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Natheless

2012-02-03T05:03:00.001+01:00

NATHELESS

—adv.
1. another word for nonetheless

—prep
2. notwithstanding; despite

Gloom rolls in
The day starts
Natheless

Nugatory

2012-02-02T05:03:00.002+01:00

NUGATORY

-adj.
1. of no real value; trifling; worthless.
2. of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain.
3. not valid.

Nugatory efforts
To fight digestive problems
Unfazed by bubbles

Selvage

2012-02-01T05:44:00.001+01:00

SELVAGE

-noun
1. the edge of woven fabric finished so as to prevent ravelling, often in a narrow tape effect, different from the body of the fabric.
2. any similar strip or part of surplus material, as at the side of wallpaper.
3. Also called margin. Philately . the surplus paper or margin around a sheet of stamps.
4. a plate or surface through which a bolt of a lock passes.

I keep my life in selvage
Hoping this will keep it
From unravelling.

Passel

2012-01-31T04:42:00.001+01:00

PASSEL

-noun
a group or lot of indeterminate number

A secret window
Opens on
A passel of Sibyls
Well hidden secret

Pruinose

2012-01-30T04:06:00.002+01:00

PRUINOSE
[proo-uh-nohs]

-adj.
Botany - covered with a frost-like bloom or powdery secretion.

Pruinose bloom
A gift from the night

Crenelation

2012-01-29T04:56:00.002+01:00

CRENELATION

-noun
1. The act of rendering a building defensible by the addition of battlements or by the cutting of loopholes.
2. The state or condition of being crenelated.
3. A battlement.
4. Any notch or indentation.

Crenelations
Made to retain sauce
But not to resist bites
Adding crunch
To succumbing pleasure

Torpor

2012-01-28T05:22:00.002+01:00

TORPOR

–noun
1. sluggish inactivity or inertia.
2. lethargic indifference; apathy.
3. a state of suspended physical powers and activities.
4. dormancy, as of a hibernating animal.

Torpor!
Thy name is cat.

Prim

2012-01-27T05:26:00.002+01:00

PRIM

–adj.
1. formally precise or proper, as persons or behaviour; stiffly neat.
–verb (used without object)
2. to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way.
–verb (used with object)
3. to make prim, as in appearance.
4. to draw (one's face, lips, etc.) into a prim expression.

Prim windows
Bothered by naked figures
Pursing their shades
In unspoken disapproval

Scrannel

2012-01-26T04:52:00.002+01:00

SCRANNEL

–adj.
1. thin or slight.
2. squeaky or unmelodious.

I feel for dead leaves
Tormented scrannel friends
Abandoned, unloved

Lissotrissic

2012-01-25T05:27:00.001+01:00

LISSOTRISSIC
[lĭs'ə-trĭk'ĭk]

-adj.
Having straight hair.

I once dreamt
Of lissotrissic nymphs
Caught up in my branches
Then woke up to reality
Arms raised
But human.

sough

2012-01-24T04:22:00.002+01:00

SOUGH

-intr. verb
1. To make a soft, low sighing or rustling sound, as the wind.

-noun
1. A soft, low rustling or sighing sound.

Tears on my window
Soughing in the night
Catching fire

List

2012-01-23T05:21:00.001+01:00

LIST

—noun
1. an item-by-item record of names or things, usually written or printed one under the other
2. computing a linearly ordered data structure
3. be on the danger list to be in a critical medical or physical condition
—verb trans.
4. to make a list of
5. to include in a list
6. Brit . to declare to be a listed building
7. stock exchange to obtain an official quotation for (a security) so that it may be traded on the recognized market
8. an archaic word for enlist

—noun
1. a border or edging strip, especially of cloth
2. a less common word for selvage
3. a strip of bark, sapwood, etc, trimmed from a board or plank
4. another word for fillet
5. a strip, band, ridge or furrow
6. agriculture a ridge in ploughed land formed by throwing two furrows together
—verb
7. to border with or as if with a list or lists
8. agriculture to plough (land) so as to form lists
9. to cut a list from (a board, plank, etc)

—verb
1. (especially of ships) to lean over or cause to lean over to one side
—noun
2. the act or an instance of leaning to one side

—verb
1. to be pleasing to (a person)
2. ( trans.) to desire or choose
—noun
3. a liking or desire

—verb
an archaic or poetic word for listen

A lone winter rose
Lists towards the light
Is this love?

Filament

2012-01-22T05:05:00.001+01:00

FILAMENT

-noun
1. a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril.
2. a single fibril of natural or synthetic textile fiber, of indefinite length, sometimes several miles long.
3. a long slender cell or series of attached cells, as in some algae and fungi.
4. Botany . the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther.
5. Ornithology . the barb of a down feather.
6. (in a light bulb or other incandescent lamp) the threadlike conductor, often of tungsten, in the bulb that is heated to incandescence by the passage of current.
7. Electronics . the heating element (sometimes also acting as a cathode) of a vacuum tube, resembling the filament in an incandescent bulb.
8. Astronomy . a solar prominence, as viewed within the sun's limb.

