A Dilatorious Holiday

A playful poetic foray with a Thesaurus

Dysania tethers me in recumbence

this wasting canicular morn
I can tarry a-bed no longer
dillydallying in lumpish torpor

Languorously ambling heavy-footed
drawn by th’wafting fragrant aroma
of blissful viand, my morning repast
imbibing deep my “Sweet Addiction”

Thus fortified to subdue elflock
invigorated by plashing toilette
rejuvenated in the shower’s flow
braced now to seize this holiday

Draped in my boho habiliments
Titian locks fetchingly coiffed
easel and paint box in hand
forsake this squalid auberge

Step out into the clearing smur
after an early dawn mizzle
opening to reveal the cerulean sky
over a distant cumatical sea

Petrichor’s unmistakable perfume
of summer parched earth relieved
and susurrus or shore rushing waves
proffers inspiration for my artist’s soul

Glossary of terms in the poem

• ambling :  to walk or move at a slow, lazy pace
• auberge:  lodgings or hotel
• braced:  prepared
• canicular :  of or pertaining to the dog days of summer
• cerulean:  deep sky-blue color
• coiffed :  styled or arranged (as with hair)
• cumatical:  an archaic 17th Century term for blue [University of Michigan Library]
• dilatorious :  intended to cause delay (in this case, lazing about to delay)
• dillydallying :  to waste time, being slow to make a decision
• dysania: state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning
• elflock:  hair matted as if by elves
• fetchingly:  in an attractive manner
• fortified:  made stronger, readied
• habiliments:  costume of an occupation (in this case, artist)
• imbibing :  to drink, usually alcohol (here, coffee)
• languorously:  pleasantly tired and lazy feeling
• lumpish: in the Shakespearean use: despondent, dejected, in low spirits
• mizzle:  sustained drizzly misting rain
• petrichor:  pleasantly earthy smell after the first rain of a dry spell 
• plashing :  the splashing sound of water raining down, as in a shower
• recumbence:  the state of leaning, resting, or reclining; repose
• repast: something taken as food
• smur:  drizzly fog or mist
• squalid:  run down, neglected
• susurrus :  a whispering rustling or rushing sound
• tarry: to delay
• tethers:  to hold or tie to
• Titian locks:  reddish gold hair, so named for the artist of that name
• toilette: the process of washing oneself
• torpor:  a state of lethargy
• viand:  a particularly favored food or, in this case, beverage

The reference to "Sweet Addiction" is my poem of that name.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Next time it mizzles I am going to go outside and stand in it...see what it feels like.
Torpor is one of my favorite words.
I try to get my students to use a thesaurus...but most won't bother to extend their vocabs...what they do texting is usually enough for them. This is a humorous look at what most are missing.
j.

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks, Jacob.