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Hawkman
07-27-2010, 06:18 AM
Greetings fellow scribes. I hereby challenge you, one and all, to write a one word poem. The rule is simple. No hyphenated words,, that's cheating. German compound nouns are allowed though :D
The idea is that you choose a word which you find intrinsically poetical, musical or expressive. Real words only though please.
I'll kick you off:
Antiphrasis.
There, easy isn't it. Your turn now.
H
MarkBastable
07-27-2010, 06:30 AM
Gr
The idea is that you choose a word which you find intrinsically poetical, musical or expressive. Real words only though please.
Logorrhoea.
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 06:34 AM
Yeah, that's a good one! :D
hillwalker
07-27-2010, 06:44 AM
Serendipity
(although I always read this as a 'dip' in 'serenity' which rather defeats the object) :-)
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 07:23 AM
Then I guess it's a perfect one word poem, hill, because it tells a story, even if only to you :D
autolycus
07-27-2010, 07:24 AM
amanuensis
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 08:17 AM
Good one autolycus!
Here's another one.
Manumission
MarkBastable
07-27-2010, 08:29 AM
Good one autolycus!
Here's another one.
Manumission
Since I was about twelve (Caecilius est mercator. Agrippina Caeciliusque in atrio sunt.*) I've been looking for a valid opportunity to use the word manumission. Damn. I should have got in there first.
*Or something.
Lokasenna
07-27-2010, 08:40 AM
Are we allowed words in foreign languages? I've always thought the Old Norse word for 'poem' was in itself extremely poetical:
Kvæði
It should be pronounced something like: K-vai-thee. I love the way it rolls off the tongue, that first sharp sound rolling seamlessly into that wonderful long, silky vowel that modulates into the 'th' sound and then back to a vowel again.
Used to make me shiver every time I said it.
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 09:01 AM
I will allow Old English, Middle English and Norse :D
dafydd manton
07-27-2010, 09:15 AM
How about;
Kinsfolk.
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 09:58 AM
Since I was about twelve (Caecilius est mercator. Agrippina Caeciliusque in atrio sunt.*) I've been looking for a valid opportunity to use the word manumission. Damn. I should have got in there first.
*Or something.
What I want to know is what Agrippina is doing in Caecilius' back room! Does Caesar know?
Dafydd, sounds like a good one to me.
how about:
Quinquagenarian
dafydd manton
07-27-2010, 10:31 AM
Sombrus
DanielBenoit
07-27-2010, 10:53 AM
Synecdoche
dafydd manton
07-27-2010, 10:56 AM
Militaerkraftfahrzeuginstandsetzungsreparaturwerks tatt
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 12:09 PM
Dafydd bach,
I'm afraid that although I said German compound nouns were OK I have no way of verifying this one and if the gap is not a typo then it's 2 words so I'm afraid it has to be disqualified :D
Daniel, good one.
H
hillwalker
07-27-2010, 12:12 PM
Plagioclase
dafydd manton
07-27-2010, 12:19 PM
Curses! Sulks Quietly (well,noisily, then!) Oddly enough, it isn't a typo, I've just tried to edit it, and no matter what I do, it puts that gap in. A Pox upon't! It actually is a genuine word, meaning Military vehicle servicing section, and it used to be proudly emblazoned above the relevant door at RAF Gatow, Berlin, in the 70s and 80s.
Is that enough of a grovel, are you going to risk a grown man crying?
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 12:27 PM
Curses! Sulks Quietly (well,noisily, then!) Oddly enough, it isn't a typo, I've just tried to edit it, and no matter what I do, it puts that gap in. A Pox upon't! It actually is a genuine word, meaning Military vehicle servicing section, and it used to be proudly emblazoned above the relevant door at RAF Gatow, Berlin, in the 70s and 80s.
Is that enough of a grovel, are you going to risk a grown man crying?
I always mistrust words with any kind of military genesis, they are, more often than not, acronyms like Cincfleet, or Cincpac and as such should be disqualified...
