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# Treasure
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/treasure/
- Published: 2025-12-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: “Is there a word you treasure above others?” my lovely wife had asked me with a pout. “You write, right? Well, then, had you had your druthers, is there a word you wouldn’t do without?
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

“Is there a word you treasure above others?”  
my lovely wife had asked me with a pout.  
“You write, right? Well, then, had you had your druthers,  
is there a word you wouldn’t do without?

A word you would include in every sonnet,  
in every composition, every ode?”  
I told her I must really think upon it.  
Was this a real question, or some code,

some test for me to pass, a trickster’s riddle?  
A husband learns that words can be a clue,  
but poets, bent on matching cat to diddle,  
can often be as clueless as a ewe

about to become dinner. That is life.  
“Of course,” I said. “One word. Four letters. Wife.”

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**Author notes:** image generated by author prompt to Gemini