RUM

So half the team are on training; the other half are on holiday. I'm on my own and it is blissfully quiet. Just me and the air conditioning.

So I've been sitting here thinking about words. I love a word that sounds like what it is. Using it gives you two separate but simultaneous ways of describing it. I also (as you know) quite like the way words are balanced with consonants and vowels, I like the way diphthongs collide like waves, or the wind, or felled trees against the earth. I like patterns. Kestrel, elucidate, crashing, hooplah. Check out the rhythm of sounds those words make when they force you to say them. I love it.

Anyway, this kind of mood leads to silly poetry, so here's a little ditty which should elucidate something or other. I like how this sounds out loud. Then, I'm on my own, so maybe I would.


Rum

Rum tum tiddle ay
Rum tum tum
Pom pom piddle o
Piddle ay pum

Rin tin riddle dee
Diddle iddle dum
Rum tum tiddle ay
Rum tum tum