Write a one word poem

[Hawkman]

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]

Gr

The idea is that you choose a word which you find intrinsically poetical, musical or expressive. Real words only though please.




Logorrhoea.

[Hawkman]

Yeah, that's a good one! :D

[hillwalker]

Serendipity

(although I always read this as a 'dip' in 'serenity' which rather defeats the object) :-)

[Hawkman]

Then I guess it's a perfect one word poem, hill, because it tells a story, even if only to you :D

[autolycus]

amanuensis

[Hawkman]

Good one autolycus!

Here's another one.

Manumission

[MarkBastable]

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]

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]

I will allow Old English, Middle English and Norse :D

[dafydd manton]

How about;

Kinsfolk.

[Hawkman]

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]

Sombrus

[DanielBenoit]

Synecdoche

[dafydd manton]

Militaerkraftfahrzeuginstandsetzungsreparaturwerks tatt

[Hawkman]

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]

Plagioclase

[dafydd manton]

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]

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]

Plagioclase

this one puts another slant on the proceedings.

[dafydd manton]

Right! You asked for it!

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwrndrobwllllantisiliog ogogoch!

A poetic little village! (Actually, it's a touristy dump, but don't tell anyone!)

[hillwalker]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisilio gogogoch!


I assume the typo was unintentional

[dafydd manton]

I assume the typo was unintentional

Oh ********!!!!! Hoist with my own petard. Diolch, bach!!

All right, let's be serious

immortalize.

[Hawkman]

Antidisestablishmentarianism it is at least English :D

[dafydd manton]

Floccinaucinihilipilification

[Hawkman]

Now that's worthless :D

[dafydd manton]

Et tu Brute!!! I know, I couldn't resist it.

One word that I really do find poetic, on a serious note.

Jacaranda

[Hawkman]

This one always makes me think of Tom Sharp. Have you read Riotus Assembly?

[MarkBastable]

Schentectady.


I don't know why, but that has always struck me as am emotionally complex placename.

[nandakishore]

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

[Scheherazade]

Why does poetry have to contain such unusual, hardly-ever-used words? Everyday words won't do?

Like "lullaby"?

[Hawkman]

Any word you find poetic is good for me. Nothing wrong with lullaby.

How about Fellowship

[DanielBenoit]

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]

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]

Infant

[Asphara]

Autoteolic.

[hillwalker]

Kiss.....

[Hawkman]

Fattrels

[hillwalker]

Correolis

[breathtest]

riotous

[Hawkman]

Mellifluous

[MarkBastable]

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]

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]

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]

pnictogen

[Aryaa]

ethereal



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.....

[aliengirl]

Waves

[dafydd manton]

paralysis

[hillwalker]

minimalism

[Hawkman]

Messuage

[Scheherazade]

Theodicy!

[dafydd manton]

Panic!

[Hawkman]

Paralysis and panic seem to go together, do I detect a theme? :D

Messiah

[Aryaa]

doppelganger


___________________
.....

[adityasam]

Idiosyncrasies

[Aryaa]

onomatopoeia

[autolycus]

I know one that will give you (possibly) the longest poem ever:

Mahabharata

[Aryaa]

yes ...Mahabharata also has a beautiful story and excellent philosophy of life 'Geeta' explained in it.


Paradise.

[One Gallant]

Noctivagant

[dafydd manton]

somnambulist

[Hawkman]

Perihelion

[dafydd manton]

Am I allowed "Mabinogion"?

[Hawkman]

Yes you are and it's a good one.

[adityasam]

Quiver

[Aryaa]

misanthrope

[breathtest]

cacophony

[tailor STATELY]

Ululation

[autolycus]

calligraphy

[krymsonkyng]

Blunt.

[dafydd manton]

susurration

[Hawkman]

Whiskey

[Aryaa]

Immemorial

[autolycus]

calabash

[Scheherazade]

Charlatan

[Scheherazade]

Languid

[munkinhead]

prestidigitation

[aliengirl]

Ghazal

[Jerrybaldy]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Somebody had to.

[munkinhead]

galactosamine

[symphony]

...Mannequin...

[blank|verse]

k l a w n o o m

[munkinhead]

recompense

[Hawkman]

Metastasis

[Bar22do]

unsealing...

[hack]

antediluvian

[munkinhead]

preternatural

[kittypaws]

lavenous

[munkinhead]

undulate

[krymsonkyng]

Sibilant

[Scheherazade]

Nightmare

[Hawkman]

Primordial

[snowdrop17]

skylark

[munkinhead]

periwinkle

[munkinhead]

obstreperous

[munkinhead]

pedantic

[.Kafka]

alone?

[fetish]

spruce

[hack]

belatedly

[aliengirl]

streamline

[Hawkman]

Glaucous

[hack]

anathema

[Dark Muse]

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]

egalitarian......

[Dark Muse]

Athame

[aliengirl]

Zephyr

[dafydd manton]

Excalibur

[hack]

didactic

[Hawkman]

Paroxysm

[dafydd manton]

unrequited

[Scheherazade]

Smoker

[Hawkman]

Seems we've got a four verse poem with:

Didactic
Paroxysm
Unrequited
Smoker

[hack]

perimortem

[Dark Muse]

Pandemonium

[dafydd manton]

s.s.s.s.s.stammer

[hack]

indefatigable

[tailor STATELY]

@ hack: ("in de fat I gable" ? [lol])

imbecilic.............. [I'm be cili, c?]

