Throng

THRONG

-noun

1. a great number of people or things crowded together

-verb

2. to gather in or fill (a place) in large numbers; crowd

3. (trans.) to hem in (a person); jostle

-adj.

4. (Yorkshire dialect)(postpositive) . busy


























They gather under the porch of a paper building

Like a surface flowing on a stream, on a black wave

- A thing which still has nothing to do with everything -

The tears of their hearts shall not ensure this ship,

This city, a throng of people drifting in the rain, will be there

After the rain is done.

Adrift

ADRIFT

-adj. –adv. (postpositive)

1. floating without steering or mooring; drifting

2. without purpose; aimless

3. (informal) . off course or amiss

The sun was adrift

Drawing chanting scrolls over

The parchments of the sea

Over brutalized stones and sloped grass

Wearied at last of flax maidens

Waiting out storms to come.

Compel

COMPEL

-verb (trans.)

1. to cause (someone) by force (to be or do something)

2. to obtain by force; exact

3. to overpower or subdue

4. (archaic) . to herd or drive together

I am not there

In this a painting of the world

Opening the dead eye of choice

Compelling a split crowd

Coloured in shades of accidents

Jug

JUG

-noun

1. a vessel for holding or pouring liquids, usually having a handle and a spout or lip

2. (Australian and New Zealand) . such a vessel used as a kettle

3. (US) . a large vessel with a narrow mouth

4. the amount of liquid held by a jug (also: jugful)

5. (British) (informal) . a glass of alcoholic drink, in particular beer

6. (slang) jail

-verb

7. to stew or boil (meat, especially hare) in an earthenware container

8. (trans.) (slang) . to put in jail

Using no milk for my tea

The jug remains on the shelf

Holding books in place

Displeasure

DISPLEASURE

-noun

1. the condition of being displeased

2. (archaic)

a. pain

b. an act or cause of offence

-verb

3.  an archaic word for displease

The ears have it

Displeasure at its highest point

Crystallizing into loathing

For the mere commoner

The human form

Precarious

PRECARIOUS

-adj.

1. liable to failure or catastrophe; insecure; perilous

2. (archaic) . dependent on another's will

The storm breaks

A precarious truce

Wind playing about with

Iridescent plastic capes

Lap

LAP

-noun

1. one circuit of a racecourse or track

2. a stage or part of a journey, race, etc.

3. an overlapping part or projection

4. the extent of overlap

5. the length of material needed to go around an object

6. a rotating disc coated with fine abrasive for polishing gemstones

7. any device for holding a fine abrasive to polish materials

8. (metallurgy) . a defect in rolled metals caused by the folding of a fin onto the surface

9. a sheet or band of fibres, such as cotton, prepared for further processing

-verb

10. (trans.) to wrap or fold (around or over)

11. (trans.) to enclose or envelop in

12. to place or lie partly or completely over or project beyond

13. (trans.; usually passive) . to envelop or surround with comfort, love, etc.

14. (intr.) to be folded

15. (trans.) to overtake (an opponent) in a race so as to be one or more circuits ahead

16. (trans.) to polish or cut (a work piece, gemstone, etc.) with a fine abrasive, in particular to hone (mating metal parts) against each other with an abrasive

17. to form (fibres) into a sheet or band

-verb

1. (of small waves) to wash against (a shore, boat, etc.), usually with light splashing sounds

2. (often followed by “up”) . (in particular of animals) to scoop (a liquid) into the mouth with the tongue

-noun

3. the act or sound of lapping

4. a thin food for dogs or other animals

-noun

1. the area formed by the upper surface of the thighs of a seated person

2. the amount held in one's lap (also called : lapful)

3. a protected place or environment

4. any of various hollow or depressed areas, such as a hollow in the land

5. the part of one's clothing that covers the lap

Frolics

A lap discovered

Or uncovered

And lapped

Forbear

FORBEAR

-verb

1. ( when intr., often followed by “from” or an infinitive) . to cease or refrain (from doing something)

2. (archaic) . to tolerate or endure (misbehaviour, mistakes, etc.)

-noun

1. a variant spelling of forebear (i.e. an ancestor; forefather)

She turns away

Not able to forbear the loss of privacy

The burden of success

A silhouette fading in a matter of minutes.
Now he stands at the window and stops

Forgets to breathe

Callow

CALLOW

-adj.

1. lacking experience of life; immature

2. (rare) (of a young bird) . unfledged and usually lacking feathers

Look

What callow creature

Fell off its nest!

Stub

STUB

-noun

1. a short piece remaining after something has been cut, removed, etc.

2. the residual piece or section of a receipt, ticket, cheque, etc.

3. (US and Canadian) . the part of a cheque, postal order, receipt, etc., detached and retained as a record of the transaction.

4. any short projection or blunted end

5. the stump of a tree or plant

-verb (trans.)

