Saturday 16 May 2020

Insomina


Insomnia 

How is a street of houses not hice
If more than one mouse is ruled to be mice?
Why do the measurements height and weight   
Respectively rhyme with white and mate?
How can an H be silent in hour
What is the purpose of K in knowhow?
Where is the logic in peer or fear
If pear's like dare and deer's like near?

Why does a wound not have the same sound
As pound except when a clock’s being wound?
How can the plural of hoof be hooves
Or hoofs when roofs can no longer be rooves?
Why have an N in damns but not grams?
How no sheeps when there can be lambs?
What is the need of an E in more?
Twos Os in door yet never in law?

The GHT residing in bright
Silently present in fight delight
Insight and blight but not so in bite
Mite spite kite rite or stalagmite
Has kept me awake for many a night
And try as I might with eyes shut tight 
I toss and turn in sleepless flight
Considering words like freight and sleight.

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