Destitute

DESTITUTE

-adj.

1. lacking the means of subsistence; totally impoverished

2. (postpositive) followed by “of” . completely lacking; deprived or bereft (of) 

3. (obsolete) abandoned or deserted

Thrown about and forgotten

Obsolete books and notions

Destitute words

Reprove

REPROVE

-verb

(trans.)  to speak disapprovingly to (a person); rebuke or scold

He loved nothing more

Than to reprove his peers

They had his head off

For a share of laughter.

Saké

SAKÉ

-noun

a Japanese alcoholic drink made from fermented rice

Raw and marinated fish dishes

With a suggestion of saké

Gumption

GUMPTION

-noun (informal)

1. (British) common sense or resourcefulness

2. initiative or courage 

Young cat in love

Might have gumption

But shows none

Ecdemic

ECDEMIC

-adj.

not indigenous or endemic; foreign 

Oblique lighting

And storms

Ecdemic lace

Displaced

Luminiferous

LUMINIFEROUS

-adj.

generating or transmitting light

At night

Lumiferous designs

Turn to life

Aliens

Splendent

SPLENDENT

-adj. (archaic)

1. shining brightly; lustrous 

2. famous; illustrious

A memory

Of splendent

Creative days

Long gone

Alas

ALAS

-sentence connector

1. unfortunately; regrettably

-exclamation

2. an exclamation of grief, compassion, or alarm

They have covered

The lovely stone floor

With a bad carpet, alas

And we cannot admire

The colourful lace

Insidious

INSIDIOUS

-adj.

1. stealthy, subtle, cunning, or treacherous

2. working in a subtle or apparently innocuous way, but nevertheless deadly

Lulling sounds

Insidious march

Dreams creeping in

To keep one prisoner

Of the rail trap

Celery

CELERY

-noun

an umbelliferous Eurasian plant, Apium graveolens dulce, whose raw or blanched leafs and stalks are used in salads or cooked as a vegetable 

My super-sensitivity

To celery flavour

Destroys the balance

Of a wonderful dish

Rumbustious

RUMBUSTIOUS

-adj.

boisterous or unruly

I tell him off

For being rumbustious

But he claims

He can’t help himself

True to his kitten self

Obnubilate

OBNUBILATE

-verb

(trans.).(literary) . to darken or obscure

Gothic lamps

Doing very little

To avoid obnubilating

Of secret passages

Sempiternal

SEMPITERNAL

-adj.

(literary) everlasting; eternal

From afar

All this seems stuck

Sempiternal by default

Yet it crumbles

Alight

ALIGHT

-verb  (intr.)

1. (usually followed by “from”) to step out (of) or get down (from)

2. to come to rest; settle; land 

-adj., adv. (postpositive)

1. burning; on fire

2. illuminated; lit up

Boring hangar

Alight

Glorious wall

Quake

QUAKE

-verb (intr.)

1. to shake or tremble with or as with fear

2. to convulse or quiver, as from instability

-noun

3. the act or an instance of quaking

Night time photography

Quaking hands

Abstract smears and bokeh

Buffet

BUFFET

-noun

1. a counter where light refreshments are served

2. a meal at which guests help themselves from a number of dishes and often eat standing up

3. a piece of furniture used from medieval times to the 18th century for displaying plates, etc., and typically comprising one or more cupboards and some open shelves

4. (Scottish & Northern England, dialect) . a kind of low stool, pouffe, or hassock

-verb

1. (trans.) to knock against or about; batter 

2. (trans.) to hit, especially with the fist; cuff

3. to force (one's way), as through a crowd

4. (intr.) to struggle; battle

-noun

5. a blow, especially with a fist or hand

6. aerodynamic excitation of an aircraft structure by separated flows

I tried

Several time

In the night

To buffet my way

Through this crowd

To walk a little quicker

It closed on me

Each time

Spitting my bones

Acidulous

ACIDULOUS

-adj.