An unusual ingredient
Boasting tea and filament.
Should I risk it?

Ilk

2012-01-21T05:11:00.001+01:00

ILK

—noun
1. a type; class; sort (esp in the phrase of that, his, her, etc, ilk ).
2. ( Scot ) "of that ilk" of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named.

-pronoun
1. each.
-adj.
2. each; every.

Face it:
That ilk does not really need you
They like to make you think they do.
You are less important than a sun beam.

Fash

2012-01-20T05:14:00.001+01:00

FASH

—noun
1. worry; trouble; bother
—verb
2. to trouble; bother; annoy

Against fash
Be direct
Blunt even
Life is short

Amphigory

2012-01-19T05:09:00.001+01:00

AMPHIGORY
[am-fi-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee]

-noun
1. a meaningless or nonsensical piece of writing, especially one intended as a parody.
2. a piece of nonsensical writing in verse or, less commonly, prose
Also: amphigouri

Words chasing each other on a page
A game turned amphigory
In truth there is nothing more to it

Shun

2012-01-18T05:07:00.002+01:00

SHUN

-verb
to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.

I learnt
To shun
Nostalgia
But the scent
Of old paper
Moves me
To tears
Still

Harangue

2012-01-17T05:06:00.003+01:00

HARANGUE
[huh-rang]

-noun
1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
2. a long, passionate, and vehement speech, especially one delivered before a public gathering.
3. any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse.
-verb (used with object)
4. to address in a harangue.

I warned them not to follow
Or else...
But obviously
They did not quite know
What do make of my harangue.

Dysthymia

2012-01-16T05:25:00.002+01:00

DYSTHYMIA
[dis-thahy-mee-uh]

-noun
A mild depression

The sun is out
But
The old tree is still showing
Traces of dysthymia

Coddle

2012-01-15T05:19:00.003+01:00

CODDLE

—verb
1. to treat with indulgence
2. to cook (something, especially eggs) in water just below the boiling point
—noun
3. dialect ( Irish ) stew made from ham and bacon scraps

Coddled egg
Drowned in cheese cream
Bacon mermaids in the froth
Metamorphosed delight

Together

2012-01-14T05:01:00.003+01:00

TOGETHER

-adv.
1. into or in one gathering, company, mass, place, or body.
2. into or in union, proximity, contact, or collision, as two or more things.
3. into or in relationship, association, business, or agreement, etc., as two or more persons.
4. taken or considered collectively or conjointly.
5. (of a single thing) into or in a condition of unity, compactness, or coherence.
6. at the same time; simultaneously.
7. without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly.
8. in cooperation; with united action; conjointly.
9. with mutual action; mutually; reciprocally

Together
The sun is warmer
The roof softer
Our dreams wilder
Together

Coalesce

2012-01-13T05:04:00.002+01:00

COALESCE

-verb(used without object)
1. to grow together or into one body.
2. to unite so as to form one mass, community, etc.
3.to blend or come together
-verb (used with object)
4. to cause to unite in one body or mass.

A temple
A shark fin
Unfathomable markers
Along the Silk Road
Coalescing into mystery

Ogle

2012-01-12T04:49:00.002+01:00

OGLE

-verb (used with object)
1. to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
2. to eye; look or stare at.
-verb (used without object)
3. to look amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
4. to look or stare.
-noun
5. an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.

Passing through rooms
Ogling the wares
Breathing in inspiration

Wry

2012-01-11T04:51:00.002+01:00

WRY

—adj.
1. twisted, contorted, or askew
2. (of a facial expression) produced or characterized by contorting of the features, usually indicating dislike
3. drily humorous; sardonic
4. warped, misdirected, or perverse
5. (of words, thoughts, etc) unsuitable or wrong
—verb trans.
6. to twist or contort

Wry comment on the soul
Unable to pull the body
To its death

Midden

2012-01-10T04:41:00.002+01:00

MIDDEN

-noun
1.a. archaic , dialect or a dunghill or pile of refuse
b. dialect a dustbin
c. dialect ( Northern English ) an earth closet
2. Kitchen midden . a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.

Torn pages tossing in the wind
A midden of slashed secrets

Gridlock

2012-01-09T05:19:00.002+01:00

GRIDLOCK

—noun
1. obstruction of urban traffic caused by queues of vehicles forming across junctions and causing further queues to form in the intersecting streets
2. a point in a dispute at which no agreement can be reached; deadlock
—verb trans.
3. (of traffic) to block or obstruct (an area)

Frozen in marble
Historical gridlock
A story unfolds

Glume

2012-01-08T04:45:00.002+01:00

GLUME

-noun
1. botany one of a pair of dry membranous bracts at the base of the spikelet of grasses
2. the bract beneath each flower in a sedge or related plant

When harvesting chives
I make sure to do away with glume
Despite its charming name.

