lol...

[tailor STATELY]

A small group of poets meets in our Gold Country library the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month to discuss, read, and write poetry. One of our challenges is a "Word Can" poem... a word is pulled out of the can by each participant and we have a few minutes to come up with a poem/(or not) that we share with each other when all are done. Our most recent challenge included the words:

matter/fuselage/remote/cottage/perspire

There were some wonderful creations by our small group - mine more mundane but I will share:



A Sight Rhyme

Would fuselage rhyme with cottage
in a perfect world I pondered
I check my poetry app with eagerness,
no need to perspire
But does it really matter
with all the time in the world
when one lives simply in the comforts
of a remote home

1/20/2022

Your challenge is to write a poem with these same 5-words (above).

I hope to return with a new list of words from our Word Can from our next meeting as well as my new impromptu attempt :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

One of my recent Word Can challenge attempts:
(mince/township/quirky/destiny/jam)

"The Township Faire's Mince Jam Confiddle"

'twas the destiny of our township faire
as quirky as the town's folke are around hyar
to have a five way tie in the mince jam category
turned into one hullabaloo
- I tell you, yes sirree...
To break the tie the five finalist got thunkin'
to shoot at the township faire's prize winnin' pumpkin
The closest to the mark smack dab in the middle
would solve this mince jam confiddle
So who'd a thunk when the first up to shoot
shot a skunk and we all had to skid-diddle

... Challenge continues :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

My latest Word Can poem from 6/16/2022: people/viewpoint/trillion/paralyze/thinkers



simply write a poem

the viewpoint of a trillion
thinkers paralyzes my soul -
I would rather step back from
the nuances that permeate the
ordinary and simply write a poem

6/16/2022

The challenge is yours; as per the rules of our group I had about 10-minutes to write something... you have until I post my next poem :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

One of my recent Word Can challenge attempts:
(mince/township/quirky/destiny/jam)

"The Township Faire's Mince Jam Confiddle"

'twas the destiny of our township faire
as quirky as the town's folke are around hyar
to have a five way tie in the mince jam category
turned into one hullabaloo
- I tell you, yes sirree...
To break the tie the five finalist got thunkin'
to shoot at the township faire's prize winnin' pumpkin
The closest to the mark smack dab in the middle
would solve this mince jam confiddle
So who'd a thunk when the first up to shoot
shot a skunk and we all had to skid-diddle

... Challenge continues :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Much enjoyed the lingo!

[Danik 2016]

Well, this is a summons indeed!

people/viewpoint/trillion/paralyze/thinkers

Question

The viewpoint
The view
The point
The viewpoint
The viewpoint of
The people
The viewpoint of people

A million
A billion
A trillion

A million people
A billion people
A trillion people

A thinker
A million thinkers
A billion thinkers
A trillion thinkers

Do a trillion viewpoints paralyze thinking?

[tailor STATELY]

I like your poem :) Reminded me of a sci-fi short story where there was a sentence passed down to a person proved guilty of a heinous crime who was subjected to a mass public psychic hating.

Thanx for kicking off the responses !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Much enjoyed the lingo!

Thanx ! It was an attempt at vernacular poetry on the spur of the moment. A poet you and I recently encountered, in the "First Line Poetry" thread I believe, used vernacular poetry to great effect and fame (I think he was from Indiana). I've used the vernacular device only a few times - this recent poem of mine becoming one of my favorites.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanx ! It was an attempt at vernacular poetry on the spur of the moment. A poet you and I recently encountered, in the "First Line Poetry" thread I believe, used vernacular poetry to great effect and fame (I think he was from Indiana). I've used the vernacular device only a few times - this recent poem of mine becoming one of my favorites.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

re1:The poet is James W. Riley. I liked how you created a sort of Dickensian comic situation and adapted it to the slang with wordplay and all.

re 2: Lol! Didn´t intend anything so drastic. I saw something like this somewhere, maybe it was a concrete German poem. I wanted to slowly build up the meaning of the poem by emphasizing the smaller elements and then question it. But I had to make some changes.

[Danik 2016]

Next challenge:

unicorn/ dream/ skating/yellow/multitude

[tailor STATELY]

:)

unicorn/multitude/dream/skating/yellow

a plush unicorn dreams of forest hills
gamboling with a multitude of fauns
a lazy yellow sun beaming before them

nearby on a table a snow globe at rest -
a snowman skating a lasting pirouette
with his red hat and green scarf askew

6/23/2022

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this nursery poem.
Not quite sure about the rules. Same challenge?

[tailor STATELY]

Sure :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

unicorn/multitude/dream/skating/yellow

A yellow unicorn
dreams a dream:
A multitude of frogs
are skating on the seam
of a stream.
The dream is green.

Suggesting a new rule. Each player creates a new challenge for the next player.

Next challenge: skyrocket/ moon/ surfing/teacup/ambling

[tailor STATELY]

Love it... staying with the dream:

this might be the night ... skyrocket/moon/surfing/teacup/ambling

ambling at dawn within
a surfing dream -
my heart languishing in a teacup
thinking of the past
with the moon over my
shoulder - soon the pyrotechnics
will soar from
cannonades reporting as each
skyrocket takes flight -
this might be the night

Next: stormy/gladness/questions/secrets/button

7/1/2022
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

double

[Danik 2016]

stormy/gladness/questions/secrets/button

Uncanny
Stormy times when
the snakes in sheepskins
pierce the night with
their cries.
Questions pend in
the air.
Sleepwalking fireflies
preserve their secrets.
Please don´t press
the secret button
by mistake

Next: birds/ancient/ guitar/endeavor/longing

[tailor STATELY]

Cool poem: Interesting imagery there. I like how the secret button is revealed in the word you left out... very clever :)

too young for the summer of love (birds/ancient/ guitar/endeavor/longing)

I dreamt of a time only
an electric guitar could evoke
:as ancient as the 60's
- twentieth century endeavors
that lured birds to
surreal pillow conclavities
and psychedelic heights -
longings I can only imagine

7/3/2022

Next: sanctuary/spoon/revel/river/geode

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Post doubled because of editing.

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Forgot the word gladness. Loved your interpretation of This oversight!;)
Enjoyed the nostalgic session!

sanctuary/spoon/revel/river/geode

The Geode

It inhabits the sanctuary
at the banks of
a secret river.