6. to strike (one's toe, foot, etc.) painfully against a hard surface

7. (usually followed by “out”) . to extinguish (a cigarette or cigar) by pressing the end against a surface

8. to clear (land) of stubs

9. to dig up (the roots) of (a tree or bush)

She considers leaving her stub on the pavement

Thinks again: she might clean the store front

Trophic

TROPHIC

-adj.

of or relating to nutrition (from Greek trophikos, from trophē food, from trephein to feed)

Discovering

Trophic delights

From faraway places

Culinary tours

Cosset

COSSET

-verb 

1. (trans.) to pamper or pet

-noun

2. any pet animal, especially a lamb

He would like it so much

To be cossetted and cuddled

But is too scared to accept

More than a quick caress

Terminal

TERMINAL

-adj.

1. of, being, or situated at an end, terminus, or boundary

2. of, relating to, or occurring after or in a term

3. (of a disease) terminating in death

4. (informal) . extreme

5. of or relating to the storage or delivery of freight at a warehouse

-noun

6. a terminating point, part, or place

7. a point at which current enters or leaves an electrical device, such as a battery or a circuit

8. a conductor by which current enters or leaves at such a point

9. (computing) . a device having input/output links with a computer but situated at a distance from the computer

10. (architecture)

a. an ornamental carving at the end of a structure

b. a sculptured post, in particular one in the form of an armless bust or an animal on the top of a square pillar (also called “term”)

11. a point or station usually at the end of the line of a railway, serving as an important access point for passengers or freight

12 a less common name for terminus

13. a purpose-built reception and departure structure at the terminus of a bus, sea, or air transport route

14. a site where raw material is unloaded, stored, in some cases reprocessed, and reloaded for further transportation, in particular an onshore installation designed to receive offshore oil or gas from tankers or a pipeline

15. (physiology)

a. the smallest arteriole before its division into capillaries

b. either of two veins that collect blood from the thalamus and surrounding structures and empty it into the internal cerebral vein

c. the portion of a bronchiole just before it subdivides into the air sacs of the lungs

There where stars are seen,

A terminal more incomparable than mind

Courting the local liberty of severe extra strings

Waving the flag of a world of partial surfaces.

Hadal

HADAL

[ˈheɪdəl]

-adj.

of, relating to, or constituting the zones of the oceans deeper than abyssal, i.e. below about 6000 metres (18 000 ft)

Ocean breath pushing against

The weight of a drowned sun

Flying off the wall of night

In hadal depths and cold grass;
A box for streams of dead sand,

Gaseous wails making their way

To an uncertain surface

Negative

NEGATIVE

-adj.

1. expressing or meaning a refusal or denial

2. lacking positive or affirmative qualities, such as enthusiasm, interest, or optimism

3. showing or tending towards opposition or resistance

4. . measured in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

5. having the same magnitude but opposite sense to an equivalent positive quantity

6. (biology) . indicating movement or growth away from a particular stimulus

7. (medicine) . (of the results of a diagnostic test) indicating absence of the disease or condition for which the test was made

8. (physics)

a. (of an electric charge) having the same polarity as the charge of an electron

b. (of a body, system, ion, etc.) having a negative electric charge; having an excess of electrons

c. (of a point in an electric circuit) having a lower electrical potential than some other point with an assigned zero potential

9. short for electronegative

10. of or relating to a photographic negative

11. (logic) . (of a categorial proposition) denying the satisfaction by the subject of the predicate

12. (astrology) . of, relating to, or governed by the signs of the zodiac of the earth and water classifications, which are thought to be associated with a receptive passive nature

13. short for Rh negative

-noun

14. a statement or act of denial, refusal, or negation

15. a negative person or thing

16. (photography) . a piece of photographic film or a plate, previously exposed and developed, showing an image that has a reversal of tones (in black-and-white photography) or in complementary colours to the subject (in colour photography)

17. (physics) . a negative object, such as a terminal or a plate in a voltaic cell

18. a sentence or other linguistic element with a negative meaning, as the English word not

19. a quantity less than zero or a quantity to be subtracted

20. (logic) . a negative proposition

21. (archaic) . the right of veto

22. (military communications) . a signal code word for no

-verb (trans.)

23. to deny or nullify; negate

24. to show to be false; disprove

25. to refuse to consent to or approve of

Spring

A new dress and

Another one discarded at the far end of the black trees

Its negative twitching slowly in the wind

A reflected world

Barred to all

For the time being

Sentry

SENTRY

-noun

1. a soldier who guards or prevents unauthorized access to a place, keeps watch for danger, etc

2. the watch kept by a sentry

On this island

Stands a sentry

Keeping tourists at bay

Or ignoring them

For want of finding a better story

Or something else to do.

Morass

MORASS

-noun

1. a tract of swampy low-lying land

2. a disordered or muddled situation or circumstance, in particular one that impedes progress

This sun is not made for days,

And our sky might be hell bound.

Surface and mental morass

As far as one can see and beyond:

Our world is done.

Nutrition

NUTRITION

-noun

1. a process in animals and plants involving the intake of nutrient materials and their subsequent assimilation into the tissues

2. the act or process of nourishing

3. the study of nutrition, especially in humans

I saw her on the road

Wan and nearly transparent

Nutrition already receding

From her veins

Like a bad dream.

