The Lighter Side of JzB

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Every day visits*
From Moose, Goose, and Orb Weaver
All seized by Haiku

"Why moose and goose?" you may ask. Back on 2/04/13 Pirate wrote a haiku with an elk in it, and I responded with
one with a moose and then included him every day. A few days later in comments Mystic asked "Where's the goose?"
So I started including her with this post on 2/07. A week later on the 14th, Mark Readfern
asked for and received a spider. The rest is history.

*Well, most days, anyway. Grant me a bit of poetic license.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Awhapery In the Garden

Today we have a list of obsolete English language words to chose from, and an invitation to use others, which I have taken advantage of.

Not feeling up to attempting rhyme, or anything long-form, I've chosen to do another shadorma, as befits my dwindled attention span.  But I'm delighted to finally get to use the word "swyve." which has been sitting idle in my vocabulary for decades.


BEMOANING

Oh Wasteheart!
Coney-caught again:
Awhaped by
Dowsable.
She swyved with a losenger
I’m betrumped!

Here it is translated


LAMENT

 Woe is me!
Cheated yet again:
Confounded
By lover.
She screwed a lying rascal.
And tricked me.


Glossary
Awhape -- confound
Betrump -- deceive or cheat
Coney-catch -- cheat or deceive
Dowsable -- sweetheart
Losenger -- false flatterer, cad
Swyve -- copulate
Wasteheart -- expression of grief or dismay

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9 comments:

  1. Paul John DearOctober 19, 2017 at 6:19 PM

    Fabulous how you took this and worked it into a Shadorma form.Well played.

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  2. Vivian ZemsOctober 19, 2017 at 7:28 PM

    Excellent. Quite a few hurdles you jumped there. Perfect landing.

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  3. Kim M. RussellOctober 20, 2017 at 3:50 AM

    Nicely done!

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  4. MarianOctober 20, 2017 at 6:15 AM

    Haha! I like both versions quite a lot. :)

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  5. Gillena CoxOctober 20, 2017 at 7:37 AM

    Nice !!!

    much love...

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  6. Magaly GuerreroOctober 20, 2017 at 11:46 AM

    This is freaking delicious. And the fact that you provided a translation made it delicious times two.

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  7. Susie ClevengerOctober 20, 2017 at 4:01 PM

    This is awesome... a poem and a translation.. quite clever

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  8. MNL (Cactus Haiku)October 20, 2017 at 6:45 PM

    That's great, giving a translation. I have no clue why but it made me think of Chaucer, lol. Hilarious.

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  9. brudbergOctober 21, 2017 at 4:55 AM

    Ha..yes that was funny... and swyve is a great addition.

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