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Word: Civilize
Form: Tanka

offering riches
they took away your old gods
their gifts abundant

but under the surface: void.
what riches did they offer?

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Tomorrow’s word: giveaway

Word: Asteroids
Form: Terza Rima

Asteroid Wallowing In Self-Pity - a Terza Rima Sonnet Elegy

I am circling, careening through space
Ever wandering, ever alone.
And I know that I am a disgrace!

Don’t you know that I really bemoan
My flintiness so cold, so gruff?
I am but a splinter of stone.

I get nothing but hate and rebuff.
I’m no planet, so sun and no star,
Just an asteroid - never enough.

And I’m longing to be what they are!
Indwelt or just shining with grace!
I pine over them just from afar.

I’m a frigid and dead-hearted block
Just an asteroid. Just a rock.

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Stay tuned for tomorrow’s word: Civilize

Word: Aerobics
Form: Limerick

There was a young man from Briggs,
Who quite hated aerobics.
He was rather fat
But a real nice lad.
He preferred to write cheap limericks.

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Um, well, yes. The aerobics left me rather uninspired. Sorry.
Another day, another word: Asteroids!

Word: Hummed
Form: Ballad

The moon reflects on white-washed dunes
The sea gleams silver in the night
A voice drifts over, ancient tunes
Hummed by an immemorial wight.

A face, all wrinkled, green with moss
Peeks out of the abyssal sea
Its tune is heavy with old loss,
With pain, with longing and a plea.

The creature sings ’bout love long gone
A promise that was made in vain,
About a game where it’s the pawn
Where treason called a horrid bane.

A hint of stories far beyond
All mortal grasp or sympathy.
I cannot bear it - and I don’t,
I turn and run, I have to flee!

I leave the nightly dunes behind
get back into my lively flow.
The stories that the song entwined
Are gone now. I will never know.

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Tomorrow’s word: aerobics

Word: Videophone
Form: Monorhyme

How do I write ’bout a videophone?
The thought surely frightens me down to the bone!
I’m sitting here, pondering, feeling alone…
I sweat and I whine, I moan and I groan.

How do I write ’bout a videophone?
I bet you’d have told me, had you only known.
But no, your brain works as well as a stone -
no word, no hint ’bout my videophone.

How do I write ’bout a videophone?
What did I do that I have to atone?
I know what to do: I will just postpone
This horrible piece ’bout a videophone.

Word: corroborate
Form: Brevette (Click Brevette down in the second chart)

Jealousy
c o r r o b o r a t e s
betrayal

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Interesting poetic form. Never heard of it before. There are more poetic forms to be found here. It is interesting what happens when you just set out to use a random poetic form you never tried your hand at before.  Just to see what happens. Language moves more things than we’re aware of or, as a friend of mine recently said: “Language is the level where miracles can come true”.

And tomorrow’s word is videophone.

How’s that for a challenge? First italian potatoe dumplings, now videophone. Thanks, random word generator.

Word: gnocchi
Form: Sonnet Parody

Sonnet on Gnocchi

Shall I compare thee to a potatoe dumpling?
Thou art more dignified and smooth!
Rough graters grind the spuds so darling
And fine farina will be made to soothe

My ailing tongue. Oh masterpiece
Of culinary art and skill!
And with a spicy sauce of cheese,
I can see paradise uphill!

Albeit I know, you have to bear
The boiling orcus in the pot
Until, at least, you take me there
Mouth-watering, delicious, hot.

So long as I in gourmet haven dwell,
So long you bind me with your sapid spell.

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Oh, and in case you wonder why this sounds familiar… click to read the original (more…)

Word: Comfort
Form: Triolet

There is no comfort for me.
No safe haven, nowhere to go.
There is no comfort for me.
I’m choking and writhing beneath the debris,
I fight to untangle myself from this woe -
There is no comfort for me.
No safe haven, nowhere to go.

Tomorrow’s Word: Gnocchi
(um… )

Word: Penguin
Form: nursery rhyme

Little penguin sat on a floe
Little penguin sang “Here we go!”
On the floe he danced the jive.
When he was done, he took a dive.
Caught some fish in the water below
then climbed back onto his floe.

Word: Purgative
Form: diamond poem

purgative

cleansing cathartic

liberating redemptive tense fraught

strained fierce inhibited

costive