Q is for Quarry

  Quafftide: The time or season for drinking. Quarry: an animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey. - a thing or person that is chased or sought.    Oh, see the shadows! Marauding my dreams, my hopes, What´s she playing at?   Like a feral cat, She´s wicked for toying …

P is for Podsnappery

Podsnappery: smug self-satisfaction and a lack of interest in the affairs of others. an attitude toward life marked by complacency and a refusal to recognize unpleasant facts.         Sick of all nonsense, I'm a hermit from the world, now that you are gone.   I shatter my glass against your portray, anger …

O is for Oath of Fealty

Oath of Fealty: A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise, usually on a Relic of Saints.       I, as Galahad, promised you the Holy …

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 …