Dapper

2012-01-07T05:18:00.002+01:00

DAPPER

—adj.
1. neat and spruce in dress and bearing; trim
2. small and nimble

Dapper creature
Even when feral or stray
Neat killer

Adventive

2012-01-06T05:34:00.002+01:00

ADVENTIVE

—adj.
1. (of a species) introduced to a new area and not yet established there; exotic
—noun
2. such a plant or animal

Hanging pots
Adventive plants
subject to winds

Desmology

2012-01-05T05:03:00.001+01:00

DESMOLOGY

-noun
The science which treats of the ligaments.

Despite a first impression
I was disappointed to find
That desmology is not about demons
Although it deals with evil
Flaming joints all the same.

Lenticular

2012-01-04T05:22:00.002+01:00

LENTICULAR

-adj.
1. Also: lentoid shaped like a biconvex lens
2. of or concerned with a lens or lenses
3. shaped like a lentil seed
4. of or relating to a galaxy with a large central bulge, small disc, but no spiral arms, intermediate in shape between spiral and elliptical galaxies

Resting on the edge
Of a lenticular seat
Dreaming of the next meal

Guy

2012-01-03T05:32:00.001+01:00

GUY

-noun
1. Informal . a man or boy; fellow.
2. Usually, guys. Informal . persons of either sex; people.
3. Chiefly British Slang . a grotesquely dressed person.
4. ( often initial capital letter ) British . a grotesque effigy of Guy Fawkes that is paraded through the streets and burned on Guy Fawkes Day.
-verb (used with object)
5. to jeer at or make fun of; ridicule.

-noun
1. a rope, cable, or appliance used to guide and steady an object being hoisted or lowered, or to secure anything likely to shift its position.
verb (used with object)
2. to guide, steady, or secure with a guy or guys.

Fun
Guying Pythagoras
And his science.
Some jealous guy?

Aprication

2012-01-02T05:16:00.001+01:00

APRICATION

-noun
Basking in the sun

Nothing like a sharp nippy winter day
To make aprication all the more enjoyable.

Epact

2012-01-01T05:16:00.003+01:00

EPACT

—noun
1. the difference in time, about 11 days, between the solar year and the lunar year
2. the number of days between the beginning of the calendar year and the new moon immediately preceding this
3. the difference in time between the calendar month and the synodic month

We celebrate the epact
A worthier pursuit
To have along with wine.

Happy new(ish) year

Darkle

2011-12-31T05:51:00.002+01:00

DARKLE
[DAHR-kuhl]

-verb trans., intr.
To make or become dark, indistinct, or gloomy.

Weather darkles,
Bringing sleep in its wings
Warm cushion.

Admix

2011-12-30T05:52:00.002+01:00

ADMIX
[ad-MIKS]

-verb trans.
To mix or blend.

Light and frost
Admix into a freize
So many stars.

Prognathous

2011-12-29T05:49:00.003+01:00

PROGNATHOUS
[PROG-nuh-thuhs, prog-NAY-thuhs]

-adj.
1. Protruding outwards.
2. Having a jaw that protrudes outwards.

Tourists and ghosts shelter
Prognathous mountain range

Ectype

2011-12-28T05:48:00.003+01:00

ECTYPE
[EK-tahyp]

-noun
A reproduction; copy.

Going through ectypes
Of a story too remote to read
Imagining the original colours

Procellous

2011-12-27T05:11:00.000+01:00

PROCELLOUS
[proh-SEL-uhs]

-adj.
Stormy, as the sea.

Procellous times
Bitter politics
And cold draughts.

Supine

2011-12-26T05:15:00.001+01:00

SUPINE

-adj.
1. lying on the back, face or front upward.
2. inactive, passive, or inert, especially from indolence or indifference.
3. (of the hand) having the palm upward.

Supine dolour
So exquisite
So aesthetic
They've given him flowers

Sublunary

2011-12-25T05:09:00.002+01:00

SUBLUNARY

-adj.
1. situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
2. characteristic of or pertaining to the earth; terrestrial.
3. mundane or worldly

The holiday season
Has taken a turn for the sublunary,
Holiness all gone.

Nice holidays to you all nevertheless.

Trammel

2011-12-24T05:12:00.002+01:00

TRAMMEL

-noun
1. Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint.
2. an instrument for drawing ellipses.
3. Also called tram. a device used to align or adjust parts of a machine.
4. trammel net. a three-layered fishing net, the middle layer of which is fine-meshed, the others coarse-meshed, so that fish attempting to pass through the net will become entangled in one or more of the meshes.
5. a fowling net.
6. a contrivance hung in a fireplace to support pots or kettles over the fire.
7. a fetter or shackle, especially one used in training a horse to amble.
-verb (used with object)
8. to involve or hold in trammels; restrain.
9. to catch or entangle in or as in a net.