1. rather sour

2. sharp or sour in speech, manner, etc.; acid

Butter and brandy

Compensating – balancing

Acidulous pineapple

Slonk

SLONK

-verb

(obsolete) . to swallow greedily

Little feral devil

Slonks offered food

And runs 

Literacy

LITERACY

-noun

1. the ability to read and write

2. the ability to use language proficiently

Using literacy

To promote

Basic humanity

Buff

BUFF

-noun

1. a soft thick flexible un-dyed leather made chiefly from the skins of buffalo, oxen, and elk

2. a dull yellow or yellowish-brown colour

3. Also called: buffer

a) a cloth or pad of material used for polishing an object

b) a flexible disc or wheel impregnated with a fine abrasive for polishing metals, etc., with a power tool

4. (informal) one's bare skin

-verb

5. to clean or polish (a metal, floor, shoes, etc.) with a buff

6. to remove the grain surface of (a leather)

-adj.

7. (informal) fit; attractive

-verb

1. (trans.) to deaden the force of

-noun

2. (archaic) a blow or buffet

-noun

1. (informal) an expert on or devotee of a given subject

Those hues

In the night

A visual buff 

Scurf

SCURF

-noun

1. another name for dandruff

2. flaky or scaly matter adhering to or peeling off a surface

Looking behind

The simple appearance

Of pretty things

Looking for scurf

Roil

ROIL

-verb

1. (trans.) to make (a liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up dregs or sediment

2. (intr.) (especially of a liquid) to be agitated or disturbed

3. (intr.) (dialect) to be noisy or boisterous

4. (trans) another word (now rare) for rile in the sense “to annoy or anger; irritate”

Pollution

Propagating weeds

And phytoplankton

Roiled by waves

Opaque water

Vermiculate

VERMICULATE

-verb

1. (trans.) to decorate with wavy or wormlike tracery or markings

-adj.

2. vermicular; sinuous

3. worm-eaten or appearing as if worm-eaten

4. (of thoughts, etc.) insinuating; subtly tortuous

Haunting Shoreditch

Vermiculate art

Creeping in darkness

Street art by Otto Schade

Turbinacious

TURBINACIOUS

-adj.

(archaic, literary) with a peaty aroma or flavour

Whisky and chocolate cake

Turbinacious and savoury

Smoked salt butter

Snazzy

SNAZZY

-adj.

(informal) stylishly and often flashily attractive

He admits to

Being snazzy

And unabashed about it

Graze

GRAZE

-verb

1. to allow (animals) to consume the vegetation on (an area of land), or (of animals, especially cows and sheep) to feed thus

2. (trans.) to tend (livestock) while at pasture

3. (informal) to eat snacks throughout the day rather than formal meals

4.(South Africa, informal) to eat

5. (intr.) (informal) to switch between television channels while viewing without watching any channel for long

6. (US) to pilfer and eat sweets, fruit, etc., from supermarket shelves while shopping

-noun

7. (South Africa, informal) a snack; something to eat

-verb

1. When int., often followed by “against” or “along” to brush or scrape (against) gently, especially in passing

2. (trans.) to break the skin of (a part of the body) by scraping

-noun

3. the act of grazing

4. a scrape or abrasion made by grazing

Between waves

Flocks of rocks graze

Turning to sand

Stramash

STRAMASH

-noun

1. an uproar; tumult; brawl

-verb

2. (trans.) to destroy; smash

Time has been by

Stramashing bills and pamphlets

Creating a collage

Gerund

GERUND

-noun

a noun formed from a verb, denoting an action or state. In English, the gerund, like the present participle, is formed in -ing 

Looking,

Tasting,

Liking the gerund

Gerunding

Tumescent

TUMESCENT

-adj.

swollen or becoming swollen

Secret passage?

A tumescent two

Invites the hand 

Portend

PORTEND

-verb (trans.)

1. to give warning of; predict or foreshadow

2. (obsolete) to indicate or signify; mean

Discovery of the sky

With a few essentials

Portends amazing finds

And a treasure of stories