The Geode´s heart is hollow
and has the form of a spoon.
In the game of gain and lose
he eternally revels in
his victory.


Next challenge: July/ lentils/parachute/ howling/underground

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :)

"After thunder comes the rain !" - July/lentils/parachute/howling/underground

An epitaph wails from Hades' domain
A howling from beyond the grave
"After thunder comes the rain !"

Her torment, let me explain -
Pierced her cold, cold heart as if by glaive
An epitaph wailed from Hades' domain

No sweet disposition did she ever maintain
No golden parachutes for those who deprave
"After thunder comes the rain !"

June's bickering was followed by July's complain
Xanthippe treating her spouse as less a slave
An epitaph wails from Hades' domain

As humble as lentils Socrates lived in twain
His philosophies no mere underground rave
"After thunder comes the rain !"

For Xanthippe's riotous disdain
A chamber pot on Socrates' pate did she lave
An epitaph wails from Hades' domain
"After thunder comes the rain !"

7/4/2022

Next: bottle/fan/wallet/lazy/jazz

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Somewhat partial to Xanthippe, but laving the chamberpot on the pate is mean!

Next: bottle/fan/wallet/lazy/jazz

Minimalism

Lazy Jack
Took a nap
With the Cub
on his lap
After hitting the bottle and
listening to Jaaaaaaaaazzz!

His bottle empty
He got up
To go to the club
with his cup
and The Cub.

But, where were his wallet
and his tablet?
He had been robbed
by a fan
while his heart throbbed
To the sound of Jaaaaaaaaazzz!

Next chalenge: ocean/lightning/ explosion /gold/pondering

[tailor STATELY]

lol... poor lazy Jack !

ocean/lightning/ explosion /gold/pondering

pondering is one of my favorite
pastimes here in the Gold Country

be it poetic devices to exploit or
God's immense realm to examine

lightning strikes when revelation
produces an explosion of inspiration -

from the smallest mote in the ocean
to the vastness of galactic design

7/4/2022

Next: negotiate/teeth/cool/pyramid/road

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed it immensely! Elegant use of challenged words.

negotiate/teeth/cool/pyramid/road




Bankruptcy

I dream about
a pyramid of teeth
So I set my foot
on the road
in the cool morning
to negotiate
with my dentist.

Next challenge:

cake/stratosphere/shoes/claiming/blue

[tailor STATELY]

Well done :) "a pyramid of teeth"... love the imagery... praying all is well. I can identify with your poem whole heartedly.


tournament

funky blue, green, red
shoes - so we don't steal them I
guess (lol)... piece of cake
my scores through the stratosphere
claiming first prize easily

7/5/2022

Next: esbat/yapok/obituary/sweep/violet

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

esbat/yapok/obituary/sweep/violet
Lol!

Obituary
Dear yapoc,
Since you were swept away
deceased under a violet sky
nature grew sweet violets
in your former haunts.
And creatures of the night
stream to your esbat,
lamenting your early departure
wishing you to rest in peace.

Next challenge:
lilies/anthropomorphic/moonstone/singing/hermaphrodite

[tailor STATELY]

lol... too much rain again, poor yapoc

Mine needs a little work:

an acrostic production: an homage to unrequited love

sadly, t'was a one night show - some giggled, said
it was more a one night stand - a dashing lead her-
maphroditic snail ought to have had less than a sn-
owball in, well, with an anthropomorphic caterpillar
no matter how one spun the cocoon or tale of

all the kerfuffles of identities and gender nuanced se-
nsibilities unsung of in the seventies; the dullar-
ds of the academy ought to have had their diminutive

minds open to the possibility of - a sweet soliloquy
in the garden - where she, having received her
ring of moonstone (symbolic of hope and fertility) -
artfully singing arias rife with thrilling glissandos bri-
nging down the house, heralding love eternal! - instea-
d received a bouquet of stargazer lilies - her lead
actor of note unceremoniously served as escargot

ref: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/ward-kimball-explains-to-a-hollywood-producer-why-an-animated-film-about-a-snail-is-a-stupid-idea-86300.html

7/5/2022

Next: clothes/plot/fever/velvet/rubbish

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Wonderful! Your poem and the reference made my day! it´s a long time since I laughed so much! Should be presented at some of this gender discussions we have today. But I have still a difficulty to find the acrostic in some poems.



The torments of an ambitious young author

He was forever thinking of his plot.
He didn´t want it to be rubbish
He fevered about it a lot.

He fevered about it a lot.
While trothing around in his best clothes
He was forever thinking of his plot.

He was forever thinking of his plot.
While dreaming of velvet carpets
But he never wrote the final dot.

Next challenge: anomy/ basket/ underground/hydrogenous/scathing

[tailor STATELY]

lol... love the poetic form :)



it's da bomb

her anomy was too apparent to have been missed -
'twas her glowing persona that betrayed her in a twist

one would think making a hydrogen bomb tough,
it's not - you just need (4) A-bombs to start with (and stuff)

for each A-bomb simply gather a basket of
enriched U-235, or Plutonium lying around, using gloves...
Geiger counters from any army surplus store
help in this initial procurement step; wherefore -

unenriched U-235 is more of a hassle but possibly easier to
obtain, but it needs to be enriched - you'll need true
yellow cake (not the store brand) and hydrogenous
stuff to start - then the fun begins with some simple
HS chemistry (and some band experience playing the timple)

once the fissionable stuff is prepared the controls
and assembly begins: large metal salad bowls,
some C4, and an old vacuum cleaner obtained from
a thrift store come in useful for the steps to come

for the final process some lithium will be necessary -
hydrogenous lithium is easily obtained; (think battery)

- now a word about waste:

indigenous lands are traditionally utilized, whether it's
buried underground or trapped in earthen pits
covered with water; however household facilities are just
as effective (and immeasurably more robust)

in a scathing tweet, prior to detonating her first
device, her three 9-year old followers conversed -
a terse discourse on what targets would prove best
- but, after nixing the three grade schools addressed
she took matters into her own hands and settled on

7/7/2022

ref:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1979/04/29/how-to-make-your-own-h-bomb/e149e729-e165-49fa-aa21-6d7121f42673/

Next: bee/river/whisper/scale/green

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Ump! Quite explosive this one. Sadly couldn´t read the reference:(. Nixing. Sounded familiar:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nix

bee/river/whisper/scale/green

Whisper, whisper little bee
What are the news you
have for me?

