Reading today’s news
Some days are so obscure
Obfuscating words
Senryu
Dictionary.com’s Word for the Day is “Obfuscate”. It seemed very fitting as I read some of today’s news reports.
Word of the Day – obfuscate | Dictionary.com
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Redoubtable Enemy
Quite fearful, yes,
A formidable opponent,
Sent to cause fear.
Yet God’s Armor protects me,
If I but wear it,
And stand firm resisting this
Foe, who hurls his darts
Of doubt, trying to wound my heart,
Until they meet the shield of faith.
Choka
Poem Inspired by Dictionary.com—Word Of The Day—Redoubtable
Origin
English redoubtable comes from Middle English redoutable “terrible, frightening, worthy of honor, venerable,” ultimately from Old French redotable, redoubtable, a derivative of the verb redouter “to fear, dread.” Redouter is formed from a French use of the prefix re- as an intensive (for instance, in refine), a use that Latin re- does not have, and from Latin dubitāre “to doubt, hesitate, waver” (but not “to fear”). Redoubtable entered English in the first half of the 15th century.
Plebeian Day?
No such thing I feel
As a plebeian day
Each one is special
Senryu
Inspired by The Word of the Day at Dictionary.com
See the definition of plebeian on http://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/plebeian-2019-08-14/
Satisfy Your Thirst
Slack—Slake
Don’t slack—Do slake
Be a slaker, not a slacker
Do you see? Drop the C, and then add an E
Slake it
Cinquain
Slake is “The Word of the Day” at dictionary.com
“Slake means “to lessen or allay something by satisfying it.” While we can slake our curiosity, desire, hunger, or anger, we most commonly say we slake our thirst.
Slake comes from Middle English slaken “to mitigate, allay, moderate, lessen one’s efforts,” from Old English slacian “to slacken.” Old English slacian is a verb based off the adjective sleac, slæc, variously meaning “loose, lazy, careless, sluggish, lax (of conduct),” which by Middle English (as slac, slak) narrowed to the sense of “loose, not tight,” the principal sense of its modern form, slack, today.
Old English sleac (via Germanic slak-) derives from the Proto-Indo-European root (s)lēg-, which, in its Latin variants, ultimately yielded such English words as languid, languish, lax, lease, release, and relax.
Once again, etymology offers an important life lesson: it’s best not to languish, so slake your thirst—with a beverage of your choice—and relax, but don’t be too lax about it and slack off.”
Word Origin—quoted from Dictionary.com)
Beset by Remora
Tiny remora
Surrounds, holds me back
All my human strength
Not enough to overcome
Only blood of Christ
Can wash it away
Syllabic Verse
Remora is today’s “The Word of the Day” at Dictionary.com
See the definition and interesting origin of this word “remora” at this link:
http://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/remora-2019-07-15/
In ancient times, the remora was believed to stop a ship from sailing. In Latin, remora means “delay”, while the genus name Echeneis comes from Greek εχειν, echein (“to hold”) and ναυς, naus (“a ship”). In a notable account by Pliny the Elder, the remora is blamed for the defeat of Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium and, indirectly, for the death of Caligula.[15] A modern version of the story is given by Jorge Luis Borges in Book of Imaginary Beings(1957).
Source:Wikipedia
Palimpsest
Has it been so long
That we have forgotten
The New Year challenge?
80 days have quietly passed,
What’s your new year story say?
Tanka
Dictionary.com Word Of The Day
Palimpsest
noun
1. a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
Quotes
All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
— George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
Childhood Stravage
Wandering
Aimlessly through my life
Sauntering
Slow Strolling
Seemingly without a care
Ah, to be a youth again
Shadorma
stravage: Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day
See the definition of stravage on http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/2017/03/10/stravage
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 