Flower Fading (3 of 5)

With jowls grieving in heavy deed.
Spoonersims stumble his speech, consternation freed

Consternation (noun)

a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay

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Jowl (noun)

a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging); the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

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Spoonerism (noun)

a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil)

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Flower Fading (2 of 5)

To gravitas he lacks, solipsism his aid.

Fiduciary need of troubles laid

Fiduciary (adjective)

of, relating to, or involving a confidence or trust: such as held or founded in trust or confidence, holding in trust, depending on public confidence for value or currency

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Gravitas (noun)

dignity, seriousness, or solemnity in manner.

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Solipsism (noun)

extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one’s feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption

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Flower Fading (1 of 5)

Used in an Italian Sonnet (abba-abba-cde-cde)

Bon vivant dressed only in gold brocade
Comprises each soiree in envy and greed
Remarks soft and incendiary plead

Bon vivant (noun)

a person who lives luxuriously and enjoys good food and drink.

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Comprise (verb)

to be made up of; compose, constitute; to include especially within a particular scope

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Incendiary (adjectivity)

designed to cause fires

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An Ode to Sturtz

Bona fides aside, absconded from the scene,
His quite manner and confidence let them agree
With the red lines all coming back clean
In the silence all that is left is a squee

Abscond (verb)

to depart secretly and hide oneself

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Bona fides (adjective)

good faith; absence of fraud or deceit; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate

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Squee (verb)

of a person: to utter a high-pitched squealing sound expressive of delight or excitement

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An Ode to My Team in Three Haiku

Dear developer
Martinet of the whiteboard
No banalize gifs

Given a problem
When headphones on, caffeine flows
Then brilliance abounds

Forgive demonym
You forgot introductions
Before programming

Banalize (verb)

to render or make devoid of freshness or originality; trivialize

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Demonym (noun)

a general descriptive name used by a writer as a pen name, e.g. ‘An Amateur’, ‘An English Gentleman;A multiple stanza

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Martinet (noun)

a strict disciplinarian; a person who stresses a rigid adherence to the details of forms and methods

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What Happens on the Beach…

Sanguine wind stirs hair
Irascible weather yields
Vacation boobery

Boobery (noun)

the action or fact of doing something foolish, especially making foolish mistakes; foolishness, stupidity. Also: an instance of this; a foolish act or thing

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Irascible (adjective)

marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger

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Sanguine (adjective)

cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident

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Nesting

Peacherino fox
Bricoleur of desuetude
Trees made safe and warm

Bricoleur (noun)

a person who performs a variety of manual jobs; someone who fixes things in an ingenious manner

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Desuetude (noun)

discontinuance from use or exercise : disuse

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Peacherino (noun)

a person or thing that is especially attractive, liked, or enjoyed

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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