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.
