S is for Synchronicity

Synchronicity: is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related. During his career, Jung furnished several different definitions of it. Jung defined synchronicity as an "acausal connecting (togetherness) principle," "meaningful coincidence", "acausal parallelism" or …

R is for Bit o´Raspberry /Revolveress

Bit o´Raspberry: An attractive girl, originally a raspberry jam as this was considered the most flavoursome of preserves, so the prettiest of the girls were a bit o' raspberry. Revolveress: A woman who uses a pistol with a great degree of surety.       Bit o´Raspberry, roaring pleasure in my ears, romping with my …

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.   …