Addubitation / Laces your words of deep love, / Allowing no growth.

I have trod along / halls of vestigial glamor / mourning magic lost.

I awaken as / hanging crystals coruscate / first light of morning.

Trees exhale pollen / Windblown flotsam makes a wreck / Of my sinuses.

Bubbles float on breeze / Children's laughter coruscates / Innocuous fun.

Alas, dear Somnus / I crave your embrace too much / Narcolepsy reigns.

With a single smile / Daughter ends my diatribe / Before I begin.

Otiose feeling / Dark cloud descending on me / Must find inner light.

A clear winter's night / The stars' jactancy shines through / New moon evening.

Reality shows / Give fifteen minutes of fame? / Ignominious.

Anguine eyes hold me / Ophidian whispers charm / Mesmer taught you well.

I maunder from dream / To dream, tossing and turning / Moonlight in my eyes.

Clear, cold skies reveal / Milky Way's nebulous depths / Inchoate stars.

Spring unsettles air / Inchoate storms on horizon / Life is in tension.

Phenakism for some / May be survival for others / Ask Tylwyth Teg.

Autumn sets aflame / Summer's rich bounteous shade / Leaves immolate life.

They move unseen / Heard only by select few / Ubiquitous sylphs.

Winter night's secrets / In lamprophony of stars / Music of the spheres.

Wondering my place / Under starlit winter skies / I'm nugatory.

Measure to measure / Hearts provide quickening beats / I'll mete out a tune.

Tonight, sylphs mete out / Cooling songs on my porch chimes / Prelude to winter.

"You look so lovely" / Clerk to me in skinny jeans / Mendacious twit.

We listen at dawn / Arms entwined amid morning song / Such sweet rhetoric.

Bright colors pooling / Consenescence of blown leaves / Autumn's sylvan dance.

In consenescence / The tortoise and the parrot / Make a better pair.

Wind howls from the north / Blows amalgam of Fall scents / Winter is coming.

Twinkling lights, warm kitchen / Amalgam of memories / Holiday blessings.

Cat runs for cover / Ersatz caws following him / Mockingbird just smiles.

Buildings shake and sway / A draconian shudder / Dreaming in deep earth.

Equinox, balance / Night and day, twice in a year / Cyclic equipoise.

Pages of photos / Lachrymose memories fade / Begin better days.

Light becomes precious / Lachrymose skies seem endless / Winter discontent.

And with my last kiss / You receive a bitten tongue / Moradacious end.

North wind brings winter / Kindling, logs in fireplace lit / Flames undulation.

Body undulation / Sensuous, not sexual / Dance for self alone.

Sunday morning bored / Televangelist goes on / Philodox pulpit.

Shifting happening / Slipping here, then sliding there / Paradigm reset.

Late night listening / New musical paradigm / Old is new again.

Fine line drawn in sand / No wish to turn back time's hand / hermit or pariah?

Morning star fell far / Now ultimate pariah / Light bringer no more.

She held sanity / Closely, with gentle touch by / Short, friable threads.

What is this word / "Felicificability?" / Just say "ecstasy."

He kissed me, then asked / "Felicificability?" / My joy knows no bounds.

Need mental health break / Oniochalasia / Pay in cash only.

Temperature rising / Waiting to feel better / Expurgate sickness.

November honking / Flight of myrmidon catch up / Geese migrating south.

No myrmidon here / I question authority / Especially yours.

Winter sky magic / Convolute coruscation / Northern

Scream loudly, child, now. / No dessert will you attain. / It won't behoove you.

It befits my mood / Long winter walk by moonlight. / It would behoove you, too.

Swinging between broil / And frigid, November's days / Eon of the season.

I sleep through each day / Awaiting the next eon / Time goes speeding past.

Fairy ring once found / I stepped within, then returned. / Desiderium.

Goose flying alone / Her desiderium sharp / Autumn's casualty.

Vampire triangle / Love followed life after life / Intransigent hearts.

Wind blows more than leaves / Maples send alar seeds high / Spring's airborne promise.

She wept bitter tears / No need for alar clothing / Phantom limb syndrome.

Splendiferous chords / Resonate through winter night / Music of the spheres.

Watching horizon / Splendiferous solstice morn / Long night is over.

Peals of laughter ring / Loudly it approaches nigh / Cachinnator comes.