I liked sombrous though. H
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 12:28 PM
Plagioclase
this one puts another slant on the proceedings.
dafydd manton
07-27-2010, 12:34 PM
Right! You asked for it!
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwrndrobwllllantisiliog ogogoch!
A poetic little village! (Actually, it's a touristy dump, but don't tell anyone!)
hillwalker
07-27-2010, 12:35 PM
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisilio gogogoch!
I assume the typo was unintentional
dafydd manton
07-27-2010, 12:38 PM
I assume the typo was unintentional
Oh ********!!!!! Hoist with my own petard. Diolch, bach!!
All right, let's be serious
immortalize.
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 12:43 PM
Antidisestablishmentarianism it is at least English :D
dafydd manton
07-27-2010, 12:50 PM
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 12:54 PM
Now that's worthless :D
dafydd manton
07-27-2010, 12:55 PM
Et tu Brute!!! I know, I couldn't resist it.
One word that I really do find poetic, on a serious note.
Jacaranda
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 12:56 PM
This one always makes me think of Tom Sharp. Have you read Riotus Assembly?
MarkBastable
07-27-2010, 01:09 PM
Schentectady.
I don't know why, but that has always struck me as am emotionally complex placename.
nandakishore
07-27-2010, 01:29 PM
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Scheherazade
07-27-2010, 01:36 PM
Why does poetry have to contain such unusual, hardly-ever-used words? Everyday words won't do?
Like "lullaby"?
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 01:42 PM
Any word you find poetic is good for me. Nothing wrong with lullaby.
How about Fellowship
DanielBenoit
07-27-2010, 01:42 PM
Summer
(I hate it quite frankly, I just love the sound of the word.)
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
I knew that was coming. I'm reading Love Labour's Lost right now.
Lokasenna
07-27-2010, 02:01 PM
How about:
Moiraine
It's a word for all that rocky mess that gathers at the end of a glacier, but it's still a beautiful word.
Alexander III
07-27-2010, 02:10 PM
Infant
Asphara
07-27-2010, 02:23 PM
Autoteolic.
hillwalker
07-27-2010, 02:24 PM
Kiss.....
Hawkman
07-27-2010, 02:34 PM
Fattrels
hillwalker
07-27-2010, 02:49 PM
Correolis
breathtest
07-27-2010, 03:52 PM
riotous
Hawkman
07-28-2010, 06:58 AM
Mellifluous
MarkBastable
07-28-2010, 07:24 AM
Why does poetry have to contain such unusual, hardly-ever-used words? Everyday words won't do?
Like "lullaby"?
What's unusual about lullaby?
If you Google lullaby, you get about eleven million hits.
As a comparison, duvet - a pretty mainstream word, I think - gets a little over six million, as does comforter. Bedstead falls short of a million, and eiderdown doesn't even hit two hundred thousand.
I'm starting to enjoy this now. It's becoming a highly addictive vehicle for procrastination.
Mattress - twenty million, making it twice as common as lullaby.
Pillow case scores a mere three million, and nursery rhyme gets a paltry one point two million. Snoring racks up fewer than four million.
I was talking to a journalist who reviews music for a national daily in the UK, and he was carping about Elvis Costello using the word porcelain in a song. His argument was that it was a wilfully obscure word that EC had only used because it rhymed.
I was shocked. This educated literate guy had simply never come across the word before - and he found it hard to believe that anyone else had. But I think this was just an instance of random distribution - it just so happened that my friend and the word porcelain had never coincided.
So maybe that's just the case with you, Sche, and lullaby - you've simply not encountered it. And as English is not your first language, why should you have, really?
Hawkman
07-28-2010, 07:36 AM
Hi Mark,
Whilst I enjoyed your dissertaion on the poularity of certain words, I don't think you quite grasped the point of Scher's remark. It is not a claim that Lullaby is an unusual word, it is the opposite in fact. If you take a peak at some of the words posted on the preceding page I think you'll get the point :D
MarkBastable
07-28-2010, 07:50 AM
Really? Oh, well. Sorry. In that case, ignore that entire post.