Feeling trammelled
By festivities
And excess food.

Deckled

2011-12-23T05:38:00.002+01:00

DECKLED

-adj.
having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade

Deckled quote
Looking all the wiser
For its rough spots.

Decrepitude

2011-12-22T04:31:00.003+01:00

DECREPITUDE
[dih-krep-i-tood, -tyood]

-noun
decrepit condition; dilapidated state; feebleness, especially from old age.

Drawing words with leaves,
Abandoned by trees and orphans
An alphabet of decrepitude and neglect
Flotsam on top of my tea.

Rush

2011-12-21T04:57:00.003+01:00

RUSH

-verb (used without object)
1. to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
2. to dash, especially to dash forward for an attack or onslaught.
3. to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly.
4. Football . to carry the ball on a running play or plays.
-verb (used with object)
5. to perform, accomplish, or finish with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
6. to carry or convey with haste.
7. to cause to move, act, or progress quickly; hurry.
8. to send, push, force, impel, etc., with unusual speed or haste.
9. to attack suddenly and violently; charge.
10.to overcome or capture (a person, place, etc.).
11.Informal . to heap attentions on; court intensively; woo.
12.to entertain (a prospective fraternity or sorority member) before making bids for membership.
13.Football (American).
a. to carry (the ball) forward across the line of scrimmage.
b. to carry the ball (a distance) forward from the line of scrimmage.
c. (of a defensive team member) to attempt to force a way quickly into the backfield in pursuit of (the back in possession of the ball).
-noun
14.the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
15.a hostile attack.
16.an eager rushing of numbers of persons to some region that is being occupied or exploited, especially because of a new mine.
17.a sudden appearance or access.
18.hurried activity; busy haste.
19.a hurried state, as from pressure of affairs.
20.press of work, business, traffic, etc., requiring extraordinary effort or haste.
21.Football (American).
a. an attempt to carry or instance of carrying the ball across the line of scrimmage.
b. an act or instance of rushing the offensive back in possession of the ball.
22.a scrimmage held as a form of sport between classes or bodies of students in colleges.
23.rushes. Movies . a series of hastily printed shots from the previous day's shooting, selected by the director to be viewed for possible inclusion in the final version of the film.
24.Informal . a series of lavish attentions paid a woman by a suitor.
25.the rushing by a fraternity or sorority.
26.Also called flash. Slang . the initial, intensely pleasurable or exhilarated feeling experienced upon taking a narcotic or stimulant drug.
-adj.
27.requiring or done in haste.
28.characterized by excessive business, a press of work or traffic, etc.

-noun
1. any grasslike plant of the genus Juncus, having pithy or hollow stems, found in wet or marshy places.
2. any plant of the rush family.
3. any of various similar plants.
4. a stem of such a plant, used for making chair bottoms, mats, baskets, etc.
5. something of little or no value; trifle.

We rush through rushes
Screaming like demons
A childhood perk.

Fug

2011-12-20T05:40:00.001+01:00

FUG

-noun
Stale, humid, and stuffy atmosphere, as in a crowded, poorly ventilated room.

Winter puddles,
Reminiscent of future snow
And wet coats fug.

Terrene

2011-12-19T04:47:00.001+01:00

TERRENE
[teh-REEN, TER-een]

-adj.
Relating to the earth; earthly; worldly; mundane.

Terrene remains
Saints and sinners
Mixed up by time
And the folly of man.

Circinate

2011-12-18T04:45:00.002+01:00

CIRCINATE

-adj.
1. made round; ring-shaped.
2. Botany, Mycology . rolled up on the axis at the apex, as a leaf or fruiting body.

Cappelletti;
Making pasta
As circinate art.

Pale

2011-12-17T05:27:00.002+01:00

PALE

-adj.
1. lacking intensity of colour; colourless or whitish.
2. of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or grey.
3. not bright or brilliant; dim.
4. faint or feeble; lacking vigour.
-verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
5. to make or become pale

-noun
1. a stake or picket, as of a fence.
2. an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure.
3. an enclosed area.
4. limits; bounds.
5. a district or region within designated bounds.
6. ( initial capital letter ) Also called English Pale, Irish Pale. a district in eastern Ireland included in the Angevin Empire of King Henry II and his successors.
7. an ordinary in the form of a broad vertical stripe at the centre of an escutcheon.
8. Shipbuilding . a shore used inside to support the deck beams of a hull under construction.
-verb (used with object)
9. to enclose with pales; fence.
10.to encircle or encompass.