I´ve seen the scales
of the big fish
glimmer in the
blue river.

Whisper, whisper little bee
What are the news you
have for me?

I flew over green planes
drinking the nectar
of multiple flowers.

Whisper, whisper little bee
What are the news you
have for me?

I flew over the river
the river was blue
no more.
I saw the silver
scales glistening
on the shore.

I sought the green planes
They weren´t green
anymore.
I saw so many
flowers wilting
on the shore

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed the poem - so sad the message.

Here's a quotation from my source:
How To Make Your Own H-Bomb
After the federal government obtained a court order to keep The Progressive magazine from publishing an article describing the technology of the hydrogen bomb, Seven Days, a bimonthly published in New. York, stepped into the breach. What follows is excerpted from the Seven Days articie, written by staffers Barbara Ehrenreich, Peter Biskind and Jane Melnick and scientist Michio Kaku. It has not been cleared with the Department of Energy or any other federal agency : THE HEART of the successful H-bomb is the successful A-bomb. Once you've got your A-bombs made, the rest is frosting on the cake. 1. Getting the Ingredients

Uranium is the basis ingredient of the A-bomb. There are two kinds of uranium, the rare U-235,used in bombs, and the more common, heavier, but useless U-238... and it continues quite tongue in cheek :)

I need to make a quick edit.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks :). And I forgot the next challenge. So here goes:

android/ music/ nightingale/ secret/impending

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a clockworks nightingale... nightingale/ secret/impending/android/music

the androids had taken over the local pub
androgynous instrumental music the new fare
but secretly, most stealthily, with none aware
a clockworks nightingale was booked as a sub
- some sensed an impending disaster

but when the lights dimmed about the androids
and the spotlight blazed beyond compare
upon the clockworks nightingale extraordinaire
something nostalgic did stir in hearts that whirled
in a blur when its sweet song filled the air

7/7/2022

Next: coin/lamp/cedar/beltway/roust

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

double

[Danik 2016]

"something nostalgic did stir in hearts that whirled
in a blur when its sweet song filled the air" :)

coin/lamp/cedar/beltway/roust

It all started
with a coin
he found under
the old cedar,
while driving
along the beltway.

As it was night
he had to get
his lamp to see it.
He put the
shining piece
in his pocket,
and drove home.

Next morn he found
to coins.
At noon there were four
and at the end
of the day,
There were already,
Sixty-four pieces of gold!

He went out and had a gorgeous
lunch with his girl friend.
In the evening he came back
to his now 128 coins.

During a week
He lived like a king.
he bought all he wanted
bought expensive presents
for his friends, planed
the holydays
he never had had.

And each time he
came home
his coins had doubled
in quantity.

They began to fill
the house,
So he bought
a larger one.
But he got rousted
from this house too
by his incessantly
multiplying guests.

He asked his
best friend for shelter.
But soon this house too threatened
to become overflooded with coins
and he had to leave.

He started to live
in the streets.
He still ate well
for he was rich.
He even attracted
clients to the restaurants,
who were after his coins.

But he grew restless,
with his incontrollable welt.
The town was filling with coins
and the citizens who first were happy
began to be afraid.

The major told him
If the spook didn´t cease
he would have to
leave the town.
He moved to the streets
on the outskirts of the town
together with a flood of
golden coins.

Then one day,
when he was
drinking water from a font
he didn´t dare to go
to the bars any more,
the coin he had found
fell into the fountain.
The coins ceased to multiply,
in seconds they all disappeared.
He went back to his old house
and lived happily ever after.


Next challenge: hippopotamus/ hypothalamus/truck/receding/ atmosphere

[tailor STATELY]

Quite a tale ! Loved it. Thank you for the new word challenge... it may take awhile (lol)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Duplicate while trying to edit

[tailor STATELY]

But did I tell you about my pet hippopotamus' hypothalamus ?
(hippopotamus/ hypothalamus/truck/receding/ atmosphere)

Y'all know what a great dancer my pet hippopotamus was:

(Her) “pirouettes so refined and grand mal.
Your cabrioles into a plie´ received great praise -
Most assuredly the belle of the ball."

... and how well she dealt with the penguin:

"Simply counting aloud from one to ten,
Forestalled the need for an execution."

and how she and her friends got along with the hyenas:

"hissing hippos hurry, having hit
hastily harped hysterical hyenas,
hospitalized handling hurricanes
historically hesitant hearing
horrendously hungry hoodoos"

Well I'll tell you - the atmosphere was as thick
as thieves with them doctor's and such; all the cuttin'
and pumpin' fluids and drugs and all to remove my
poor hippo's hypothalamus... it must have been them
hoodoos that put a hex on it, I’m dang certain of it

Anywho, as I watched the semi-truck receding in the
twilight... (she couldn't fit in one of them fancy am-bu-lan-ces)
headed for recovery central I pondered (what I do best) on what
the bejeebies was the doctor jibber-jabbering about homeostasis ?

7/9/2022

Next: mist/amok/fold/canvas/doorbell

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Poor, poor hippo! Liked specially the word play and the elegant alliteration.

mist/amok/fold/canvas/doorbell

The hurricane

Do you remember
how the wind ran amok
folding the wood houses
like so many canvas tents?


Buried in the mists of time
memories come alive
as i press
the doorbell
of the new house!

The new challenge: landing/spree/ Inuit/solipsistic/cringing

[tailor STATELY]

Love the archeological disaster poem !

Thought I'd take a stab at my challenge too :)


Sotheby's, Nine O'clock... (mist/amok/fold/canvas/doorbell)

'twas no one's surprise they went to a rich duck
unfolded a tale through the veritable mists of time
though to a canvasback one to have had the luck ?
- doorbells including one from the Addams Family on
the block when the auctioneer's hammer last struck
reminiscent of Aunt Clara's collection of doorknobs
though proving more charitable after the bidding went amok

7/11/2022


Never Inuit enough !... (landing/spree/ Inuit/solipsistic/cringing)

"Inuit": I knew it !... Never Inuit enough !
My deep seated solipsistic slant sent me cringing
as I read the news from Qikiqtaaluk when the
Qikiqtani Inuit song/poem contest winners
were announced... I knew it ! "Never Inuit
enough !" - insult ever landed to my shattered
id as if my shopping spree poem didn't rate a
prize over two children playing together: I knew it !