Her loquacious streak / Only can be broken when / She has a kumquat.

Birds sing in bushes / Babbling brook adds conversations / Loquacious naiads.

Loquacious sylphs fly / Cold wind blows chatter around / Chimes ring all night long.

Overnight rainstorms / Dawn shows frozen branches gleam / Bedizen winter.

Pinpricks of bright blood / Inks' sequins reveal pictures / Tattoos bedizen me.

I lie within joy / Your touch, your words surround me / Stupefied again.

Worm into project / Finagle the most money / Wheedle away time.

Crescent moon supine / Withholding precious rainfall / Old farmer's adage.

Such a misnomer / I've never seen milk sparkle / Say, Spumante Way.

Golden glitter spilled / Tabletop shines brightly / Like dry spumante.

New moon sets early / Spumante sky sparkling above / Cold, clear winter's night.

He will simper soon / Her eyes will return coy smile / Logic plays no part.

Sixteen years unspun / With single prick of spindle / Hundred comatose.

Snow covering fields / Fattened on autumn's bounty / Comatose 'til spring.

Sun / Moon in window / Became Life

Daylight syzygy / Solar eclipse, awe of old / Dragon swallows sun.

Sleep, but not restful / Clamorous ideas compete / Vociferous 'til dawn.

Scatman singing jazz / Scooby doo, biddle be bop! / Hep cats skedaddle.

Sleep, with lovely dreams / Husband snoring wakens me / Dreams, sleep skedaddle.

Callous heart sees few / Toughened by harsh reality / Where's a pumice stone?

Harsh winter begun / Callous Nature shows colors / Only careless die.

Flies among shadows / Shape-shifting, riddles, and OLD / Name? Skullduggery.

Tomorrow's night sky / Winter solstice, eclipsed moon / Replete with darkness.

Even in winter / Dawn comes far too early / I'm replete with sleep.

Now I lay me down / To sleep, perchance to dream / Alas, replete with snores.

Lone sylph softly sings / Wind chime gently echoes her / Somnificator.

Smooth and slippery / She charms from waterfall pool / Unctuous undine.

Xenial greetings / Smiles and warmth to passing folk / Strange or familiar.

Solstice day turns tide / Though colder, days are longer / Blithe moods more frequent.

Magical cookies / Spells of flour, sugar, spice / Thaumaturgy bakes.

Selcouth memory / With dragon's wings I fly high / Phantom limb syndrome.

Will-o-wisp's pale light / Will lead you down primrose path / She'll bamboozle you.

If you will love me / I will love you, eternally / Vatic proposition.

Breathing Earth's humours / Uttering cryptic vatic word / Sibyl sits over steam.

You smile, play nicely / None see veiled disdain in eyes / Subterfuge again.

Face changes swiftly / No subterfuge in child's eyes / Two year old wants, NOW!

Sometimes I do feel / Excessively temporal / Tellurian age.

Bulldozers rumbling / Contoured strip mining of coal / Bleak topography.

Angels and demons / Bound within divine circles / Dee's tachygraphy?

Crop circle morning / Alien tachygraphy / Human subterfuge.

Palaver palace / Telephones from door to door / No thinking allowed.

Wind blowing through trees / Limbs moaning, leaves chattering / Sylvan palaver.

All life needs these things / Water, food, shelter, and rest / Rudimentary.

Nonchalant morning / Gives way to blase' noontide / Apathy takes rein.

Agrestic landscape / Lone red oak in winter sun / Dryad stands dreaming.

Rushing water's call / Verisimilitude spoke / Listen! Babbling brook.

Queensland and Brazil / Summer storms neverending / Surfeit of water.

Cat saunters past fence / Dog runs to follow and guard? / Surfeit of barking.

Winter wind blowing / Windchimes clamorous clanging / Vociferant sylphs.

Late night cooking show / Vociferant growling gut / Now I am hungry.

Mermaids coyly sing / Promising safe mooring here / Sophism of the sea.

Mind and heart and soul / Seek a balance within / Conciliate self.

Chaos set a date / No one noticed his entrance / Maladroit mayhem.

A clear winter sky / Effervescent with stars / Halcyon ere dawn.

Halcyon dreams / Marriage, a house, pets and kids / You were serious.

He, strong and silent / No sibilant sound uttered / She sighed, softly smiled.