Here
Each shadow
Watch over its pale

Redound

2011-12-16T05:17:00.001+01:00

REDOUND

-verb (used without object)
1. to have a good or bad effect or result, as to the advantage or disadvantage of a person or thing.
2. to result or accrue, as to a person.
3. to come back or reflect upon a person as to honour or disgrace (usually followed by "on" or "upon").

An angel
Redounds upon their fall
Glowing in the rain

Frondescence

2011-12-15T04:44:00.001+01:00

FRONDESCENCE
[fron-DES-uhns]

-noun
1. Leafage; foliage.
2. The process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.

Flowers and frondescences
Meet with fruits in a warm cup.
This sounds like the start of a joke.

Abide

2011-12-14T05:28:00.004+01:00

ABIDE

-verb (used without object)
1. to remain; continue; stay.
2. to have one's abode; dwell; reside.
3. to continue in a particular condition, attitude, relationship, etc.; last.
-verb (used with object)
4. to put up with; tolerate; stand.
5. to endure, sustain, or withstand without yielding or submitting.
6. to wait for; await.
7. to accept without opposition or question.
8. to pay the price or penalty of; suffer for.

I shall abide
In our abode
But only abide this much
That love excuses

Staunch

2011-12-13T05:07:00.001+01:00

STAUNCH
[stawnch, stahnch]

—verb
1. to stem the flow of (a liquid, especially blood) or (of a liquid) to stop flowing
2. to prevent the flow of a liquid, especially blood, from (a hole, wound, etc)
3. an archaic word for assuage
—noun
4. a primitive form of lock in which boats are carried over shallow parts of a river in a rush of water released by the lock
ALSo: stanch

A broken cup
Liquid quickly staunched
Our lives so frail

Axil

2011-12-12T05:34:00.001+01:00

AXIL
[ak-sil]

-noun
the angle between the upper surface of a branch or leafstalk and the stem from which it grows

Dreamers and botanists
Can lose themselves
In the study of axils
And their potential implications.

Verbena

2011-12-11T05:46:00.000+01:00

VERBENA
[ver-bee-nuh]

-noun
1. any of various plants of the genus Verbena, especially any of several hybrid species cultivated for their showy flower clusters.
2. any of various other plants, as the lemon verbena or sand verbena.

Fragile and fragrant
Letters of verbena
Promising warmth and tea.

Nictitate

2011-12-10T04:57:00.001+01:00

NICTITATE
[nik-ti-teyt]

-verb (used without object)
to blink or wink
Also - nictate

She's got this
Special something
A wicked way
Of nictitating
That infuriates me.

Bract

2011-12-09T05:33:00.003+01:00

BRACT

-noun
a specialized leaf, usually smaller than the foliage leaves, with a single flower or inflorescence growing in its axil

"Take me in your bracts"
Cries rain to the flower
"Never ever let me go"

Crosier

2011-12-08T05:08:00.001+01:00

CROSIER
[kroh-zher]

-noun
1. a ceremonial staff carried by a bishop or an abbot, hooked at one end like a shepherd's crook.
2. Botany . the circinate young frond of a fern.

Hunting for a metaphoric crosier
I become mesmerized by convoluted words instead.

Crozier shadow appears courtesy of bpende at Flickr.

Awn

2011-12-07T04:44:00.004+01:00

AWN
[awn]

-noun Botany .
1. a bristle-like appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses.
2. such appendages collectively, as those forming the beard of wheat, barley, etc.
3. any similar bristle.

He was prickly
Too much awn on his cheeks
But then when I complained
He reminded me of how much
We had relished our roll
In the awns last spring.

Obloquy

2011-12-06T05:12:00.002+01:00

OBLOQUY

-noun
1. censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person or thing, especially by numerous persons or by the general public.
2. discredit, disgrace, or bad repute resulting from public blame, abuse, or denunciation.

I won't stone you
Regardless of the ambient obloquy
Despite the fact that weapons abound
For who am I to judge?

Palladium

2011-12-05T05:10:00.002+01:00

PALLADIUM
[puh-ley-dee-uhm]

-noun
1. Also, Pal·la·di·on [puh-ley-dee-on] a statue of Athena, especially one on the citadel of Troy on which the safety of the city was supposed to depend.
2. ( usually lowercase ) anything believed to provide protection or safety; safeguard.

-noun
1.a ductile malleable silvery-white element of the platinum metal group occurring principally in nickel-bearing ores: used as a hydrogenation catalyst and, alloyed with gold, in jewellery.

Watch tower
Awkward palladium
Where are those stairs leading to?

Pepper

2011-12-04T05:22:00.004+01:00

PEPPER

-noun
1. a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
2. any plant of the genus Piper.
3. any of several plants of the genus Capsicum, especially C. annuum, cultivated in many varieties, or C. frutescens.
4. the usually green or red fruit of any of these plants, ranging from mild to very pungent in flavor.
5. the pungent seeds of several varieties of C. annuum or C. frutescens, used ground or whole as a condiment.
-verb (used with object)
6. to season with or as if with pepper.
7. to sprinkle or cover, as if with pepper; dot.
8. to sprinkle like pepper.
9.to hit with rapidly repeated short jabs.
10.to pelt with or as if with shot or missiles.
11.to discharge (shot or missiles) at something.

