“to write a poem that incorporates neologisms. What’s that? Well, it’s a made-up word! Your neologisms could be portmanteaus (basically, a word made from combining two existing words….Probably the most famous example of a poem incorporating neologisms is Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky,

Of course, like Mr. Sinatra said, I have to do this my way.  So, I thought about a morning ritual that Ally and I share.

Wakcup Call
By Michael Romani

Disentangling from our passion inspired hugwinder
Into a sprawl like a sort of never, ever minder
I find myself smiling bemusedly and as mesmerized
As the day we first met, caught up in your gaze
Instantly, feeling and melting I am tendereyzed
In your searching ogleation caught happily dazed
Amazed as always in how you've become my prayer-shaper
Sharing our wakecup of love and brewed Java Joe 
Love giver, shaker, forms of poetry and home maker
You smile from your sleep-noggin as you stretch slow
Shining the warmth of your love in the beam-streams
That wake us up from a night of beautiful dreams
And I realize our dreamyation is as real as it seems
I smilingly seek an answer for my happiness and blame you...

(c) April 18, 2017 Michael Romani

A useful glossary for the above:

Wakcup – that first cup of coffee or tea of the day shared with the one you love

Tendereyzed – that feeling that you get when she melts you with her eyes

Dreamyation – those creative thoughts you get between dreaming and sleeping

Ogleation – that point of staring into each other’s eyes so long that you never want to look away

Sleep-noggin – Sleepy head

Hugwinder – a deep spooning sleep position in which it is nearly impossible where one begins and the other of the lovers ends

Beam-streams – the morning sun as it peeps through the window panes filling you with happiness and certainty that the day will be filled with beauty and wonder

Prayer-shaper – the things, persons, and/or events that you want and need so very badly and intensely that they come to shape your dreams and prayers