Adoxography

ADOXOGRAPHY

-noun
fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects

 

My office

A monument

To adoxography

In every pile

Albicant

ALBICANT

-adj.

Growing or becoming white.

In the bathroom mirror

Images talk of an albicant future

And I think of all the painted gods

We once had, gilded and strong

Now utterly blanched.

Tensile

TENSILE

-adj.

1. of or relating to tension

2. sufficiently ductile to be stretched or drawn out

I like to think

My mind as tensile matter

Yet find

It sometimes snaps

With an angry report.

Offing

OFFING

-noun

1. the part of the deep sea seen from the shore

2. the near or foreseeable future

Staring at the offing

With a wish to escape

With a wish to dive

We can but stay on the shore