Truly, Verdadera

Rhonda Marrone
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read

I awoke with a word in my head
Only one word
A Spanish word in feminine form
Verdadera

It translates (with other definitions) as:
True-as in a true friend or
Real-as in real chocolate.

Verdadera
This single word came to me out of the fog of sleep
But it really must have originally come from somewhere else, right…
So, I searched and verily found
That it comes from the Latin, ver
(Truthfully the Latin is spelled more like were-o, pronounced with a v).

From ver derives various words in today’s Romance Languages.
English: verdict, verify, unverifiable, veracity, very
Spanish: verdad, verdadero/a, veracidad
French: verite, Italian: verita, and Portuguese: verdade (all words for truth).

Verdadera
The word that was in my head
True, truth, truly, truthful
So many untruths in this world

Verdadera
A feminine true
What is the feminine of truth?
What is the feminine truth?
It is love and peace
It is creation
It is living and growing
It is nature and green
(The Spanish word for green, verde sounds like their word for truth
But it is derived from a different source
Latin, viridis.)
The feminine of truth is equality
It is the idea that everyone
And everything living and breathing
Has a right to be living and breathing
Simply
Verily

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Rhonda Marrone

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I am all of these and more: poet, author, teacher, mother, grandmother, crazy cat lady, lover of nature, tree hugger, environmentalist, feminist, advocate.

Poets Unlimited

Six Years of poetry-only publishing, PoetsUnlimited was a diverse, engaging and authentic poetry magazine. For most of that time a daily publication, it was always diverse and original, and free-to-read by all.

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