Tuft

TUFT

-noun

1. a bunch of feathers, grass, hair, etc., held together at the base

2. a cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress, a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding

3. a small clump of trees or bushes

4. (formerly) a gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities

5. (university jargon) . a person entitled to wear such a tassel

-verb

6. (trans.) to provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts

7. to form or be formed into tufts

8. to secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts

Sweet summer scents

From the tuft she carries

River traces and dreams



Liza - Photography workshop with Margarita Kareva in Florence

Freekeh

FREEKEH

[ˈfriːkeɪ]

-noun

a cereal prepared by roasting wheat that has been harvested while the grains are still green

A smoky bite

Perfect summer salad

Freekeh

Nutty and sweet

Rufous

RUFOUS

-adj.

reddish-brown

Romeo

Rufous chaos

A charmer

Hearty

HEARTY

-adj.

1. warm and unreserved in manner or behaviour

2. vigorous and enthusiastic

3. sincere and heartfelt

4. healthy and strong

5. substantial and nourishing

-noun

6. (informal) . a comrade, often when a sailor

7. a vigorous sporting man

His pals found him hearty

The turtle was of a different opinion

Bohemian

BOHEMIAN

-noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Bohemia, in particular of the old kingdom of Bohemia; a Czech

2. (often not capital) a person, especially an artist or writer, who lives an unconventional life

3. the Czech language

-adj.

4. of, relating to, or characteristic of Bohemia, its people, or their language

5. a gypsy

6. unconventional in appearance, behaviour, etc.

A romantic

Lover

Of Bohemian style

Flowery

And rococo



Iva Basara - Photography workshop with Margarita Kareva in Florence

Residence

RESIDENCE

-noun

1. the place in which one resides; abode or home

2. a large imposing house; mansion

3. the fact of residing in a place or a period of residing

4. the official house of the governor of any of various countries

5. the state of being officially present

6. the seat of some inherent quality, characteristic, etc.

A light

Soft and inviting

A cushioned residence

And the promise of soft music

Angels flapping their wings

In time

Veranda

VERANDA

[vəˈrændə]

-noun

1. a porch or portico, sometimes partly enclosed, along the outside of a building

2. (New Zealand) . a canopy sheltering pedestrians in a shopping street

Stones sing and melt

Under the midday sun

And we would fry

But for the grace

Of a cool veranda

Ashlar

ASHLAR

-noun

1. a block of hewn stone with straight edges for use in building

2. a thin dressed stone with straight edges, used to face a wall of rubble or brick

3. masonry made of ashlar

Decorative ashlar

Adding an exotic touch

To an otherwise boring building

Heart

HEART

-noun

1. the hollow muscular organ in vertebrates whose contractions propel the blood through the circulatory system. In mammals it consists of a right and left atrium and a right and left ventricle

2. the corresponding organ or part in invertebrates

3. this organ considered as the seat of life and emotions, in particular love

4. emotional mood or disposition

5. tenderness or pity

6. courage or spirit; bravery

7. the inmost or most central part of a thing

8. the most important or vital part

9. (of vegetables such as cabbage) the inner compact part

10. the core of a tree

11. the part nearest the heart of a person; breast

12. a dearly loved person: usually used as a term of address

13. a conventionalized representation of the heart, having two rounded lobes at the top meeting in a point at the bottom

14. a red heart-shaped symbol on a playing card

15. a card with one or more of these symbols or (when pl.) the suit of cards so marked

16. a fertile condition in land, conducive to vigorous growth in crops or herbage

-verb

17. (intr.) (of vegetables) to form a heart

18. an archaic word for hearten

Dear heart

Let me eat you

Because love is fickle

And flesh is hearty

Mope

MOPE

-verb (intr.)

1. to be gloomy or apathetic

2. to move or act in an aimless way

-noun

3. a gloomy person

She refuses cuddles

Mopes about

And stays off food

Sick kitty

Lacustrine

LACUSTRINE

[ləˈkʌstraɪn]

-adj.

1. of or relating to lakes

2. living or growing in or on the shores of a lake

In a natural reserve

Lacustrine creatures

Eye you with suspicion

Plafond

PLAFOND

[pləˈfɒn]

-noun

1. a ceiling, in particular one having ornamentation

2. a card game, a precursor of contract bridge

Yes, I suppose

One could admire

The plafond too

Ruderal

RUDERAL

-noun

1. a plant that grows on waste ground

-adj.

2. growing in waste places

Maybe a remembrance of

Long disappeared gardens

Or a ruderal refugee

Pushed about by wind

Obstinate and pugnacious

Stoup

STOUP

-noun

1. a small basin for holy water

2. (Scottish and Northern England dialect) . a bucket or drinking vessel -  also spelled: stowp

The glory of dawn

Blessing my stoup;

May the day start.

Diegesis

DIEGESIS

-noun

1. (rhetoric) . the presentation of the facts by a narrator to the audience

2. (in narrative film or literature) the fictional setting, events, and characters

The story unfolds its lies

Through the diegesis of a fox

Speaking wisdom to a blind man

Ant

ANT

-noun

Any small social insect of the widely distributed hymenopterous family Formicidae, typically living in highly organized colonies of winged males, wingless sterile females (workers), and fertile females (queens), which are winged until after mating

Not such bare necessities but

Take a “glance at them fancy ants
And then maybe, well, try a few”,

All for the sake of Nordic experience

And a faint lemony taste.

Antsy

ANTSY

-adj.

(informal) . restless, nervous, and impatient

She is so eager

So antsy for

Her morning cuddles
This cute little
Old thing

Phrygian

PHRYGIAN

-adj.

