Eve

EVE

-noun

1. the evening or day before some special event or festival

2. the period immediately before an event

3. (archaic) evening

Flaming eve
Promising chaos
And haphazard thoughts
Tempered ice morning

Serene

SERENE

-adj.

1. peaceful or tranquil; calm

2. clear or bright

3. (often capital) honoured (used as part of certain royal titles)

Maybe a stray

But a serene one

Free from cold and want

Subject

SUBJECT

-noun [ˈsʌbdʒɪkt ]

1. the predominant theme or topic, as of a book, discussion, etc

2. any branch of learning considered as a course of study

3. (grammar, logic) a word, phrase, or formal expression about which something is predicated or stated in a sentence

4. a person or thing that undergoes experiment, analysis, treatment, etc

5. a person who lives under the rule of a monarch, government, etc

6. an object, figure, scene, etc, as selected by an artist or photographer for representation

7. (philosophy)

a. that which thinks or feels as opposed to the object of thinking and feeling; the self or the mind

b. a substance as opposed to its attributes

8. Also called: theme music . a melodic or thematic phrase used as the principal motif of a fugue, the basis from which the musical material is derived in a sonata-form movement, or the recurrent figure in a rondo

9. (logic)

a. the term of a categorial statement of which something is predicated

b. the reference or denotation of the subject term of a statement.

10. an originating motive

-adj. [ˈsʌbdʒɪkt ] (usually postpositive; and followed by “to”)

11. being under the power or sovereignty of a ruler, government, etc

12. showing a tendency (towards)

13. exposed or vulnerable

14. conditional upon

-verb [səbˈdʒɛkt ] (trans.)

15. (followed by “to”) to cause to undergo the application (of)

16. (often passive; followed by “to”) to expose or render vulnerable or liable (to some experience)

17. (followed by “to”) to bring under the control or authority (of)

18. (rare) . to subdue or subjugate

19. (rare) . to present for consideration; submit

20. (obsolete) . to place below

A trenchant winter

Subjects the scenery

To death by multiple cuts

Of bitter and hypenemious gales

Naevus

NAEVUS

-noun

any congenital growth or pigmented blemish on the skin; birthmark or mole . Also called: naeve

History

Placed a naevus

On that cheek

And alabaster chin

Plate by Fornasetti

Want

WANT

-verb

1. (trans.) to feel a need or longing for

2. (when trans., may take a clause as object or an infinitive) to wish, need, or desire (something or to do something)

3. (intr.; usually used with a negative and often followed by “for”) to be lacking or deficient (in something necessary or desirable)

4. (trans.) to feel the absence of

5. (trans.) to fall short by (a specified amount)

6. (trans.) (mainly British) to have need of or require (doing or being something)

7. (intr.) to be destitute

8. (trans.; often passive) to seek or request the presence of

9. (intr.) to be absent

10. (trans; takes an infinitive) (informal) . should or ought (to do something)

-noun

11. the act or an instance of wanting

12. anything that is needed, desired, or lacked

13. a lack, shortage, or absence

14. the state of being in need; destitution

15. a sense of lack; craving

-noun

(English dialect)  a mole (in the sense of any congenital growth or pigmented blemish on the skin; birthmark)

Disapproval

For want of desire

Or its opposite

Entertain

ENTERTAIN

-verb

1. to provide amusement for an audience

2. to show hospitality to people

3. (trans.) to hold in the mind

Eternity

No finer for immensity

Or for being expelled

From anyone’s mind

To entertain dwarf islands

With unicorn’s blood

In a rite of winter being cast away

Feast

FEAST

-noun

1. a large and sumptuous meal, usually given as an entertainment for several people

2. a periodic religious celebration

3. something extremely pleasing or sumptuous

-verb

4. (intr.) to eat a feast

5. (intr.; usually followed by “on”) to enjoy the eating (of), as if feasting

6. (trans.) to give a feast to

7. (intr.; followed by “on”) to take great delight (in)

8. (trans.) to regale or delight

Feast your eyes upon darkness

A library turned cake at night

By liberal application of light

Whipped into seasonal frenezy

Christmas

CHRISTMAS

-noun

1. the annual commemoration by Christians of the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25

b. Also called: Christmas Day . December 25, observed as a day of secular celebrations when gifts and greetings are exchanged

2. Also called: Christmas Day (in England, Wales, and Ireland) . December 25, one of the four quarter days

3. Also called (archaic or literary): Christmastide . the season of Christmas extending from December 24 (Christmas Eve) to January 6 (the festival of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night)

Looking forward to

Meek and excellent

Christmas food and cheer

Antithalian

ANTITHALIAN

-adj.

disapproving of fun or festivity

The grump is back
In all her antithalian splendour
Calling off Christmas

Profligate

PROFLIGATE

-adj.

