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Post by heartfelt7 on May 13, 2013 9:50:04 GMT -6
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glorious, mechanical, modes, mirth, joviality
This thread is a glorious way to unwind
and turn my busy mechanical mind
to less serious modes, to a lighter mood,
to enjoy good friends, some wine, some food,
to be grateful for the mirth and joviality
that lessens our share of worry and misery.
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fluid, satiate, statuary, wattle, willow
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Post by aims on May 15, 2013 19:57:44 GMT -6
fluid, satiate, statuary, wattle, willow
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Richard rolled his eyes
"no dear, when he said you have a wattle like a turkey,
he wasn't making fun of the way you walk,
he was making fun of your wrinkly neck!"
he said as he unconsciously swished the weeping willow branch
that he had nervously plucked from the tree.
Ethel shot him a scalding look
as she pondered how she wished he was more like one of the statues they had passed a bit ago in the statuary,
SILENT!
Better yet she thought,
it'd be even more fun to turn him into one,
complete with drenching him with molten liquid metal,
that might satiate the seething volcano of hatred
that was beginning to build pressure within her,
threatening to use her mouth as a gateway to the target ear,
his,
with words that would incinerate his arrogant ass!
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nameless, nefarious, narrow, nonchalant, nocturnal
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Post by anirbas on May 18, 2013 0:13:06 GMT -6
kudos to you both on each of your offerings, respectively. heart! how enchanting to see you out of your comfort zone. you go, girl!!! it is quite fun, isn't it?  ? and amy, you sly fox had me roflmao, chica!!!!! I almost woke David up, with my snickering. As it was, the racket roused him enough for him to turn over... ~*~ amy's last five were, now that I am finished interuppting...lol nameless, nefarious, narrow, nonchalant nocturnal |
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Post by anirbas on May 18, 2013 1:18:16 GMT -6
nameless, nefarious, narrow, nonchalant nocturnal
~*~
Nameless as he was nonchalant
Nefarious for his nocturnal habits
He was narrow as a two by four
Mean as the sensation
of one smashing into the back
of an unsuspecting head...
His eyes were lean,
His lips were spare.
He did not care.
He had neat feet.
And that, that was enough for him.
In fact, he was quite vainglorious
about his high arched beautiful feet
and delicate toes...They didn't call
him Neat Feet Nameless, for nothing!
~*~
nameless, nefarious, narrow, nonchalant nocturnal
~*~
A nameless shadow
blotting out the stars
she rose from the narrow
lip of the entrance
to her lofty, cliff cave
Eyes narrow with intent
Nocturnal and nonchalant
about slating her hunger
Nefarious for her late night
slaughters of entire pastures
of cattle and pens of pigs.
Appears, the lady had a yen
for seared beef and pork-
~*~
sapphire*happiness*yeast*adroit*significant
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Post by aims on May 18, 2013 22:08:13 GMT -6
;D
EXALT,
& . . . I'll be back!! I'm hitting the sack may come back and pick up with these words left by Sabrina:
unless someone else does!
sapphire*happiness*yeast*adroit*significant
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Post by anirbas on May 18, 2013 22:21:41 GMT -6
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Post by heartfelt7 on May 26, 2013 10:03:44 GMT -6
I too just loved "Richard and Ethel" - Aims, you have a gift. I'm not ready to go out of my comfort zone on the words from Anirbas, so you guys go for it!!!
sapphire*happiness*yeast*adroit*significant
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Post by anirbas on May 26, 2013 23:23:43 GMT -6
I just skimmed through "Richard and Ethel", once more. And yet again, am snickering so hard, David is flopping all over the bed, with the racket of it. Then, started laughing again at Heart's comments on the Nir words...Because I thunk 'um up, and I don't even know what to do with the dratted things. Phant? David? Moseley? Are there any men in the house tonight, do you think?
sapphire*happiness*yeast*adroit*significant
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Post by anirbas on May 26, 2013 23:28:46 GMT -6
sapphire*happiness*yeast*adroit*significant Adroit yeast brings significant happiness if used to bake the bread of one's life, in the correct measure. For today's bread on the table is tomorrow's sapphire in hand ? *I dunno, Girls. I felt like it needed a question mark to end it, as I was questioning my sanity for writing it...lol...Dame pulling up lame this evening.  |
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Post by anirbas on May 26, 2013 23:31:13 GMT -6
triple*run*orange*life*electric
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Post by aims on Jun 7, 2013 18:03:30 GMT -6
triple*run*orange*life*electric
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If someone had told me 30 years ago that by the time i was this age
I would be triple my original size
or that I would find myself in old age content to be without a love life
when i spent so many years yearning for one
I would have run screaming toward the orange sun
as if life had wrapped an electrically charged tentacle around me
for torture
for spite,
but the truth is
that now that the once unknown future is here
most of it is a delight
not the fat,
that I intend to fight.
