Word of the Day - Talisman

[debodun]

Talisman (noun) - an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune.

The race track tout carried an old silver dollar as a good luck talisman.

 

[ohioboy]

Talisman

Under a splintered mast,
torn from ship and cast
near her hull,

a stumbling shepherd found
embedded in the ground,
a sea-gull

of lapis lazuli,
a scarab of the sea,
with wings spread—

curling its coral feet,
parting its beak to greet
men long dead.

Marianne Moore