Short Merriam Poems

M-orning's
E-ager
R-adiant
R-ay
I-s
A-bating
M-isty

R-ain
A-s
M-ighty
B-eacon
U-ses
Y-our
O-pen
N-ew
G-low

Topic: Birthday of Merriam Rambuyong (August 06) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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M-use
E-ases
R-ighteous
R-eader
I-n
A-wesome
M-oment

R-ightfully
A-dvancing
M-essage
B-y
U-sing
Y-our
O-ne
N-ame's
G-reatness

Topic: Birthday of Merriam Rambuyong (August 06) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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BALLERINA IN RED

churn dizzy dazzler —
a rapturous red firebird
coralbells-slippers

10/24/2018

a perennial alumroot … cultivated for its feathery spikes of tiny usually reddish bell-shaped flowers (merriam-webster)...

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Artists
Render
Tachyon

Masterpieces —
Utter
Serendipitous 
Electrifying 
Undulating 
Mind-blowers

1/22/2019
Contest: Word Play Acrostic
Sponsor: Bobby May

Merriam-Webster:
tachyon - a hypothetical particle held to travel faster than light...

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bleakness of Autumn
    on a cloudy-sunless day
            muted colors droop
spirit’s  s i l e n t  interlude...
…blush of solo-leaf descant

12/1/2017


descant - a melody or counterpoint sung above the plainsong of the tenor
(from Merriam-Webster)...

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VITALITY OF TONGUE

papillae lyrics
sweet, salty, and bitter odes
grammy’s victrola

6/8/2017

Merriam-Webster's definition of "papillae"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/papilla

Pronounced pa-pill-lee

small bumps on tongue often containing taste buds...

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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...

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.

                      all ten
                       lusty
                      warm
               wrap'd 'round'd
                 whilst women
                     watch'd
 
                          i
                          i

                     she'll do





*“Lusty.” Merriam-Webster.com
  :hearty; robust...

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Monk thunders the rusted bell thrice as people purchase their parting gifts.

12/20/2017
Wonderful One Liners Contest

From Merriam-Webster:
Viaticum:
1 : the Christian Eucharist given to a person in danger of death
2 a : an allowance (as of transportation or supplies and money) for traveling expenses b : provisions for a journey...

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Slinging slang, snazzy…dang
Zoomers zing, zazzy.
Loosening tongues, eroding
out the path well set.
the text of millennials, lit.
Forget about correct spelling—
Sit on the keys…amirite?

Nov 2021

Amirite - slang (merriam-webster) used in writing for "am I right" to represent or imitate the use of this phrase as a tag question in informal speech...

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            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 

...

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V  anishes from my memory when writing

O  asis metaphors to fill some lost forlorn soul

C  achinnating reclusive in their space

A  ccomplishable feat: who knows?

B  amboozlement as if a magical potion served

L  iterature that becomes a leader

A  bundant, adorable, and accurate vocabulary

R  esides within a Merriam-Webster dictionary

Y  o!!     ...

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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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GREENY MIX OF VITAMINS AND PROTEIN

clenching my fork —
in my garden of leafy
goodness,
                      a ladybug

salad sweats,
running
into the trash heap.

forgotten tines and teeth
release voluminous vitamins and protein
to sow what they reap,
bottom of bowl weeps…

but I’m okay with that!

4/20/2018

*greeny (defined by Merriam-Webster):
of the color green; marked by a pale, sickly, nauseated color...

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X-ensual abc

Another besotted, charmed, dissolute evening .
Fondling  gadabout’s  hearty invite. 
Jubilation kindling lusty memories.
Nightly, orgasmic,  phallic. 
Quivering  rose’s swelling titillation unabated. 
Veritably  wet.  Xaerning Yang-Yin  zygote`.

Notes: 
 Xaern= to enjoy something so much you begin to hate how much you like it.( According to Merriam-Webster, word-central)
Zygote= a cell resulting from the joining of two gametes.
20 sept 2015....

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Death Of Mother:

she tucked you in at night - the nightingale,
soothed your forehead with her palm
and there her song presides.

Death Of Child:

your tears squeezed out from bleakest thunderheads
flooding the whole dam-ocean
— a friend to hold you tight.

Death Of Husband

muscular arms unwound like octopus
head aches of inky blackness
— angels tender your veil

7/10/2018

Merriam-Webster:
Tender - to regard or treat with tenderness...

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