Insurmountable

INSURMOUNTABLE

-adj.
incapable of being overcome; insuperable

He flees,

Pursued by

Insurmountable fears

Grotesque shadows

And remorse

Intimate

INTIMATE

-adj.
1. associated in close personal relations.
2. characterized by or involving warm friendship or a personally close or familiar association or feeling.
3. very private; closely personal.
4. characterized by or suggesting privacy or intimacy; warmly cozy.
5. (of an association, knowledge, understanding, etc.) arising from close personal connection or familiar experience.
6. engaged in or characterized by sexual relations.
7. (of clothing) worn next to the skin, under street or outer garments.
8. detailed; deep.
9. showing a close union or combination of particles or elements.
10.inmost; deep within.
11.of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the inmost or essential nature; intrinsic.
12.of, pertaining to, or existing in the inmost depths of the mind.
-noun
13.an intimate friend or associate, especially a confidant.

-verb (used with object)
1. to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
2. to proclaim; make known

 

 

An intimate corner

Proclaiming secrecy

A secluded place

Right in the middle of chaos

Pulsate

PULSATE

-verb (used with object)
1. to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
2. to vibrate; quiver.

In the dark

I can feel your heart beat

Pulsating through the night

An opaque light tower

Guiding me

Into your arms.

Adenoidal

ADENOIDAL

-adj. 
1. Being characteristically pinched and nasal in tone quality.
2. Of or pertaining to the adenoids; adenoid.
3. Having the adenoids enlarged, especially to a degree that interferes with normal breathing.

Was it because
She was so pinched
That her purse suffered from 
Acute adenoidal condition
Her money chocking to death?
Or was the condition the reason
For her parsimony?

Squabble

SQUABBLE

-verb
1. ( intr ) to quarrel over a small matter
-noun
2. a petty quarrel

I write. 
I love. 
I live. 

Brief squabbles in a quest for immortality, 
thermal updrafts, or just temporary wings. 

Most likely, I'll fall. 
But at least I will have flown.

Emulsion

EMULSION

-noun 1. photography . a light-sensitive coating on a base, such as paper or  film, consisting of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in gelatine 2. chemistry . a colloid in which both phases are liquids 3. Also called emulsion paint  . a type of paint in which the pigment is suspended in a vehicle, usually a synthetic resin, that is dispersed in water as an emulsion. It usually gives a mat finish 4. pharmacology . a mixture in which an oily medicine is dispersed in another liquid 5. any liquid resembling milk An exercise In emulsion Mayonnaise

Agnomen

AGNOMEN

-noun

1. A nickname.

2. An additional, fourth name given to a person by the ancient Romans in allusion to some achievement or other circumstance, as “Africanus” in “Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.”

Give a cat a name

An agnomen soon takes its place

It doesn’t care.

Foible

FOIBLE

-noun
1. a slight peculiarity or minor weakness; idiosyncrasy
2. the most vulnerable part of a sword's blade, from the middle to the tip

A world build on foibles
Intensely breakable
Insanely fragile
Yet abused over and over


World picture courtesy of San Diego air and Space Museum Archive

Phosphene

PHOSPHENE

-noun
Physiology . a luminous image produced by mechanical stimulation of the retina, as by pressure applied to the eyeball by the finger when the lid is closed.

A mirage
Unlikely glitter
Over a marble shoulder
Mere phosphene

Caulk

CAULK

-verb (used with object)

1. to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.

2. to make (a vessel) watertight by filling the seams between the planks with oakum or other material driven snug.

3. to fill or close (a seam, joint, etc.), as in a boat.

4. to drive the edges of (plating) together to prevent leakage.

-noun

5. Also: caulking . a material or substance used for caulking

 

She brings food

A little something

To caulk the appetite.

We dig in.

Bluff

BLUFF

—verb

1. to pretend to be confident about an uncertain issue or to have undisclosed resources, in order to influence or deter (someone)

—noun

2. deliberate deception intended to create the impression of a stronger position or greater resources than one actually has

—noun

1.  a steep promontory, bank, or cliff, especially one formed by river erosion on the outside bend of a meander

2. ( Canadian ) a clump of trees on the prairie; copse

— adj

3. good-natured, frank and hearty

4. (of a bank, cliff, etc.) presenting a steep broad face

5. Nautical . (of the bow of a vessel) having a full, blunt form.

 

She giggles

Her bluff face aglow

And accepts a kiss

The shameless flirt!