, floots what a word!!
flummoxing good write, pat!
and a great nwe word to add to my vocabulary - thanks.
I love this. :) What an excellent idea!
Thanks for the laugh!
This made me smile:-) I like!
Polona thank you! glad i could add a word. Floots gave me one too,
Liz, thanks for coming by & commenting!
Christine, glad I could evoke a laugh!
Pris, I'm glad your back on the blog tour! Thanks for reading.
dig this, pat!
superb word indeed. I love that you use it to baffle folk :)
Fantastic, Pat. You little flummoxing poet you!
alternative "f" word. i like :)
Thanks pat, I'm one of the rare ones who never find use for the "f" word, however, what the flummox! I'm going to stop flummoxing around and get down to some flummoxing business with this one though!
Love it!
Speaking of words, I have to apologize for changing my blog format on you just as you gave me 'words' for my story. Forgive me. I'm going to sneak them into my poems perhaps.
Thanks for your visits.
i think i will end up using this whether i mean to or not - great alternative!
David, thanks for stopping by!
Mushsis,thank you, I love to be baffling.
Thanks Nick!
Thanks Ruthanne! It definitely requires an alternative.
QNT, thank you very flummoxing much!!
Thanks Steve!
Thought you were going somewhere different w/ this, so I was reading it aloud to Aaron, well by the end of it I was laughing and he was grinning ear to ear..don't think it was for his age group...but he understood it just fine, and found it quite amusing.
Thank you Mandy!
this is great! it already looks like your "f" alternative is catching on.
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