7/11/2022

Next: accordion/stripes/follow/banana/mirror

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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[Danik 2016]

double

[Danik 2016]

re: "Archeological disaster" is good!
Interesting poem, an unusual subject. Would Scrooge McDuck(here known as Tio Patinhas) be the rich duck in Sotheby's, Nine O'clock?

Never Inuit enough!-Liked again the unusual subject.

accordion/stripes/follow/banana/mirror

Clichè

A faint aurora
over the sea
The nostalgic sound
of an accordion
from afar
People relishing bananas
under a palm tree.

If you follow me
you´ll find
no stripes and banners.
Just an irreverent mirror
of identity.

https://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-225238/trailer-19537589/

Next challenge: river/skyscraper/ elves/Andalusia/ laughing

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem :) Larger than life ! Had some trouble playing your video... A touching documentary I found contains a number of segments about Carmen :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YpLyD2e1Bc


even the elves have gone - an acrostic
(river/skyscraper/elves/Andalusia/laughing)

A skyscraper rid the world of clouds -
Rivers and seas no longer refreshed;
Mountains divested of their snowcaps;
Andalusian dreamscapes once heralded
Gateways by Hemingway - scorched earth.
Ecosystems' equilibriums in full tilt toward
Death, extinction of all we loved and cherished.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen o' man -
No one's laughing - even the elves have gone

7/13/2022

Next: signature/thirst/rosette/penumbra/green

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks! And thanks for the documentary on CM!
Your poem-sad but true! The elves have moved to better worlds.

signature/thirst/rosette/penumbra/green

The Book of Magic

In the penumbra
of a dusty attic
there looms
more than lies
a forgotten green book.
It bears as signature
on the top of
a pale rosette.

How many
succumbed to its
dark secrets
through their
thirst of knowledge?

Next challenge: roaster/stratosphere/engine/randomly/bearing

[tailor STATELY]

Magical !


ejection sequence initiated / tanka
(roaster/stratosphere/engine/randomly/bearing)

in the stratosphere
an engine bearing amok
under the wide blue
randomly my roaster fails -
flames out - a bumpy ride down

7/14/2022

Next: mantis/brick/dancing/periwinkle/feeder

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Drastic!


mantis/brick/dancing/periwinkle/feeder

The fairy and the mantis

Sailing over the
sun scorched fields,
dancing lightly, Periwinkle
meets a lonely mantis
sitting on a brick
near an empty feeder.

"What´s up, dear mantis?"
asks the little fairy.

"I´m just praying for rain,
neither too much, nor too little
to revive the dry plantation
and fill the feeder.
Can you help?"

"No, I can´t, dear mantis.
I´ve lost my magic powers.
Go on praying for rain,
neither too much, nor too little
to bring life to the dry landscape
and fill the feeder."
Without a word more
Periwinkle flew away

Next challenge: antlers/chewing/ horse/chromosome/door

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful !

CRISPR critters... Tanka https://www.newscientist.com/definition/what-is-crispr/ (antlers/chewing/ horse/chromosome/door)

all it took was chang-
ing five chromosomes - I walked
through the door and the
horse was busily trying
to chew its velvet antlers

7/17/2022

Next: carbon/yellow/box/vacuum/breathe

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks! Oh my!

carbon/yellow/box/vacuum/breathe

A dusty poem

This is not an interplanetary engine.
Only a yellow vacuum cleaner
in a cardboard box
breathing carbon gas.

Next challenge: gold/divine/galactic/herring/explore

[tailor STATELY]

More like a time machine then :)

"tttt tttt tttt tt..." / an acrostic sonnet of dubious nature

this galactic FRB most scintillatingly impressed -
technologist worldwide were universally obsessed
toward NGC 4631 - a barred galactic spiral dressed
too like an ultraviolet gold/silver herring at rest

that resides in Canes Venatici - a constellation best
thought of containing quasar TON 618, a coalesced
titan - one of the most massive black holes expressed
this side of divine creation - a visible quasar guessed

to be a distant 18.2 billion light-years away - yet assessed
to be about 10.8 billion years old ! - an L-a emitter blest
touting a special wavelength emitted by somewhat distressed
tonally neutral hydrogen, but I digress - as the FRB wrest

the laws of physics to its ultimate Einstein/Hawking test
tacitly exploring a signal reminiscent of the French Metal band Celeste

7/17/2022

Next: regret/solid/whet/dune/tunnel

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Impressive! Can´t say that I understood each detail of it, but it is a true piece of intergalactiness and probably would look also fine in the astronomy thread.

regret/solid/whet/dune/tunnel

At the sight
of those dazzling
feats,
I modestly
whet my wit
Regretfully
retiring
into the
most solid tunnel
of the earth,
dreaming about
dunes, camels
and chameleons.

Edited to include the forgotten word "solid".

[tailor STATELY]

Solid !

I'll use the same challenge:


the captive of tinfou

gold dunes shimmering
no regrets for my escape
whetted blade thrown thus:
a solid footing adds force
tunnel vision guides its flight

7/20/2022

Next: gloss/paradox/deadpan/latchkey/itch

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Got the message!
the captive of tinfou-Enjoyed the synthetic story.

gloss/paradox/deadpan/latchkey/itch

The Paradox

No use glossing over this
and I itch
to discover the truth:
How come that sublime speaker
deadpanned as soon
as he turned his latchkey?

I often pondered over this paradox.

Next challenge: ivory/ underwhelming/ sweets/ umbrella/ entertaining

[tailor STATELY]

Great poem !


I'm in Heaven

Sweet's the word tickling the ivories -
outside sheltered from the sun by an
umbrella the size of a small cabana
as the tide rolls on - I have my fans:
the coconut crabs who idle by, the shrill
gulls who find my playing laughingly
entertaining; it's only the bronzed gods
who find my playing underwhelming -
but I'm the one truly in heaven as I play

7/20/2022

Next: challenge/poise/fearless/thread/subtle

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Very cute! A baby elephant?

