Month: Nov 2015

Pragmatic

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  1. RARE
    1. busy or active, esp. in a meddlesome way
    2. dogmatic; opinionated
  2. having to do with the affairs of a state or community
  3. concerned with actual practice, everyday affairs, etc., not with theory or speculation; practical
  4. dealing with historical facts, esp. in their causal relationship
  5. of or having to do with philosophical pragmatism

Origin of pragmatic

Classical Latin pragmaticus, skilled in business or law ; from Classical Greek pragmatikos ; from pragma, business, origin, originally a thing done ; from prassein, to do

pragmatic sanction

Read more at http://www.yourdictionary.com/pragmatic#FHOzzqKUvZkTuxsq.99

New wordings

Adveniat regnum tuam

Please relieve me,let me wee for I can’t hang on any more
Underneath the larches I sit and dream when blue
God never made those little green nipples.
Somewhere, my glove I’ll never find again
A ride with me.fast rolls the open bar.
Silent Might.
All niches that on earth do fill
The growl made the pussy cat row to sea.
I can’t live without his weathered love.
The old home town looks ashamed as I fall out of the train
Scarlet widows with long hair
Yesterday,all my rubble seemed so far away.
Phone me when you hit the lonely trail.
Give me soil for my gramp,keep him moaning,
God test ye merry gentlemen[:I can’t wait to see their spiritual intelligence!]
God’s vexed with wealthy gentlemen.:spiritual economics for dummies
It’s not the weaving in Widow’s rooms that peeves me,but my heart hates when I sink with flu.

We all grieve in a hollow sub-marine

Drowned by the bally wardens

Kathryn Braithwaite's photo.

No more than ninety two.

I used to love my father
Until he went away.
They said he’s with the angels
and small girls ought to pray.
And then I loved the cat we had
And all four kittens too…
Until my mother got fed up
and sent them to the zoo.
I said I am disheartened
Life is far too hard…
or else I’m hypersensitive
and must become a bard.
I loved a Spanish waiter.
A young man from Peru.
I loved a lot of others–
No more than ninety two.
That is just an estimate
An average, a norm.
It’s what I told the doctor

When he filled out a form

He said to me,You err,my dear
And I mistook his speech
I thought he meant he loved me.
But he just meant to teach.
What he meant was quantity
is not what we desire..
One man is sufficient
Unless he is a liar.
And in the darkness of the bed
What matters is their smell.
Some men smell like honey..
much more I cannot tell
for though these men pursued me
I had such poor eyesight
I didn’t  see them properly
especially at night..
I was more keen on Wittgenstein.
and whether I am real..
Maybe I’ve gone crackers

And don’t know  I’m surreal

I don’t want any lovers now
for love brought so much pain
I’d rather be a jellied eel
than fall in love again.
But friendliness and welcome
Are what we humans need…
And cats and dogs and willow trees
Which don’t make our hearts bleed.
One man is sufficient
And necessary too..
Without my own sweet husband
whatever would I do?
He listens with his heart and soul
And he is never harsh…
He likes to hear me singing
Across of Southwold Marsh.
He likes to take the ferry boat
Across the River Blythe.
But now I hope the ferryman
will not yet arrive..
We have to cross that river
We have to let life go…
We have to be untied and freed.
We think,but do we know?
In the silvery moonlight,
Time gets her own  way
In the darkness of the night
Time will have her say.
Time has come and gone again
And so the hand descends
So I bid you fond farewell,
We have reached the end.
Oh,wrap me up dear mother
in my winding cloth
Take me in your ancient arms
for I have had enough.
I’ve loved and loved and loved again.
I’ve puzzled and I’ve pained
but now I have decided that

