Astronomical

ASTRONOMICAL

-adj.

1. enormously large; immense

2. of or relating to astronomy

How I long

For the astronomical feat

Of space travel and escape!

Is there anyone here?

Atone

ATONE

-verb

1. (intr.; followed by “for”) to make amends or reparation (for a crime, sin, etc.)

2. (trans.) to expiate

3. (obsolete) .to be in or bring into agreement

The long hours

Atone for the effort

Crawling across clouds

In a dream

Caper

CAPER

-noun
1. a spiny trailing Mediterranean capparidaceous shrub, Capparis spinosa, with edible flower buds
2. any of various similar plants or their edible parts

-noun
1. a playful skip or leap
2. a high-spirited escapade
3. (slang) a crime, in particular an organized robbery
4. (Australian) (informal) . a job or occupation
5. (Australian) (informal) . a person's behaviour
-verb
6. (intr.) to leap or dance about in a light-hearted manner

How they caper

Trickling down the walls

Berries and flowers in bloom

And capers in-waiting

Basking in the sun

Conspicuous

CONSPICUOUS

-adj.
1. clearly visible; obvious or showy
2. attracting attention because of a striking quality or feature

She looms large now
Conspicuous by her absence
Cherished memories

Protuberant

PROTUBERANT

-adj.

swelling out from the surrounding surface; bulging

Violent from an empty field

The throat of sky slit on a doorway

Protuberant with sleepy scatter

What are the stars doing?

Impractical

IMPRACTICAL

-adj.
1. not practical or workable
2. not given to practical matters or gifted with practical skills

coming from

the ridges of the book

the dark of fire

round and impractical

flowers in a vase

of nightmares and dark

Absence

ABSENCE

-noun
1. the state of being away
2. the time during which a person or thing is away
3. the fact of being without something; lack

The white flowers of absence

Blooming in my heart

Sharp and brittle

Ready to draw blood

Protuberant with sighs

Yashmak

YASHMAK
[ˈjæʃmæk  ]

-noun
a veil concealing all of the face except the eyes, worn by some Muslim women in public

Hers is a play

Theatre yashmak

For a pantomime

On stilts

Volant

VOLANT

[ˈvəʊlənt  ]

-adj.

1. (usually postpositive) (heraldry) . in a flying position

2. (rare) . flying or capable of flight

3. (poetic) . moving lightly or agilely; nimble

a volant black and white photo

fell white strand of the world

blind like a stone in the dark

all peace symbol ignored

Sialorrhoea

SIALORRHOEA

[ˌsaɪələˈrɪə]

-noun

an abnormally high production of saliva

Nothing like

A little dream

Of succulence

To indulge

In sialorrhoea

Agile

AGILE

-adj.

1. quick in movement; nimble

2. mentally quick or acute

Let us marvel

At the agile team

The nonchalance

And laziness

Emerge

EMERGE

-verb (intr.; often followed by “from”)

1. to come up to the surface of or rise from water or other liquid

2. to come into view, as from concealment or obscurity

3. (followed by “from”) to come out (of) or live (through a difficult experience)

4. to become apparent

Out of summer heat

A storm emerges

Heralded by a meringue

Of white clouds

Nimble

NIMBLE

-adj.

1. agile, quick, and neat in movement

2. alert; acute

Both

Nimble

Creatures

Only one

Lunch

Volatile

VOLATILE

-adj.

1. (of a substance) capable of readily changing from a solid or liquid form to a vapour; having a high vapour pressure and a low boiling point

2. (of persons) disposed to caprice or inconstancy; fickle; mercurial

3. (of circumstances) liable to sudden, unpredictable, or explosive change

4. lasting only a short time

5. (computing) . (of a memory) not retaining stored information when the power supply is cut off

6. (obsolete) . flying or capable of flight; volant

-noun

7. a volatile substance

8. (rare) . a winged creature

Such a volatile creature

He could not keep still

Long enough for me

To press a button

Saleable

SALEABLE

-adj.

fit for selling or capable of being sold

See the reverse of problems

A statue to the traditional aspect of the life

Some large metal plane smoothly touched

By the deeply coloured shadows of dreams

A saleable depression in the dark

Hoping to make an impact.

Purl

PURL

-verb
1. (intr.) (of a stream, etc.) to flow with a gentle curling or rippling movement and a murmuring sound
-noun
2. a curling movement of water; eddy
3. a murmuring sound, as of a shallow stream

-noun
1. Also called: purl stitch . a knitting stitch made by doing a plain stitch backwards
2. a decorative border, as of lace
3. gold or silver wire thread
-verb
4. to knit (a row or garment) in purl stitch
5. to edge (something) with a purl

A gentle purl

Lulls the city

Coolness to the ears

Leek

LEEK

-noun
1. an alliaceous plant, Allium porrum, with a slender white bulb, cylindrical stem, and broad flat overlapping leaves: used in cooking
2. any of several related species, such as A. ampeloprasum (wild leek)
3. a leek, or a representation of one, as a national emblem of Wales

Caper leaves

Roasted leek

Lemon balm

Ineffective

INEFFECTIVE

-adj.

1. having no effect

2. incompetent or inefficient

Instead of the same ineffective time crossing

The cat sits down and stares

At the infinity growing inside its eyelids

Soaking up dreams, the story of a colour

While a wall of wind blows into the sea,

And the light becomes a cloud of insects.

Hydrangea

HYDRANGEA

-noun
any shrub or tree of the Asian and American genus Hydrangea, cultivated for their large clusters of white, pink, or blue flowers: family Hydrangeaceae

in a vase of sky

balloons hanging in the dark

wet from the ridges of a book

sugar dreams taped onto a cloud

a sleepy scatter of nightmares

hydrangeas pink and blue

Reason

REASON

-noun

1. the faculty of rational argument, deduction, judgment, etc.

2. sound mind; sanity

3. a cause or motive, as for a belief, action, etc.

4. an argument in favour of or a justification for something

5. (philosophy) . the intellect regarded as a source of knowledge, as contrasted with experience

6. (logic) . grounds for a belief; a premise of an argument supporting that belief

-verb

7. (when trans., takes a clause as object) to think logically or draw (logical conclusions) from facts or premises

8. (intr.; usually followed by “with”) to urge or seek to persuade by reasoning

9. (trans.; often followed by “out”) to work out or resolve (a problem) by reasoning

a black and white

cord of stone

broke like a great

structure of silence

without reason or call

pressed into streams