Twenty-Seven Syllables
This is crepuscular diatribe
In quotidian confrontation
Meaning I’m scared of the coming night
(three lines of nine for no particular reason; maybe because I was born on the twenty-seventh day of the month; maybe because I want to try out the dictionary word-of-the-day; maybe because sometimes encroaching night puts me off—sometimes encroaching dawn as well)
clcouch123 
February 9, 2016 at 4:01 am
Ooooh!!! This is beautiful, Christopher! Especially the last line!
February 9, 2016 at 9:26 pm
Yeah, the last line moves from complex words to a simple truth. Thank you!
February 10, 2016 at 2:22 am
Exactly! 😀
February 9, 2016 at 1:08 pm
wow! you win the word of the day prize… crepuscular … indeed a lovely meaning, but the word itself escapes me. My semester of High School Latin fails me. its etomology? My first idea for my major fields was Linguistics…which I absolutely adore anyway. I love the word-of-the-day. Even after knowing the meaning of crepuscular it is threatening to escape me because I don’t have any reference. I really need to get a smaller dictionary, the big one I use is too big to hold comfortably and I need two hands to get it so I can use it. 🙂
crepe-hanger?
February 9, 2016 at 9:35 pm
I get sent a word a day from Oxford Dictionaries. Sometimes I know the word. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I want to apply the word. Crepuscular is Latin with an English ending. Crepusculum (apparently, no longer used) is Latin for twilight. Using the ar suffix makes the word an adjective. Apparently, it’s used in zoology with other terms such as diurnal to indicate and separate animals’ preferred time of activity. I like crepe-hanger. That could be a useful tool. How the two crep-words might relate I do not know. Maybe if I knew more French. Thanks!
February 9, 2016 at 10:33 pm
I get the OED too, good site. I was wondering about the crep- prefix. I looked it up, usually I can guess based on similar words, but couldn’t pin this one down. Has to do with dusk and coming-darkness, it’s a tough word though hard to add to my vocabulary because I don’t have any references.
February 10, 2016 at 7:52 pm
Beyond quotidian. Clever.
February 10, 2016 at 8:32 pm
Thank you. I appreciate hearing the verse might have life beyond the day.