...One Is Always One Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

...One Is Always One



Acc. to Chambers
(Dictionary)
no-one knows
where 'dandy' came from;
nor 'dandle' nor 'dander'.

Dandle's from 'handle';
Georg Friedrich, George Dandle.

To the Scots, to dander
was to stroll and to saunter.
Dander, dandruff,
became furnace cinders too.
'Dedander the furnace' came in for fun,
when 'dander' would have done
(only an idiot recinders) .

'Dedandy' stayed out;
as if Once One Is One...

Saturday, April 29, 2017
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Douglas Scotney

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Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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