Sibilant siblings / Wish and Wash cast shiver spells / Silence was futile.

In prepatent dreams / I fight to stay awake / Still sitting in chair.

Buds encased in ice / Waiting for spring to bring warmth / Prepatent flowers.

Clock tolling midnight / No inspiration is found / Solivagant muse.

Solivagant cat / Suddenly wants inside house / Winter winds blow chill.

Day by day passes / How long will anyone live? / Quiescent answer.

Under snow's blanket / Quiescent flowers dreaming / Spring's golden sunshine.

Dalai Lama smiles / A doyen of happiness / Veteran of love.

Sesquihoral pace / Relative speed around track / Day at snail races.

Priest's annual habit / Sesquihoral sermon over / No open eyes found.

Sweet talk and cajole / Tantalize with chocolate / I'll melt in your arms.

Overthink choices / Possibilities freeze me / Overwrought with fear.

Looking in your eyes / I supinate my hands to you / Offer, and ask, aid.

Spring winds bring warmth / Nymphs and satyrs frisk through fields / Pastoral care.

Rooster crows "wake up!" / Eggs, bacon, biscuits, and gravy / Pastoral breakfast.

Dragon hunts pastures / Here, ewes and lambs; there, cattle / Pastoral fast food.

From Spaniard's first sip / Xocolatl did entrance / Old Aztec philter.

Blind date jitters bloom / Honking to let you know he's there / Boorish liaison.

Sharp clothes, jewelry / Entitled to break the rules / New money boorish.

Mendacity rules / One tale leads to another / Down a primrose path.

Tipping point found / Now cordial exchanges gone / Frenemy no more.

Beware the fae gift / Glittering gold, enticing food / Prove specious in sun.

Lovely song from tree / Like nightingale's, heard at noon. / Specious mockingbird.

Dawn's roseate sky / Shows Spring's blushing promise / Red bud tree blooming.

Airwaves rattle brains / No middle ground can be heard / Zealot Radio.

Vegan orders food / Sends plate back to careless chef / Rebarbative steak.

Talk radio hosts / Endless bile from Right and Left / Rebarbative mouths.

She told him last time / Leave toilet seat up again? / She'll reprobate sex.

Bright kites falling / Children's play interrupted / In thrall to the winds.

A geek's love life / In thrall to technology / Digital Venus.

Sailor plug your ears / Seek not the siren's song / Lest you die a thrall.

Scuttle stands empty. / Dark cloud blossoms from mineshaft / No survivors found.

Garden bed ready / Gardener plants seeds in soil / Assiduous care.

Having flown the coop / Assiduous mother hen / Keeping chicks from harm.

Dressed in the sea's sparge / Aphrodite, waveborn Love, / Enters ancient world.

A sparge of notes echo / From windchimes on a windless day / Laughter of sylphs.

The depascent rain / Falling to earth each Spring / So that all may eat.

Once, like men, he ate / Now, like animals, he feeds / Depascent vampire.

Debonair heart, / So carefree and urbane, / Where have you been?

The earth dances. / Not a soiree for millions / Half a globe away.

Truculent Nature / Shakes Her fists at mankind / Unites us in sorrow.

Female and male / Combining, multiplying. / Zoetic timing.

Rain tantalizes / Sun baked fields and their farmers / On hot, humid days.

Rains tantalize / Sun baked fields and their farmers / On hot, humid days.

Ambulate the path, / Take in the sweet, Spring air / Share the renewal.

Look deep within / Ambulate the labyrinth / Be the mystery.

Three sheets to the wind / I staggered into bed / Katzenjammer morn.

The vilest venom, / Gossip, lodges in the mind; / Love, its theriac.

Moonlight shines on grass / Spring growth not yet long, or dark / Celadon for night.

A dragnet of stars / Captures my imagination; / Fantastic flights.

How old is enough? / Forty-two the answer; / No more progeny.

Sleep beckons still. / From my bed I sally forth, / Each morn a battle.

Lady of Dragons, / Biting winds from her billow. / First name, Termagant.

Niggling suspicion / Something isn't exactly right. / My nightly cavil.

Adults fall prey to / Infants casting echo spells; / Prattle magic.

Have you seen the sky's / Concupiscible moon? / Pregnant with sun's light.

I prognosicate / A payment of bills in morn; / Augur of bad mood.

