Nemorous

NEMOROUS

-adj.

full of woods or groves, wooded, woody

The perfect time

For amorous nemorous

Meandering wanderings

Frondescence

FRONDESCENCE

-noun

1. (rare) the process or state of producing leaves

2. a less common name for foliage

Just a touch of gold

And red from autumn

Turning frondescences

Into carnival costumes

Ombrophobous

OMBROPHOBOUS

-adj.

(of plants) not able to tolerate wet conditions

Hidden in the car

An ombrophobous flower

I wait for better times

To go shopping

Kimchi

KIMCHI

-noun

a Korean dish made from fermented cabbage or other raw vegetables, garlic, and chillies

Quick taste adventure

In a pretty bowl

Kimchi at the Expo

Conspicuous

CONSPICUOUS

-adj.

1. clearly visible; obvious or showy

2. attracting attention because of a striking quality or feature

Making internet cry:

A conspicuous cancer

Eating poor Felix’s nose

Dioristic

DIORISTIC

-adj.

(formal, obsolete) defining

In a sea of dioristic architecture

I wonder about the prickly dome

Of the United Kingdom pavilion

Lirk

LIRK

-verb

(intr.) (of the skin) . to wrinkle or fold

Shadows running across a wall

Flaking paint lirking, lurking

Old man summer’s last dregs 

Diorthotic

DIORTHOTIC

-adj.

(formal) involving or relating to the revision of a literary text

Layers of paint

And weathering

Diorthotic treatment

Tumid

TUMID

-adj.

1. (of an organ or part) enlarged or swollen

2. bulging or protuberant

3. pompous or fulsome in style

A walk into autumn

Tumid discoveries

Niggle

NIGGLE

-verb

1. (intr.) to find fault continually

2. (intr.) to be preoccupied with details; fuss

3. (trans.) to irritate; worry

-noun

4. a slight or trivial objection or complaint

5. a slight feeling as of misgiving, uncertainty, etc.

Red sky in the morning

That obstinate niggle

Where is the umbrella?

Morello

MORELLO

-noun

a variety of small very dark sour cherry, Prunus cerasus austera

Brownies and almond milk

Morello emulsion and pieces

Cream and chocolate chips

Deconstructed Black Forest

Strut

STRUT

-verb

1. (intr.). to walk in a pompous manner; swagger

2. (trans.). to support or provide with struts

-noun

3. a structural member used mainly in compression, especially as part of a framework

4. an affected, proud, or stiff walk

Laying there

Over history

All strut spent

Nap time

Jag

JAG

-verb

1. (trans.) to cut unevenly; make jagged

2. (Australian) to catch (fish) by impaling them on an un-baited hook

-noun, -verb

3. (Scottish) an informal word for “jab” (a sharp poke or stab or – informal - injection)

-noun

4. a jagged notch or projection

-noun (slang)

1. intoxication from drugs or alcohol

2. a bout of drinking or drug taking

3. a period of uncontrolled activity

Jagged surface

Fingers playing with wind

Roof music

Purveyor

PURVEYOR

-noun

1. (often plural) a person, organization, etc., that supplies food and provisions

2. a person who spreads, repeats, or sells (information, lies, etc.)

3. a person or thing that habitually provides or supplies a particular thing or quality

4. (history) an officer providing or exacting provisions, lodging, etc., for a sovereign

Off we went to the Expo

Purveyor of many splendid sites

Not entirely challenging food

And interminable long queues

Vindicate

VINDICATE

-verb (trans.)

1. to clear from guilt, accusation, blame, etc., as by evidence or argument

2. to provide justification for 

3. to uphold, maintain, or defend (a cause, etc.)

4. (Roman law) to bring an action to regain possession of (property) under claim of legal title

5. (rare) to claim, as for oneself or another

6. (obsolete) to take revenge on or for; punish

7. (obsolete) to set free

In such vivid disarray

I was held captive

Hues and folds vindicate me

Sheets tattooed on my cheek

Eleatic

ELEATIC

-adj.

denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century BC by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory

A book is knowledge

And alive with meanings

Scrumptious contradictions

Life outside the pages

Pure illusion:

Eleatic flight

Cymophanous

CYMOPHANOUS

[saɪˈmɒfənəs]

-adj.

(literary) lustrous; brilliant

A little fractal

A little light

Cymophanous variations

Turning to the abstract

Chirt

CHIRT

[tʃɜːt]

(Scottish or obsolete)

-noun

1. an act of pressing or squashing that expresses liquid

-verb

2. (trans.) to press or squash out

3. (intr.) to come forth in the way liquid does when expressed from something by pressing or squashing

Old marbles

To chirt curds

Memory cheese

Temerity

TEMERITY

-noun

rashness or boldness

She comes near

In a brief moment

A spell of temerity

Lets me pet her then flees

All curiosity satisfied

Bibber

BIBBER

-noun

a drinker; tippler

His dirty feet

Single him out

As a drifter

His breath

As a bibber

His smile

As a happy man