Languorous

LANGUOROUS

-adj.

1. characterized by or producing languor

2. another word for languid

Summer heat or

Contagion?

Languorous torpor

Indistinguishable

INDISTINGUISHABLE

-adj.

not distinguishable either because indeterminate in shape, not clearly recognizable or understandable, or lacking identifying or individualizing qualities

The cracks are there to be seen

The pareidolia waiting in ambush,

Indistinguishable until 

A child starts to cry

Chide

CHIDE

-verb

1. to rebuke or scold

2. (trans.) to goad into action

He always seems

To chide revellers

But in fact his frown

Is only due to cold

Amiss

AMISS

-adv.

1. in an incorrect, inappropriate, or defective manner

-adj.

2. (postpositive) wrong, incorrect, or faulty

It could have been

A satellite image

Yet something is amiss

The focus imperfect

Pervade

PERVADE

-verb

(trans.) to spread through or throughout, especially subtly or gradually; permeate

Shadow plays and

Pervading charms

Cool waters and

Eluding nostalgia

Attain

ATTAIN

-verb

1. (trans.) to achieve or accomplish (a task, goal, aim, etc.)

2. (trans.) to reach or arrive at in space or time

3. (intr.) often followed by “to” . to arrive (at) with effort or exertion  

Spring napping

In the hope of attaining Nirvana

Let’s go crazy

Pie

PIE

-noun

1. a baked food consisting of a sweet or savoury filling in a pastry-lined dish, often covered with a pastry crust

-noun

2. a very small former Indian coin worth one third of a pice

-noun

3. (history) a book for finding the Church service for any particular day. Also: pye

-noun

1. a jumbled pile of printer's type

2. a jumbled mixture

-verb (trans.)

3. to spill and mix (set type) indiscriminately

4. to mix up

Heavenly scents in the house

From a Dutch apple pie

Fresh out of the oven

Obstinacy

OBSTINACY

-noun

1. the state or quality of being obstinate

2. an obstinate act, attitude, etc . Also (rare): pervicacity, pervicacy

I chide her for such an obstinacy

But she cannot want for me to go away

So she can torment the lizards once again

Particle

PARTICLE

-noun

1. an extremely small piece of matter; speck

2. a very tiny amount; iota

3. a function word, especially (in certain languages) a word belonging to an uninflected class having supra-segmental or grammatical function

4. a common affix, such as re-, un-, or -ness

5. (physics) . a body with finite mass that can be treated as having negligible size, and internal structure

6. (Roman Catholic Church) . a small piece broken off from the Host at Mass

7. (archaic) . a section or clause of a document

In the spotless and

lavender scented sacristy

Not a particle amiss

Acquiesce

ACQUIESCE

-verb

(intr.); (often followed by “in” or “to”) . to comply (with); assent (to) without protest

That delicate moment

When the heart acquiesces

And the hand loses all restrain

Hubbub

HUBBUB

-noun

1. a confused noise of many voices

2. uproar

Colourful chaos
Riotous hubbub
The silence of scents

Pervicacy

PERVICACY

-noun

an obstinate act, attitude, etc.

She sets in her ways
Provocative pervicacy
Speaks backwards
To see if she will be tried
For witchcraft 

Fluctuate

FLUCTUATE

-verb

1. to change or cause to change position constantly; be or make unstable; waver or vary

2. (intr.) to rise and fall like a wave; undulate

In the rising raging sea fog

Ruins fluctuating in the light

Ghosts twinkling at windows

Radicchio

RADICCHIO

-noun

an Italian variety of chicory, having somewhat bitter reddish-purple leaves streaked with white.

A red ballet of berries and raddichio

Where a red wine sauce courts mackerel

So strange and earthy

Meagre

MEAGRE

-adj.

1. deficient in amount, quality, or extent

2. thin or emaciated

3. lacking in richness or strength

Happy country

Where even strays

Are not meagre

Antipathy

ANTIPATHY

-noun

1. a feeling of intense aversion, dislike, or hostility

2. the object of such a feeling

I will owe

To an antipathy

Towards black waters

Except fountains

On a hot day

Frugal

FRUGAL

-adj.

1. practising economy; living without waste; thrifty

2. not costly; meagre

Modern architecture:

Frugal shapes

And not so frugal budgets

shield

SHIELD

-noun

1. any protection used to intercept blows, missiles, etc., such as a tough piece of armour carried on the arm

2. any similar protective device

3. Also called: scutcheon, escutcheon (heraldry) . a pointed stylized shield used for displaying armorial bearings

4. anything that resembles a shield in shape, such as a prize in a sports competition

5. the protective outer covering of an animal, such as the shell of a turtle

6. (physics) a structure of concrete, lead, etc., placed around a nuclear reactor or other source of radiation in order to prevent the escape of radiation

7. a broad stable plateau of ancient Precambrian rocks forming the rigid nucleus of a particular continent

8.  (civil engineering) a hollow steel cylinder that protects men driving a circular tunnel through loose, soft, or water-bearing ground

-verb (trans.)

