"Say Hello to the Nice Folks, Howdy..."

Myrmidon • \MER-muh-donn\ • noun - A loyal follower; especially: a subordinate who executes orders unquestioningly or unscrupulously

Behold! Myrmidon

Says everything I tell it

It won’t shut up now

The Never-Ending Story...

Sempiternal /semp-uh-TURN-null/ Adjective – Of never-ending duration: eternal.

Groundhog Day, redux

Sempiternal Sonny, Cher

Sing “I Got You, Babe”

So Bad, That It's Good....

Poetaster • \POE-uh-tass-ter\ • noun - An inferior poet

Orange has no rhyme

Poetaster tries ever

His words are like poop

The Mountains Call to Me...

Teleological / tell-ee-uh-LODGE-jih-CULL/ Adjective – Exhibiting or relating to design or purpose especially in nature.

Nature’s sweet design

Teleological thrill

The circle of life

Don't Open That Trunk, Fiber McGee...

Frowsy • \FROW-zee\ • adjective - 1: musty, stale *2: having a slovenly or uncared-for appearance

Open the old trunk

Frowsy air comes wafting out

I gasp on stale air

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet...

Phantasm /FAN-taz-zum/ Noun – 1: a product of fantasy: as a: delusive appearance: illusion b: ghost, specter c: a figment of the imagination 2: a mental representation of a real object.

Phantasm attack

Trick-or-treaters flood the streets

Specters of the night

Pasta Al Dente...

Vermicular • \verr-MICK-yuh-lerr\ • adjective - 1: resembling a worm in form or motion 2: of, relating to, or caused by worms

Noodles are funny

Vermicular in their shape

Slurp them with gusto

Smells like money…

Olfactory /awl-FACT-tuh-ree/ Adjective – Of or relating to the sense of smell.

Sniff the dairy air

Olfactory repugnance

In this, the nose knows

Be Fruitful & Multiply...

Fecund /FECK-und/ Adjective – 1: Fruitful in offspring or vegetation: prolific 2: intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree.

Grapes, heavy and fecund

Bathed in slanting evening sun

Foreshadows sweet wine

Inspiration from on high...

Afflatus • \ah-FLAY-tus\ • noun: a divine imparting of knowledge or power

Aroused afflatus

Brilliant, devine knowledge

God’s breath inspires us

Just a Little Off the Top...

Tonsorial /tawn-SORE-ee-ul/ Adjective – Of or relating to a barber or the work of a barber

The children’s discount

Joel’s tonsorial routine

Not much there to cut

Your Kisses Take Me to Shangri-La...

Oneiric /oh-NYE-rick/ Adjective – Of or relating to dreams: dreamy

The lost horizon

Peaceful oneiric visions

Shangri La, I’m home

Doing Doughnuts

Toroidal /tuh-ROY-dull/ Adjective – Of, relating to, or shaped like a torus or toroid: doughnut-shaped

Yay for doughnut day

Those tasty toroidal treats

A holey pastry

Try to Remember the Kind of September…

Ephemeral /if-FEM-uh-rull/ Adjective

1: lasting a very short time, 2: lasting one day only

Thought interrupted

Ephemeral memory

Dimmed passage of life

Thunder & Lightning - The Veritas Convergence Zone

Sequacious • \suh-KWAY-shuss\ • Adjective - Intellectually servile

Sequacious viewer

Left and right, talking heads shout

Truth is on the outs

Welcome to National Hairball Awareness Day...

A Hairball Haiku

There’s no alarm clock
As good as a cat puking hairballs
Can’t move fast enough!

Speak Like Shakespeare Day...My Relentless Love...

Inexorable /ih-NECKS-uh-ruh-bull/ Adjective: Not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped: relentless.

Thou art glorious

Thy inexorable beauty

Soothes my weary soul

National Haiku Day

A jewel of style

Art of evocative prose

The humble haiku

The Gargoyles Weep...

Gargoyle \GAR-goyl\ Noun – 1a: a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building b: a grotesquely carved figure 2: a person with an ugly face

The pitiless blaze

Engulfs sacred Notre Dame

And the gargoyles weep

A stinker of a sonata...

Opusculum /oh-PUSK-yuh-lum/ Noun – A minor work (as of literature) — usually used in plural.

Joel’s opusculum

Read the Horrible Haikus

Some marvelous dreck

Trees anoint us with beauty...

A tree’s sweet spring tears
Spent blossoms, swirling like snow
Drifts of pink petals

Look. Up in the air!

Concrete \CON-creet\ Noun – 1: a mass formed by concretion or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body 2: a hard strong building material made by mixing a cementing material (such as portland cement) and a mineral aggregate (such as sand and gravel) with sufficient water to cause the cement to set and bind the entire mass 3: a waxy essence of flowers prepared by extraction and evaporation and used in perfumery

Ribbons of concrete

Connected to who knows where

Welcome to Dallas

No Fighting in the War Room...

Zero-Sum \ZEER-oh-SUM\  Adjective – Of, relating to, or being a situation (such as a game or relationship) in which a gain for one side entails a corresponding loss for the other side.

The nuke deterrent

It’s mutual destruction

A zero-sum game

Lumps of Formless Knowledge...

Gormless /GORM-luss/ Adjective - Chiefly British: lacking intelligence: stupid.

Worthless, inert mass

The mob’s gormless intellect

We’re watching “Cop Rock”

Fan of a Summer's Day.....

Bardolater /bar-DUH-lut-ter/ Noun – A person who idolizes Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is the Bard

Plenty of fans for his prose

Beam, Bardolaters

Desk of a slob, mind sharp as a razor...

Ratiocination /rat-ee-oh-suh-NAY-shun / Noun – 1: the process of exact thinking: reasoning 2: a reasoned train of thought

Einstein’s gorgeous mind

Strict ratiocination

Creative physics

Sorry I made you sad, if I made you sad, when you were sad...

Crocodile Tears /CROCK-uh-dial – teers/ Plural Noun – False or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow.

Schultz mea culpa

“Sorry I sold the Sonics”

Mere crocodile tears

Abominable, Heinous. A Snowman by Any Other Name Would be as Scary...

Heinous • \HAY-nuss\ • Adjective – Hatefully or shockingly evil: abominable

Abominable

The synonym of heinous

Yeti’s alias