Unlikely companions
Vanilla and green pepper
Blended in alliance
To confound your senses.

Eidolon

2011-12-03T04:47:00.001+01:00

EIDOLON
[ahy-doh-luhn]

-noun
1. a phantom; apparition.
2. an ideal.

Velvet eidolon
Scaring visitors
With loud purrs

Aghast

2011-12-02T04:45:00.003+01:00

AGHAST
[uh-gast, uh-gahst]

-adj.
struck with overwhelming shock or amazement; filled with sudden fright or horror

Aghast,
We cried on the corpse
Before looking for murderers.
They smiled
Teeth full of feathers.

Quip

2011-12-01T05:14:00.003+01:00

QUIP
[kwip]

-noun
1. a clever or witty remark or comment.
2. a sharp, sarcastic remark; a cutting jest.
3. a quibble.
4. an odd or fantastic action or thing.
verb (used without object)
5. to utter quips.

Here even the walls smile,
Enjoy a quip or two.
Pedestrians ignore them.

Teratology

2011-11-30T04:48:00.005+01:00

TERATOLOGY
[ter-uh-tol-uh-jee]

-noun Biology.
the science or study of monstrosities or abnormal formations in organisms.

Teratology turned art
Or was it art that started it?
Discovered the attraction,
The pull of monsters?

Faldage

2011-11-29T05:05:00.003+01:00

FALDAGE

-noun
A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.

Passing through vineyards
By antic right of faldage
Flocks of sheep and dogs

Epigone

2011-11-28T04:44:00.002+01:00

EPIGONE
[ep-i-gohn]

-noun
an undistinguished imitator, follower, or successor of an important writer, painter, etc.

And who am I
But an epigone?

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Moil

2011-11-27T04:38:00.004+01:00

MOIL
[moil]

-verb (used without object)
1. to work hard; drudge.
2. to whirl or churn ceaselessly; twist; eddy.
-verb (used with object)
3. Archaic. to wet or smear.
-noun
4. hard work or drudgery.
5. confusion, turmoil, or trouble.
6. Glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation.
7. Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock.

Dough making
Requires a good dose of moiling
As well as time.

Lich

2011-11-26T05:37:00.003+01:00

LICH
[lich]

-noun British Obsolete.
1. the body; the trunk.
2. a dead body; corpse.

Poor lich,
Such stress!
But, wait:
He's purring still.

Integument

2011-11-25T04:43:00.001+01:00

INTEGUMENT
[in-teg-yuh-muhnt]

-noun
1. a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
2. any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.

A new colour
Rust brought in
On the wings of pollution
Red integument

Lyard

2011-11-24T05:34:00.002+01:00

LYARD
[LAHY-erd]

-adj.
Streaked or spotted with gray or white.

Lyard windshield
No frost flowers for me.

Caduke

2011-11-23T05:02:00.001+01:00

CADUKE

-adj.
Perishable; frail; transitory.

A moment of confusion
Is it that late already?
Caduke time.

Murmur

2011-11-22T04:52:00.002+01:00

MURMUR
[mur-mer]

-noun
1. a low, continuous sound, as of a brook, the wind, or trees, or of low, indistinct voices.
2. a mumbled or private expression of discontent.
3. Also called heart murmur. Medicine/Medical.
a. an abnormal sound heard on listening to the heart, usually through a stethoscope, produced by the blood passing through deformed cardiac valves.
b. in some persons a similar sound heard when blood passes through normal valves.
4. Phonetics. a voice quality in which vibration of the vocal cords is accompanied by the escape of a great deal of air, as in the (h) of ahead; breathy voice.
-verb (used without object)
5. to make a low or indistinct sound, especially continuously.
6. to speak in a low tone or indistinctly.
7. to complain in a low tone or in private.
-verb (used with object)
8. to sound by murmurs.
9. to utter in a low tone

A murmur
So soft
So tender
To the ear
A murmur
Can murder
A heart
If displaced
Or malicious

Forficate

2011-11-21T05:22:00.001+01:00

FORFICATE
[FOR-fi-kit, kayt]

-adj.
Deeply forked.

Beyond forficate
Into a maze
A fractured world
For fractured times

Groat

2011-11-20T05:31:00.002+01:00

GROAT
[groht]

-noun
a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.

-Plural noun - groats
1. the hulled and crushed grain of oats, wheat, or certain other cereals
2. the parts of oat kernels, buckwheat, or barley used as food

Playing around with groats
You could make a few groats
If it wasn't for time delay
And caducity.

