Interloper ... Fuzzy

Today’s word is “interloper” ... in-ter-loh-per ... a person who interferes or meddles in the affairs of other. (Dictionary.com)

Fuzzy
Why do cats crave,
All of your papers?
And think that your yarn
Is saved for their capers?

These small interlopers,
Cause chaos galore,
But their antics and heart,
Are for us to adore.

Anne Selleck
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Diapason ... Flagrant

Today’s word is “diapason” ... dahy-uh-pey-zuhn ... Music. a full, rich outpouring of melodious sound. (Dictionary.com)

Flagrant

Fall leaves breathe their last.

Visual diapason,

Conducted by God.

Anne Selleck

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Applesauce ... Circles

Today’s word is “applesauce” ... ap-uhl-saws ...Slang. nonsense; bunk. (Dictionary.com)

Circles

It’s just applesauce,

Moving goalposts around

In an insane game.

Anne Selleck

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Gnathonic ... Phased

Today’s word is “gnathonic” ... na-thon-ik ... sycophantic; fawning. (Dictionary.com)

Phased

The moon follows us,

With gnathonic persistence.

Watching night and day.

Anne Selleck

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Blellum ... Loud

Today’s word is “blellum” ... blel-uhm ... Scot. Obsolete. an idle, indiscreet talker. (Dictionary.com)

Loud

She’s a blellum sure,

Wasting everybody’s time.

Unnerving falsehoods.

Anne Selleck

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Toyetic ... Framed

Today’s word is “toyetic” ... taw-yet-ik ... (of a character or object from a movie, TV show, etc.) potentially marketable as a toy: a toyetic superhero.

Framed

All the little cats and dogs,

Robots, dolls and fairies,

Talking vegies and cowboys,

Even some strawberries.

Thousands are toyetic,

Ready for their fame,

Soon in every household,

We will know their names.

Too bad those animations,

Know nothing of their state,

As they move about the screen,

There’s no such thing as fate.

Anne Selleck

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Sibilate ... Certainly

Today’s word is “sibilate” ... sib-uh-leyt ... to utter or pronounce with a hissing sound. (Dictionary.com)

Certainly

Do snakes sibilate?

Slinking through grass conversing,

Guessing at answers?

Anne Selleck

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Legerdemain ... Monarch

Today’s word is “legerdemain” ... lej-er-duh-meyn ... trickery; deception. (Dictionary.com)

Monarch

Metamorphosis ...

What legerdemain is this?

Chrysalis to butterfly!

Anne Selleck

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Polychromatic ... Quirky

Today’s word is “polychromatic” ... pol-ee-kroh-mat-ik ... having or exhibiting a variety of colors. (Dictionary.com)

Quirky

“Was the world in black and white,

When you were a child?”

My son asked of me one day,

“The T.V. was,” I smiled.

When did polychromatic life,

Raise it’s joyful head,

As surprisingly it came,

From beginnings dark and dead?

What was the strange necessity,

Of brillant, vibrant hues,

When nature was selecting,

From the tiny and the few?

We are the amazed recipients,

Of all this gladsime riot,

Which sings in every corner,

Yet remains completely quiet.

Anne Selleck

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Coup de foudre ... Magic

Today’s word is “coup de foudre” ... kooduh foo-druh ... love at first sight. (Dictionary.com)

Magic 

How does it happen?

Coupe de foudre; this surprise?

Right time and right place?

Anne Selleck

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Dandle ... Flicker

Today’s word is “dandle” ... dan-dl ... to move (a baby, child, etc.) lightly up and down, as on one’s knee or on one’s arms. (Dictionary.com)

Flicker

Yesterday’s infant, 

Dandled on the knee of time,

Soon sighs in awe.

Anne Selleck

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Psittacine ... Bored

Today’s word is “psittacine” ... sit-uh-sahyn ... of or relating to parrots. (Dictionary.com)

Bored

Some silly stunted souls,

Learn when they’re in school,

To repeat the reacher’s thoughts,

Like a psittacine-like fool.

Required to make the grade,

They swallow every theory,

Then feel so oppressed,

Put-upon and weary.

When the classes are all over,

Thinking’s still a chore,

And no new ideas entertain,

They’ve closed every open door.

Anne Selleck

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Johnsonese ... What?

Today’s word is “Johnsonese” ... Jon-suh-neez ... a literary style characterized by rhetorically balanced, often pompous phraseology and an excessively Latinate vocabulary: so called from the style of writing practiced by Samuel Johnson.

What?

Those politicians,

Speech as clear as Johnsonese,

And as relevant.

Anne Selleck

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Aspersion ... Sift

Today’s word is “aspersion” .... uh-spur-zhuhn ... a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander. (Dictionary.com)

Sift
Aspersions flying,
We are caught in the middle,
Searching for the truth.

Anne Selleck
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Tunesmith ...

Today’s word is “tunesmith” ... toon-smith ... Informal. a person who composes popular music or songs. (Dictionary.com)

Sing
There are many tunesmiths,
Who write our songs of love,
They play by ear or knowing,
As if from above.

But nature’s songsters sing,
With no muse at all,
As they fill the earth with joy,
And entertain us all.