I’ll never love again

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I told him it’d be a  crime and a sin which is an achievement of sorts  .. Satanic,almost
The whip of the iceberg struck my face like a frozen crumpet unbuttered and  unjammed.
If two hearts meet then  don’t use superglue in case it sticks
I was so feverish I was waiting for the dust to prattle and the skittle to boil.
When all is said in fun,where is the boundary of an art?
He spoke a word that he left as a token..love.He wrote it in the phone directory.What does it indicate?He has no pocket calculator?
He literally clawed at my lemon tart.. imagine what followed that..Or perhaps don’t!
You held onto my cart so I took you to the till and bought you for home delivery later on
He makes the sun whine when he’s down and if he’s up, he’s out  on the clown
He put my heart on a pyre for his pleasure
You bored my heart so I went to tsee he River Severn instead of meeting you
Flung over a hedge by a lover,she landed in a meadow full of flowers which made a wonderful change from his glowers.
Your lying heart misled me into a fair ground and I went on the ghost train.What a terror.
Please relieve me,let me wee for I can’t hang on any more
I feel I am gathering dross today and it’s all over my room.Or is that dust?

I don’t want to part your hair.Let it hang loose.

I don’t like your  chocolate moose by the way.Was it the gelatine?

Never blank a man when he frowns

Kakistocracy

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This is new to me but might be useful nowadays

kakistocraThcy (n.) Look up kakistocracy at Dictionary.com1829, “government by the worst element of a society,” coined on analogy of its opposite, aristocracy, from Greek kakistos “worst,” superlative of kakos “bad” (which perhaps is related to the general IE word for “defecate;” see caco-) + -cracy.

Stoical grieving won’t work

Feeling one’s woes takes much courage

Stoical grieving won’t work

Yet if we evade it, disease may invade us.

Feeling sorrows can never be shirked.

That lump in the throat we can’t swallow

The stomach ache there with no cause

We suffer bodily,and indeed horribly

Stoicism does have its flaws.

Let loose  the tears of this sorrow

Wrapppd in the arms of a friend.

For if we don’t do it,later we’ll rue it,

With physical pains without end.

Soldiers are told to be stoic;

But supposing they all refused?

Would war end tomorrow, at the sight of such sorrow?

Ah,humans,we’re surely confused.

We may be from different races

We may be brown,gold or green

But our hearts form a layer,to hold out our care.

We’re all one and always have been.

Throw away stoic behaviour

Throw out melancholia too.

Feel pain when we need to and then it won’t lead to

Dead soldiers and fighting anew.

Stoic

stoic (n.) Look up stoic at Dictionary.com
late 14c., “philosopher of the school founded by Zeno,” from Latin stoicus, from Greek stoikos “pertaining to a member of or the teachings of the school founded by Zeno (c. 334-c. 262 B.C.E.), characterized by austere ethical doctrines,” literally “pertaining to a portico,” from stoa “porch,” specifically Stoa Poikile “the Painted Porch,” the great hall in Athens (decorated with frescoes depicting the Battle of Marathon) where Zeno taught (see stoa). Meaning “person who represses feelings or endures patiently” first recorded 1570s. The adjective is recorded from 1590s in the “repressing feelings” sense, c. 1600 in the philosophical sense. Compare stoical.

Warped Sins of Humor

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My humour is very satanic

I laugh when the cat combs her hair

My humour is overly manic

I get it from the devil know’s where.

Now I am labelled demented;

And  they put me on dangerous drugs.

Apparently folk  felt tormented

Because I gave too many hugs.

I cannot  blunderstand novels;

And I cannot understand signs

And they say that my home is a hovel.

I never knew ’twas a crime.

For I prefer studying logic

And I love those infinite groups.

I like to mend broken gadgets.

Yet it seems I am now in the soup.

I just got out all my screwdrivers;

The frying pan handle fell off.

It’ll save me from spending my fivers.

If it’s not feminine,I don’t give a fluff.

I have to be feminine,clean and be with it;

To recall the Prime Minister’s name.

As for humour,I have to sieve it.

