Volable

VOLABLE

-adj.

quick-witted

You turn around

And volable walls

Wink at you

You run but

There’s no escape

Valency

VALENCY

-noun

1. chemistry a property of atoms or groups, equal to the number of atoms of hydrogen that the atom or group could combine with or displace in forming compounds

2. (linguistics) the number of satellite noun phrases with which a verb combines

3. (immunology)

a. the number of antigen-binding sites on an antibody molecule

b. the number of antigen-binding sites with which an antigen can combine

Playing with fire

Looking for valency

In old books and

Alchemy burns

Vilify

VILIFY

-verb (trans.)

1. to revile with abusive or defamatory language; malign

2. (rare) to make vile; debase; degrade

Vilified in the book

Saved by humanity

Forge

FORGE

-noun

1. a place in which metal is worked by heating and hammering; smithy

2. a hearth or furnace used for heating metal

3. a machine used to shape metals by hammering

-verb

4. (trans.) to shape (metal) by heating and hammering

5. (trans.) to form, shape, make, or fashion (objects, articles, etc.)

6. (trans.) to invent or devise (an agreement, understanding, etc.)

7. to make or produce a fraudulent imitation of (a signature, banknote, etc.) or to commit forgery

-verb (intr.)

1. to move at a steady and persevering pace

2. to increase speed; spurt

Exhausted, they forge through the night

Focusing on the light in their hands

Papillote

PAPILLOTE

-noun

1. a paper frill around cutlets, etc.

2. Preceded by “en” . (of food) cooked in oiled greaseproof paper or foil

Delicate fish and tender greens

En papillote for greater taste

And easy transportation

Miss

MISS

-verb

1. to fail to reach, hit, meet, find, or attain (some specified or implied aim, goal, target, etc.)

2. (trans.) to fail to attend or be present for

3. (trans.) to fail to see, hear, understand, or perceive

4. (trans.) to lose, overlook, or fail to take advantage of

5. (trans.) to leave out; omit

6. (trans.) to discover or regret the loss or absence of

7. (trans.) to escape or avoid (something, especially a danger), usually narrowly

-noun

8. a failure to reach, hit, meet, find, etc.

-noun

1. informal an unmarried woman or girl, especially a schoolgirl

-noun

1. a title of an unmarried woman or girl, usually used before the surname or sometimes alone in direct address

Missing in action

Taken up by summer

And asthma

Swaddle

SWADDLE

-verb (trans.)

1. to wind a bandage round

2. to wrap (a baby) in swaddling clothes

3. to restrain as if by wrapping with bandages; smother

-noun

4. (mainly US) swaddling clothes

Swaddled hands

Was all his protection

Copper blood still fresh

On his brow, his lips

White

WHITE

-adj.

1. having no hue due to the reflection of all or almost all incident light.

2. (of light, such as sunlight) consisting of all the colours of the spectrum or produced by certain mixtures of three additive primary colours, such as red, green, and blue

3. comparatively white or whitish-grey in colour or having parts of this colour

4. (of an animal) having pale-coloured or white skin, fur, or feathers

5. bloodless or pale, as from pain, emotion, etc.

6. (of hair, a beard, etc.) silvery or grey, usually from age

7. benevolent or without malicious intent

8. colourless or transparent

9. capped with or accompanied by snow

10. (sometimes capital) counterrevolutionary, very conservative, or royalist.

11. blank, as an unprinted area of a page

12. (of wine) made from pale grapes or from black grapes separated from their skins

13. (of coffee or tea) with milk or cream

14. (physics) having or characterized by a continuous distribution of energy, wavelength, or frequency

15. (informal) honourable or generous

16. (of armour) made completely of iron or steel

17. (rare) morally unblemished

18. rare (of times, seasons, etc.) auspicious; favourable

19. (poetic or archaic) having a fair complexion; blond

-noun

20. a white colour

21. the condition or quality of being white; whiteness

22. the white or lightly coloured part or area of something

23. (anatomy) the white part (sclera) of the eyeball

24. any of various butterflies of the family Pieridae.

25. chess, draughts

a. a white or light-coloured piece or square

b. (usually capital) the player playing with such pieces

26. anything that has or is characterized by a white colour, such as a white paint or pigment, a white cloth, a white ball in billiards

27. an unprinted area of a page

28. archery

a. the outer ring of the target, having the lowest score

b. a shot or arrow hitting this ring

29. (poetic) fairness of complexion

-verb

30. (usually followed by “out”) to create or leave white spaces in (printed or other matter)

31. (obsolete) to make or become white

She stirs winds

Her white coat and hair whipping about

Frost in her smile

Blooms dying  in her hand

Swad

SWAD

-noun

1. a loutish person

2. mining a layer of worthless material at the base of a seam

3. a thick bunch (of grass)

4. a large number (of people)

Yesterday

Today & tomorrow

Angry swads

Sumptuous

SUMPTUOUS

-adj.