Next: challenge/poise/fearless/thread/subtle

Diplomacy

A fearless poise
is ever a challenge
and so often a useless one.

An elephant in a crystal´s shop
Is bound to break
delicate dishes.

Being subtle demands tact
the numerous forum threads
bear witness to it

Next challenge: cushion/ plane/ synergy/ shimmering/soundless

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) Baby elephant ? (lol) Love the metaphor.


wing and a prayer (cushion/plane/synergy/shimmering/soundless)

airplanes fly upon a cushion of air; their
synergistic forces on a wing and a prayer
shimmering tarmacs greet all who repair
to milieus where soundless hopes square
with no onerous expectations whatsoe'er

7/22/2022

Next: trial/door/album/lightning/puzzle

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed!

(trial/door/album/lightning/puzzle)

The mystery

No selfies,
no instantaneous takes:
When you go though the door
you see on the table:
a dusty brown album
with its faded photos
open on its last pages.

Time congealed the images
and muted the sounds.
Only bouts of. lightening
Occasionally lit the room
since the fatal trial.

What really happened here?
The puzzle remains.

Next challenge: footage/roadside/ chameleon/craft/planting

[tailor STATELY]

Interesting vignette and puzzle :)


critter cams

it's a craft to place critter cams - planting
them chameleon-like along enchanting
obscure critter path's roadsides where they
amble, romp, and sometimes stalk - so later
one may retrieve footage to reveal what may
the wonders of local wildlife at one's leisure

local critter cammer:
https://m.facebook.com/KateDouglas.authorpage/videos/georgetown-critters-22822/915714185769176/

7/22/2022

Next: sailing/stars/brass/resolve/delusion

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

My latest Word Can poem from 11/3/2022:



"La Plume de Ma Tante"

(presume/plume/diverge/wild/session/retail/significant/replace)


“La Plume de Ma Tante” a diversion that Parker,
my pen, would presume while I in a wild session
of poetry study struggled replacing French verse
with English in translation; reading Beaudelaire, a
significant poet found on the web, library, or retail
- parsing out each and every nuanced poetic detail
as Parker listens in silence and loving admiration

11/3/2022 r. 11/5/2022 r. 11/6/2022

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

My Word Can poem from 12/15/2022…



Ascension

Ah, the carelessness of youth

In a biome rich with diversity
Recklessly I ascend
A firefly

Barely avoiding
A spider’s crosshatched
Fabricated orbed web

In ascension
I do not hide my light

12/15/2022

So the new challenge is using: (biome/firefly/fabricate/ascend/reckless/crosshatch) :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed so much! Cute and polysemous. Should be separated for the future book.

Much more simple (accepting the same chalenge)

Nature fabricates crosshatched biomes.
Green pastures sport
reckless ascending fireflies.

New challenge: music, lake, ring, jolting, thunder, serene.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed !
Accept challenge :)

(music, lake, ring, jolting, thunder, serene)



the spirit awakes

an instant flash -
lightning strikes
jolting a serene lake -
rippling rings seethe
erratically at first

the music of the
rolling thunder
echoes through
the halcyon hills
awakening its spirit

12/16/2022

Continue this challenge :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this tempest!

Accept challenge:

(music, lake, ring, jolting, thunder, serene)

The lake
No ringlets crease the surface
of the lake,
it´s inaudible music is serene
until
it is jolted
by the dissonant voice of thunder!

Next challenge:
(green, Christmas, roots, enthralling, fishes, intense)

[tailor STATELY]

Very nice :)



A Fishy Christmas

Word challenge: (green, Christmas, roots, enthralling, fishes, intense)


A fishy tale to relate of once upon a Christmas
Down, down, deep, deep in the watery below
Out near a jutting isthmus
Enthralled above with bitter snow

The waving deeply green kelpy fronds
Whose roots were anchored firm
Like Christmas trees each corresponds
With nary, nary, a living worm

For the fishys there are intensely voracious
When it comes to their fishy food
So when Santa visits he thinks them most ungracious
He leaves their fishy presents in a sore mood -

Below the green kelpy fronds decorated
With sea stars at the base and urchins everywhere!
Santa leaves the fishy's presents separated
From the waving anemones' and then tarries near

For the anemones leave Santa a snack
That has filtered down into the abyss
Left over from a bull shark's meal of quack
"It's the thought that counts" Santa says in bliss

Santa's greatest challenge is with the hermit crabs
Itinerant little beasties with their houses on the move
Yes, it's very hard for Santa to keep tabs
Using google maps and other apps that prove...

Totally inadequate... So Santa asks the lobsters
Who've temporally taken up residence in traps
"Have you seen the little hermit crabs pass by, monsieurs?"
"Have you word of the little chaps?"

But the lobsters weren't inclined and in a foul mood
For they were pondering their frail existence
So Santa left each one a gift you'd
Think they would've liked for their gruff non-assistance

That of rubber bands to play cat's cradle with
But the lobsters were sore unamused
Santa left them, he knew the hermit crabs weren't a myth
Headed toward a shallow shoal and bid the lobsters be excused

He looked high tide and low tide and then chanced upon
A defenseless sea snail sobbing bereft of its shell
Oh, ho! thought Santa and the thought did dawn
That the hermit crabs were pillaging this noel
And off with current's help they stealthily have withdrawn

Santa gifted the sea snail with a home it could lock
Then followed its directions to find his peripatetic prey
Planning on giving the hermit crabs gifts of schlock
But what did he find but the hermit crabs in full array

Singing hymns to the Almighty and His Son as a child
Christmas carols divine to all who came near
And nearby a buffet for Santa to whom they beckoned and smiled
Santa wept with joy and joined in with the songs of good cheer

The moral of this story dear reader if you've read this far
Is that the spirit of Christmas shines as bright as the brightest star... even for fishys

12/20/2022

Same challenge :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Wonderful poem!
I have to think something out for tomorrow!

[Danik 2016]

(green, Christmas, roots, enthralling, fishes, intense)

The green Christmas

Christmas in my country
is always green
because it is celebrated
in summer.

It might sound strange
But we use to have pines
for Christmas trees,
a rooted custom in countries
where the cold is intense
and nature covered by snow
is almost barren of vegetation.