1. shamelessly immoral or debauched

2. wildly extravagant or wasteful

-noun

3. a profligate person

Get ready for

Profligate times ahead

So predictable

So tedious

Anfractuous

ANFRACTUOUS

[ænˈfræktʃʊəs]

-adj.

characterized by twists and turns; convoluted

One shade the more to the night

So red the nameless grace

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Thus mellowed to that anfractuous light

Which heaven to dwelling day denies.

Found in She walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)

Mixed via this random text generator

Refurbished by yours truly

Vacation

VACATION

-noun

1. (mainly British) . a period of the year when the law courts or universities are closed

2. (mainly US and Canadian) . a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation 

Also called - in Britain and certain other countries - holiday

3. the act of departing from or abandoning property, etc.

-verb

4. (intr.) (US and Canadian) . to take a vacation; holiday

Looking up

So red the nameless grace

Of vacation all glitter

In the rain

Courteous

COURTEOUS

-adj.

polite and considerate in manner

Meeting the moon wanes to third quarter
She empties the courteous rain drumming
Her broken windows shed tears of bridges
And I in the arboretum, awaiting
While lark’s tongues still chatter

Polite

POLITE

-adj.

1. showing regard for others, in manners, speech, behaviour, etc.; courteous

2. cultivated or refined

3. elegant or polished

The sky
That only stone
As far as anyone could see,
Polite shades of day,
But not quite so odd;

Her voice half empty
A landscape that might see
Half a dozen horses,
Any colour of paper balloon
Every minute.

Temse

TEMSE

-noun (dialect)

1. a sieve used to strain meal

-verb (trans.)

2. to sift (flour)

From solace too slowly
The candour forgets.

From solace to dragon

Temsed dreams

Coated in confectioner’s sugar

Blooms let go

Repose

REPOSE

-noun

1. a state of quiet restfulness; peace or tranquillity

2. dignified calmness of manner; composure

-verb

3. to place (oneself or one's body) in a state of quiet relaxation; lie or lay down at rest

4. (intr.) to lie when dead, as in the grave

5. (intr.; followed by “on”, “in”, etc) (formal) . to take support (from) or be based (on)

-verb (trans.)

1. to put (trust or confidence) in a person or thing

2. to place or put (an object) somewhere

If she had goals, hungers:

There she is thus trying a dream to chew on,

Just shy of huge or mindless,

And pull, as if she had been and mattered - a decaying mind;

And pull, as if she had somebody else’s heart.

Without repose.

Disreputable

DISREPUTABLE

-adj.

1. having or causing a lack of repute

2. disordered in appearance

A golden vine hidden from view

Bloom on those cheeks

A blush of every hue on mines

Such disreputable encounter

Request

REQUEST

-verb (trans.)

1. to express a desire for, in particular if politely; ask for or demand

-noun

2. the act or an instance of requesting, in particular in the form of a written statement; petition or solicitation

Six pink pepper-corns implied

Among the false shadows

Crouching there

Filthy truth and red contour

Metamorphosis request

For wine denied

Vagabond

VAGABOND

-noun

1. a person with no fixed home

2. an idle wandering beggar or thief

3. (modifier) of or like a vagabond; shiftless or idle

Here come

Our vagabond hours

Braking their chains

On the road

Of our emotions

Advent

ADVENT

-noun

an arrival or coming, in particular one which is awaited

There he stands in the shades

Awaiting the advent of tomorrow

And a long promised immortality

Unaware that he already has

As much as he’s ever likely to get.