Purr

2011-11-19T05:39:00.002+01:00

PURR
[pur]

-verb (used without object)
1. to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
2. (of things) to make a sound suggestive of the purring of a cat.
-verb (used with object)
3. to express by or as if by purring.
-noun
4. the low, vibrating sound made by a cat by the contracting of the laryngeal muscles and the diaphragm as it breathes.
5. a sound resembling this.
6. the act of purring.

She purrs so
Loud and clear
A little hand trap
Luring you closer
Bound to her will

Fever

2011-11-18T05:37:00.002+01:00

FEVER
[fee-ver]

-noun
1. an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various body functions.
2. an abnormally high body temperature.
3. the number of degrees of such a temperature above the normal.
4. any of a group of diseases in which high temperature is a prominent symptom.
5. intense nervous excitement.
-verb (used with object)
6. to affect with or as with fever

Treading the file line
Between imagination and hypochondria
Fever could easily transform me
In a dead piece of wood.

Occult

2011-11-17T05:34:00.003+01:00

OCCULT
[uh-kuhlt, ok-uhlt]

-adj.
1. of or pertaining to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
2. beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or understanding; mysterious.
3. secret; disclosed or communicated only to the initiated.
4. hidden from view.
5. (in early science)
a. not apparent on mere inspection but discoverable by experimentation.
b. of a nature not understood, as physical qualities.
c. dealing with such qualities; experimental: occult science.
6. Medicine/Medical. present in amounts too small to be visible
-noun
7. the supernatural or supernatural agencies and affairs considered as a whole (usually preceded by "the").
8. occult studies or sciences (usually preceded by "the").
-verb (used with object)
9. to block or shut off (an object) from view; hide.
10.Astronomy. to hide (a celestial body) by occultation.
-verb (used without object)
11.to become hidden or shut off from view.

Anamorphic frescoes
Occulted by a point of view
Isn’t everything else as well?

Zoetrope

2011-11-16T05:28:00.003+01:00

ZOETROPE
[zoh-ee-trohp]

-noun
a device for giving an illusion of motion, consisting of a slitted drum that, when whirled, shows a succession of images placed opposite the slits within the drum as one moving image.

Shadows and light
Life's binary code
Zoetrope progress

Bathos

2011-11-15T05:05:00.002+01:00

BATHOS
[bey-thos, -thaws, -thohs]

-noun
1. a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax.
2. insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness.
3. triteness or triviality in style.

Too often is funeral art
Rife with bathos.
Angels still delight.

Naught

2011-11-14T05:15:00.001+01:00

NAUGHT
[nawt]

-noun
1. nothing.
2. a cipher (0); zero.
-adj.
3. lost; ruined.
4. Archaic. worthless; useless.
5. Obsolete. morally bad; wicked.
-adv.
6. Obsolete. not.
ALSO: nought

Her mouth a perfect naught
Naught, devoured by time.

Wither

2011-11-13T05:39:00.000+01:00

WITHER
[with-er]

-verb (used without object)
1. to shrivel; fade; decay.
2. to lose the freshness of youth, as from age (often followed by “away”).

October jewels
Offered by withered hands
Late raspberries

Quisle

2011-11-12T05:29:00.002+01:00

QUISLE
[KWIZ-uhl]

-verb intr.
To betray, especially by collaborating with an enemy.

Could those soft ears,
This fluffy head quisle?
Yes.
Mind your hands.

Deter

2011-11-11T05:30:00.001+01:00

DETER
[dih-tur]

-verb (used with object)
1. to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding.
2. to prevent; check; arrest

Deter
It does not:
Deers
and
Bears
Can't read

Ferly

2011-11-10T05:26:00.001+01:00

FERLY
[FER-lee]

-noun
1. Something unusual, strange, or causing wonder or terror.
2. Astonishment; wonder.
-adj.
1. Unexpected; strange; unusual.

In most unexpected places
Ferly creatures roam
Ready to puzzle or to spook

Auricular

2011-11-09T05:33:00.002+01:00

AURICULAR
[aw-rik-yuh-ler]

-adj.
1. of or pertaining to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
2. perceived by or addressed to the ear; made in private.
3. dependent on hearing; understood or known by hearing.
4. shaped like an ear; auriculate.
5. Anatomy. pertaining to an auricle of the heart.
6. Ornithology. pertaining to certain often modified feathers that cover and protect the opening of a bird's ear.

Morning,
Dropping auricular hints
Of sky's love affair with pink:
The signals are differents

Anosmia

2011-11-08T05:23:00.001+01:00

ANOSMIA

-noun
the loss of the sense of smell, either total or partial. May be caused by head injury, infection, or blockage of the nose.