As a child I used to be enthralled
by our big green Christmas pine
adorned with real candles.
Today the Christmas pines
are mostly artificial and
covered with led lamps
of all colors.
They aren´t as dazzling
as the real pines
but the natural trees
are more preserved.

And what about the fishes?
They are served as codfish dishes.

Next challenge:

(wood, shower, glass, beckon, quickly)

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) I've never seen a Christmas tree with real candles lit on them, it must be impressive.

Challenge : (wood, shower, glass, beckon, quickly)


beware the woodsman

:shower me with wood chips
said the coquettish young
semiaquatic rodent to her beau
:fill my glass with the freshest
river water and do so quickly
she beckoned with a swishy tail
:return with stout heart and hope
as I consider your token of troth -
tarry not and beware the woodsman

12/21/2022

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

AAIII!
(wood, shower, glass, beckon, quickly)

The Rain
While wandering through the wood
I was surprised by a shower of rain!
The water first poured down,
Than gradually, it fell
as pearls of glass.
Behind a bush, a squirrel beckoned to me:
"Quickly, quickly" he said.

Next challenge: (candels, tower, China, running, evergreen, softly)

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful !! :) Just out of curiosity, to whom was the squirrel talking to ?



Reality Check

Browsing thrift stores is a passion -
Looking for treasures overlooked...
Perhaps antiques from Imperial China
that one sees popping up on the news
on occasion auctioned at Sotheby's,
the ivory tower of riches, for a mint

Lowering my expectations I was sur-
prised to find a festive faux evergreen
sprig wreath with pine cones - perfect
for hanging on my front door, and some
running shoes suitable for softly sneak-
ing up on my neurotic cat Candlewick

12/22/2022

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

re: Lol! "Behind a bush, a squirrel beckoned to me/"Quickly, quickly" he said (to me).

re: Enjoyed! "neurotic cat Candlewick"-reality or fiction?

(candles, tower, China, running, evergreen, softly)

The Spirits of Christmas Past

When I was a child
We used to have a "real' Christmas tree
Out of a towering pine
and adorned with baubles, chocolates and candles.

Ornamenting the ever green tree
was an important pre Christmas activity
The baubles had to be handled softly
the candles carefully.
A misplaced candle could set
the whole array on fire.

In some years I provided also
a self made manger.
Out of cotton head and body
marked by a single silken thread
a flock of running sheep
was quickly made.
Put into the lower part
of an empty box of matches
the cotton figure would represent the Holy Child himself.
Maria was a small blue cloth,
Joseph a red one with a match for a stick?
None of them had a face.

In some years I modelled the Holy Family and visitors
Sadly some of these primitive "China" figures
Soon began losing their heads,
on account of being made
of garden earth and not of clay.
My parents kept these headless kings
for years.

Next challenge: ( ice, aquarium, sloths, meandering, regular, sound)

[tailor STATELY]

re: "neurotic cat Candlewick"-reality or fiction?" - fiction.

Enjoyed your poem very much :)

Challenge: (ice, aquarium, sloths, meandering, regular, sound)


taking it slow

slender icicles melting in winter
their languid regular dripping
sounds muffled in powder snow;
sloths in nearly all that they do;
me meandering an aquarium,
planetarium, or zoo: taking it slow

12/24/2022

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! Enormous cold wave in US was in the news. Hope things are getting better and you are not too affected by it.
(ice, aquarium, sloths, meandering, regular, sound)

The intergalactic ice air ship

It went meandering through Via Lactea
The small ice air ship
It looked like a gigantic closed aquarium
With sloths in it instead of locks.
Not a sound came from the people
That one could glimpse.
The ice air ship
pursued its regular route...
meandering through the universe.

New challenge: ( book, flowers island, forward, gleefully, chiming)

[tailor STATELY]

A Sci-fi poem :)

Challenge: (book, flowers, island, forward, gleefully, chiming)


I Chanced Upon a Book

I chanced upon a book of art with
works in Gauguin's grand style while
did he in islands preoccupied imagine
then the absinthes of Van Gogh ? -
coaxing green færies in a forward
manner - they who wore red passion
flowers in their hair - the lightness of
their being chiming gleefully as these
pages turned bell, book, and candle

12/26/2022

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the lightness of the poem.

(book, flowers, island, forward, gleefully, chiming)

While the bells...

While the bells chime in the new year
I open the book of 2022.

Turning the pages back
I encounter islands immersed in the see called time.
Islands gleefully cowered with flowers
but
also deserted islands hailing the errant ships.

Forwarding the last packages of the closing year
the genius of time may well ask:
"What will 2023 bring?"

(Next challenge: word, foam, frontier, beguiling, smiling, nasty)

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed ! The future awaits !

Challenge: word, foam, frontier, beguiling, smiling, nasty


future past perfect

beguiling frontiers, tie dyed dy-
nasties smiling await our words
of foam to decipher in the future

12/28/2022

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this economical take! And the "nasty" solution was quite sly :D.

(word, foam, frontier, beguiling, smiling, nasty)

Words

Words spill over frontiers
like the foam of the sea.
Sometimes they wear
a beguiling smile
sometimes they are just nasty
But when they are sublime
frontiers disappear.

Next one: Suggesting a change in the rules. Each user suggests a new challenge for the next one.

Here is mine: artist, clay, moon, secretive, hiding, blissfully.

[tailor STATELY]

All too true... enjoyed :)

Challenge: artist, clay, moon, secretive, hiding, blissfully


Celestial Proceedings 12.27.2022

Weaving a gossamer veil of ice crystals this ev'n
the moon appeared a large crescent from Earth's
view to partake of Jupiter's counsel as Venus,
Mercury, Saturn, and red Mars flanked by Capella
and Aldebaran completed this rare celestial court

Men hiding in their homes of clay and wood and
steel this cold chill night were blissfully unaware
of this secretive conclave - where only Uranus and
Neptune deigned to abstain; Pluto having given full
proxy to Jupiter for having dealt with rogue comets

Only an artist and a poet were made privy to the
celestial seriousness this tapestry availed to men
other than the veiled moon who communicated to
them through dreams that indeed celestial scales
still tilt in man's favor - but much less than before

12/28/2022

My challenge: photograph, clash, spectrum, ice, meadow, speculate

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

I loved this astrological poem!

