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.
Flower Fading (5 of 5)
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)
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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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Flower Fading (4 of 5)
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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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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2 degrees C
Augurs the storm
Wiredrawing global warming
Cannot assuage doom
Assuage (verb)
to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate;to appease, satisfy, or relieve; to soothe or calm
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Augur (verb)
to foretell especially from omens; to give promise of : presage
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Wiredraw (verb)
to strain unwarrantably, as in meaning
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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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