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sordid, timid, frivolous, time, stone
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Post by moseley on Jul 9, 2013 22:12:51 GMT -6
sordid, timid, frivolous, time, stone ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ writing the sordid details of all these timid things make the frivolous more noble by a simple matter of some rings the trained dogs jump through rightly every time and somehow between a childhood memory and what is now there is no please as so sublime as to stand at the bank and skip a stone ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ harajuku moment(defined here: myharajukumoment.wordpress.com/); lunfardo; cholangitis; lipoma; saltando.....(anyone who can use these words in context in a well written poem needs a medal) DO IT!!! |
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Post by aims on Jul 23, 2013 22:10:49 GMT -6
harajuku moment; lunfardo; cholangitis; lipoma; saltando
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Saltando, saltando
my harajuku moment:
hearing the lunfardo curses of my new neighbor below,
just moved here from Buenos Aires,
he no likey my constant saltando,
so,
I should learn to play more than that,
before he decides to murder me,
cursing this way for hours whilst I try,
with oblivion on my side,
to keep my mind off
the discomfort of cholangitis
and the hideous lipomas I see every time I look down at my abdomin in the offending area!
My Harajuku moment not only arrived. . .
it brought children with it!!
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these words are so obscure I won't make you look for the definitions I am including them , the five words underlined:
aeipathy n 1847 -1853
continued passion; an unyielding disease
Her aeipathy for stamp collecting bordered at times on the pathological.
boreism n 1833 -1839
behaviour of a boring person
The professor, while brilliant, was afflicted by boreism when lecturing.
cacozealous adj 1656 -1696
imitating badly; poorly affected
Her cacozealous attempt at mimicking her boss bordered on being offensive.
diloricate v 1623 -1656
to rip open a sewn piece of clothing
She deloricated his silk shirts so she could use them as dishrags.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
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Post by moseley on Jul 24, 2013 7:59:38 GMT -6
aeipathy n 1847 -1853
continued passion; an unyielding disease
Her aeipathy for stamp collecting bordered at times on the pathological.
boreism n 1833 -1839
behaviour of a boring person
The professor, while brilliant, was afflicted by boreism when lecturing.
cacozealous adj 1656 -1696
imitating badly; poorly affected
Her cacozealous attempt at mimicking her boss bordered on being offensive.
diloricate v 1623 -1656
to rip open a sewn piece of clothing
She deloricated his silk shirts so she could use them as dishrags.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Every morning I awake with a hunger and my aiepathy
bonded within me to be the cacozealous Judas Iscariot
at the tables of mankind's boreism and conformity
of all the people with small words, small thoughts like a parrot
repeating like the wind ripping at sheets on a clothes line
until everything is pretty much in a state of diloracation
and I can no longer stand to attest that all is fine
and smile a wiley smile of agreeance as I placate
a mass hoard of cowardly sheep who nary turn a page
and seem to deficate in place at the moment I affect their
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, chickens scratch at the gate
never wanting to be free, just to take in what contains them
and should I open up my own vocabulary
it abates to a few who are unhitched to the notion
that there are borders to language, culture and understanding
within them, then these are the flowers of my unseen garden
hidden by the weeds and thorns of otherwise
platitudinous regurgitation
an unfit pablum for a maggot!
AIMS!!!! Wow, now that was a challenge! Some work and you met my words too easily Nicely played!! Huzzah Huzzah!!!!!!
OK, five new words to add to try:
incus * agglutination * floccinaucinihilipilification * subdermatoglyphic * proparoxytone
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Post by anirbas on Jul 24, 2013 12:04:55 GMT -6
Wow. Words so obscure or cypherically weighty they require definitions...gigglegiggle...I'm so not worthy...How's this? I use the words without looking them up and let you, the reader deduce your own conclusions? ? lol Because I just can't be bothered to look 'em up... ~*~ my incus has developed a proparoxytone shade... causing an agglutination of my subdermatoglyphic... I do believe I've developed floccinaucinihilipililfication... Oh, my giddy aunt! I dratted hope that can be excised...! ~*~ crawl*walk*run*dance*live |
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Post by aims on Jul 24, 2013 19:05:25 GMT -6
wow, Sabrina! clap, clap, clap!!!!! is all I can say, and the same regarding yours John!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
crawl*walk*run*dance*live
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I must say I am so glad I crawled out from between the sheets
to dance across the screen
with those loved,
but not seen.