(photograph, clash, spectrum, ice, meadow, speculate)

The Spectre

An old photograph made me speculate.

I mused about the color clash,

all colors of the spectrum were present,

blurring the image of a strange figure,

lean and white,

with rainbow margins.

It stood on a meadow,

with mountains in the background

wearing an iced sugar coat.

Next challenge: turkey, glasses, warmth, songs, lively, snoring.

[tailor STATELY]

Very nice ! (Might want to change crash with clash though)

Challenge: turkey, glasses, warmth, songs, lively, snoring


Thanksgiving Revisited

Lively songs are sung of turkeys
whose warmth from the oven
create aromas of anticipation
that meld with fresh baked rolls

Glasses clink in salutation to the
holiday throng, and those whose
appetites survive eat desserts that
leave many torpor, some snoring

https://www.morganmanagesmommyhood.com/turkey-songs/

12/30/2022

Next: sea, charm, leaf, glide, time, superior

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem!
sea, charm, leaf, glide, time, superior

The leaf

The last leaf of the calendar
glides charmingly
into the vast sea of time.
Will the future
be superior
to the present?
Who knows!

Next challenge: Flowers, auspicious, sand, toiling, secretly, herald.

[tailor STATELY]

Very nice :) I hadn't thought of turning "the last leaf of the calendar.".. excellent !!!

Challenge: flowers, auspicious, sand, toiling, secretly, herald



Asparagus / an acrostic

An auspicious start to the New Year -
Sandbags needed to quell flooding in many
Parts of our locale to herald in Auld L-
Ang Syne - Secretly, as I cough and ache and
Rasp, I am grateful for the respite, the
Absence of snow this season but for a
Good dusting a month or so ago where the toiling for
Us was much less hazardous than last year's
Snowmageddon which smothered flowers & spirits

12/31/2022

"Winter refreshes us, and asparagus represents the hope of renewal and the optimism of what spring might bring."... https://www.chefs-garden.com/blog/may-2018/appeal-of-fresh-asparagus-from-ancient-times-unti#:~:text=Winter%20refreshes%20us%2C%20and%20as paragus,of%20what%20spring%20might%20bring.

New word challenge: patience, rainbow, mosaic, stars, reveal, reality

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! Love asparagus! Though if you brake the third line at a different point, you'll get an "a".The new poem comes tomorrow. A blessed, happy and lucky 2023! :)

[tailor STATELY]

Lol... you're right... I found the typo in the title and forgot the acrostic... (maybe I was thinking of Asperger's ??) fixing in previous post :)

Looking forward to your poem !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks! I still have difficulty with acrostics

patience, rainbow, mosaic, stars, reveal, reality

On the Brink of a new Government

Reality demanded endless patience.
For years we were deprived of
the passing mosaics of stars
and the perception of
the dazzling colors of
rainbows.
Revelations of
the future
rest with the ramp

New challenge: sun, inspiring, eternally, void, arrow, reaping.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed your poem :) Congratulations on the new government... praying for peace.

My effort needs attention... I fell asleep while editing if that says anything:

Challenge: sun, inspiring, eternally, void, arrow, reaping


the prairie chicken / 1847

a gingham bonnet protected her
face from the fierce sun - a fount
eternally blessed inspiring song
from those who sought to catch
her eye - those whose tender
hearts could not avoid cupid's
swift inerrant reaping arrows fly

1/2/2023

Next: arise, utter, shadow, agile, cool, choose

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks! It happens very often that I doze of in front of TV or when I am reading, even if the book is interesting. As for poems I rarely write them in the evening. Suppose it has to do with what we in Brazil call the best age.

Charming poem! Sly change of "void". These poems are a sort of mental gymnastic.

arise, utter, shadow, agile, cool, choose

The shadow
Out of utter darkness
a shadow arises.
I choose agility and
leave the room.
Outside the air is cool
and the serene sky
is covered with stars.
I awake: it was just a nightmare.

New challenge: white, seaside, thunder, cheerfully, ponder, freedom.

[tailor STATELY]

Very nice !

Will stare at the words for a while and see what tickles the toys in the attic :) Have a few errands to do first though.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: white, seaside, thunder, cheerfully, ponder, freedom


a sea change

the sudden white flash of lightning
brought a reverberation of thunder
that rattled my bones as I pondered
choices before me and I roared back

not cheerfully - a paragon of disarray

the seaside took no notice of me -
the surf crashed, ebbing and flowing,
lording over its freedom unaware of
the nexus unravelling between us

1/3/2023

New: toll, glance, crash, rain, swarm, rumor

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Loved the expression "tickle the toys in the attic "
A solemn poem.

Parafernnalia II

The bell tolled

The Internet crashed

The rain poured down

Bees rumored

All at once

and at a glance.

NEXT:Window, brown, alligator, roaming, nostalgic, sleeless

[tailor STATELY]

Thanx !

Enjoyed :) Looking forward to Parafernnalia I

Challenge: Window, brown, alligator, roaming, nostalgic, sleeless



Chillin' at Starbucks

Chillin' at Starbucks watching passersby -
Outside the window a brown sleeveless
alligator vest roaming, wearing a nostalgic
tee beneath with "Dark Side of the Moon"
dayglow and a Jerry Garcia red floral tie

Dude had teeth that shone in the dark
indistinguishable from a thresher shark's
My hot chocolate bubbled when I saw his
designer kicks as he and his entourage folded
into a pink convertible the size of an ark

1/3/2023 r. 1/5/2023

Next: invisible, view, aware, roll, gnome, folklore

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Loved this imaginative poem!

I´m afraid Parafernalia is buried somewhere in this thread, but I think I can oblige you.

invisible, view, aware, roll, gnome, folklore

Parafernalia 0

A whim, a vision, a dream perhaps
I saw a ciranda of gnomes.
They were disposed in a circle,
dancing with synchronized movements
each one performing with a roll of bread.


Then, I wasn´t quite aware when the scene changed and
the folkloric creatures suddenly
rolled on the ground and laughed.
They became more and more transparent
until they were totally invisible
and only their laughter remained.
It was a ludicrous view.

