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 … Continue reading P is for Podsnappery
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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 … Continue reading O is for Oath of Fealty
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 … Continue reading N is for Niminy-Piminy
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; … Continue reading M is for Memento Mori
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 … Continue reading L is for Leptosomatic
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. … Continue reading J is for Julking
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! … Continue reading I is for 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 … Continue reading H is for Hookem-snivey
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? … Continue reading G is for Gigglemug
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 … Continue reading F is for Fawney-rig