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

Neither Words nor Emotions (5 of 5)

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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