A Couple of Haikus

Pooling in heel-prints
I think I am going up
Love is a shadow

Belted by summer
From the bristling foliage
I look through windows

Are you into MAMMONISM?

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MAMMONISM [MAM-un-IS-em] (noun)

The greedy pursuit of riches

"Between Mammonism and myself there is a war to the knife, the knife to the hilt, the hilt to the hand."
--Mercer Green Johnston, "Patriotism and Radicalism" (1917)

Are you happy that it's finally FRONDESCENTIA?

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FRONDESCENTIA [FRON-dess-SEN-tee-UH] (noun)
It refers to the "leafing season", or the time of the year when plants unfold their leaves -- springtime, in other words.

"Frondescentia is the leafing of a plant; florescentia is, for like reason, the flowering of a plant."
--"The Analectic Magazine" (1817)

 

You might be ICARIAN, Mr. P

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ICARIAN [ih-KAIR-ee-UHN]  (adjective or noun)

Having qualities similar to the Greek mythological character Icarus, especially his excessive ambition and recklessness

"Predictably, the hazardous displays of the Icarian are prone to provoke countertransference reactions that, much like a failed parachute, collapse an analytic attitude."
--Terrence McBride, Maureen Murphy, "Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle" (2019)

Zzzz... Are you suffereing from DYSANIA?

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DYSANIA [dis-AY-nee-uh]  (noun)

The state of having a hard time waking up and getting out of bed in the morning

"Will our postdigital universe emerge carelessly from the griffonages of a soggy-brained professor, afflicted with dysania, or from some bio-powered hard drive afflicted by a crapulent program created by some cocaine-addicted technician working a second job in a meth lab?"
--Peter McLaren, Petar Jandric, Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology (2020)

Are you feeling SOMNICULOUS?

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SOMNICULOUS [som-NIC-yoo-luss]  (adjective)

Sleepy or drowsy

"She soon went to sleep, but dreamt of distresses and vexations, of exertions demanded, and powers not to be excited; of falling from precipices, of painful adieus, and of boats foundering in shoreless waters, and was haunted by all the train of somniculous misery, which the superstitious resolve into causes, and the less weak into effects."
--Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, The Countess and Gertrude (1812) (TWITO, page 139)