1. expensive or extravagant

2. magnificent; splendid

A rather

Sumptuous meal

For a toddler

Martext

MARTEXT

-noun

(obsolete) a preacher who makes many mistakes

Mark that a martext

Isn’t someone butchering

Orthography with a SMS

Orthorexia

ORTHOREXIA

-noun

a disorder characterized by a morbid obsession with eating healthy foods only

She disguises

Her orthorexia

With fine dining

Mercy

MERCY

-noun 

1. compassionate treatment of or attitude towards an offender, adversary, etc., who is in one's power or care; clemency; pity

2. the power to show mercy

3. a relieving or welcome occurrence or state of affairs

Morning light being too sharp

He cries for mercy

And another ten minutes nap

Alimony

ALIMONY

-noun

law (formerly) an allowance paid under a court order by one spouse to another when they are separated but not divorced.

At the mere notion

Of alimony

He hid and fled

Dispute

DISPUTE

-verb

1. to argue, debate, or quarrel about (something)

2. (may take a clause as object) to doubt the validity, etc., of

3. (trans.) to seek to win; contest for

4. (trans.) to struggle against; resist

-noun

5. an argument or quarrel

This awkward moment when

She turns her despondent lover

Into a statue in the heat of a dispute

Twin

TWIN

-noun

1. either of two persons or animals conceived at the same time

2. either of two persons or things that are identical or very similar; counterpart

3. Also called: macle . a crystal consisting of two parts each of which has a definite orientation to the other

-verb

4. to pair or be paired together; couple

5. (intr.) to bear twins

6. (intr.) (of a crystal) to form into a twin

7. (intr.) archaic to be born as a twin

8. (trans.)

a. to create a reciprocal relation between (two towns in different countries); pair (a town) with another in a different country

b. (intr.) (of a town) to be paired with a town in a different country

Held in place by fate

Twins yet different

Looking in the same direction

Amidmost

AMIDMOST

-adv.

1. (poetic) in the middle or centre

-preposition

2. (poetic) in the centre of

Night cloak

Amidmost light

Flickering ghosts

Recalescence

RECALESCENCE

-noun

a sudden spontaneous increase in the temperature of cooling iron resulting from an exothermic change in crystal structure occurring at a particular temperature

Spring goes everywhere

Following its fancy

For recalescence and

Untimely frost

Moist

MOIST

-adj.

1. slightly damp or wet

2. saturated with or suggestive of moisture

Moist is the cup
A great abundance
Of interrupted legends
As shadow grow longer
During evening conversation
Loose spirals

Delve

DELVE

-verb (mainly intr.; often followed by “in” or “into”)

1. to inquire or research deeply or intensively (for information, etc.)

2. to search or rummage (in a drawer, the pockets, etc.)

3. (especially of an animal) to dig or burrow deeply (into the ground, etc.)

4. (also trans.) (archaic or dialect) to dig or turn up (earth, a garden, etc.), as with a spade

She likes to hide

To delve into her basket

To dream the world away

Purrs give her away

Uphold

UPHOLD

-verb  (trans.)

1. to maintain, affirm, or defend against opposition or challenge

2. to give moral support or inspiration to

3. (rare) to support physically

4. to lift up

It is such a headache

To uphold the world

Effloresce

EFFLORESCE

-verb (intr.)

1. to burst forth into or as if into flower; bloom

2. to become powdery by loss of water or crystallization

3. to become encrusted with powder or crystals as a result of chemical change or the evaporation of a solution

Spring strikes and

Pavements effloresce

Before summer comes

And nature effloresces

Hurdle

HURDLE

-noun

1. (athletics) one of a number of light barriers over which runners leap in certain events

2. a low barrier used in certain horse races

3. an obstacle to be overcome

4. a light framework of interlaced osiers, wattle, etc., used as a temporary fence

5. (British) a sledge on which criminals were dragged to their executions

-verb

6. to jump (a hurdle, etc.), as in racing

7. (trans.) to surround with hurdles

8. (trans.) to overcome

Hurdles on the ceiling

To trap/trip ghosts and angels 

Stickler

STICKLER

-noun

1. (usually followed by “for”) . a person who makes insistent demands

2. a problem or puzzle

Without wanting

To act as stickler

But wondering

If this is straight

Sully

SULLY

-verb

1. to stain or tarnish (a reputation, etc.) or (of a reputation) to become stained or tarnished

-noun

2. a stain

3. the act of sullying

How could anyone

Call this sully? 

Roe

ROE

-noun

1. Also called: hard roe the ovary of a female fish filled with mature eggs

2. Also called: soft roe the testis of a male fish filled with mature sperm

3. the ripe ovary of certain crustaceans, such as the lobster

Tender flash

Roe on oats

Matcha coat

Scatty

SCATTY

-adj.

(British, informal)

1. empty-headed, frivolous, or thoughtless

2. distracted 

Scatty cat

Concentrate

On snooze

Pragmatize

PRAGMATIZE

-verb

1. (intr.) to act or view matters pragmatically

2. (trans.) to make (something) pragmatic or interpret (something) in a pragmatic way

Not all clockwork artifices

Aim to pragmatize

In fact nobody knows

What this one was meant to be

Nixie

NIXIE

-noun

(German mythology) a female water sprite, usually unfriendly to humans

Would you believe?

Tender nixies

Torn by storm

Plotting your demise

Surrealism

SURREALISM

-noun

(sometimes capital) a movement in art and literature in the 1920s, which developed especially from dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements

Caught in the venomous charm

Of surrealism – that Platonic cavern -

Tied in darkness by their sole lack of will

In the arms of a video supernova