In the forward to The Haiku Handbook, I read a lovely term : word-nest.
Some word-nests come easily. … That is what haiku is all about, It teaches us to build a nest of words to protect our inspiration until a reader can experience it in his or her own way as poetry.
Jane Reichhold
It’s not a term I can find used anywhere else; the hyphen suggests its youth, so I suspect it was created by the poet and haiku expert herself—Jane Reichhold (1937-2016).
Perhaps if I use it enough, and if it subsequently catches on, it will contract and become just wordnest. Then I will submit it to the Oxford English Dictionary. ( No, it isn’t in there yet!)
Or perhaps I could use it as a hashtag whenever I read a wonderful tweet-jewel (a less lovely term which I just created): #wordnest.
Or, then again, it could be used to describe a special type of wordsmith: the wordnester:
“Dan Widen, the founder of the Weiden+Kennedy agency and creator of Nike’s slogan “Just Do It” is the penultimate wordnester.
Finally, perhaps it will allow me create some new words for myself. For example, short, insightful, and fresh blog posts (such as this) are thought-cradles?