Thursday, 20 August 2026

Uproarious

 August 20 Word of the Day: Uproarious

 


 Letrilla: Uproarious Waterfalls

 

Fabric only air and water

Turns sooner rather than later

Hundreds of miles down to touching

First leaf stone scale circles rushing

Uproarious waterfalls

 

Inside white haze unfreezing down

Showers shining darkening shown

Light mingling grey mass loosened speed

Edgeless almost everywhere need

Uproarious waterfalls

 

Sheoak Hopetoun Triplet Erskine

Kalimna Carisbrook Sabine

Beauchamp and other up signposts

Awash in storm above the coasts

Names out of mind aged out by stream

Head filled with sound stilled by extreme

Uproarious waterfalls

 

Why the physics takes up the slack

Where the clarity turns to black

What the answer is at the time

Whence goes water hundreds of lines

How the levels break into space

When the thunder below makes peace

Uproarious waterfalls

 

Airily when stonily as

Colourful like solidly is

Riverine down glossily to

Spaciously in urgently go

Tempesting this tempering thus

Fulfilling all fast filing must

Uproarious waterfalls

 

Spit spot sputter froth bubble smooth

Edge moss feather twig rainbow soothe

And more big rain gumleaf fern-tree

And more rain last decades burnt trees

And small rains from treetops bird dreams

And more rains on ridges upstream

More of the same or overdue

Pushing bank heights and coming through

Uproarious waterfalls

 

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Reconcile

 August 19 Word of the Day: Reconcile

 


Letrilla: Reconcile the month of August

 

The queen asked the maid and the maid

Asked the prime minister who greyed

Okayed asked the treasurer just

Tell me are we about to bust

Reconcile the month of August

 

The taxman told the accountant

Told businesses and endowments

The Auditor-General cussed

Underlings tooth comb discussed

Reconcile the month of August

 

The last of the long weekenders

Told the last of the big spenders

Creditors with high-sounding trust

Nudged debtors grafted on by rust

Reconcile the month of August

 

Courtrooms overflowed with dismay

Querulous cases come what May

Judge and jury persist nonplussed

We’ll be here till we turn to dust

Reconcile the month of August

 

The cold front encountered unplanned

The warmest month since records began

Where cherubic zephyrs and gusts

Spoke sudden Aeolian lusts

Reconcile the month of August

 

Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Sitting

 August 18 Word of the Day: Sitting

 


Eating breakfast waking up

Keeping balanced coffee cup

 

Leaning forward as you speak

Meaning’s awkward hide and seek

 

Staring upward at the ceiling

Deciphering the carpet’s feelings

 

Pissing peaceful at stool your own

Cogitating systems upon the throne

 

Waiting arrival of the urbane commute

Watching landscapes from a window so beaut

 

Kneebone footbone to the floor mate

Sternum straight back as for a portrait

 

Sedentary ergonomic might

Typing keyboard left and right

 

Sitting pretty telling a phone what’s what

Photographically on the spot

 

Alone along a laneway alcove shaded

Squeezed in by crowds lost paraded

 

Crosslegged calm outside the rush

Knitting patterns their own weaved hush

 

Quietly quite upright somewhere somehow

Wishing waiting would end now now

 

Tickling smiling the cat’s chin

Homeward is where they let you in

 

Yoga poses or at least close supposes

Checking news is no spray of roses

 

Reading pages prolix up in bed

Slumping slumberwards in your head