1. of or relating to ancient Phrygia, its inhabitants, or their extinct language

2. (music) . of or relating to an authentic mode represented by the natural diatonic scale from E to E

3. (music) . (of a cadence) denoting a progression that leads a piece of music out of the major key and ends on the dominant chord of the relative minor key

-noun

4. a native or inhabitant of ancient Phrygia

5. an ancient language of Phrygia, belonging to the Thraco-Phrygian branch of the Indo-European family: recorded in a few inscriptions

Is this music

In his Phrygian hat

That scares him so?

Of history?

Mumble

MUMBLE

-verb

1. to utter indistinctly, as with the mouth partly closed; mutter

2. (rare) . to chew (food) ineffectually or with difficulty

-noun

3. an indistinct or low utterance or sound

They gather

Mumbling in the shadows

Complaining about ennui

Or gravity or the heat 

Polity

POLITY

-noun

1. a form of government or organization of a state, church, society, etc.; constitution

2. a politically organized society, state, city, etc.

3. the management of public or civil affairs

4. political organization

This is the future we  are looking at

Warped polities and a dystopian fate

Staring back from our news outlet

Each day

Arcology

ARCOLOGY

-noun

1. a type of architecture concerned with the design of enormous vertical cities that maximize population density and so preserve the surrounding countryside

2. a city in this architectural system

Cats at night

Flying over roofs

Arcology gone mad

In the heat of the moon

Parlous

PARLOUS

-adj.

1. dangerous or difficult

2. cunning

-adv.

3. extremely

Clouds streaming by

Like words from a careless mouth

Parlous and shifty

Shredding through cords

Wet curls against our ears

Lemon

LEMON

-noun

1. a small Asian evergreen tree, Citrus limon, widely cultivated in warm and tropical regions, having pale green glossy leaves and edible fruits

2. the yellow oval fruit of this tree, having juicy acidic flesh rich in vitamin C

3. Also called : lemon yellow .  a greenish-yellow or strong yellow colour

4. a distinctive tart flavour made from or in imitation of the lemon

5. (slang) . a person or thing considered to be useless or defective

Ô the cool lemon

Juice drank in the shade

By a hot summer day!

Pace

PACE

[peɪs]

-noun

1. a single step in walking

2. the distance covered by a step

3. a measure of length equal to the average length of a stride, approximately 3 feet

4. speed of movement, in particular of walking or running

5. rate or style of proceeding at some activity

6. manner or action of stepping, walking, etc. ; gait

7. any of the manners in which a horse or other quadruped walks or runs, the three principal paces being the walk, trot, and canter (or gallop)

8. a manner of moving, natural to the camel and sometimes developed in the horse, in which the two legs on the same side of the body are moved and put down at the same time

9. (architecture) . a step or small raised platform

-verb

10. (trans.) to set or determine the pace for, as in a race

11. ( often followed by “about”,” up and down”, etc.) . to walk with regular slow or fast paces, as in boredom, agitation, etc.

12. (trans. ; often followed by “out”) . to measure by paces

13. (intr.) to walk with slow regular strides

14. (intr.) (of a horse) to move at the pace (the specially developed gait)

-preposition

[Latin (ˈpɑːkɛ, ˈpɑːtʃɛ, English ˈpeɪsɪ]

with due deference to: used to acknowledge politely someone who disagrees with the speaker or writer

Nervous

And eager she paces

Misses her selfie

By a moment

Then rushes off

In search for love

Aware

AWARE

-adj.

1. (postpositive ; followed  by “of”) having knowledge; cognizant

2. informed of current developments

Busy talking

Not aware of or possibly

Refusing to see

The glances in his direction

(René Redzepi)

Mindful

MINDFUL

-adj.

(usually postpositive and followed by “of”) keeping aware; heedful

Just a sign

Asking people

To be mindful

Rather than lock

Their loves away

Fetter

FETTER

-noun

1. (often plural) . a chain or bond fastened round the ankle; shackle

2. (usually plural) . a check or restraint

-verb (trans.)

3. to restrict or confine

4. to bind in fetters

Books

Knowledge

So dangerous

They are kept in fetters

Edental

EDENTAL

-adj.

1. having few or no teeth

2. (zoology) . belonging to the order Edentata, which includes anteaters, sloths, and armadillos

Modern art

For some opaque but

Not exactly edental

Prepone

PREPONE

-verb (trans.)

(Indian) . to bring forward to an earlier time

Alessio was unaware

That the party had been preponed

And fell asleep

While everyone else made merry 

Pulse

PULSE

-noun

1. physiology

a. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of an artery at each beat of the heart, often discernible to the touch at points such as the wrists

b. a single pulsation of the heart or arteries

2. physics , electronics

a. a transient sharp change in voltage, current, or some other quantity normally constant in a system

b. one of a series of such transient disturbances, usually recurring at regular intervals and having a characteristic geometric shape

3. a recurrent rhythmic series of beats, waves, vibrations, etc.

4. any single beat, wave, etc., in such a series

5. bustle, vitality, or excitement

6. the feelings or thoughts of a group or society as they can be measured

-verb

7. (intr.) to beat, throb, or vibrate

8. (trans.) to provide an electronic pulse to operate (a slide projector)

-noun

1. the edible seeds of any of several leguminous plants, such as peas, beans, and lentils

2. the plant producing any of these seeds

Some of my favourite pulses

A transient delight

Melancholy

MELANCHOLY

-noun

1. a constitutional tendency to gloominess or depression

2. a sad thoughtful state of mind; pensiveness

3. (archaic) . a gloomy character, thought to be caused by too much black bile

4. (archaic) . one of the four bodily humours; black bile

-adj.

5. characterized by, causing, or expressing sadness, dejection, etc.

A prisoner

Kept in fetters

Bound by melancholy