Stalk

STALK

–noun
1. the stem or main axis of a plant.
2. any slender supporting or connecting part of a plant, as the petiole of a leaf, the peduncle of a flower, or the funicle of an ovule.
3. a similar structural part of an animal.
4. a stem, shaft, or slender supporting part of anything.
5. Automotive. a slender lever, usually mounted on or near the steering wheel, that is used by the driver to control a signal or function

–verb (used without object)
1. to pursue or approach prey, quarry, etc., stealthily.
2. to walk with measured, stiff, or haughty strides.
3. to proceed in a steady, deliberate, or sinister manner.
4. Obsolete. to walk or go stealthily along.
–verb (used with object)
5. to pursue (game, a person, etc.) stealthily.
6. to proceed through (an area) in search of prey or quarry: to stalk the woods for game.
7. to proceed or spread through in a steady or sinister manner.
–noun
8. an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like.
9. a slow, stiff stride or gait.



Sunshine creeping up the hill
Lighting up the grass,
Stalk after stalk after stalk.

Avatar

AVATAR

-noun
1. Hindu Mythology. the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god.
2. an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.
3. Computers. a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet.



I could see
Into her eyes
Avatars of her dreamed life
Half mighty beast
Half kept woman
Each starving for
A caress or
A morsel.

Funicular

FUNICULAR

–adj.
1. of or pertaining to a rope or cord, or its tension.
2. worked by a rope or the like.
–noun
3. Funicular railway





















Funicular actors
Treading a fine line
Outside their control

Pandiculation

PANDICULATION

-noun
A stretching and stiffening especially of the trunk and extremities (as when fatigued and drowsy or after waking from sleep).



To cats,
Pandiculation
Comes naturally.
The result of healthy dreaming.

Macaroon

MACAROON

–noun
a drop cookie made of egg whites, sugar, usually almond paste or coconut, and sometimes a little flour.
A sweet made of two macaroon shells enclosing a cream filling.























Temptation so sweet:
A palette of macaroons
Singing with flavours.

Prisoner

PRISONER

–noun
1. A person held in custody, captivity, or a condition of forcible restraint, especially while on trial or serving a prison sentence.
2. One deprived of freedom of expression or action






















Prisoner of her own will
Either inside or out.
There is always some annoying
Door in the way.

Untenable

UNTENABLE

-adj.
not able to be held, as of an opinion or position; un-holdable, indefensible



Untenable monsters,
Breaking off from their wooden bed
Ready to rampage.

Carapace

CARAPACE

-noun
1. The thick shell that covers the back of the turtle, the crab, and other animals.
2. Something likened to a shell that serves to protect or isolate from external influence.



Abandoned lone shoe
As discarded carapace.
Unnatural slough.

Esculent

ESCULENT

-adj.
Edible
- noun
something edible; a comestible






















Esculent treasures
Hidden in the midst of leaves.
Autumn promises.

Horse

HORSE

–noun
1. a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
2. a fully mature male animal of this type; stallion.
3. any of several odd-toed ungulates belonging to the family Equidae, including the horse, zebra, donkey, and ass, having a thick, flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck and bearing the weight on only one functioning digit, the third, which is widened into a round or spade-shaped hoof.
4. something on which a person rides, sits, or exercises, as if astride the back of such an animal.
5. Also called trestle. a frame, block, etc., with legs, on which something is mounted or supported.
6. Gymnastics.
a. vaulting horse - a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
b. a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, similar to pommel horse - a vaulting horse but having two graspable pommels on top, used by men for hand-supported balancing, rotating, and swinging manoeuvres.
7. Carpentry. an inclined beam, as a string, supporting the steps of a stair.
8. soldiers serving on horseback; cavalry.
9. Slang. a man; fellow.
10.Often, horses. Informal (horsepower)
a. a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
b. Informal. the capacity to achieve or produce; strength or talent:
11.Horses, Slang. the power or capacity to accomplish something, as by having enough money, personnel, or expertise
12.Chess Informal. a knight.
13.Slang. a crib, translation, or other illicit aid to a student's recitation; trot; pony.
14.Mining. a mass of rock enclosed within a lode or vein.
15.Nautical. a rope, spar, or rod (also called traveller).
16.Shipbuilding. a mould of a curved frame, especially one used when the complexity of the curves requires laying out at full size.
17.Slang. Heroin
–verb (used with object)
18.to provide with a horse or horses.
19.to set on horseback.
20.to set or carry on a person's back or on one's own back.
21.Carpentry. to cut notches for steps into (a carriage beam).
22.to move with great physical effort or force: It took three men to horse the trunk up the stairs.
23.Slang.
a. to make (a person) the target of boisterous jokes.
b. to perform boisterously, as a part or a scene in a play.
24.Nautical.
a. to caulk (a vessel) with a hammer.
b. to work or haze (a sailor) cruelly or unfairly.
25.Archaic. to place (someone) on a person's back, in order to be flogged.
–verb (used without object)
26.to mount or go on a horse.
27.(of a mare) to be in heat.
28.Vulgar. to have coitus.
–adj.
29.of, for, or pertaining to a horse or horses.
30.drawn or powered by a horse or horses.
31.mounted or serving on horses: horse troops.
32.unusually large.



If joking humans can horse around,
Do boisterous horses human about when joking?