Magnificent

MAGNIFICENT

-adj.

1. splendid or impressive in appearance

2. superb or very fine

3. (especially of ideas) . noble or elevated

4. (archaic) . great or exalted in rank or action

Such magnificent

And goofy creature

A true heart throb

Superb

SUPERB

-adj.

1. surpassingly good; excellent

2. majestic or imposing

3. magnificently rich; luxurious

Silence was a woman you’ve been waiting for

Her voice severe, superb, still full of soft expression.

Tidy

TIDY

-adj.

1. characterized by or indicating neatness and order

2. (informal) . considerable

-verb

3. ( when intr., usually followed by “up”) to put (things) in order; neaten

-noun plural

4. a small container in which odds and ends are kept

5. (mainly US and Canadian) . an ornamental protective covering for the back or arms of a chair

6. Short for sink tidy: a container with holes in the bottom, kept in the sink to retain rubbish that might clog the plug hole

Half -empty continents unfold between liquid walls

Of tidy fields and roads,

A landscape that has nothing to do with words or silence

A riot of colours after the rain

Clot

CLOT

-noun

1. a soft thick lump or mass

2. (British) (informal) . a stupid person; fool

-verb

3. to form or cause to form into a soft thick lump or lumps

Not a single person to stop the world

In all its clotted magnificence

As we fly down the road cutting corners.

I don't know what to do with the fires.

Bulb

BULB

-noun

1. a rounded organ of vegetative reproduction in plants such as the tulip and onion: a flattened stem bearing a central shoot surrounded by fleshy nutritive inner leaves and thin brown outer leaves

2. a plant, such as a hyacinth or daffodil, that grows from a bulb

3. light bulb

4. a rounded part of an instrument such as a syringe or thermometer

5. (anatomy) . a rounded expansion of a cylindrical organ or part, such as the medulla oblongata

6. a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence (Also called : bulbous bow)

A contemporary luxury bulb

On the threshold between

The shells of our fractured world

The last print of a convention

Ready for the wrong war

Investigate

INVESTIGATE

-verb

to inquire into (a situation or problem, especially a crime or death) thoroughly; examine systematically, especially in order to discover the truth

Hear the story of how

Three angels slept in a field

To investigate the sins of night

Wet grass and metal flowers.

A story cast in stone:

They rusted over dawn.

Ramsons

RAMSONS

[ˈræmzənz]

-plural noun (usually functioning as singular)

1. a broad-leaved garlic, Allium ursinum, native to Europe and Asia

2. the bulbous root of this plant, eaten as a relish or as pesto

Spring on a plate:

Eggs and bonito mayonnaise

Green asparagus and

Grilled ramsons

Tender peas 

Bashful

BASHFUL

-adj.

1. disposed to attempt to avoid notice through shyness or modesty; diffident; timid

2. indicating or characterized by shyness or modesty

A somewhat

Bashful visitor

Investigates my tea tray

Settles for cuddles

Instead of non-existent ham

Spectacular

SPECTACULAR

-adj.

1. of or resembling a spectacle; impressive, grand, or dramatic

2. unusually marked or great

-noun

3. a lavishly produced performance

Both

Shows

Equally

Spectacular

Clouds

And

Gold

Colza

COLZA

[ˈkɒlzə]

-noun

a Eurasian plant, Brassica napus, that has bright yellow flowers and is cultivated for its seeds, which yield a useful oil, and as a fodder plant: family Brassicaceae (crucifers). Also called: rape

Brown leaves room

For greens and gold

Colza and young wheat

A few decorative clouds

Rejuvenate

REJUVENATE

-verb (trans.)

1. to give new youth, restored vitality, or youthful appearance to

2. (usually passive) (geography)

a. to cause (a river) to begin eroding more vigorously to a new lower base level, usually because of uplift of the land

b. to cause (a land surface) to develop youthful features

Large yellow stripes

Have rejuvenated spring

All hail colza!

Orient

ORIENT

-noun

1. (poetic) .  another word for  east

2. (archaic) .  the  eastern  sky  or the  dawn

3. the iridescent lustre of a pearl

4. a pearl of high quality

-adj.

5.(mainly poetic) .  eastern

6. (archaic) (of the  sun,  stars, etc. )  rising

-verb

7. to adjust or align  (oneself or something else) according  to surroundings or circumstances

8. (trans.)  to position, align, or set (a map, surveying instrument, etc) with reference to the points of the compass  or other specific  directions

9. (trans.)  to set or build (a church) in an easterly  direction

This world is not a day of day, 

And this orient sky might be of hell

Hard enough to drink stones

And as far as one could see.

Saxicole

SAXICOLE

-adj.

living on or among rocks

She lifted her head and left

back to the dark palace

where no one knows

the bones of the grass

or the beast of June

Her saxicole young

Raucous in the cracks

Of a chaotic creation