We live in many worlds,
not just the one
in which we walk and run,
but in the world of our dreams
both waking and asleep,
in our intimate world with those we hold dear & near
our work-a-day world
and in cyber neither time or space
but still it is a place
a place where we can reach out with our souls
whether whole
or full of holes
to our birds of a feather
words our only tether.
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conundrum, salute, daliance, triffle, slide
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Post by aims on Dec 15, 2013 0:49:27 GMT -6
conundrum, salute, dalliance, trifle, slide
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Conundrum,
let it slide
or salute
or as a dalliance, try to refute
a trifle
a truffle
a snort
then a snuffle
a rifle
a ruffle
go to court and shuffle
papers for a case of insanity
winner hands down
am i really crazy
or just a ridiculous clown?!
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snort, derisive, clout, brilliant, coddle
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Post by anirbas on Apr 29, 2014 23:04:52 GMT -6
snort, derisive, clout, brilliant, coddle
a derisive snort
may carry much clout
when issued by a brilliant
mentor whose attention
we coddle and attach
much weighty wisdom to.
abysmal*wisp*intransigent*amoral*rotary
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Post by phantasm on May 4, 2014 13:53:01 GMT -6
abysmal*wisp*intransigent*amoral*rotary
There's an intransigent wisp of a ghost in the rotary club--it's a phantasm--
He's scared all the people away
Not that there was anything amoral about that,
they were abysmal fundraisers anyway.
Fire*Void*He*Cement*Yellow
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Post by anirbas on May 8, 2014 20:21:43 GMT -6
Fire*Void*He*Cement*Yellow
In the watery void of the deep
he walks amongst the fishes
in cement shoes...
He wishes he'd avoided
this fiery yellow hell
he burns in now...
Even his wet environment
cannot put out...
How was he to know
if he scorned his wife
she'd pay rich and well
to end his life...?
~*~
truant*subtext*corn*caviar*cave
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Post by anirbas on May 8, 2014 20:22:36 GMT -6
(sidebar:LmAo at your last offering, Phant!)
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Post by aims on May 11, 2014 9:22:54 GMT -6
truant*subtext*corn*caviar*cave
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Lying prone in a luxury man-cave
truant of responsibilities. . .
the least of his worries!
In fact,
his worries are no more!
Subtext:
Too much Caviar,
not enough corn,
and a pinch of a woman's scorn!!
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recalcitrant, derail, convoluted, sly, pickle
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Post by phantasm on May 14, 2014 18:54:27 GMT -6
recalcitrant, derail, convoluted, sly, pickle
My recalcitrant dishwasher is trying to do its' duty, but reluctantly
I'd like to give it a swift kick in the butt, if it had one
Neglecting running it derails the water pump in the apartment complex, you see
So the problem is not convoluted. I just forget to do the dishes every so often.
That's not a crime, is it? Yeah, I occasionally neglect to do the chores.
Should I get myself a wife, or alternatively a maid?
I just have to get used to doing the dishes every two weeks on the nose.
No amount of sly can get me out of this particular pickle.....
YES! It has water pressure again.
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rainbird stanza heliocentric treble vivify
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Post by anirbas on May 17, 2014 21:00:34 GMT -6
rainbird stanza heliocentric treble vivify My store manager is an heliocentric being. The managerial staff his revolving planets. We trench diggers are the satellites, the worker drones, sweating copiously to vivify his visions, in a manner of speaking. More robot than human when we are on the clock enacting his every whim and will beneath the lash of his minions the moronic for the most part managerial staff. Once upon a time I played stanza after stanza of sheet music Now when I'm lucky I write a stanza or two or three or four or this lame poem about my store manager and his plantation... Unlike others, I do not despise him. But, I'd like to be a faulty Rain Bird on one of the grass islands of the store parking lot soaking his shiny leather shoes the perfect crease of his pants and the leather interior of his Mercedes Benz when he opened the vehicle door to get out... Such joy would spring from me I would sing a song in a treble I can't sing and you'd learn quickly why it's better to read me than to have to hear me...  ~*~ caravan*craven*stipulate*maquillage*ovaries |
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Post by aims on May 19, 2014 21:52:01 GMT -6
caravan*craven*stipulate*maquillage*ovaries
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No amount of maquillage can cover all 54 of my years
my body is a growing caravan
headed south
there,
to retire like my ovaries did!
and gravity will stipulate,
not even the most craven
nor frozen state
could cause it to make a stand.
