Inkhorn hustler, Embellishes the afflatus, discurres donnish flair!
Conan found the bone.
Insular, impermutable fool
Conan broke the bone.
Harrowing act so cruel
Harrowing (adjective)
extremely distressing
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Impermutable (adjective)
Not liable to change; incapable of being changed; constant.
Oxford English Dictionary
Insular (adjective)
ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or people outside a person’s own experience. Lacking contact with other people.
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Anthropology will trace this line Through sobriquet of majesty and refinement And find only gewgaw remains of the once fine Bullies and villains sending innocence to consignment
Anthropogony (noun)
An account or theory of the origin of humanity
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Gewgaw (noun)
showy jewelry or an ornament on clothing that serves no purpose
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Sobriquet (noun)
a descriptive name or epithet : nickname
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They were warned.
Apocryphal words uttered from an unhinged mind.
They were warned.
The liliputian thigh bone they should not find.
Apocryphal (adjective)
of doubtful authenticity : spurious
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Lilliputian (adjective)
extremely small; tiny; diminutive.
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Unhinged (adjective)
affected with madness or insanity
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Now a lugubrious phantasm, she was once a base
Hag. Famous man and his sycophant sent
To destroy. They couldn’t even look upon her face,
An arrow through her to leave her body rent.
Lugubrious (adjective)
Looking or sounding sad and dismal; mournful.
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Phantasm (noun)
a product of fantasy: as a : delusive appearance : illusion, ghost, specter, a figment of the imagination, a mental representation of a real object
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Sycophant (noun)
a person who tries to please someone else in order to gain a personal advantage
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She sought a respite from the evil of man
Pontificating sinners, wagging fingers,
Faithless friends, drunk father armed with rattan,
From this society she ran. Yet still she lingers.
Pontificate (verb)
To speak or behave in a pompous or dogmatic manner.
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Rattan (noun)
The thin pliable stems of a palm, used to make furniture
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Respite (noun)
a period of temporary delay; an interval of rest or relief
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Upon a dreary crag I met an angry maiden
Ignominy stained even her requiescat
Lackadaisical in stance, eyes grief laden,
Abandoned by society, upon the ground she spat.
Ignominy (noun)
a state of dishonor
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Lackadaisical (adjective)
lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid
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Requiescat (noun)
a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
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Used in a ballad (a lyrical tale set in mythology)
Please forgive this brief vignette
uttered from my tear soaked lip
Undulating in my breast, beset
With my macabre apocalypse
Macabre (adjective)
gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible
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Undulate (verb)
to form or move in waves : fluctuate; to rise and fall in volume, pitch, or cadence; to present a wavy appearance
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Vignette (noun)
a brief literary description; a small illustrative sketch, sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books; photograph whose edges shade off gradually
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Bon vivant dressed only in gold brocade
Comprised each soiree in envy and greed.
Remarks soft and incendiary plead
To gravitas he lacked, solipsism his aid.
Fiduciary need her troubles laid
With jowls grieving in heavy deed.
Spoonersims stumble his speech, consternation freed
Her Noachian demands turned him afraid.
Numinous yet slovenly she was clad
Coruscating shift twisted around her hips
A psychotronic display belying his fate
Her hand moved towards him, eyes mad
Proditomania too late pressed shut his lips
What he thought mistook for need in her eyes was hate.
Used in an Italian Sonnet day 5
(abba-abba-cde-cde)
Coruscating shift twisted around her hips
A psychotronic display belying his fate
Her hand moved towards him, eyes mad
Proditomania too late pressed shut his lips
What he thought mistook for need in her eyes was hate.
Coruscate (verb)
Merriam-Webster
to give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes : sparkle; to be brilliant or showy in technique or style
Psychotronic (adjective)
of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films
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Proditomania (noun)
the feeling or the belief that everyone around is out to get you.
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Her Noachian demands turned him afraid.
Numinous yet slovenly she was clad
Noachian (adjective)
of or relating to the patriarch Noah or his time; ancient, antiquated
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Numinous (adjective)
spiritual or supernatural.
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Slovenly (adjective)
negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; characterized by carelessness
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