Neither Words nor Emotions (final)

 Brandish your love, my darling, every day
At my heart: a xeric, cavernous empty pit.
A punditocracy of love you throw my way
Ethereal words, empty, brittle, lacking wit.

Learn, my love, not to be a spruiker of emotion
Your misnomer of love is only deceit
Ignominious omphaloskepsis devotion
Removes from our tryst everything once sweet

You wish to chivy my heart into your ideal
Accuse me of hyperbolic distress and woe
My newly born temerity is real
Your snooting of my feeling I have come to know

An excursion from my heart to you I devote
This, my darling, is an end not a grace note

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Your snooting of my feeling I have come to know

An excursion from my heart to you I devote
This, my darling, is an end not a grace note

Excusion (noun)

a going out or forth : expedition, a usually brief pleasure trip; deviation from a direct, definite, or proper course; especially : digression; a movement outward and back or from a mean position or axis; also : the distance traversed : amplitude

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Grace note (noun)

an additional note introduced as an embellishment and not essential to the harmony or the melody of a piece

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Snoot (verb)

to behave disdainfully toward; condescend to

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Neither Words nor Emotions (3 of 5)

Your misnomer of love is only deceit
Ignominious omphaloskepsis devotion
Removes from our tryst everything once sweet

Ignominious (adjective)

deserving or causing public disgrace or shame; humiliating

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Misnomer (noun)

the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument; a use of a wrong or inappropriate name

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Omphaloskepsis (noun)

contemplation of one’s navel as part of a mystical exercise; navel-gazing

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Neither Words nor Emotions (2 of 5)

A punditocracy of love you throw my way
Ethereal words, empty, brittle, lacking wit.

Learn, my love, not to be a spruiker of emotion

Ethereal (adjective)

of or relating to the regions beyond the earth, celestial, heavenly, unworldly, spiritual; lacking material substance: immaterial, intangible; relating to, containing, or resembling a chemical ether

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Punditocracy (noun)

influential media pundits collectively

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Spruik (verb)

to speak in public on a particular topic, to ‘hold forth’; spec. to attract custom to a show, shop, etc., by speaking outside the premises; to act as a spruiker

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Neither Words nor Emotions (1 of 5)

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Rhyming scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Brandish your love, my darling, every day
Yet my heart is a xeric, cavernous empty pit

Brandish (verb)

to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly; to exhibit in an ostentatious or aggressive manner

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Cavernous (adjective)

resembling a cavern, as in depth, vastness, or effect

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Xeric (adjective)

of, relating to, or adapted to a dry environment

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“We need to have a chat”

There once was woman in an office
Whose beadledom was always cautious.
To satiate her ego with winks
She’d always buy the drinks
Until she met a hustler who made her nauseous

Beadledom (noun)

a gratuitous or officious display of exercise of authority, as by petty officials.

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Hustler (noun)

a skilled player, esp. at pool or billiards, who cheats other players by pretending to be an average player and then challenging them to play for money

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Satiate (verb)

to satisfy (a need, a desire, etc.) fully or to excess

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Job Insecurity

There once was boy who poked at dragons
Discurring through cubicles he imagines
His golden argument
With the corner office occupant
Now his job is no longer miscible with his passions

Discur (transitive verb)

to run through; to traverse.Used in a limerick

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Golden (adjective)

indicating the fiftieth event of a series

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Miscible (adjective)

capable of being mixed; specifically: capable of mixing in any ratio without separation of two phases

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One Boy’s Treasures

There once was an eccentric boy
Whose garniture and cruft provided joy
Broken angels and balls
Over stuffed dolls
Only his plebeian parents it would annoy

Eccentric (adjective)

departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern; (noun) One that deviates markedly from an established norm, especially a person of odd or unconventional behavior

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Garniture (noun)

embellishment, trimming; a set of decorative objects (such as vases, urns, or clocks)

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Plebeian (adjective)

common, commonplace, or vulgar

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