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profile, picture, lies, exageration, quality
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Post by phantasm on May 25, 2014 16:33:41 GMT -6
profile, picture, lies, exaggeration [sp-- 2 'gs', not 1], quality
The quality of his lies has been falling off of late--
they decay into mere exaggeration. The truth is in-breaking, at long last.
The man has reached his limit on lying. The alternate reality he
accidentally built up around himself by twisting and distorting the truth
is becoming too much to handle-- the human brain wasn't designed
to sustain a big picture as complex as his for so long. His profile has become
nothing more than a thin, black line like Alfred Hitchcock's.
As his brain loses its' grip on the lies its' lived for so long,
will he take a tailspin down to oblivion, or get a grip and accept reality?
(Hmmm, there's an interesting story implied by the poem. Too bad I'm not in the position
to tell it right now.)
*new words*
1) farceur: 1. a joker; wag. 2. a writer or director of or actor in farce.
2) williwaw: a violent squall that blows in near-polar latitudes, as in the Strait of Magellan, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.
3) dictum: an authoritative statement.
4) pleonasm: the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.
5) paroxysm: an outburst; a fit.
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Post by aims on May 31, 2014 15:06:01 GMT -6
1) farceur: 1. a joker; wag. 2. a writer or director of or actor in farce.
2) williwaw: a violent squall that blows in near-polar latitudes, as in the Strait of Magellan, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.
3) dictum: an authoritative statement.
4) pleonasm: the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.
5) paroxysm: an outburst; a fit.
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"I declare, . . .
the last thing we need is a farceur having a pleonasm paroxysm,
in the middle of a williwaw,
and this ought to be a dictum from the highest authority
in the great state of Alaska!!!" cried the southern bell,
who was clearly not enjoying this moment of their very expensive cruise.
Naturally, the rather surly sarcastic reply from her exasperated husband was:
"Then perhaps next time you will pick a Caribbean cruise instead!"
Well, well, enough said!
He'd obviously rather be dead. . .
than sharing this moment with her bitchy ass!
Or better yet somewhere with his toes in the grass
where he felt morass
with no inclination to harass!
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cataclysm, euphemism, schism, criticism, organism |
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Post by phantasm on May 31, 2014 20:17:39 GMT -6
Damn, you front-loaded that poem, aims!
I admit those were hard words.....
cataclysm, euphemism, schism, criticism, organism
Some say there is a storm front coming our way
"A cataclysm is coming and it'll be horrible and we're all gonna die!"
They embrace the news and paint it in the worst possible light.
A nuke is going to explode in Boston Harbor, or someone will unleash the Andromeda Strain organism on the world, after all!
Are they determined to lead people astray? Or do they honestly believe their dire predictions are true?
When disaster doesn't strike in the way it's imagined, it becomes a shadow, a mythology, a euphemism.
Instead of Armageddon we get a schism when some people can't take criticism or admit the desired event didn't happen.
Which would you rather have, an argument, or a Judgement Day?
arising, vilify, aquaculture, zit, opprobrium
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Post by aims on Jun 10, 2014 19:47:19 GMT -6
arising, vilify, aquaculture, zit, opprobrium
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Please do not vilify
the top heavy poem
nor frame it with opprobrium!
( )
like a zit
arising on this site
its roots in oily-culture
or the affront of a weed
growing in aquaculture,
I mean, hey, long as we got some kinda culture. . . ay?!
and after all perhaps. . .
that is what the green stuff growing on these words is, culture,
or what makes them rise.
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Post by phantasm on Jun 13, 2014 22:15:31 GMT -6
slacker, cracker, jawbreaker, claw, analysis
The slacker started to do the job he'd been assigned,
but his heart just wasn't in it. He'd sooner stick his head in a trash compactor
than do this thing he does in a cubicle.
Analysis of wind sheer, cloud thickness and the odds it will rain tomorrow do not fill his head with bliss.
"Predict the weather tomorrow?" Cries the man over and over, gnawing on crackers and jawbreakers.
As he stares at the blank computer screen, he is mighty tempted to do something extreme:
bolt down the hallway screaming all the way,
going postal the next time someone drops off his interoffice mail,
or take the nail claw of a hammer and pull off the grate of the air vents and make his Great Escape.
That's why it rained when the weatherman said it would be a nice shiny day.
megalomania * gravitas * obtuse * omelet * editor
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