In California today, 2025, city managers, attorneys, engineering
Work in an infrastructure of control without water fountains.
Micromanaged district supervision of States of legislature
Troughing below the poverty lines as entrance and exit serve the wills inheriting the labor of "housing" "something" without competing.
Prediction of 24 hours, 7 days, is enough hearing of you
Needn't be hear nor better with time in a second arrived
Lots full of practice and routine appearance
Essayists and poets marching
Into town halls to legislate
Creating labora frame
Georgia 5th had no time to talk
I could use common vocabulary,
but to be honest I never liked it;
The dictionary or the library,
a scavenger hunt I’ll gladly commit;
Buried within a myriad of books,
or a placement on some forgotten list;
Oh, the poetry that a word unhooks!
Without that piece it’s so easily missed;
Recalibrating an old phrase with flare,
rearranged letters liven up the line;
Describing the vision that pen laid bare,
synonyms and a timeless theme combine;
I could say it the way the others do
but it would come off as only half-true.
When I can’t write, I feel a knot in my chest. A building pressure tight like a bullet proof vest and an itching in my hands that just will not rest.
It’s not a lack of paper and pen, I’ll scratch poems onto the walls. Type them on my phone as I walk through the halls, write in blue ink on school bathroom stalls. The problem is a lack of something that calls
to me, not physical things but vocabulary. Cause I can always write, but without soul It just doesn’t sound right.
Words fly away like birds and leap away like bunnies, I’m almost inspired by the way they evade me.
When I can’t write it’s not a thesaurus I turn to. Nor is it a dictionary, because it’s not words that are missing but meaning. A blank sheet of paper like snow, white and gleaming, so much potential I just want to pour myself onto it, bleeding
But the blood does not come. The paper stays white and pristine and unmarked as I claw around in the dark twisting and turning my fingers and pen through the bloody guts of a world of words that I just cannot see within.
The heavy mass in my stomach grows and grows
But the words still won’t flow,
when I can’t write.
Flowers are the divine vocabulary
That
God uses to compose heaven's literature
Of
Eternal beauty.
© Demetrios Trifiatis
08 September 2023
I love vocabulary games, and these odd words came up in English words games, recently: Bute ( I know "Butte" but not BUTE) & "abseil," "landau," and even "Bourne" (identity?).
A poem about a simpler word, FLIERS.
When we say FLY,
Buzzing by and by
Which is it?
Plane or insect?
But when we use "Fliers"
The letters reveal secrets:
"liFe," "selF," "lies" & "Flies" again
LIFERS is best of all
In this game; Hope for us all
My vocabulary is scooting up like a weed
in a as-fault jungle
I mean, it's so incredulous how many
unhackneyed words I've cognized
lately... So I'm going to give me a standing ovulation
and throw it up for me, mice elf, and aye ~
my pronounces, jic* you haven't guessed yet ~
Can I take my leaf now and do the splitsvilles?
____________________________________________
* 'jic' = just in case
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!!
Let me read you like a book,
Allow me to understand the hardest phrases in your vocabulary,
Taking all the time to smile, laugh and cry like you did,
And when am done,allow me to be a part of the next chapter.
I feel like an antiquity
some relic from the past
crumbling at the edges
eroded over time
aging has arrived
There are fissures in my proud steel plated armor
once invincible
reality is bringing with it a heavy blow
it creeps upon you
like a stealth thief in the night
now you berate yourself
for being caught unaware
new words slip into your vocabulary
things like “possible stroke”
a litany of tests are conducted
let’s begin with a blood test
maybe a urine sample
we can schedule an MRI
is this a heart attack
there is a CAT or CT scan as it is known
what about the C word, cancer
let’s do an ultrasound
ff that doesn’t find it there is always
an endoscopy or colonoscopy complete with biopsy
the realization that life’s destiny is prevailing
is the end nigh
the relic you have become
looking at you in the mirror of life
Andreas Simic©
One by one, the second graders
Marched up to the mic,
Masked and costumed, though no two
Were dressed at all alike.
For each wore something – shirt or hat
Or giant oaktag sign
To illustrate the word that he
Or she had to define.
Class by class they stated names
And proudly said their word,
Then used it in a sentence
Until everyone was heard.
Their smiles were ample proof that all
Their efforts were rewarded,
But what was best was I could see it,
Since it was recorded.
Vocabulary is
Vital to all language
Voiced or when written down
Verbosity can be
Very annoying in
Various settings in
Verbose conversations
5-6-2021
Pleiades V Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Perception
David J Walker
Imagination has no boundary
With additional vocabulary
Darkness is nothing without light
Believing only what we can see
Only what we perceive
to be real
Creating a world from scraps of
How we think we feel
About the unseen and uncertain
Reality of a different world
That can only be explained
Where not everything is named
But still known to be real
new terms on your terms~
the luxury ignorance earns
***
time tells a vocabulary
time tells a tale of a grand vocabulary
the test of time is the test of a grand vocabulary
the test of time is the test of a grand magician
time is a test of time
time is a test of a grand magician
time is a test of a grand vocabulary
vocabulary is a grand tale
vocabulary is a grand tale of a magician
a grand magician is a grand tale of a magician
vocabulary is a magician vocabulary
vocabulary is a grand vocabulary
test of time is a magician grand vocabulary
test of time is a test of a future
test of time is a test of a grand future
test of time is a test of a vocabulary
the test of time is the test of a grand tale
a grand future is a grand vocabulary
the future is a grand future
the future is the future of a grand vocabulary
the future is the future of a grand tale
K-nowledge
I-n
M-ind
N-otably
U-ses
E-xcellent
V-ocabulary
A-nd
S-ynonyms
Topic: Birthday of Kim C. Nuevas (January 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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