Listless

LISTLESS

-adj.

(of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm.

Not so much listless

Than nonchalant or lazy

In short a cat at his nap

Nephoscope

NEPHOSCOPE

-noun

an instrument for measuring the altitude, velocity, and direction of movement of clouds

I lose myself in clouds

Going by my own nephoscope

Playing in virtual waves

Internecine

INTERNECINE

-adj.

1. mutually destructive or ruinous; maiming both or all sides

2. of or relating to slaughter or carnage; bloody

3. of or involving conflict within a group or organization

This could be bad

Taking a turn for the internecine

A game gone feral

Sporting sharp edges

Noumenon

NOUMENON

-noun (plural) -na

1. (in the philosophy of Kant) a thing as it is in itself, not perceived or interpreted, incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience

2. the object of a purely intellectual intuition

This is love

Or at least

one could surmise

Its effect

A noumenon

Created by locks

Human irrationality

Resolve

RESOLVE

-verb (mainly trans.)

1. (takes a clause as object or an infinitive) to decide or determine firmly

2. to express (an opinion) formally, especially (of a public meeting) one agreed by a vote

3. (also intr.) usually followed by “into” to separate or cause to separate (into) (constituent parts or elements)

4. (usually refl.) to change, alter, or appear to change or alter

5. to make up the mind of; cause to decide

6. to find the answer or solution to; solve

7. to explain away or dispel

8. to bring to an end; conclude

9. (medicine) . to cause (a swelling or inflammation) to subside, especially without the formation of pus

10. (also intr.) to follow (a dissonant note or chord) or (of a dissonant note or chord) to be followed by one producing a consonance

11. (chemistry) . to separate (a racemic mixture) into its optically active constituents

12. (physics)

a. to distinguish between (separate parts) of (an image) as in a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument

b. to separate (two adjacent peaks) in a spectrum by means of a spectrometer

13. (mathematics) . to split (a vector) into its components in specified directions

14. an obsolete word for dissolve

-noun

15. something determined or decided; resolution

16. firmness of purpose; determination

Resolve dissolves

Another shady world fades

Bitter dregs on my lips

Paralysis gaining with every step.

Dissidence

DISSIDENCE

-noun

disagreement or dissent

For many nights

I dreamt of dissidence

Of marble slaves

Running after balloons

A man set to freedom

When he last expected

A captive soul yet

Cast aside on a whim

Nib

NIB

-noun

1. the writing point of a pen, especially an insertable tapered metal part with a split tip

2, a point, tip, or beak

3. (plural) crushed cocoa beans

-verb (trans.)

4. to provide with a nib

5. to prepare or sharpen the nib of

A bitter taste of wood

Mouthful of sweet earths

Mixed obsidian spices

Cocoa nibs

Rove

ROVE

-verb

1. to wander about (a place) with no fixed direction; roam

2. (intr.) (of the eyes) to look around; wander

-noun

3. the act of roving

-verb

1. (trans.) to pull out and twist (fibres of wool, cotton, etc.) lightly, as before spinning or in carding

-noun

2. wool, cotton, etc., thus prepared

-noun

1. a metal plate through which a rivet is passed and then clenched over

Here rove they do

Amongst ruined temples

With the ghost of Caesar

As their minion