Word of the Day: Lithe

This week at Poets & Storytellers United the prompt is "a favorite word."

Writers tend to play with words, reading deep meanings from or into assonance and consonance. I looked at the Anglo-Saxon W-  words we, wise, women, with, wit, will, weave, web, weed, wear, way, walk, wander, wax, and withe, willow, and possibly word, weird, last month. This month I'm bemused by L- words.

Lithe and lissome

we would be

so, though lazy, we

remember how to lounge,

originally not merely loafing

but strolling, idling, lunging on a lounge line

circling the paddock: keeping fit

in a leisurely way, relaxed and active.

Blithe and lax, we ply our limbs

languidly, for love alone

of flex, flux, flow; flickering glides

like will-o-the-wisps

that glimmer in the gloaming, 

pliant limbs 

that leap lightly,

flippant jongleurs

that nimbly fling

skyting, lilting,

laughing as they sing.

Ladies? Let's have a lightening time.