I prognosticate / A payment of bills in morn; / Augur of bad mood.

Twice I received a / Nosocomial blessing / Birth of each daughter.

Reincarnation / Philosophy of rebirth / Maieutical quest?

Spring, when trees and shrubs / Titivate their branches, / Clog our sinuses.

Obsessive feelings / What's done cannot be undone / Prodigal thoughts.

One animal died / Another animal lives / Credence in Nature.

I shall leave this place / I've spent my life in service / Videlicet, I quit.

Chef prepares a meal / Concinnity of plate / taste

Within my madness, / Concinnity of chaos. / Dreams made reality.

Nightmares haunt my sleep / Basilisk dreams of wastelands / Cock's crow brings relief.

To speak the law / All men have jurisdiction / Wherever we stand.

Makeup and masks / Acceptance of chicanery / Actor's artifice.

Sinecure for life. / All pay, little or no work / Makes Joe one dull boy.

Holding sinecure, / Drawing easy salary, / Without care for souls.

Evenings lit by fire, / A bard expounds on his prince. / Hypotyposis.

Spring storms north, west, east / Not a drop of rain on me. / Thimblerig weather.

Who to pay first? / Checkbook thimblerig, again. / Weekly shell game.

Words unwritten, / Spoken in defensive haste / No apologia.

Nature, simply, is; / No apologia needed. / Might humanity?

Soaking up the warmth / This somnolent afternoon. / Dozing in the sun.

Late night music / Somnolent symphony / Snoring in two rooms.

Who is to say / Which dreams are licit, which are not? / The Dream Police?

Gentle morning breeze / Wafts through spring flower garden. / Farrago of scents.

Genteel lineage / Ancient, landed travelers / Be wary of the Sidhe.

Airplane missive launched / Falls short of desired target / Written on the wind.

Mona Lisa smiled. / Was she cryptically wise, / Or just diffident?

The diffident moon / Peeking through sauntering clouds / Self-consciously shines.

Waves washing ashore / Soft susurration of seas / Murmur of mermaids.

Gentle breezes bring / Susurration of the sylphs / Whispers on the wind.

Mother, or Father / Sacrifice for children / Archetype of love.

When one is threatened / All siblings on the same side / Ipsilateral.

Sacrifices made / Winter's final stockpile / Under rubicund moon.

It may perturb you / Weather too hot or too cold / Land of Confusion

My literal child / Cannot hear a sound, but knows / Figurative words.

Speaking in public / Wearing only underwear / Demotic nightmare.

Bowl of oatmeal / Orange juice and / or coffee

Your volition / Ebbs and flows with the tide / Wishy-washy fool.

With touch upon touch / I shall bend you to my will / Thigmotropism.

Heat / cold, rain / shine

My health held hostage / My mind steps through foggy thoughts / Sleep, my own despot.

You snarl my name / A tangled knot of desire / Ravel volition.

Rinky-dink proposal / Deed to the Brooklyn Bridge / Time worn bamboozle.

Arcane rituals / Lost in time and tradition / Inscrutable whys.

Inscrutable kiss / Promises of fidelity? / Enigmatic soul.

Irremeable / Better to reign in Hell. / Yet still he serves?

Character's bane / Anger and resentment / Canker on your soul.

Nine months waiting / Then eighteen years to mature / Parents' magnum opus.

Fiends along the web / Create new words and meanings / Neologism.

Summer regnant / No sign of Autumn feasting / Fields lie parched and bare.

Dryads sigh to sylphs / Susurrous of dry leaves in wind / Send rain soon.

Whispers from the deep / Susurrous of waves on sand / Mermaids' gossiping.

Child's first model / Mother's enduring care / Paragon of love.

Sylphs' chatter ended / Wind-chimes and leaves now quiet / They sleep in welkin.

Deep within a cave / Gems sparkle and gleam when lit / Chthonian treasure.

How much is too much? / Cocoa sybarite dreams / Death by chocolate.

A crenellate field / Marking row upon row / Soldiers in the ground.

Teen rolling eyes / Parents ask them for one task / Empiternal sigh.

Childhood depression / Empiternal worries / Parental guilt.

We know brightness / Immanent universe / Stardust memories.

Promulgate this news / Shout it from the rooftops / I love you!

Monthly self exams / Your breasts handled with care / No proctor needed.