I blunderstand their little games

All ending the same way hic,haec,hoc.huc,

8282959_f520He hectored her hectically but it was bad tactics for a epic romantic.Mind you the gods of the classicsl world were pretty panic inducing so who knows?Being egocentric is usually narcissistic.Sometimes it’s comic and others it’s fantastic.Anyway.,my mind is plastic in your hands.Try to be less frantic,less manic and less pedantic..

Hectic…ic ic ic….

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ETYMOLOGY ONLNE
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hectic 

Many of these words ending in ic come from mediaeval French then from Latin and finally Greek.And to think we are all using these words daily

Adjective
Sense of “feverishly exciting, full of disorganized activity” is from 1904 and was a vogue word at first, according to Fowler, but hectic also was used in Middle English as a noun meaning “feverish desire, consuming passion” (early 15c.). Related: Hecticness.

Eclectic in limericks

Flowers in mall 2Eclectic’s a very fine word

I love it and even feel care.

It might rhyme with dialectic

Or maybe forensic

So here are two more we must air. .

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Eclectical students are rare

Because the tutors are rude and  unfair

They say, concentrate!

And I hesitate

Because my interests are wider than theirs.

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If you just want to get your degree

Then focus on what tutors agree.

But   leaving out   other  topics

Can make one myopic

And most of the world we won’t see.

Today’s word is another Greek derived one:Eclectic from the Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary

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eclectic

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Line breaks: eclec|tic

Pronunciation: /ɪˈklɛktɪk/

Definition of eclectic in English:

adjective

1Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources:universities offering an eclectic mix of courses

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2(Eclectic) 
Philosophy Denoting or belonging to a class of ancient philosophers who did not belong to or found any recognized school of thought but selected doctrines from various schools of thought.

noun

A person who derives ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.

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Derivatives

eclectically

adverb

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eclecticism
Pronunciation: /ɪˈklɛktɪsɪz(ə)m/

noun

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Origin

Late 17th century (as a term in philosophy): from Greek eklektikos, from eklegein ‘pick out’, fromek ‘out’ + legein ‘choose among

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Put me into a matchbox

Cat's ballad

Introverts don’t enjoy chaos

Even when it  almost certainly would pay us

To ignore the dust balls;

Delay washing our smalls.

Ex machina non est Amadeus.

Oscar,my cat

I am a puzzle if  that is all true

For I’m introverted yet chaotic too.

Maybe I’m a new form of life

Beyond struggle and strife.

That’s why my  lips are bright blue.

cat2 alone

Out of the void came this world

As God, from his playpen ,it hurled

He said,I’ve had enough

Of my humans and stuff

Tarsier-Sabah2015My head’s like Munch’s  scream , strangely  swirled.

So now, in the chaos, we’re  alone.

No wonder we hear people groan.

We take holidays in Hades

With tall ,gay ,sweet ladies….

Then into smithereens we are blown.

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Well,it saves paying funeral costs

As our bodies in all directions are tossed.

Put me into a  match box

Wrapped up  in a  toe sock.

And  post me to Liverpool Docks.

Cat alone

Chaos: Encyclopedia Mythica™

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Chaos :The Roman writer Ovid gave Chaos its modern meaning; that of an unordered and formless primordial mass.

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by Ron Leadbetter

Chaos is from the Greek word Khaos, meaning “gaping void”. There are many explanations as to who or what Chaos is, but most theories state that it was the void from which all things developed into a distinctive entity, or in which they existed in a confused and amorphous shape before they were separated into genera. In other words, Chaos is or was “nothingness.” Though some ancient writers thought it was the primary source of all things, other writers tell of Gaia (Earth) being born from Chaos without a mate, along with Eros and Tartarus. Then from Gaia came Uranus (Heaven or Sky) which gave us Heaven and Earth.Chaos has been described as the great void of emptiness within the universe from which Eros came and it was he who gave divine order and also perfected all things. In later times it was written that Chaos was a confused shapeless mass from which the universe was developed into a cosmos, or harmonious order. For instance, Hesiod’s Theogony says that Erebus and Black Night (Nyx) were born of Chaos, and Ovid the Roman writer described Chaos as an unordered and formless primordial mass. The first Metomorphoses reads, “rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named.”

