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)

Sonnet Week
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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Smite Makes Right

There once was a beautiful lady
Whose ways were dexterous and weighty
Donnybrook displays
Followed her all days
Until she could afford a Mercedes

Dexterous (adjective)

skillful in the use of the hands. Having mental skill or adroitness; clever. Done with dexterity

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Donnybrook (noun)

an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.

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Smite (verb)

to strike sharply or heavily especially with the hand or an implement held in the hand; to kill or severely injure by so striking; to cause to strike; to affect as if by striking; captivate, take

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Jelly Bean Jar

There once was a plaintive cry
From a man who thought he’d die
He wrongly subitized the rent
So his impugning wife went
To see if a new husband she could buy

Impugn (transitive verb)

to attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument

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Plaintive (adjective)

expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy

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Subitize (verb)

to make an immediate and accurate reckoning of the number of items in a group or sample without needing to pause and actually count them.

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Rome Was Felled in One Rerun

“Winter is coming”, they cried 
from the rooftops but silence only replied.

The city was on a  degringolade path. 
The youth were a primetiming bloodbath.

General Hospital was new on Netflix, 
the phalanx by Maxie Jones’ fake tears transfixed.

Dégringolade (noun)

a quick deterioration or breakdown, as of a situation or circumstance.

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Phalanx (noun)

a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files; broadly : a body of troops in close array; one of the digital bones of the hand or foot of a vertebrate; a massed arrangement of persons, animals, or things

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Primetiming (verb)

staying up late watching TV after midnight. Usually primetiming involves watching reruns of favorite shows.

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