Term

TERM

-noun

1. a name, expression, or word used for some particular thing, often in a specialized field of knowledge

2. any word or expression

3. a limited period of time

4. any of the divisions of the academic year during which a school, college, etc, is in session

5. a point in time determined for an event or for the end of a period

6. Also called : full term . the period at which childbirth is imminent

7. (law)

a. an estate or interest in land limited to run for a specified period

b. the duration of an estate, etc.

c. (formerly) a period of time during which sessions of courts of law were held

d. time allowed to a debtor to settle

8. (mathematics) . either of the expressions the ratio of which is a fraction or proportion, any of the separate elements of a sequence, or any of the individual addends of a polynomial or series

9. (logic)

a. the word or phrase that forms either the subject or predicate of a proposition

b. a name or variable, as opposed to a predicate

c. one of the relata of a relation

d. any of the three subjects or predicates occurring in a syllogism

10. Also called : terminal, terminus, terminal figure architecture 

11. (Australian Rules) (football) the usual word for quarter

12. (archaic) a boundary or limit

-verb

13. (trans.) to designate; call

For a brief term

I‘ve come to terms with my emotions

And a brief romance

Is orchestrated  in the lapse

It takes for my camera

To go “click”

Bake

BAKE

-verb

1. (trans.) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven

2. (intr.) to cook bread, pastry, etc., in an oven

3. to make or become hardened by heat

4. (intr.) (informal) . to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun

-noun

5. (US) a party at which the main dish is baked

6. a batch of things baked at one time

7. (Scottish) a kind of biscuit

8. (Caribbean) a small flat fried cake

One of winter’s delight

Baked goods and cakes

Quinces and roses

Doze

DOZE

-verb (intr.)

1. to sleep lightly or intermittently

2. (often followed by “off”) to fall into a light sleep

-noun

3. a short sleep

How I admire

His artless dozing

Power naps

Spurious

SPURIOUS

-adj.

1. not genuine or real

2. (of a plant part or organ) having the appearance of another part but differing from it in origin, development, or function; false

3. (of radiation) produced at an undesired frequency by a transmitter, causing interference, etc.

4. (rare) . illegitimate

Lost in internal worth

A true want of poetry,

And spurious relish for truth.

Reminder

REMINDER

-noun

1. something that recalls the past

2. a note to remind a person of something not done

You have demanded the world to play with

But it became metallic and you can't remodel it:

We need a reminder of its feudal tyranny

How is supposedly went down in fire and blood

Only to raise its ugly head in the clutch of economy

Inspire

INSPIRE

-verb

1. to exert a stimulating or beneficial effect upon (a person); animate or invigorate

2. (trans.; followed by “with” or “to”; may take an infinitive) to arouse (with a particular emotion or to a particular action); stir

3. (trans.) to prompt or instigate; give rise to

4. (trans.; often passive) to guide or arouse by divine influence or inspiration

5. to take or draw (air, gas, etc.) into the lungs; inhale

6. (trans.) (archaic)

a. to breathe into or upon

b. to breathe life into

Looking for something to inspire

A seasonal shopping spree

And only find frantic desperation 

Fake

FAKE

-verb

1. (trans.) to cause (something inferior or not genuine) to appear more valuable, desirable, or real by fraud or pretence

2. to pretend to have (an illness, emotion, etc.)

3. to improvise (music, stage dialogue, etc.)

-noun

4. an object, person, or act that is not genuine; sham, counterfeit, or forgery

-adj.

5. not genuine; spurious

-verb

1. (trans.; usually followed by “down: ) (nautical) . to coil (a rope) on deck

-noun

2. (nautical) . one round of a coil of rope

Mist and stones

Over the mountain

All faked by decay

Spontaneous abstract art

Mourn

MOURN

-verb

1. to feel or express sadness for the death or loss of (someone or something)

2. (intr.) to observe the customs of mourning, as by wearing black

3. (trans.) to grieve over (loss or misfortune)

Time passes

Teaching us to mourn

And let go

Croustade

CROUSTADE

-noun

a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc., in which food is served

All hail old bread

For its power

To turn into croustade

For a fancy fried breakfast!

Reveille

REVEILLE

[rɪˈvælɪ]

-noun

1. a signal, given by a bugle, drum, etc., to awaken soldiers or sailors in the morning

2. the hour at which this takes place

In a sort of strong habit

He sleeps through reveille

The secret magic of rising sun

Not casting a shadow upon his vibrissae

Anymore

Reveal

REVEAL

-verb (trans.)

1. (may take a clause as object or an infinitive) . to disclose (a secret); divulge

2. to expose to view or show (something concealed)

3. (of God) to disclose (divine truths) either directly or through the medium of prophets, etc.

-noun

4. the act of exposing something that has been concealed, in particular as the climax of a theatrical performance or magic trick

5. (architecture) . the vertical side of an opening in a wall, like the side of a window or door between the frame and the front of the wall

Our journey

Reveals untold beauties

And forgotten ones