The Roman writer Ovid gave Chaos its modern meaning; that of an unordered and formless primordial mass.

How my heart breaks

Heart of darkness,

Shadowed, unknown.

Heart of wildness,

Destruction zone,

Heart, once sacred,

Not more a home.

Heart of  loving

Now over thrown.

Pity humans,

Not our own.

No society

We’re lost,alone.

Children’s wonder

Christmas blown.

Like the leaves,

El nino’s own.

Heart’s compassion

Make us one.

Lord have mercy

Eleison.

Kyrie

Eleison.

Kyrie

Communion.

Not eloquent

Inaniloquent is a curious word.

Inane and eloquent  both I ‘ve heard

This cunning combination

Unites all the nation

Especially  we who are nerds .

Inanity is still in  much demand

A whole set of actions it spans..

Tween  Cabinet   and cupboard

MP’s  twice cooked have hovered

They hope to be back in demand.

Cover them in chocolate. I say

We’ll eat them all up today.

Eloquent some may be,

When they’re on the TV

But  eat them before they’re manque.

A new word or two

These words are ones I have never used before nor even read them despite all my reading

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inaniloquent

inaniloquent, inaniloquence, inaniloquous 1. Speaking foolishly; full of empty or idle talk. 2. Prone to foolish or empty babbling.
Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2533/4

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Ambiloquy
Doubtful or ambiguous language..

Meaning of “absolve” in the English Dictionary

Seeing that it’s Saturday when Catholics traditionally went to Confession I have got the word ABSOLVE for today10205564-ARGENTINA-CIRCA-1959-stamp-printed-by-Argentina-shows-Pope-Pius-XII-circa-1959-Stock-Photo

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“absolve” in British English

See all translations

absolve verb [T]

UK   /əbˈzɒlv/  US   /-ˈzɑːlv/ formal

› (​especially in ​religion or ​law) to ​free someone from ​guilt, ​blame, or ​responsibility for something:The ​report absolved her from/of all ​blame for the ​accident.The ​priest absolved him (of all his ​sins).
(Definition of absolve from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
 USAGE
Should Pope Pius X11 be absolved from his failure to ask Catholic Bishop’s in Germany in WW2 to condemn the enslavement torture and murder of the Jews?Why should he be absolved? He may  have been absolved in the confessional but ……….
From Merriam Webster
Examples
“A week of staying home from work, absolved of all household duties, waited on hand and foot by your significant other—it’s not a dream. It’s what happens when you have surgery on your foot and can’t walk on it.” — Liz Soares, CentralMaine.com, 4 Oct. 2015
Souls turn white after receiving Absolution.Photo of the starlings by Mike Flemming who discovered they confess their sins every week,,, so listen!
WStarlingfam5“The amnesty program absolves delinquent taxpayers of interest and fines on back taxes owed to the state, as long as those taxes are paid in full.” — Josh Arnett, The McPherson (Kansas) Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2015
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Many words contain “solve”  which is from the Latin solvere
1400-50; late Middle English solven < Latin solvere to loosen, free, release, dissolve

Gambit:the rhymes

How can I find rhymes for gambit?

How can pentameters be iambic?

I am sure to discover

One way or another

But alas the Government has  banned it.

Iambic is as Greek to me,

As to the English is drinking hot tea.

We boil the kettle on the fire.

As we empathise with a liar.

Iambic  is schizophrenic you see

In my case I’m  not Bic  I am Shaeffer

I believe  pens drink ink on a wafer.

For ink is their Saviour

And improves their behaviour

If no plates passed,what the hell is that tray for?

