Mine are here.

Duncan

Nice one, Duncan. The first, suitably poetic, reply.

Two favorite French words:

nénuphar
libellule

Apostasy
Undulating
Anagnorisis
Paraskavedekatriaphobia (but only on special occasions ;))

I like Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Popocatepetl.

Or I did, when I was but thirteen or so...

Chimborazo is the first word in a recent poem of mine: "Mountains I Have Never Climbed." First climbed by Edward Whymper and Louis and Jean-Antoine Carrel, at about 20,000 feet.

Reading that, John, I gasped with delight.

I first came across the words in a poem by W J Turner which turned the key in the lock of my own wordhoard and let it all out. I threw the key away.

If you put the last seven words of my last post into a search engine, they will take you to where I began.

Hi Ann,

I now better appreciate your post! Thank you for sharing the Turner with us, he's not a poet I knew before today. It reminds me a bit of Benet's old poem "American Names".
For my weekly offering, I'd planned to post a new poem called "Close As Candlelight", but I think I should post the Chimborazo thing in honor of this serendipity.

Cheers,
John

brindle, erinaceous, plangent, porculation, rupestral

Connubial, silver, and durst I say honorificabilitudinitatibus?