Expergefactor

By YaseminB

Thu, 16 May 2019
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Expergefactor

Heavy in slumber

My skin is dull

Eyes wide heavy with sarrow.

Where art thou expergefactor?

An owl’s coot to awaken me no more.

My mind swims bewixed uthceare

And idleness.

I long  for the chitter chatter of

Birds

Or the chitter chatter of naysayers even.

I recite an ancient tale to sleep

The punch line is a mist.

Flirting with old England’s words

Deep in sleep yet my aching bones know no rest.

 

 

 

 

 

Certificate PG
Poem
Surreal

Comments

Submitted by Nolan on

Your poem looks like a chess piece, a bishop. I wonder if it's deliberate. I tried looking up "expergefactor" in the dictionary but couldn't find anything. Not even "experge". And of course you do know you've posted this same poem twice?

The content is quite interesting. Intriguing & Nolan

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Ok. I see you've removed the other one.

Cheers &

 

Submitted by YaseminB on

thanks nolan. just saw your comment. admin must've removed the duplicate one. Expergefactor does deverve to have its glory back. Why did such an amazing word fall out of fashion? It is a mystery to me,

Yasemin Balandi

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Hi Yasemin - yes we did remove the duplicate post but kept the one where you had received a comment already. 

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Ok, but I still don't know what "experge" means, to my shame?

 

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

The word may have gone out of fashion but it can still be found in the dictionary,
For Nolan's benefit here is an explanation: A synonym for awakening is expergefacient; expergefaction is waking up and an alarm clock is an expergefactor.

Hope it helps. Best, Luigi.

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Your link doesn't work but thanks Luigi- perhaps I still have a chance to use experging myself! Ok I've had enough of these epergefactors please

Enjoy your weekend &&