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Daily Poem 12: Fulminate (The Hanged Man)

With lightning skies above an open field,

Do you lie down in loam or hide beneath

The ash tree planted on the tumulus mound?

Do you take comfort in the soil of life

Or in the grafted branches fed with death?

I risk the tree, to hang in Odin’s wake

And face the fulminations of the wronged—

Of those I buried with Time’s eager spade

To wall them off from memory, to free

The limbs to hold another, while entombed

The dead await this rise to punish me.

So now, with lightning skies above, I let them.

fulminate

\FUL-muh-nayt\ , intransitive verb;

 
1. To issue or utter verbal attacks or censures authoritatively or menacingly.
2. To explode; to detonate.

transitive verb:

1. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures.
2. To cause to explode.
Origin:
Fulminate comes from Latin fulminare, “to strike with lightning,” from fulmen, fulmin-, “a thunderbolt.”

Daily Poem 11: Stormy Petrels

You found a hair: not yours.

The stormy petrels swarm

Around my excuses

And vanish in the calm

When you believe me.

This beautiful painting is thanks to Tammy.  Please check out the websites http://tammygravina.com/wordpress2/www,tammygravina.com/ and http://www.tammygravina.com/ They are linked on the right as well.

stormy petrel

–noun
1. the British storm petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus, of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean.

2. a person who causes or likes trouble or strife.


Daily Poem 10: Fungible (one of my favourites to celebrate ten days without giving up on posting these)

The fungible women who lie in my bed

Have shared sacred ground where others will tread.

fun·gi·ble

[fuhn-juh-buhl]

–adjective Law.
(esp. of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind

Daily Poem 9: Woolgathering

Why’s woolgathering less respected than the other arts?

To have the skill to spin from idleness unicorns, globes,

Grey whales, and vampires deserves (and has received) the praise

Of generations (though of mostly day dreaming children).

We learn about ourselves through what we wish we were and can be…

If only in dreams.

And dinosaurs.

wool·gath·er·ing

[wool-gath-er-ing]

–noun
1. indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
2. gathering of the tufts of wool shed by sheep and caught on bushes.

Daily Poem 8: Dishabille

It’s a diversion strategy to dress in dishabille:

To numb your mind, relax your wits, and then forget to feel.

dishabille

\dis-uh-BEEL\ , noun;

1. The state of being carelessly or partially dressed.
2. Casual or lounging attire.
3. An intentionally careless or casual manner.