N is for Niminy-Piminy

Niminy-Piminy: overtly or excessively prim. affected delicacy; mincingness.   Victorian Hospital (source: https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1871-wood-engraving-art-victorian-england-st-thomas-hospital-surrey-gardens-bed-210452-ytg2-081) Prim and well behaved, niminy-piminy gal: my most loved patient.   Took your medicines althought you hated its taste, just to indulge me.   Illness didn’t take Your calmed fortitude away any single day.   I was not prepared to end tonight’s …

M is for Memento Mori

Memento Mori: literally “be mindful of dying”. An emblematic object or personal ornament, such as a skull, used as a reminder of one's mortality.        Memento Mori: your eternal wooden home, dried flower petals.   Do you miss playing with your rag toy, your rain stick? Seeing birds chirping?   A petite necklace; …

L is for Leptosomatic

Leptosomatic: Pertaining to one who has a slender, thin, or frail body.         Gazing into the looking glass, I would see you doozing on the divan.   Woke you up with kisses; leptosomatic princess, fitting in my arms.   At times I still sense you behind me. I look back. No one …

K is for Kairos

Kairos: A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.          A distant scratching, soft silk brushing the parquet, Creaking approaches.   Shiny specks of dust, a firefly in my bedroom coming and going;   Where did it come from? The windows and …

J is for Julking

  Julking: Singing (as of caged songbirds).         Julking barn swallow, singing her free happiness cradled in my arms.   What do I give you, that you come back home to me as a safe haven?   Let your spirit roam, soar singing free to the sky. You are whole again.   …

I is for Immortality

Immortality: the ability to live forever; eternal life.          I dreamt every night of seeing you once again. Call you with my mind.   As I close my eyes I feel your scent beside me. Now I know it´s true:   You can never die for you live inside my heart. Immortality! …

H is for Hookem-snivey

Hookem-snivey: to feign mortal sickness or disease in the streets to excite compassion. (see Egrote: to feign an illness to avoid work.)         I´ve been called cunning, deceitful, if nothing else; a fool to the world.   But I´m ill for real. Ill from love, ill from the loss. A world weary …

G is for Gigglemug

Gigglemug: habitually smiling face.             The world never knew what it lost that fateful day. Your sweet easy smile.   How can the world keep spinning, if you ain't here? How are birds singing?   Why so many grins, and so many bright colors? Do they know? Care? Weep?   …

F is for Fawney-rig

Fawney-rig: trick, game of dropping a ring. A common fraud thus practised:—a fellow drops a brass ring, double gilt, which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated, and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed, and ten times more than its real, value. / Phony   An engagement …

E is for Evening Wheezes / Envy

Evening Wheezes: false news, usually spread in evening halfpenny papers.  Envy: Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).   Why do people keep gossiping apropos you, now you're far afield?   Ain't it so biased? cos you cannot contradict their venomous tongues?   What if they were right? …