Hi Mark,
Whilst I enjoyed your dissertaion on the poularity of certain words, I don't think you quite grasped the point of Scher's remark. It is not a claim that Lullaby is an unusual word, it is the opposite in fact. If you take a peak at some of the words posted on the preceding page I think you'll get the point :D
autolycus
07-28-2010, 01:06 PM
pnictogen
Aryaa
07-28-2010, 01:44 PM
ethereal
---------------------
.....
aliengirl
07-28-2010, 02:39 PM
Waves
dafydd manton
07-28-2010, 04:50 PM
paralysis
hillwalker
07-28-2010, 04:52 PM
minimalism
Hawkman
07-28-2010, 05:52 PM
Messuage
Scheherazade
07-28-2010, 06:16 PM
Theodicy!
dafydd manton
07-28-2010, 06:17 PM
Panic!
Hawkman
07-28-2010, 06:31 PM
Paralysis and panic seem to go together, do I detect a theme? :D
Messiah
Aryaa
07-28-2010, 10:55 PM
doppelganger
___________________
.....
adityasam
07-29-2010, 08:24 AM
Idiosyncrasies
Aryaa
07-29-2010, 08:50 AM
onomatopoeia
autolycus
07-29-2010, 10:09 AM
I know one that will give you (possibly) the longest poem ever:
Mahabharata
Aryaa
07-29-2010, 10:19 AM
yes ...Mahabharata also has a beautiful story and excellent philosophy of life 'Geeta' explained in it.
Paradise.
One Gallant
07-29-2010, 10:29 AM
Noctivagant
dafydd manton
07-29-2010, 10:59 AM
somnambulist
Hawkman
07-29-2010, 11:43 AM
Perihelion
dafydd manton
07-29-2010, 11:45 AM
Am I allowed "Mabinogion"?
Hawkman
07-29-2010, 11:47 AM
Yes you are and it's a good one.
adityasam
07-29-2010, 12:53 PM
Quiver
Aryaa
07-29-2010, 03:08 PM
misanthrope
breathtest
07-29-2010, 04:47 PM
cacophony
tailor STATELY
07-29-2010, 07:25 PM
Ululation
autolycus
07-29-2010, 10:00 PM
calligraphy
krymsonkyng
07-30-2010, 06:18 AM
Blunt.
dafydd manton
07-30-2010, 06:44 AM
susurration
Hawkman
07-30-2010, 08:22 AM
Whiskey
Aryaa
07-30-2010, 09:23 AM
Immemorial
autolycus
07-30-2010, 10:27 AM
calabash
Scheherazade
08-02-2010, 07:03 AM
Charlatan
Scheherazade
08-03-2010, 08:37 AM
Languid
munkinhead
08-04-2010, 03:19 PM
prestidigitation
aliengirl
08-05-2010, 06:07 AM
Ghazal
Jerrybaldy
08-05-2010, 06:42 PM
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Somebody had to.
munkinhead
08-05-2010, 11:19 PM
galactosamine
symphony
08-06-2010, 08:49 PM
...Mannequin...
blank|verse
08-07-2010, 07:40 AM
k l a w n o o m
munkinhead
08-09-2010, 11:51 PM
recompense
Hawkman
08-10-2010, 05:17 AM
Metastasis
Bar22do
08-10-2010, 08:58 AM
unsealing...
munkinhead
08-11-2010, 11:10 PM
preternatural
kittypaws
08-11-2010, 11:45 PM
lavenous
munkinhead
08-12-2010, 09:35 AM
undulate
krymsonkyng
08-12-2010, 01:33 PM
Sibilant
Scheherazade
08-12-2010, 01:38 PM
Nightmare
Hawkman
08-12-2010, 02:12 PM
Primordial
snowdrop17
08-12-2010, 02:38 PM
skylark
munkinhead
08-12-2010, 04:05 PM
periwinkle
munkinhead
08-13-2010, 10:28 PM
obstreperous
munkinhead
08-14-2010, 10:15 AM
pedantic
.Kafka
08-14-2010, 06:26 PM
alone?
fetish
08-14-2010, 06:38 PM
spruce
aliengirl
08-15-2010, 12:48 PM
streamline
Hawkman
08-15-2010, 06:13 PM
Glaucous
Dark Muse
08-17-2010, 05:32 PM
Somberly
(this is what spell check constantly tries to tell me my name should be when I write e-mails. Ironicly it really is quite suiting and I rather like the sound of it)
dafydd manton
08-17-2010, 05:36 PM
egalitarian......