9. to protect, hide, or conceal (something) from danger or harm

Broken teeth

Wooden shields

Closing windows

Emblem

EMBLEM

-noun

1. a visible object or representation that symbolizes a quality, type, group, etc., especially the concrete symbol of an abstract idea 

2. an allegorical picture containing a moral lesson, often with an explanatory motto or verses 

Looking up

Pondering on

Old school emblem

[it’s a religious college]

The world

In the child’s hand

Abstract

ABSTRACT

-adj.

1. having no reference to material objects or specific examples; not concrete

2. not applied or practical; theoretical

3. hard to understand; recondite; abstruse

4. denoting art characterized by geometric, formalized, or otherwise nonrepresentational qualities

5. defined in terms of its formal properties 

6. (philosophy) (of an idea) functioning for some empiricists as the meaning of a general term

-noun

7. a condensed version of a piece of writing, speech, etc.; summary

8. an abstract term or idea

9. an abstract painting, sculpture, etc.

-verb (trans.)

10. to think of (a quality or concept) generally without reference to a specific example; regard theoretically

11. to form (a general idea) by abstraction

12. (also intr.) to summarize or epitomize

13. to remove or extract

14. (euphemistic) to steal

Abstract sails

Real concrete

The future has already gone past

Extract

EXTRACT

-verb (trans.)

1. to withdraw, pull out, or uproot by force

2. to remove or separate

3. to derive (pleasure, information, etc.) from some source or situation

4. to deduce or develop (a doctrine, policy, etc.)

5. (informal) to extort (money, etc.)

6. to obtain (a substance) from a mixture or material by a chemical or physical process, such as digestion, distillation, 7. the action of a solvent, or mechanical separation

8. to cut out or copy out (an article, passage, quotation, etc.) from a publication

9. to determine the value of (the root of a number)

-noun

10. something extracted, such as a part or passage from a book, speech, etc.

11. a preparation containing the active principle or concentrated essence of a material

12. (pharmacology) a solution of plant or animal tissue containing the active principle

Simple water

Made to extract the meaning

Of roasted fennel

Passion fruit

Indefatigable

INDEFATIGABLE

-adj.

unable to be tired out; unflagging

I liked to believe her

To be indefatigable

But her eyes are closing fast

In a soft purr

Wistful

WISTFUL

-adj.

sadly pensive, especially about something yearned for

There I hid

In wistful streets

Looking for a past

Which wasn’t mine

Trace of childhood

I could never have

A different sort of

Happiness

Arcade

ARCADE

-noun

1. a set of arches and their supporting columns

2. a covered and sometimes arched passageway, usually with shops on one or both sides

3. a building, or part of a building, with an arched roof

See him

The devil coming through

An arcade of jealousy

Carved in stone

Scenario

SCENARIO

-noun

1. a summary of the plot of a play, etc., including information about its characters, scenes, etc.

2. a predicted sequence of events  

A dream called

Uncanny scenario

Bearing dragons and pearls

Lost in a stormy sky

I shake it away

Plausible

PLAUSIBLE

-adj.

1. apparently reasonable, valid, truthful, etc.

2. apparently trustworthy or believable  

Up in the sky

Goes the impossible tower

Where a plausible modern princess

Waits – in vain – for her phone to ring

While a parade of suitors

Prowl beneath her window

Disapproval

DISAPPROVAL

-noun

the act or a state or feeling of disapproving; censure; condemnation

When faced

With disapproval

Throw crumbs to the wind

Dessert

DESSERT

-noun

1. the sweet, usually last course of a meal

2. (mainly British) (especially formerly) fruit, dates, nuts, etc., served at the end of a meal

Not a meringue

Surprise dessert

Egg comfit macaroon

Precise

PRECISE

-adj.

1. strictly correct in amount or value

2. designating a certain thing and no other; particular

3. using or operating with total accuracy

4. strict in observance of rules, standards, etc.

Unable for a cuddle

She makes do with a precise

Hug from our own tail

Peony

PEONY

-noun

1. any of various ranunculaceous shrubs and plants of the genus Paeonia, of Eurasia and North America, having large pink, red, white, or yellow flowers

2. the flower of any of these plants

Spring sneaks in

Bearing peonies

To still bitter winds