Lexicon #1

March 11, 2012 at 12:53 am · Filed under The Mundane

1) I must be terribly English and correct your grammar
2) I must be terribly English to correct your grammar

Perhaps the gentle nuances of the language are a little imperceptible. Let me elucidate.

In statement 1, the speaker is ‘terribly English’ and thus has to correct the addressee’s grammar, while in statement 2, correcting the poor chap’s grammar has made the speaker ‘terribly English’.

If only switching identities were as easy as switching accents.

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Lexicon is a new series that shall take place in private contemplation upon the intricate web of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.

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Crossroads

March 2, 2012 at 12:55 am · Filed under The Mundane

A canopy of chaotic fingertips
meshed in impenetrable frown perhaps
the drumming of impatient nails upon weary
table might offer consolation.

Mushroom cloud of apathy doused
in a mindful of banality – that does
no good. Peer through politics, the politics of
peers; perhaps a few beers.

Reach for the moon; if you fail
at least you’d look like you were
stretching
your
arm.

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Dare.

March 1, 2012 at 11:18 pm · Filed under The Mundane

To be different.
To be bold.
To be wrong.
To be wronged.
To be dared.

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apokryphos

February 23, 2012 at 9:44 pm · Filed under The Mundane

Nom de guerre
Without being aware
Like a masquerade
Salacious prose procreate
Indulgence in innuendo
Pyrrhic placebo
Conversate in celibate
Sentences, speak secrets
Of a fine three thousand ducats.

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Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you smarter

February 16, 2012 at 9:43 pm · Filed under The Mundane

Why agonize the apparent?
Why complicate the complicit?
Why intensify the inert?
Why entangle the evident?
Why aggravate the austere?

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choke

February 14, 2012 at 11:24 pm · Filed under The Mundane

fingers grasping tongue
the silence will speak for you
murmured broken lisp.

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What doesn’t kill you, makes you kiasi.

February 1, 2012 at 10:10 pm · Filed under The Mundane

The planet’s talking about a revolution
The natural laws ain’t got no constitution

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Haiku

February 1, 2012 at 9:11 pm · Filed under The Mundane

Seventeen strung sounds
Baubles balanced on tongue tip
Dead knot; don’t look back.

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pick you up like a paper cup

January 23, 2012 at 11:57 am · Filed under The Mundane

He met his lover almost every single day
Making excuses through his dodgy holiday
Unto religion that he said he newly found
They didn’t know that his faith was earthly bound

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You begin to wonder;

December 31, 2011 at 11:59 pm · Filed under The Mundane

The concluding 3 minutes to the new year has come. Well, onus on me to finish this post before it’s over.

This has been a year of trials and triumphs,
a year of learning and falling
a year of loss and being a boss.

See my rhyming skills? yeah.

I’m eternally grateful to God.
With such a wayward child like myself, a prodigal, a miscreant, only He can forgive and give what I do not deserve, now or ever.

Perhaps my only resolution is to be a better child.

I thank God for the friends i’ve made this year, the friend’s i’ve held on to this year, and the friends who’ve held on to me.

It’s the new year. I love you all.

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