Dark Muse
08-17-2010, 05:44 PM
Athame
aliengirl
08-18-2010, 02:17 PM
Zephyr
dafydd manton
08-18-2010, 03:10 PM
Excalibur
Hawkman
08-18-2010, 07:01 PM
Paroxysm
dafydd manton
08-18-2010, 07:07 PM
unrequited
Scheherazade
08-18-2010, 07:20 PM
Smoker
Hawkman
08-18-2010, 07:40 PM
Seems we've got a four verse poem with:
Didactic
Paroxysm
Unrequited
Smoker
Dark Muse
08-19-2010, 01:09 AM
Pandemonium
dafydd manton
08-19-2010, 01:52 AM
s.s.s.s.s.stammer
tailor STATELY
08-20-2010, 11:21 PM
@ hack: ("in de fat I gable" ? [lol])
imbecilic.............. [I'm be cili, c?]
snowdrop17
08-21-2010, 01:54 PM
anthropocentric
dafydd manton
08-21-2010, 01:57 PM
cynical
lacadalet_
08-22-2010, 06:41 AM
veal-expressed
aliengirl
08-22-2010, 01:48 PM
exotic
neilgee
08-22-2010, 02:35 PM
erotic
lacadalet_
08-25-2010, 01:12 PM
skycrossing
Hawkman
08-25-2010, 01:37 PM
skycrossing
I hate to point this out but hyphenated and made up words don't count!
Enchantment
miyako73
08-25-2010, 02:15 PM
devilries
Hawkman
08-29-2010, 07:39 AM
Ravenning
Dark Muse
09-26-2010, 04:11 PM
Decadent
munkinhead
09-29-2010, 07:17 PM
boreal
aliengirl
09-30-2010, 02:16 PM
Forgiveness
iamnobody
09-30-2010, 10:08 PM
Arete
Scheherazade
10-05-2010, 12:17 PM
Defiance!
Hawkman
10-05-2010, 12:22 PM
Execution
zoolane
10-05-2010, 12:25 PM
lethal
Dark Muse
10-05-2010, 01:31 PM
Paramour
Delta40
10-05-2010, 07:23 PM
regret
iamnobody
10-05-2010, 07:48 PM
eudimonia
symphony
10-05-2010, 11:00 PM
...Thoughtosphere...
Pensive
10-06-2010, 09:53 AM
Serendipity.
aliengirl
10-13-2010, 01:27 PM
serenity
gigglez
10-13-2010, 01:44 PM
supernatural
Scheherazade
11-06-2010, 05:28 PM
Creep
Silas Thorne
11-07-2010, 01:54 AM
Bugger
Jassy Melson
11-07-2010, 11:08 PM
why
.
.
aliengirl
11-08-2010, 02:11 PM
unrequited
Scheherazade
11-08-2010, 02:16 PM
limit
hoope
11-08-2010, 02:30 PM
Waiting
aliengirl
11-13-2010, 02:13 PM
Paradise
zoolane
11-13-2010, 03:48 PM
Broken
Delta40
11-13-2010, 05:02 PM
Metamorphosis
Hawkman
11-14-2010, 04:27 AM
Prelapsarian
JuniperWoolf
12-03-2010, 03:55 AM
What?
(It could be meaning so many things)
Dark Muse
12-03-2010, 03:58 AM
Everlasting
Silas Thorne
12-03-2010, 04:11 AM
...seal
Hawkman
12-03-2010, 09:08 AM
Creep...
_Shannon_
12-05-2010, 11:40 PM
Incessantly.
moonbird
12-13-2010, 07:43 PM
Delirium.