What exactly is a gambit? Oxford dictionary

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gambit
Line breaks: gam¦bit

Pronunciation: /ˈɡambɪt/

Definition of gambit in English:

noun

1An act or remark that is calculated to gain an advantage, especially at the outset of a situation:his resignation was a tactical gambit

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2(In chess) an opening move in which a player makes a sacrifice, typically of a pawn, for thesake of a compensating advantage:he tried the dubious Budapest gambit

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Origin

Mid 17th century: originally gambett, from Italian gambetto, literally ‘tripping up’, from gamba ‘leg’.

Words that rhyme with gambit

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Definition of gambit in:

Mimesis:the verses

A wonderful  new word is mimetic

Unsuitable for the mental diabetic

It makes one seem  scholastic

Without being monastic

In the right voice it may  sound charismatic.

Mimesis is  imitation of a kind

Which Plato and Aristotle defined.

My nieces  are fans

They writes theses when they can

So new words   swim around in their minds.

Do you promise to say mimesis tomorrow?

Or does the idea fill your  head up  with horror?

I agree it is hard

Write it down on a card

Mimesis,mimesis,no worries.

Well,mimesis has had it’s own day

Tomorrow I go out to play.

I will buy myself fruit

And  through the paper I’ll root.

As I roast in a single sun ray

Mimesis:word of my day

Alternative title: imitation

Mimesis, basic theoretical principle in the creation of art. The word is Greek and means “imitation” (though in the sense of “re-presentation” rather than of “copying”). Plato and Aristotle spoke of mimesis as the re-presentation of nature. According to Plato, all artistic creation is a formof imitation: that which really exists (in the “world of ideas”) is a type created by God; the concrete things man perceives in his existence are shadowy representations of this ideal type. Therefore, the painter, the tragedian, and the musician are imitators of an imitation, twice removed from the truth. Aristotle, speaking of tragedy, stressed the point that it was an “imitation of an action”—that of a man falling from a higher to a lower estate. Shakespeare, in Hamlet’s speech to the actors, referred to the purpose of playing as being “…to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature.” Thus, an artist, by skillfully selecting and presenting his material, may purposefully seek to “imitate” the action of life.

Crows on Corcoran Street by Kristina MacGaffin June 2007

Crows on Corcoran Street
Kristina MacGaffin
June 2007

One block long, framed by Ginko trees
Crows croak at each other slowly
Like old men, complaining of age
They pass the time, in annoyance
On my bike, on the way to work
I turn onto this street
And find myself in the Mezzogiorno
For one brief moment each morning
I am transported
An old lady, in her hat and pearls
Sitting up straight
Slowly pedaling
Listening to the cranky old men
Complaining
I smile

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The Real Presence

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When we absent ourselves from  presence in this life

When we dwell more on pictures in our minds

It neither matters if they feed our wish for strife

Or whether they  fill  needs  of better kinds.

We know that wish fulfilment   comes  in  dreams

And also in  our fantasies by day

And anxious worry fills our mind with schemes

Guilt and shame  impede us from our play.

Creative thought requires the loss of self,

And needs our emptiness to  plant its gifts

So throw out  selfish fancies for this wealth

We’ll let ourselves be slow so mind can shift

To waste our days in suffering or false pleasure

Will  lose for us this vital, priceless treasure

Evening fireside

I love to read your poems in the night
And see each sentence frame a new born thought.
I often am in darkness not in light,
Like yours my memories are hardly caught.

The cat sits in patient joy upon her chair
The fire glows golden red ,I watch the smoke.
And wonder why most  older cats still stare
‘Their amber eyes a passionate warmth evoke

The washing gurgles in the old machine
When  all my  winter garments meet the soap.
Is this true life or am I but a dream?
In someone’s mind, perhaps, my image floats.

Nothing is so sure in life as is our death
Enjoy the alternations of your breath

Trepid in verse

I’ve heard of intrepid, like you,

But trepid alone I don’t do.

It sounds  so conceited,

My tongue has got pleated

Trepidation feels like a left brain flu.

It depends on the context,I suppose.

Like weeing or  picking  one’s nose.

It depends who you’re  near

And on your fear.

Be trepid and keep your eyes close.