Serendipitous Soliloquies

14 Exquisite Estuaries of Meaning: Eloquence Unperturbed

by Andrea Watson | November 23, 2020

Welcome back to our circle, dearest readers. I must confess, I am in love with the English language. Though it can be crass and abrasive if used improperly, the words we speak and write in English can also be inspiring and angelic. It is not just the way these words are spelled and the way they look-though that does help a lot. It is also the meanings of the words. Though some are less complex, they are all still opulent enough to stand out from others. So please join me as I go through a list of 14 of my favorite words in the English language.

1. Dreadful: No other word expresses such terrible grim as this; to be dreadful is to be On High.
2. Singular: Alone this word can lift me from my roots into a circle of love and soft light
3. Tendrils: So delicate; so lithe, so alien. I fell them running up the back of my neck and into the base of my brain
4. Crystalline: The driven snow hushed against itself, the tiny particulate formations of purity formed in this thrumming silence.
5. Petrichor: Blood of what is the Gods, stolid, and everlasting-a pillar.
6. Elixir: Of secrecy and magic, a spellbinding drop of syrupy-colored heaven-essence on your tongue.
7. Decadent: Of everything thick with unearthly pallor and moist with the dew of sensuality and lust.
8. Sanguine: Archaic and tranquil, the lullaby floats in soft ebbing above our sleep-dust eyes in our nodding heads.
9. Nepenthe: Sweet release from the what blinds and pinches us, an opalescent mother’s milk flavored of lilies.
10. Oracle: The One who prophesies, predicts, and predates.
11. Malefic: A sinister throb in the throat of a sleeping beast; we dread to awaken, it’s claws and fangs springing forth to bring desolation to us all.
12. Effulgent: Pregnant with divine light which flows forth from the ascended one to fill the minds and eyes of those willing to see.
13. Stellar: And blinking, I see the stars behind my eyelids, that which is perfect, and pristine and pointed.
14. Paradox: As this something is really nothing, we are neither here at all, nor anywhere. Do we wave aloft? Perhaps we do.

Now, of course these are not the definitions of these words; I leave that up to you to search out if you do not already know. Rather, these are the words that follow my favorites in my mind when I hear the splendid soft plunk of one of my favorites in conversation. It may have been too much. But I truly love what words can do for us. Sometimes it feels good to bathe in the beauty of them. Thank you for staying. Until next time, loves.

Andrea xo