Green as the sky before a tornado
Patinaed tears sliding down copper cheeks
She whispers reassurance sweet and slow
Her tale a leitmotif of bloody streaks
Breviloquent in its repeated peaks.
I have no malice staring at her storm
De facto reverence poorly preform
as I still swallow whole comfort unearned.
What has brought us to this break in the norm
the earth churned and our faith newly burned

Patina (noun)

a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color;  a surface appearance of something grown beautiful especially with age or use

an appearance or aura that is derived from association, habit, or established character

a superficial covering or exterior

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Leitmotif (noun)

a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner’s operas)

a recurring theme in a literary work

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Breviloquent (adjective)

Using few words.

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malice (noun)

a desire to cause harm to another person

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de facto (adjective)

actually existing

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Juxtapose, film caught in frame, macilent
frame walking away yet caught
loath to see your framing

Adiaphorous (adjective)

doing neither good nor harm, as a medicine

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juxtapose (verb)

place side by side in order to show contrast

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Macilent (adjective)

Lean or emaciated.

Lacking in substance.

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Loath (adjective)

unwilling to do something contrary to one’s ways of thinking

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Solivagant under scattered sunlight
old tree marked with new stigma
a pause, checkstop against rot

parlance (noun)

a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

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Constitutional (noun)

a walk taken for one’s health

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solivagant

(noun) a lone wanderer

(adjective) characterized by lone wandering

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Stigma (noun)

a set of negative and unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something; a mark of shame or discredit : stain;

the usually apical part of the pistil of a flower which receives the pollen grains and on which they germinate

a small spot, scar, or opening on a plant or animal

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Checkstop (noun)

A mechanism, facility, device, etc., designed to limit movement or act as a fail-safe in a machine or mechanical system.

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Some magnanimous god put in my path
a sweet rorid oasis
but you can’t there from here

Magnanimous (adjective)

showing or suggesting a generous and kind nature

showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit

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Rorid (adjective)

Dewy.

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Oasis (noun)

a fertile patch in a desert occurring where the water table approaches or reaches the ground surface

a place of peace, safety, or happiness in the midst of trouble or difficulty

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Even irrepressible wills plateau
stuporous waiting kairos
when the gist is too much

Irrepressible (adjective)

not capable of being repressed, controlled, or restrained

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plateau

(noun) a relatively flat raised area of land; a stable state or level after a period of progress or activity

(verb) reach a stage where no further progress is made

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Stuporous (adjective)

Dazed, sluggish, or barely responsive.

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Kairos (noun)

a time that is particularly crucial or suited for carrying out an action

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Gist (noun)

the ground of a legal action

the main point or part : essence

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The moment before gravity takes hold
hope is a mainour held then
acidulously flown

Inexorable (adjective)

not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless

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Mainour (noun)

a stolen article found on the person of or near the thief

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Acidulous (adjective)

being sour to the taste

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At the collapse, in the stillness after
his loosely held sanguine hope
consumed by choking woot

collapse (verb)

to break apart and fall down suddenly

to fall down or become unconscious because you are sick or exhausted; to completely relax the muscles of your body because you are very tired, upset, etc.

to fail or stop working suddenly : to break down completely; to lose almost all worth : to become much less valuable

to become flat and empty

to fold together

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Sanguine (adjective)

cheerfully optimistic

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Woot (exclamation / slang)

(esp used by players in online games) a shout of joy, victory, etc

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Silent apiary, rune against waste
where flowers once rendezvoused
a plication of time

Apiary (noun)

a place where bees are kept

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Rune (noun)

any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages

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rendezvous

(noun) a place designated for a meeting or assembling, a place where people are in the habit of meeting or gathering; an agreement or appointment between two or more persons, esp. between lovers, to meet at a certain time or place; the meeting itself

(verb) to meet or assemble at a certain time or place; to assemble (troops, etc.) at a certain time or place

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Plication (noun)

the state or quality of being folded; a fold

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Found hidden in my grandpa’s griffonage:
recalcitrant chimera
fetid forgotten guilt

Griffonage (noun)

Careless or illegible handwriting; scrawl.

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Recalcitrant (adjective)

obstinately defiant of authority or restraint : stubbornly uncooperative or disobedient

difficult to manage or operate; not responsive to treatment; resistant

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Chimera (noun)

a strange, horrible, or impossible idea or figment of the imagination

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fetid (adjective)

offensively malodorous; smelly

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Trajectory set in first telophase
“better than the alternative” yet not
from first breathe hent a slow descent crossways
We wait at each crossroads, life in doubt caught
All dissonant whistles, bittersweet praise.
I have no wish for a marcescence end
clinging past value, frantic to ascend
voice silent except at last moment sing:
May my beginning and my end bookend
Miracle of chance, soft as a moth-wing

trajectory (noun)

the path followed by an object moving through space

a connected series of events or actions or developments

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Telophase (noun)

the final stage of meiosis when the chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle

the final stage of mitosis

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Hent (verb)

to seize

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Dissonant (adjective)

marked by dissonance : discordant; incongruous; harmonically unresolved

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Marcescence (noun)

the state or quality of parts of certain plants remaining attached when withered

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moth-wing

(adjective) Fragile or fleeting.

(noun) Something fragile or fleeting.

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