Silas Thorne
12-16-2010, 11:22 PM
**** (The mystery of this poem is untransmittable)
Dodo25
12-16-2010, 11:25 PM
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
symphony
12-27-2010, 05:40 PM
Rhythmania
symphony
12-27-2010, 05:42 PM
Joy.
Because I said so.
aliengirl
01-01-2011, 05:43 AM
Harmony
AlfredtheGreat
01-01-2011, 06:30 AM
****storm
MystyrMystyry
01-01-2011, 10:54 AM
jiklodjuitchrunaxyxnjofernsoopuqdfethordroglifuxes jimbodfingbaxgadrojajadinomyxy
AlfredtheGreat
01-02-2011, 05:12 AM
Yes..
weltanschauung
01-02-2011, 09:43 AM
shivaya
AlfredtheGreat
01-02-2011, 10:41 PM
Mother****er
zoolane
01-06-2011, 05:19 PM
punch
JuniperWoolf
01-07-2011, 05:49 AM
**** (The mystery of this poem is untransmittable)
Good one.
Big Dante
01-07-2011, 06:28 AM
Mushrooms
Jerrybaldy
01-07-2011, 08:57 AM
Bumswizzled
symphony
02-05-2011, 06:31 PM
Saudades
Yorick
02-07-2011, 04:48 AM
Sinusoid
Dark Muse
04-28-2011, 02:51 AM
Willow
aliengirl
05-05-2011, 06:20 AM
Darkness
Jaked
05-06-2011, 08:55 AM
credulity
Hawkman
06-06-2011, 05:36 AM
Doolally
intoxicatedsoul
06-06-2011, 09:12 PM
erase
Bar22do
06-07-2011, 02:56 AM
dupery
Hawkman
06-07-2011, 11:15 AM
Enchantress
aliengirl
06-08-2011, 11:50 AM
Innocence
doingitagain
06-09-2011, 01:04 AM
All
(my one word poem, All, was too short: The message you have entered is too short, so this is to help it along)
(PRK)ONTHERUN
06-15-2011, 11:07 PM
love
simple yet effective :)
Dr.reid_16
07-01-2011, 02:19 PM
deceptive
V.Jayalakshmi
07-05-2011, 12:06 PM
fillip
Run as fast as your thoughts.:) My own quote.
Twota
07-06-2011, 07:08 AM
Poetry
Beat that!
tailor STATELY
07-06-2011, 09:05 PM
in-tim-i-date: where two earthworms might meet socially & one predominates
Hawkman
09-19-2011, 06:51 AM
Malfeasance
Cunninglinguist
09-19-2011, 07:09 AM
awordisbutastringofletterswithnospacesorpunctuatio n
renukakkar2004
09-19-2011, 12:53 PM
mind if i join :)
smiles
Hawkman
09-20-2011, 09:59 AM
Welcome
Pensive
09-22-2011, 05:53 PM
serendipity.
aliengirl
09-27-2011, 11:02 AM
Memories
tailor STATELY
09-27-2011, 05:25 PM
Fugue.................... note: does not rhyme with segue
uktrayf
09-29-2011, 08:51 PM
This thread is really fun to read through... So much meaning in just a word!
mine:
Inadequate.
cafolini
09-29-2011, 11:04 PM
Panda
Jakeb
10-05-2011, 09:16 AM
virga
Sionn Harrow
10-05-2011, 10:14 AM
catharsis.
Hawkman
10-05-2011, 10:27 AM
Revenant
blank|verse
10-17-2011, 11:30 AM
woman woman woman woman woman
woman woman woman woman woman
woman woman woman woman woman
woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .woman
woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .woman
woman . . . . . woman . . . . .woman
woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .woman
woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .woman
woman woman woman woman woman
woman woman woman woman woman
woman woman woman woman woman
Hawkman
11-01-2011, 03:18 PM
Antiochene
firefangled
11-01-2011, 10:17 PM
m
e
a
n
d
e
r
i
n
g
firefangled
11-01-2011, 10:32 PM
a
pro
pos
Hawkman
11-21-2011, 06:07 PM
Sparrowhawk
deryk
11-21-2011, 06:30 PM
hackn e e d
Pensive
11-22-2011, 01:13 PM
Scapegoat.
cacian
11-26-2011, 04:22 AM
SuB
Li
MiNaL!
aliengirl
11-27-2011, 09:32 AM
wondrous
Pensive
12-05-2011, 09:27 AM
Covert.
