Today's prompt is to write about a letter from the alphabet. My favourite letter (if there is such a thing...?) is slinky, sultry, swirling 'S'! But I've already written a poem about that... so will have to pick another one for now.
Q
Q appears a little quizzical,
definitely unmissable,
with a finger on his/her chin
pondering quietly
the mysteries of the universe
before we get to the end,
lost in its own quiddity.
Just an 'O' with a squiggle attached
or a flourish of penmanship -
whatever you like to call it.
A moustache, á la Dali,
a supercilious quirk, a tendril
of outlandish backlash,
an eyeglass lowered to glare out.
Q is querulous and quixotic
and all things strange and exotic.
It can even make the ordinary look
like a wonder e.g, quotidian!
A foreign language escapee, maybe -
or a code from a quantum algorithm
to launch ships to space.
The appropriate name for 007's
radical creations assistant,
you have to agree.
What else would you expect
from a letter, the forerunner
of so many unusual,
hardly-ever-useable words?
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