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KILTER – KITE
To those whose existence has grown out of kilter,
Who view the whole world through a gloomy brown filter:
Go fly a kite till anxiety passes,
Then you'll see life through rose-coloured glasses.
DIGRESS – DIMMER
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The rate at which we digress
Allows turbulent diffusion to profess,
Chatter from a dimensionless glimmer.
As we speak, the prospects seem dimmer.
Plenum- Plexus
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A theology student from Texas
Said: "God's threefold form is a nexus —
A plenum of Being,
All-knowing, all-seeing —
A dense ontological plexus".
RENAISSANCE – REPEL
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An artist must sometimes rebel
And his many detractors repel
No Renaissance painting
Had teenagers fainting
But even the fakes will resell
MEGALOMANIA - MERETRICIOUS
Honi soit...
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D'j'ever notice how "rebel" the noun and "rebel" the verb are the same letters, but pronounced differently?
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yes
to 'lead' someone, and the mineral 'lead'
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And Polish and polish, and a few other sets. But those are mostly very different words that happen to spell the same, but rebel and rebel have the same root.
Read and read are different tenses of the same verb, and they do it too.
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MEGALOMANIA – MERETRICIOUS
Caesar Augustus, the
First Roman emperor,
Pacified rebels with
Pomp and display.
Statues reflected his
Megalomania;
Though meretricious, they
Showed he held sway.
VIOL – VOCAL
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In seventeenth-century France
The royals enjoyed a good dance,
With riffs on the viol
In true Baroque style,
And vocal additions, perchance.
LOGO – LOUNGE
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I tried to design a new logo,
But time after time it was no go.
I would pace and I'd lounge,
Through my brain I would scrounge,
But it all looked like Walt Kelly's Pogo.
GRAIN - GRANT
It has been a while, but I can accept harsh criticism!
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Don't give up, I love mine.
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GRAIN – GRANT
There was an old mill by a lane,
Which processed small volumes of grain.
The miller, called Grant,
Would not buy new plant,
Though the mill cost a lot to maintain.
POUR – PRACTICAL
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The field marshal's dreamy and practical,
Wages wars both strategic and tactical.
His battle groups pour
'Cross the living room floor
In wars minuscule and galactical.
QUEEN – QUICK
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QUEEN - QUICK
The King might be quick with a pen
But the Queen's even better, as when
She wrote fables about
Humpty's sad turnabout
Despite the King's horses and men.
LIVELIHOOD - LOSE
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Tending bar was his main livelihood,
Pop psychiatrist who understood.
Folks with nothing to lose
Came to tipple and schmooze.
Lousy wages, but tips rather good.
ESCAPEMENT – ESTATE
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If your livelihood wholly depends
On the seasonal rain that descends,
You're sure to lose sleep
And plaintively weep
If a long summer dry spell extends.
Oops — Tromboniator beat me to it!
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ESCAPEMENT – ESTATE
My priceless watch broke its escapement
When it fell from its niche in the basement.
I don't need to relate
How I trashed my Estate
By not knowing what "Double-Stick-Tape" meant.
(needs work, but better than silence...)
PIKEMAN - PITCH
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As the fight reached a furious pitch,
A pikeman stood close to a ditch
And dealt a hard blow
To a friend or a foe;
The fog made it hard to tell which.
TOUR/TRIBAL
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The tour guide said: "Folks here are tribal –
They fight about words in the Bible.
If you cast an aspersion
On one group's pet version,
They'll probably sue you for libel".
CATTLE – CENTURY
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A mid-fourteenth-century farm
In France was at risk of great harm;
The slaughter of cattle
In Anglo-French battle
Caused many poor peasants alarm.
CHORE – CHUCKLE
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CHORE – CHUCKLE
If you're loath to take care of that chore
You'll dislike finding out what's in store...
Did I just hear you chuckle?
Here's a fistful of knuckle
And then you can clean up next door.
PERENNIAL- PHOTOGRAPH
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The perennial urge to be viewed,
In fine or rough raiment, or nude,
Too frequently means
We photograph scenes
Where posturing strangers intrude.
MEADOW – MICROSCOPIC
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In the meadow of Madame Defarge
She knit codes, microscopic and large,
And the info they said
Caused the family's head
To be sent off to sea on a barge.
SPECTRUM - SPLASH
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A rainbow's a spectrum of hues
Creating magnificent views.
Though raindrops may splash
And hailstones may crash,
Its beauty awakens my Muse.
INFLUENCE – INGEST
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The influence wielded by cooks
Who star on TV and write books
Makes diners ingest
Not food that tastes best,
But fare that is judged by its looks.
DARTBOARD – DAZZLING
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Though the dartboard had seen better days,
The players gave dazzling displays.
One-seventy-four
Was their average score,
Which merits exceptional praise.
HOBBY – HOLE
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Miniatures
My passion for trains very small
I indulge in a hole in the wall.
So it's not in the lobby
I follow my hobby
You hardly can see them at all.
GAUZY - GNAT
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A woman discovered a gnat
On the gauzy white band of her hat.
With a resolute air,
She rose from her chair
And struck the thing dead with a bat.
TEMPLAR – TEUTONIC
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Some 'soldiers of Christ' were Teutonic,
While others were French or Slavonic.
The famous Knights Templar
Were one more exemplar
Of fierce holy zeal, which was chronic.
REALIST – REND
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In war, the antagonists rend
The structures on which we depend.
But despite all the woes,
The realist knows
That peace will return in the end.
GULF - GUST
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GULF – GUST
A ship from the Persian Gulf area
Was in the Black Sea near Bulgaria,
When a gust from the East
Arrived like a beast,
Infecting the crew with malaria.
FETCH – FICTITIOUS
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A vicious fictitious old whale
Ordered "Fetch me some fish in a pail!
Or else, why then I'll"
(Added he with a smile)
"Whup you upside the head with my tail!"
PICKEREL - PONY
("It isn't brains, because You-Know-Why, Rabbit," said Pooh, "but it comes to me sometimes...")
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The pickerel, peacock and pony,
Invertebrate creatures and bony,
All sprang from mutation,
Not godly creation -
To talk of 'design' is baloney.
SAFEGUARD - SAILCLOTH
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On hearing a forecast of gales,
The crew had to take down the sails
To safeguard the ship,
Lest the sailcloth should rip
And lure hungry sharks or blue whales.
NATURE - NAY
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By nature, some men are aggressive;
Their wives find them fiercely possessive.
If someone says 'Yea',
They are apt to shout 'Nay!'
Or phrases more plainly expressive.
CRAMPED - CREAM
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The cream to be stored in a cruet
Was so cramped by the crocks full of suet
That when more room was needed
(Shelf space was exceeded)
We wondered just how they would do it!
FLAGON - FLEET
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I dreamed of a tortoise so fleet
That it chased a large dog down the street.
Along came a dragon
Which drank from a flagon,
Then swallowed my pet parakeet.
DESOLATE - DETACH
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Don't know whether you know about the OEDILF... This AP bulletin was published in many papers today. Must be a slow news day.
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Don't know whether you know about the OEDILF... No, I hadn't heard about it. Thanks.
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DESOLATE - DETACH
If you live on a desolate plain,
Assailed by tempestuous rain,
The wind may detach
A roof made of thatch,
But a flat concrete one will remain.
PASSENGER - PASTEL
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