DieterM
12-05-2011, 12:26 PM
omphaloskepsis
irinmisfit92
12-05-2011, 01:13 PM
fffffffffffffffff ffffffffffff
ooooo ooooo
rrrrrrrr rrrrrrrr
llllllllllll lllllllllllll
ooooo ooooo
rrrrrrrr rrrrrrr
nnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnn
Waldo
12-27-2011, 06:05 PM
horizon
aliengirl
12-30-2011, 11:00 AM
horizon
What a coincidence! I was thinking of the same word just as I opened the thread. Okay, here is another-
frontier
cacian
12-30-2011, 12:48 PM
StOrMs!!
Hawkman
02-03-2012, 06:09 AM
Shibboleth
phoenixtears
02-06-2012, 09:36 AM
Bliss
cacian
03-20-2012, 03:42 AM
capital!
tailor STATELY
05-26-2012, 04:20 AM
inib-ineb-inebri-uh............... drunk
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Hawkman
06-12-2012, 08:22 AM
Missing
aliengirl
08-24-2012, 03:43 PM
~ Grace ~
lilimarlene
08-24-2012, 04:07 PM
mellifluous
cafolini
08-24-2012, 04:15 PM
Panda
Hawkman
10-08-2012, 05:41 PM
Termination
Jerrybaldy
11-23-2012, 10:27 AM
Dank.
tonywalt
11-23-2012, 10:49 AM
Pulsating
tailor STATELY
11-29-2012, 08:21 AM
morose
Hawkman
12-12-2012, 08:26 PM
Morbidity
tailor STATELY
12-12-2012, 09:09 PM
eviscerate
aliengirl
01-07-2013, 06:07 AM
Icicle
Vividly
01-07-2013, 08:03 AM
Serenity
Dark Muse
01-07-2013, 01:23 PM
Snow...
firefangled
01-07-2013, 05:29 PM
zenzizenzizensic
firefangled
01-09-2013, 04:20 PM
sgiomlaireached
J.S. Ven
01-10-2013, 12:06 AM
Parasympathetic Parasympathetic Parasympathetic Parasympathetic
Parasympathetic Parasympathetic
Parasympathetic Parasympathetic Parasympathetic Parasympathetic
Parasympathetic ParasympatheticParasympathetic Parasympathetic Parasympathetic Parasympathetic
Parasympathetic.
You didn't say I couldn't repeat my one word ;)
firefangled
01-10-2013, 06:59 PM
seigniorage
aliengirl
01-13-2013, 12:21 PM
Umbra
Twota
01-14-2013, 04:29 PM
Youth
scleoniyx
02-21-2013, 02:46 PM
Retrospection
ScottG
02-23-2013, 08:32 PM
Restrictions everywhere.
Hawkman
05-09-2014, 04:44 PM
Trillion
Melanie
06-07-2014, 01:29 AM
Ratatouille
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru8UG1mqw6k
Hawkman
10-12-2014, 05:02 AM
Trilithon
aliengirl
10-16-2014, 01:35 PM
refrain
PeterL
10-16-2014, 06:20 PM
Lust.
ampoule
10-22-2014, 08:41 AM
Serendipity
Hawkman
10-22-2014, 02:50 PM
Antimacassar
DieterM
02-12-2015, 12:47 PM
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwenp ensionskürzungsgesetzesänderung
Hawkman
02-12-2015, 01:11 PM
The OP regrets to inform Dieter that he is in violation of the rules! No German compound nouns... especially ones with gaps in the middle! Tut, tut... ;)
Bollinger.
slipee
02-13-2015, 06:10 AM
Bodacious.
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