Don't Be a Dummy

Éminence Grise • \ay-mee-nawns - GREEZ\ • Noun - 1: a confidential agent; especially: one exercising unsuspected or unofficial power 2: a respected authority; specifically: an elder statesman.

See Edgar Bergen

McCarthy’s Éminence Grise

His voice thrown for laughs

Laughter, the Best Medicine

Drollery /DROLE-er-ee/ Noun - 1: something that is droll, especially: a comic picture or drawing 2: the act or an instance of jesting or burlesquing 3: whimsical humor.

Puns are lots of fun

Drollery in small doses

They make my sides ache

Deep in December...

Decembruary /dee-SEM-brew-air-ee/ Noun – The days between Christmas and New Year’s when absolutely nothing gets done. Nor is it expected to.

     Decembruary

     Lazy days at the year’s end

     Nothing’s going on

Tots to Turtles - The Backpack as a Shell

 

Welcome to Random Acts of Poetry Day!

     Kids spill from the bus

     Packs make them look like turtles

     Rushing through the rain

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You Little Stinker!

Redolent \RED-duh-lunt\ Adjective - 1: exuding fragrance: aromatic 2a: full of a specified fragrance: scented b: evocative, suggestive.

 

     “Little Trees”; Axe Spray

     Old cars and teen angst on show

     Redolent device

Billy Goat Bluff

 

Snowpack to the Sea - Happy National Hydropower Day

Silent snow comes down

Giver of power, comfort

Nature’s timeless gift

If you're reading this, chances are that your device is/has been powered by hydropower.

Black Cat Appreciation

Fur dark as midnight

Visits on silent cat paws

Our sweet house panther

Trust Your Cricket Conscience

Stridulation /STRID-juh-lay-shun/ Verb - To make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures -- used especially of male insects (as crickets or grasshoppers).

     As fall approaches

     The cricket’s stridulation

     They fade to silence

Perceived Privilege

Nervy /NURR-vee/ Adjective - 1 archaic: sinewy, strong 2a: showing or expressive of calm courage: bold b: marked by effrontery or presumption: brash 3: excitable, nervous.

     Get outta my way!

     Behold the nervy Karen

     Demands first in line

A Magic Wand of Wood & Graphite

      Share beautiful prose.
      Behold! The mighty pencil.
      Source of words profound.

Celebratory Detritus

Sad birthday balloon
Abandoned in the rafters
Doomed to a slow death

Rumblin', Bumblin', Stumblin'

 

Galumph /gull-LUMF/ Verb - To move in a loud and clumsy way.

     Dancing the foxtrot

     Elephants in the attic

     High-end galumphing

Joyous, Golden Sunshine

Shafts of golden light
Swallows dart through the sun’s rays
Bright chirps, joyous flight

The Smell of the Rain

Petrichor /PET-truh-core/ Noun - A distinctive, earthy, usually pleasant odor that is associated with rainfall, especially when following a warm, dry period, and that arises from a combination of volatile plant oils and geosmin released from the soil into the air and by ozone carried by downdrafts.

     The soft rain’s patter

     Reveals petrichor’s perfume

     My nose celebrates

Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!

Schlammschlacht /SHLAM-shloct/ Noun, German – Mud fight, mud fighting contest.

     How the insults flew

     A nasty breakup explodes

     Schlammschlacht, what a show

“To settle a war, the leaders of the countries involved should meet in a stadium and fight it out with socks filled with horse manure.” WC Fields

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

Suborn \suh-BORN\ Verb – 1: to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing 2: to induce to commit perjury; also: to obtain (perjured testimony) from a witness.

Nattering Nabobs

Rock and Roll and fast cars, bah!

Youth suborned to sin

Counting Shadows on the Wall

 

The shadows we cast
Remain in our hearts and minds
‘Til the end of time

Ennui - A One-Word Poem

      Meh

Ennui /on-WEE/ Noun - A feeling of weariness & dissatisfaction: boredom.

Beautiful Girl - Colors of the Kaleidoscope

She was a rainbow
He never saw her beauty
He was color blind