Scientists and builders envision
a future skyscraper that devours smog:
free radicals will mélange mist and fog,
metaphor murk and mêlée confusion
into melancholy morasses
and disperse them into the sky
as mellifluous gases.
Kim M. Russell, 2017
Image found on www.dailymail.co.uk
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics – Verbify Me! Also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform
This week’s Poetics is with lovely Lillian, who is currenlty the midst of Boston’s winter and looking for a little fun with words. Verbification, or verbing, is the creation of a verb from a noun, adjective, or other word. Think of the proper name, Google. It’s the name of a company and yet has become a verb as in, “I’ll google that.” Sometimes, as in this example, repetitive use actually turns a noun into a commonplace, albeit new for a while, verb.
BUT – what Lillian would like us to is write a poem that includes our own unique verbification. She has given a delectable example in ‘Ganache Me’! She also reminds us of a poem she wrote recently for the dVerse repetition prompt that included the phrase ‘crimson me’. Anything is possible! She asks us to use our imaginations on this one and to have fun with it.
I wonder if we can every metaphor murk.. a splendid thing to do… Great choice of word to verbify (I thought of metaphor as a verb too….)
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“metaphor murk and mêlée confusion” = wonderful! LOVE.
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Thank you, De!
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Way too much fun with this prompt ! Love your message & your active nouning, as well as the news & information as well.
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Thanks Glenn!
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Love the way you’ve taken this piece of news and used some great nouns to deliver the point … ‘metaphor murk’ .. love it 🙂
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Thank you!
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What they ^^^^^ all said…Metaphor Murking we will go.
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The wordplay in this piece is so clever. I love all the “m” sounds! And the vision of smog-eating skyscrapers is pretty cool too.
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Thanks for your comments, Sherry, they are much appreciated 😊
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This is absolutely brilliant Kim 😀
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Thank you, Sanaa! 🙂
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Words are such willing things, aren’t they? And when touched by the right hands, by a clever brain, by a seeing heart… they show miracles… and teach us wonderful things. It’s wonderful how your poem gives us information dressed as the information itself. A feast of imagery, this is.
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Thank you so much, Magaly. Your comments mean a lot to me.
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mélange mist and fog,
metaphor murk and mêlée confusion… terrific!
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love your verbifications 😉
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Thanks Candy!
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I hope they are able to build that future skyscraper and it doesn’t come with undesirable side-effects.
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Me too!
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Oh, I hope so. This is so beautifully metaphored – (stealing) – hope we can make it work.
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Nice! And we better pay attention to the advice of those scientists while we still can.
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Yes. 😞
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Let us hope that will be possible one day.. Your M words create a lot of fun in this piece.
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Thanks Kerry!
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Fun response to the prompt, and I love the alliteration!
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Thank you, Teresa!
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“metaphor murk” I love that
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Loved all the M’s! Marvelous alliteration.
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Thank you!
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Such a creative response to the prompt, Kim and the alliteration is divine!
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Thank you, Mish!
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Oh! Fantabulous! So powerful and expressive. 🌹🌹🌹
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Loved it!
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Thank you Bekkie!
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You alliterate well! Popped over to thank you for the follow. Your site looks interesting.
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Thank you for visiting, Frank!
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