Definition poems

This is a word count poem of 25 words.

The pattern is like this:  The poem is 9 lines lone and each line has a set number of words:

1.                 One Word--------The first word is the word you are going to define.

2.                Two Words------Followed by the words defining line one.

3.                Three Words

4.                Four Words

5.                Five Words

6.                Four Words

7.                Three Words

8.                Two Words

9.                One Word--------Then if possible use a synonym for line one 

                                      or some cleaver ending.

Example but when you are done you can eliminate the numbers:

1.       DOUBT                                  --by tex norman

2.      When you

3.      ask a child

4.      ‘who ate the cookies?’

5.      and they say they have

6.      no idea,. . .  with their

7.      mouths full . . . and

8.      they’re chewing

9.      something.

Just try defining some short common words or unusual words in this manner.  It could be enough for a book all by itself.

Faith:

Trust in

an unsubstantiated story,

a myth, because it’s

shared by many non-thinking beings

too lazy to think

for themselves, too

dumb to

doubt.

Dog:

A living

thing so delightful

its presence almost proves

the existence of a loving,

all powerful, all loving 

higher power.  Well,

they're almost

enough.

Money:

An idea

That, when accepted

by all, turns ordinary

paper into our idea of

money, when it is

still, just ordinary

slips of

paper

Intimacy:

A combination

of vulnerability and

trust with a dash

of believing you are desired

and able to return

your ecstasy for

her delightful

ecstasy.

Fortuitous:

It has

Nothing to do

With fortune. It’s occurring

By chance, serendipitous, lucky, an

Unexpected accident like the
day I meet

you.

Assurance:

No knowledge

and no doubt

equals absolute assurance and

makes intolerance and short term

solutions the political norm.

No doubt creates

the stupidly

sure.

  

Doubter:

Knowledge plus

doubt results in

intellectual hesitancy that

will watch the world

implode, while absolutely certain they

know a better way. . .

maybe.  But doubt

says, “Maybe

not.”

  

Putative:

Believed to

be – assumed to

be – as in ‘putitive

father’  – not confirmed by DNA

but mom was there

and pretty sure

who she

screwed.

  

Insomniac:

You lay

in your bed

like meatloaf in an

oven at a low temp

and you think and

wait and until

you're finally

done.

  

Talent:

Do something

until you’re the

best one among all

the people you know and

never consider that that

doesn’t make

all that

good.

Republican:

Someone so

selfish and lucky

they believe they have

the power to take care

of themselves, so piss

on everyone who

is less

lucky.

Weakness:

The truth

behind every strength.

We are stronger than’

we know, and weaker than

we imagine.  Over time,

only our weakness

strengthens.  That’s

life.

  

Shitty:

Some days

are so shitty

you wake up and

immediately you can just smell

that shitty day heading

your way.  There’s

no way

out.

Selcouth:

It is

a synonym, for

cool.  If something is

wondrous, marvelous, delightfully rare and 

strange in a strangely

magnificent way then this

is the word 

to use.  

Cool.

Selcouth

is not

a word easily

used in a sentence.

Left alone, I made up

several selcouth plans to

change my life

Let it

be.

Malarkey:

Sounds like

bullshit, blither blather

yahdah, yahdah, double speak.

It is something you’d rather

not hear and damn

near to “them

is fightin’

words.

  

Uxorious:

Yes, dear.

No dear.  Can

I bring you something

please, dear.  Can I visit

my balls, my sweetness, my

warmness, my white throated

dove.  Sorry if

I’m bothering

you.