To Make A Word

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Reach out for a word on the tip

of your tongue,

Even when that word is not real.

Force the misremembered meaning

into sound—

Then write it,

And better if it sounds akin to others.

Steal the spelling.

Mutate the form of reality.

Once the word is there,

Act as if it always has 

Do not consider that you have made it,

For this is a word you have heard before.

(Be it only in the resounding chambers of your head.)

If it helps derive it,

Find cognates, parent words,

Or perhaps it is an archaic form,

Long forgotten by all but you.