Seasons come and go / Only the wind will ever change / The fulvous dunes.

A city stands still / Enrobed in a fulvous cloud / Stopped by sands of time.

North wind brings a chill / Trees don dresses of motley / Ready for Fall's balls.

Puissant West wind / Creating fulvous clouds / Dance across Texas.

Tears, hugs, and laughter / A house full of love and light / Cornucopia.

Incarnadine lips / Enchant with passion's promise / Enticing the flesh.

Full Samhain moon / Cleave the darkness this night / Show winter the way.

Sacred fires burn / Cleave my prayers to heaven / With sweet scented smoke.

Hearken! Rising wind / Sylphs call out before the storm / Heed their warning call.

Lover's sweet nectar / Moments of eternity / Each kiss, ambrosia.

Feuding siblings / Speak with malice aforethought / House of rancor.

Shuffled house to house / Crazy quilt events good / bad

Auntie Schlock loves / Glass pearls, rhinestones, and sequins / True gimcrack junky.

Late summer wildfires / Washed the sky in bistre / Forest and homes gone.

Underground rites / Sacrifices unshared / Jealous chthonic gods.

Life moves through time / Sunshine follows starlight / Nycthemeral pace.

Rinse, lather, repeat / Wake up, work, return home, sleep / Banausic life.

Propitious child / Born under a lucky star / Loved by all.

Nature's abeyance / Flowers in hibernation / Spring's anticipation.

Death comes to all / Each living thing grows, then fades / Time's promissory.

Promissory kiss / Full of longing and desire / Ectasy's threshold.

Promissory tattoo / Drawn in Sharpie inks on skin / Is it worth the cost?

Promissory kiss / Full of longing and desire / Ecstasy's threshold.

Ecstasiate me / Bring me to rapturuous joy / Moments at a time.

No sound was made, / Then a noxious cloud descended / I'll just vamoose.

Consciousness vamoose! / Close my eyes, open my arms / Greet my dream lover.

Quadrimular term / Surviving high school's drama / Can seem endless.

To be still / Beside a babbling brook / Perfect euphony.

A small wooded vale / Limned by fireflies, summer moon / Boscaresque dingle.

Early summer rain / Magical green morning light / My boscaresque yard.

Somber, heavy speech / Eructation breaks the mood / Graviloquence lost.

Detention at school / No technology at home / Nor tecnolatry.

Sylphs whiffle / Windchimes on summer afternoons / Gentle greetings peal.

Wake. Work. Sleep. Repeat. / Sisyphean life, droning on / Only by choice.

Each Winter, rest / Replenish and dream softly / Nature's hiatus.

A ray of sunlight / Hiatus in the clouds / the calm before the storm.

Once covered with kids / Geodesic jungle gym / Now covered with vines.

Morning sun on web / Bejeweled net of summer / Phalerate with dew.

Tales of the Fae / Indomitable stories / Undying spirits.

Man's hubris / Never tames the untamable; / Indomitable Nature.

Xanthocomic sun / Riding in an azure sky / Hope after a storm.

Beltane to Samhain / Sleep through Summer's gentle lands / Aestivation dreams.

Abbozzo morning / Rain turns everything gray / Only outlines seen.

Samhain fires / Signaling through the darkness / Brumal weather coming.

Brumal winds blow / Bringing more than winter's breath / Snowbirds arrive, too.

Horripilation / Handing car keys to daughter / For the first drive.

Election years / Bring reams upon reams of bumf, / Mostly C.Y.A.

Duende lives here / A cottage in the woods / Magic happens.

Leap of faith / Placing my life, and my heart / Within your gowpen.

Warm spring sunshine, / Birdsong, and a cool drink / No finer bromide.

Boustrophedonic / Switchback highway in sedan / Down a steep mountain.

Fulminate with joy / Rage in storms of laughter / Keeps people jumping.

Summer road trip / Fuscous haze on the horizon / City's pollution.

The wind blows / And each tree receives kisses / Each leaf a baisemain.

Each grig sings his song / Under sultry stars and moon / Summer symphony.

Pressure building / Then euphonious release / Of raindrops landing.

Hot, still summer day / Euphonious rustle of leaves / Sylphs herald change.

A flother falls / Dancing its life away / Always in the now.

Piece by piece / You tell me how a pie tastes / One gobbet at a time.