Old man Webster and his partner Merriam tell us a person who enters or lives in a country without the documentation required for legal entry or residence is an illegal,
but perhaps those erstwhile gents are only good for crosswords and scrabble.
.
will ya
come thuh
on
page
wist
me
we'll pagez
dust
wit'n ourn
us
roam
az nun
*In Aramaic, "nun" specifically
means "fish"
*wist; merriam-webster.com: *edvard ask'n thuh her to collaborate
archaic:get to know 'pon his slip thinks ')
*wit; merriam-webster: 1c; humor
poetic think
Nihilism,
write thirteen beautiful lines,
the longest one in the merriam-webster
Cosmos and cosmic,
Lunar eclipse and Aurora Borealis,
milky way and the interstellar
Synecdoche,
you and I are no good
to linger longer with the charm in an alternative essay
The round trip home
is often the loneliest deadly, a painstaking pain, humble
to tone down a possessive aimless, of little or no mayhem, subtle
mascara, eloquence and dropping gets a lot of sounds for the sounding clay
and I drop the course
Underneath the moonlit night, they gather even for the balcony light and sing
those impeccable songs, one after another
What is a good read line for a mystic moon?
a mundane, a seamstress or your song! Soaring high at midnight to fly along the moon!
Keep this simple, you are giggling beside you, and you are fixing the econo cap too, a croon!
This is late, and thus long!
.
all ten
lusty
warm
wrap'd 'round'd
whilst women
watch'd
i
i
she'll do
*“Lusty.” Merriam-Webster.com
:hearty; robust
Polarization
Word of the year..
Separation up front..
Separation appears
In love and war
And news headlines..
Seemingly what is
Until appearance
Reveals what isn't...
Merriam-Webster:
Polarization
Demure
Fortnight
Totality
Resonate
Allision
Weird
Cognitive
Pander
.
Ten thousand sweat'n
Nautical milez
hern sweet redolence
i recall
Three
i say
three months
repairing
sail cloth
shhh'stab'n mine cramp'd dukes
with this awl and
rusted needles
whilst
Soak'd most uv the time
Unto
Mine already wet bonez
Az candy
Poetically
'Bout hern
i lust
recall'n
hern sweeten'd
never bitter
'pon mine tongue
yumi
mine mochi
soon
'pon mine tongue
*Merriam-Webster//www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/mochi. Japanese
pastry.
mostly
az mine feets
tramp
hop
skip
jump
from the town’z
bully
both
mine dukes
theirn medius unpainted phalanges
Up
*Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary
“Facetious” joking or jesting often
inappropriately
Should I write a poem about Halloween,
full of psychological horrors and gruesome things?
Like deep romantic wounds getting infected,
herpe kisses or Donald Trump getting elected?
I could lean on shuddery tropes, like haunted houses
or more real world threats, like cutthroat spouses.
I could make you look up scary looking words, like Syncretism.
gasp What caused that creek in the floor?!
Who’s that banging on the door?
Is that blood on that rag?
Is there a body in that bag?
Is that your husband in drag!?
Relax, have fun, chill-out,
Oh, better get a bowl of candy out.
Happy Halloween!
.
.
Songs for this:
Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
I Killed You by Tyler, The Creator
.
.
*Merriam Webster: Syncretism: combining different forms of belief
.
'twuzn't mine goose's bumps
tick'lin mine he sheath
'twuz hern
her jejune
soft
tight 'gainst me
reach'n up
so light mine barely
felt hern pull
the nymph
'gainst mine hear
whisper'd
"take me"
*“Jejune.” Merriam-Webster.com The term comes
to us from the Latin word jejunus, which means
"empty of food," "hungry," or "meager.
.
i were there
yep
whence reality emerged 'bout hern torso
but patiently
as mine recallz
well
not patiently
yet until mine almost
old
mine eyne
duke's digits
likewise
mine quivering moist
lips
tarry'd
'til yup my
locked eagerly
hern excited
swollen
I Won't Say It
buuht
sum wear
'round hern long'n
t!ts
*whence used correctly vide supra
*mamma; merriam-webster.com
Latin, "breast" ') whoooo luvz yuh
.
long it's been
since mine gentle kiss
'pon
such the thick
and not the thick
twixt
hern hip's
limbz
notwithstanding ,)
uv her
palpebralz
their
pensive
right after that nap
after that
nap
*Palpebral Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
relating to the eyelids.
Cuffing Season
Frightful scenes of cabin fever
during the lonely, cold winter
give reason for cuffing season
and placation for the freeze-in.
The physical shivers over
frightful scenes of cabin fever,
stuck indoors with no companion
for comfort or intervention.
The ominous clime messenger
signals the psyche to weather
frightful scenes of cabin fever
and seek a mutual partner.
And laugh away dreadful winter’s
frightful scenes of cabin fever
by sharing hearts of utmost zest
throughout the chilly love-in fest.
***
Note:
“Cuffing season” refers to a period of time when single people begin looking for short-term partnerships to pass the colder months of the year. Cuffing season usually begins in October and lasts until just after Valentine’s Day (February 14). The use of the word “cuff” references handcuffs but is slang in the same vein as "hooking up" or "getting hitched." (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
The Atemporal Wall
Hidden away from the light of day
In cubbyholes and basement flats
Are they who play computer games
And stuff their faces with chocolates.
Here is where they snicker and connive
(While rambunctious fingers press the buttons)
On terrestrial Earth, this side of the universe,
Of mice, keyboards, and controllers.
But when they crash into the wall of forever
And dispersed matter becomes reality,
The power of the sun from which they run
Traps them into the quagmire of sobriety.
There is no tomorrow, they discover;
The atemporal wall blocks the future.
***
Note:
Atemporal (Merriam-Webster dictionary): adjective; independent of or unaffected by time; timeless.
This is a poetry eerily populated with ghosts and mummies and zomboid creatures who go on living though dead from love.
— Patrick McGarth*
ZOMBOID CREATURES
no way out of the well…ceaseless pulley.
forlorn, deep is the grave.
for the dead, love is a bully
no one can save.
doped up, tears dry in somnambulant night.
bones rave toward the cliff.
a blind man’s bluff, i’ve lost my sight -
this zomboid stiff.
love dropped out; i’m eaten up with her scent -
bouquet of floral bath.
i pursue - a ghostlike lament,
off beaten path.
she sat upon the mound, of fresh dug soil,
wrapped up in her own grief,
a mummy terrified - a foil…
aperitif.
1/7/2023
Writing Challenge - Zip, Zig, Zag, Zing
Sponsor: Constance La France
Theme Z word: Zomboid
Used Howmanysyllables and rhymezone
*Obtained from Merriam-Webster
storms happen
happenstance stomps
selfish selfies inherit the wind
windmills become grist for the mill
Armageddon trending now
Utopia is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
go figure (& lie about the figures)
too many figurative flies in the proverbial soup
words float like moths to the factoid
sting like a bumbling bezoar
fly like a flock of birdbrains
put that in your pipe & tweet it
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