Poetry Slam!: "Ode to the Table" by Pablo Neruda

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  1. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
    I work out my odes
    on a four-legged table
    laying before me bread and wine
    and roast meat
    (that black boat
    of our dreams)
    Sometimes I set out scissors, cups and nails,
    hammers and carnations.
  2. trustworthy
    worthy of trust or belief
    Tables are trustworthy:
    titanic quadrupeds
    they sustain
    our hopes and our daily life.
  3. titanic
    of great force or power
    Tables are trustworthy:
    titanic quadrupeds
    they sustain
    our hopes and our daily life.
  4. quadruped
    an animal especially a mammal having four limbs
    Tables are trustworthy:
    titanic quadrupeds
    they sustain
    our hopes and our daily life.
  5. sustain
    be the physical support of
    Tables are trustworthy:
    titanic quadrupeds
    they sustain
    our hopes and our daily life.
  6. gluttony
    habitual eating to excess
    Gluttony's table is a wonder
    piled high with Gothic lobsters
    and there is also a lonesome
    table in our aunt's dining room,
    in summer.
  7. humble
    low or inferior in station or quality
    And there is a faraway table, a humble table,
    where they're weaving
    a wreath
    for
    a dead miner.
  8. wreath
    a circular band of flowers or other foliage
    And there is a faraway table, a humble table,
    where they're weaving
    a wreath
    for
    a dead miner.
  9. shadowy
    lacking clarity or distinctness
    There's a table
    in a shadowy room nearby
    that love sets ablaze with its flames.
  10. ablaze
    lighted up by or as by fire or flame
    There's a table
    in a shadowy room nearby
    that love sets ablaze with its flames.
  11. engulf
    flow over or cover completely
    The world is a table
    engulfed in honey and smoke
    smothered by apples and blood.
  12. smother
    envelop completely
    The world is a table
    engulfed in honey and smoke
    smothered by apples and blood.
  13. launder
    cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
    The table is already set,
    and we know the truth
    as soon as we are called:
    whether we're called to war or to dinner
    we will have to choose sides,
    have to know
    how we'll dress
    to sit
    at the long table,
    whether we'll wear the pants of hate
    or the shirt of love, freshly laundered.
Created on Sun Jan 12 19:56:01 EST 2020 (updated Sun Jan 12 19:58:24 EST 2020)

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