[snowdrop17]

anthropocentric

[dafydd manton]

cynical

[lacadalet_]

veal-expressed

[aliengirl]

exotic

[neilgee]

erotic

[lacadalet_]

skycrossing

[Hawkman]

skycrossing

I hate to point this out but hyphenated and made up words don't count!

Enchantment

[miyako73]

devilries

[Hawkman]

Ravenning

[hack]

inconsequential

[Skia]

Icicle

*Brrrr* :)

[Dark Muse]

Decadent

[munkinhead]

boreal

[aliengirl]

Forgiveness

[iamnobody]

Arete

[Scheherazade]

Defiance!

[Hawkman]

Execution

[zoolane]

lethal

[hack]

perambulation

[Dark Muse]

Paramour

[Delta40]

regret

[iamnobody]

eudimonia

[symphony]

...Thoughtosphere...

[Pensive]

Serendipity.

[aliengirl]

serenity

[gigglez]

supernatural

[Scheherazade]

Creep

[Silas Thorne]

Bugger

[Jassy Melson]

why




.




.

[aliengirl]

unrequited

[Scheherazade]

limit

[hoope]

Waiting

[aliengirl]

Paradise

[zoolane]

Broken

[Delta40]

Metamorphosis

[Hawkman]

Prelapsarian

[JuniperWoolf]

What?

(It could be meaning so many things)

[Dark Muse]

Everlasting

[Silas Thorne]

...seal

[Hawkman]

Creep...

[_Shannon_]

Incessantly.

[moonbird]

Delirium.

[Silas Thorne]

**** (The mystery of this poem is untransmittable)

[Dodo25]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

[symphony]

Rhythmania

[symphony]

Joy.


Because I said so.

[aliengirl]

Harmony

[AlfredtheGreat]

****storm

[MystyrMystyry]

jiklodjuitchrunaxyxnjofernsoopuqdfethordroglifuxes jimbodfingbaxgadrojajadinomyxy

[AlfredtheGreat]

Yes..

[weltanschauung]

shivaya

[AlfredtheGreat]

Mother****er

[zoolane]

punch

[JuniperWoolf]

**** (The mystery of this poem is untransmittable)

Good one.

[Big Dante]

Mushrooms

[Jerrybaldy]

Bumswizzled

[symphony]

Saudades

[Yorick]

Sinusoid

[Dark Muse]

Willow

[aliengirl]

Darkness

[Jaked]

credulity

[Hawkman]

Doolally

[intoxicatedsoul]

erase

[Bar22do]

dupery

[Hawkman]

Enchantress

[aliengirl]

Innocence

[doingitagain]

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]

love
simple yet effective :)

[Dr.reid_16]

deceptive

[V.Jayalakshmi]

fillip

Run as fast as your thoughts.:) My own quote.

[Twota]

Poetry

Beat that!

[tailor STATELY]

in-tim-i-date: where two earthworms might meet socially & one predominates

[Hawkman]

Malfeasance

[Cunninglinguist]

awordisbutastringofletterswithnospacesorpunctuatio n

[renukakkar2004]

mind if i join :)

smiles

[Hawkman]

Welcome

[Pensive]

serendipity.

[aliengirl]

Memories

[tailor STATELY]

Fugue.................... note: does not rhyme with segue

[uktrayf]

This thread is really fun to read through... So much meaning in just a word!

mine:

Inadequate.

[cafolini]

Panda

[Jakeb]

virga

[Sionn Harrow]

catharsis.

[Hawkman]

Revenant

[blank|verse]

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]

Antiochene

[firefangled]

m

e

a

n

d
e

r


i

n

g

[firefangled]

a
pro
pos

[Hawkman]

Sparrowhawk

[deryk]

hackn e e d

[Pensive]

Scapegoat.

[cacian]

SuB
Li
MiNaL!

[aliengirl]

wondrous

[Pensive]

Covert.

[DieterM]

omphaloskepsis

[irinmisfit92]

fffffffffffffffff ffffffffffff
ooooo ooooo
rrrrrrrr rrrrrrrr
llllllllllll lllllllllllll
ooooo ooooo
rrrrrrrr rrrrrrr
nnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnn

[Waldo]

horizon

[aliengirl]

horizon

What a coincidence! I was thinking of the same word just as I opened the thread. Okay, here is another-

frontier

[cacian]

StOrMs!!

[Hawkman]

Shibboleth

[phoenixtears]

Bliss

[cacian]

capital!

[tailor STATELY]

inib-ineb-inebri-uh............... drunk

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Hawkman]

Missing

[aliengirl]

~ Grace ~

[lilimarlene]

mellifluous

[cafolini]

Panda

[Hawkman]

Termination

[Jerrybaldy]

Dank.

[tonywalt]

Pulsating

[tailor STATELY]

morose

[Hawkman]

Morbidity

[tailor STATELY]

eviscerate

[aliengirl]

Icicle

[Vividly]

Serenity

[Dark Muse]

Snow...

[firefangled]

zenzizenzizensic

[firefangled]

sgiomlaireached

[J.S. Ven]

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]

seigniorage

[aliengirl]

Umbra

[Twota]

Youth

[scleoniyx]

Retrospection

[ScottG]

Restrictions everywhere.

[Hawkman]

Trillion

[Melanie]

Ratatouille
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru8UG1mqw6k

[Hawkman]

Trilithon

[aliengirl]

refrain

[PeterL]

Lust.

[ampoule]

Serendipity

[Hawkman]

Antimacassar

[DieterM]

Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwenp ensionskürzungsgesetzesänderung

[Hawkman]

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]

Bodacious.