Fits of anosmia
First signs of cold

See

2011-11-07T05:22:00.002+01:00

SEE

-verb (used with object)
1. to perceive with the eyes; look at.
2. to view; visit or attend as a spectator: to see a play.
3. to perceive by means of computer vision.
4. to scan or view, especially by electronic means.
5. to perceive (things) mentally; discern; understand
6. to construct a mental image of; visualize.
7. to accept or imagine or suppose as acceptable.
8. to be cognizant of; recognize.
9. to foresee.
10.to ascertain, learn, or find out.
11.to have knowledge or experience of.
12.to make sure.
13.to meet and converse with.
14.to receive as a visitor.
15.to visit.
16.to court, keep company with, or date frequently.
17.to provide aid or assistance to; take care of.
18.to attend or escort.
19.Cards. to match (a bet) or match the bet of (a bettor) by staking an equal sum; call.
20.to prefer (someone or something) to be as indicated (usually used as a mild oath).
21.to read or read about
-verb (used without object)
22.to have the power of sight.
23.to be capable of perceiving by means of computer vision.
24.to understand intellectually or spiritually; have insight.
25.to give attention or care.
26.to find out; make inquiry.
27.to consider; think; deliberate.
28.to look about; observe

-noun
Ecclesiastical. the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop

See the see
and reconsider

Diabatic

2011-11-06T05:34:00.004+01:00

DIABATIC
[dahy-uh-bat-ik]

-adj.
occurring with an exchange of heat

Diabatic magic
Wrecking the oven
With sheer delight

Soporose

2011-11-05T04:42:00.003+01:00

SOPOROSE
(SOP-uh-ros)

-adj.
Sleepy; in an unusually deep sleep.

Soporose cat:
An almost
Redundant adjective.

Flagitious

2011-11-04T05:52:00.002+01:00

FLAGITIOUS
[fluh-jish-uhs]

-adj.
1. shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.
2. heinous or flagrant, as a crime; infamous.

Errant space hermit,
Flagitious elder god crawls
From vacant soul to vacant soul
Into empty craniums
Living off sanity shreds
Humming itself to sleep.

Coeval

2011-11-03T05:57:00.003+01:00

COEVAL
[koh-ee-vuhl]

-adj.
1. of the same age, date, or duration; equally old.
2. coincident:
-noun
3. a contemporary

I have problems believing
This creature and I are truly coeval
Yet her spirit lives in me still
Despite many more wrinkles.

Picture (c) René Beudin 1969

Eversion

2011-11-02T05:13:00.000+01:00

EVERSION

-noun
a turning or being turned outward or inside out.

Behold
Exploding
Pomegranate
Eversion
Motion

Pandect

2011-11-01T05:54:00.006+01:00

PANDECT
[pan-dekt]

-noun
1. a treatise covering all aspects of a particular subject
2. ( often plural ) the complete body of laws of a country; legal code

Good old pandects
Unusable nowadays
Victims of caducity.

Keening

2011-10-31T05:19:00.001+01:00

KEENING
[kee-ning]

-noun
A wailing lament for the dead.

In the storm
A single lost alien roams
Its keening lashing the night
A question?
Its light - its eye? - on
Finding naught.

Ptisan

2011-10-30T05:56:00.003+01:00

PTISAN
[tiz-uhn, ti-zan]

-noun
1. a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
2. grape juice drained off without pressure

Barley tea or tisane
Hidden under the exotic term of
Ptisan.

Fable

2011-10-29T05:01:00.001+02:00

FABLE
[fey-buhl]

—noun
1. a short moral story, especially one with animals as characters
2. a false, fictitious, or improbable account; fiction or lie
3. a story or legend about supernatural or mythical characters or events
4. legends or myths collectively
5. archaic the plot of a play or of an epic or dramatic poem
—verb
6. to relate or tell (fables)
-verb intr.
7. to speak untruthfully; tell lies
-verb trans.
8. to talk about or describe in the manner of a fable

Cats hold the universe
Safe and sound in the vibration
Of their sleeping vibrissae
Or so does the fable go.

Anoint

2011-10-28T04:53:00.002+02:00

ANOINT
[uh-noint]

-verb (used with object)
1. to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
2. to smear with any liquid.
3. to consecrate or make sacred in a ceremony that includes the token applying of oil
4. to dedicate to the service of God.

The angel presents you
With the means to apply
Quick anointment prior to entry

Balsam

2011-10-27T04:44:00.001+02:00

BALSAM

-noun
1. any of various fragrant oleoresins, such as balm or tolu, obtained from any of several trees and shrubs and used as a base for medicines and perfumes
2. any of various similar substances used as medicinal or ceremonial ointments
3. See also Canada balsam any of certain aromatic resinous turpentines
4. any plant yielding balsam
5. Also called: busy Lizzie any of several balsaminaceous plants of the genus Impatiens, especially I. balsamina , cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers
6. anything healing or soothing

Wafts of sweet balsam scent
From freshly cut plywood planks
Choking olive trees.