Anne Selleck
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Piacular ... Ubiquitous

Today’s word is “piacular” ... pahy-ak-yuh-ler ... expiatory; atoning (Dictionary.com)

Ubiquitous 

None of us excels,

We need piacular help.

It has been given.

Anne Selleck

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Interregnum ... Fade

Today’s word is “interregnum” ... in-ter-reg-nuhm ... any period of freedom from usual authority; any pause or interruption in continuity. (Dictionary.com)

Fade

The interregnum,

Between summer and red leaves ...
Beautiful sadness.

Anne Selleck

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Exoteric ... Theater

Today’s word is “exoteric” ... ek-suh-ter-ik ... popular; simple; commonplace; pertaining to the outside; exterior; external. (Dictionary.com)

Theater

What’s exoteric,

May be in us after all.

A sharp projection.

Anne Selleck

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Reticulation ... Slither

Today’s word is “reticulation” ... ri-tik-yuh-ley-shuhn ... a netlike formation, arrangement or appearance; network. (Dictionary.com)

Slither

Of all reticulations,

The boa’s is alive,

Sliding through the grass,

In a snakey sort of line.

He may not appreciate,

The pattern of his skin,

But then, it’s hard to see it,

Since he is within!

Anne Selleck

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Atweel ... Brrr

Today’s word is “atweel” ... uh-tweel ... surely. (Dictionary.com)

Brrr

Squirrels are pinning,

For warmer days,

With happier sunbeams,

In which to play.

As shadows lengthen,

Atweel, it is true,

The trees will still grow,

The sky remain blue,

But leaves will be changing,

The chill will set in,

And we’ll sit by the fire,

Blankets up to our chins.

Anne Selleck

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Tautology ... Flight

Today’s word is “tautology”... taw-tol-uh-jee ... needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness. (Dictionary.com)

Flight

Over and over,

They fight and they fight,

Their tautology seems,

To go on all night.

There’s never a break,

As they spar and yell,

They’ll never stop,

(They are both unwell!)

The need to be right,

Is their diasease,

Their mode of dissent,

Fills the rest with unease.

Quiet please! Quiet!

Is all I can say,

Take all your crazy,

And go far away!

Anne Selleck

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Sweeting ... Set

Today’s word is “sweeting” ... swee-ting ... a sweet variety of apple. (Dictionary.com)

Set

Round as a sweeting,

The red sun sinks slowly down,

Drowning in silence.

Anne Selleck

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Caboshed ... Ubiquitous

Today’s word is “caboshed” ... kuh-bosht ... Heraldry. (Of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck. (Dictionary.com)

Ubiquitous 
The art is flat, caboshed,
It’s sculpted broad and fine,
It’s clay and multicolored tiles,
It’s on the table where you dine.

It’s curling stairs upclimbing,
It’s saints pressed into glass,
It floats on rolling ocean waves,
And stuns framed in the mass.

In every corner of this world,
Art is placed in common spaces,
Raising souls from common hours,
Inspiring with special graces.

Anne Selleck
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Locavore ... Mmm

Today’s word is “locavore” ... loh-kuh-vawr ... a person who makes an effort to eat food that is grown, raised, or produced locally, usually within 100 miles of home. (Dictionary.com)

Mmm

A locavore knows,

Food delight is close at hand,

Taste the amazing!

Anne Selleck

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Cyclopean ... Stare

Today’s word is “Cyclopean” ... sahy-kluh-pee-uhn ... gigantic; vast. (Dictionary.com)

Stare

Each new thing that comes,

Seems Cyclopean at first.

Then we chip away.

Anne Selleck

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Claddagh ... Trust

Today’s word is “Claddagh” ... klah-duh ...  a ring in the form of two hands clasping a crowned heart, given in friendship or love. (Dictionary.com)

Trust

Little treasures all around,

Open eyes will see,

Nature’s gifts, complexity,

God’s gift, for us to be.

As simple as a claddagh,

Or twisted like a chain,

Butterflies and daisies,

And DNA remain.

Even little children,

See obvious design,

Unlike the wisest of us,

Who refuse and then opine.

Anne Selleck

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Scry ... Peer

Today’s word is “scry” ... skrahy ... to use divination to discover hidden knowledge or future events, especially by means of crystal ball. (Dictionary.com)

Peer

Maybe we can scry,

What we shall become in time.

There are tea leaves too.

Anne Selleck

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Nepenthe ... Peace

Today’s word is “nepenthe” ... ni-pen-thee ... anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness, especially of sorrow or trouble. (Dictionary.com)

Peace

Shut your eyes and breathe,

Let the nepenthe cover.

Feel the weight of grace.

Anne Selleck

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Plage ... Happy

Today’s word is “plage” ... plahzh ... a sandy bathing beach at a seashore resort. (Dictionary.com)

Happy

Humid lake air,

Crashing waves,

Seagull cry,

Let us stay!

Along the plage,

Feet are wading,

Even though,

Summer’s fading.

Soon memories,

Will be at hand,

Of sunny shores,

And moments, grand!

Anne Selleck

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Ultradian ... Hours

Today’s word is “ultradian” ... uhl-trey-dee-uhn ... of or relating to a biorhythm having a period of less than 24 hours. (Dictionary.com)

Hours

Eat and take a nap.

I am an ultradian.

Morning, noon and night.

Anne Selleck

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