TABBY thinks herself goddess of the apartment,
SIXTY strides through all the rooms,
NORTH wall cool in summer,
NERVES of all must be tempered, she does not like a fuss.
Wash
REEDY voice begs for a
BASIN to wash away
BAWDY and belligerent sins––
VIGILant Forgiver rejoices.
2022-12-30 words
BASIN, BAWDY, REEDY, VIGIL
New Year Lack of Resolution
TABBY or not tabby. After
SIXTY years on this planet do I have the
NERVE to travel further
NORTH, or will I stay at home?
North Side
PRISM through which some see the world is a
GAUDY Cubs collectible plaque,
CRAFT beer from Michigan, and
SCORN for Walmart.
Route 60
TABBY dashes across Route
SIXTY, heedless of the cars
NORTH- and southbound:
NERVEs of steel or reckless abandon?
2022-12-29 words
SIXTY, NORTH, NERVE, TABBY
Tinky-Tonk
CRAFT fair. Baubles without substance.
GAUDY trinkets, trifles, whatnots, and
PRISMs: imitation rainbows. I sneer,
SCORN the tinsel tawdry.
Known Unknowns
PRISM in natural philosopher’s study casts spectrum,
GAUDY bauble to some, yet to reason’s probing, revelation.
CRAFT of thinking builds on known, ventures farther, unknots tangled mysteries.
SCORN for philosopher or priest will arise in time, harder unknowns left behind, assumed as understood.
2022-12-28 words
PRISM, GAUDY, CRAFT, SCORN