Today's poem is inspired by the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. We could run with an entry, or come up with our own, which is what I did. Postvas n. from the Latin "post" meaning after
after the getting acquainted or the catching up after the brunch or the tea or the dinner or the dancing after the toasts, the host is left alone. the home from the Spanish "vacío" meaing empty notices the absence of conversations misses the extra lumens which shone from eyes and smiles feels the dip in degrees as the door closes behind the last warm body. all gone except the host who is left from the Spanish "vaso" meaning drinking glass with a sink full of empty glasses in an empty house all previous enchantment lifted, left with vasos vacíos (empty glasses), evidence that it was not a dream. Ex: Positively paralyzed by postvas, the host went to bed, leaving the empty glasses where they stood.
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