Next: incredible, bugs, cachalots, plastering, blue, fridge.

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful scene !

Challenge: incredible, bugs, cachalots, plastering, blue, fridge


a blue fridge

incredible bugs
plastered by a five year old
with wheat paste
next to cachalots and dinosaurs
and all nine planets
on a blue fridge

1/4/2023 r.

Next: bitter, toast, courage, joke, tooth, path

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Cute image! My fridge is white. It has, of course a cat, a lizard and several movie titles, but not a single planet.

bitter, toast, courage, joke, tooth, path

The tooth!

Her front tooth was gone.
It seemed like a bitter joke.
She looked into the mirror again
but saw only a big hole
where the tooth had been.
It would have fallen out
on the path that lead to her house,
as she was munching that hard toast.
She hadn´t even noticed.
Now it probably lay there, defiantly,
Mocking her and all the other teeth.
She summed up courage
and rang the dentist.

[Danik 2016]

Next challenge(no editing possible): racoon, snow, happiness, farm, tripling, logic

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed your somber poem.

Challenge: raccoon, snow, happiness, farm, tripling, logic


balance

snowflakes on the farm -
through the powder a s-
tripling raccoon romps
in sublime happiness, so
ignorant of the frail eco-
logical balances in play

1/6/2023

Next: study, glare, aisle, waterfall, play, doubt

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

AAIII! https://petapixel.com/2023/01/03/camera-catches-raccoon-adorably-trying-to-catch-falling-snow/

Next: study, glare, aisle, waterfall, play, doubt

I have to think a bit more about this.

[Danik 2016]

Forgive for posting only now. If you watched the news yesterday you already know that we had Capitol Day here yesterday:
Congress, Presidential Palace and Justice Palace were all three of them invaded and had their rooms destroyed. The one good thing: it seems no people were harmed because the buildings were mostly empty.

Next: study, glare, aisle, waterfall, play, doubt

The destruction

It looked like a scene in a bad play:

The vaulted rooms reminiscent of church aisles

glared at me:

chairs torn from the ground,

tables turned upside down.

small waterfalls descending

on brand new carpets,

documents strewn all around,

begging in desperation

for a better home or study.

A melancholic sight, no doubt!

Next challenge: order, wind market, wan, speedily, joining.

[tailor STATELY]

Yes, I heard, extensive coverage here by the various media... still praying for peace.

Enjoyed your somber poem: "A melancholic sight, no doubt!"

Back later with my effort :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Forgot to mention my delight watching the raccoon dancing/catching snowflakes :)

Challenge: order, wind, market, wan, speedily, joining


gold country january 2023

I drove to a market to stock up on supplies -
a wan glow from the "stay home" moon shone,
but only at glimpses through the wind rage...
later I learned, with the winds roaring on the
order of a cyclone, disorder and desperation
speedily joined as mass flooding, uprooted
great trees, and mudslides due to saturated
soils befell unsuspecting families in the chaos

1/10/2023

Next: gown, cast, seed, fantasy, lake, point

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

re1: AAAAAIIIII!
re 2: I hope you got your supplies all right!

Next: gown, cast, seed, fantasy, lake, point

Fantasy

An empty stage

Just a gown carefully laid out

On the old chair beside the table.

The gown is wrought in golden seeds.

What shadowy character

From a non existent cast

is going to wear it?

At this point,

there is a change.

The stage is replaced

by a deep blue see,

birds sing, announcing aurora.

Next: rice, anemone, stairs, full, analogous, crying.

[tailor STATELY]

Very nice :)

Will come back later with my effort. Just got power back 2-hrs ago. At 4am PST or so after I posted my poem we got either a direct lightning hit and/or an F0 tornado hit... flash then hard shock to house... a power line went down about 2-miles away coincidentally and we weren't the only ones in the area to get the hard shock. Luckily since church was cancelled Sunday and we had had a break between storms I had set up my generator and another for my sister-in-law across the property and we were good to go to stop our food in the fridges from spoiling... we ran the generators for 3-hours then off because gas is way too expensive to keep them running constantly. Refilled 3-gas cans today which hold 5-gallons each cost just over $75.00 USD.
Cell service up and down not to mention no wifi with no power :(

Going to see what I missed on LitNet so far then ponder writing :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Take your time, tailor, avaiting your poem when you are ready for it. We are all being swept by tsunamis natural and political these days. Good thing you have these generators to protect your food from getting spoiled.

I'll take a look around too.

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: rice, anemone, stairs, full, analogous, crying


the honey moon

he cavorted and danced emulating
an inflatable arm flailing tubeman -
analogous perhaps to an orangutan
with upraised arms with his great
ginger hair - only more sinuously, like
an anemone swaying in the open sea

she had rice still in her golden tresses
crying through her joyous lilting laughter
as she came down the stairs - lithe and
majestically sensuous in the full honey
moon that shone upon them both -
færie royalty on midsummer's night eve

1/12/2023

Next: lift, green, bridge, train, frame, triangle

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Charming romantic poem, loved the humorous contrast between the orangotanic groom and the emotive bride. And the glow of enchantment that emanates from the poem as if the honey moon had been yesterday.

Tha doesn´t make it easy for me, every attempt now can only be very modest.

Next: lift, green, bridge, train, frame, triangle

Travelling

When you want to feel
the wide world open to you,
take a lift on a train.
Settle on the roof
and just watch the flow:
hamlets, bridges, green fields pass you by.
Maybe a solitary smattering of cattle greets your eye,
or you overhear
the echo of a dog barking in the plains,
while the more distant mountains
ponder about merging into the
indefinite blue of the sky.
You stretch out on the top of the world
lazily listening to the distant song of a triangle.
Or is it a harmonica?

Next challenge: riotous, casket, lumbering, limestones, lost, bickering.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed your poem very much... especially the wistful: "You stretch out on the top of the world / lazily listening to the distant song of a triangle. / Or is it a harmonica?"

Will revisit later with my effort :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks, tailor. Just a warning. I can't access Litnet from my PC today. It may be just maintenance, but it's better if you keep a copy of your poems somewhere else too.

[tailor STATELY]

Hoping things improve...

Challenge: riotous, casket, lumbering, limestones, lost, bickering


toil of the undead

lumbering, dragging a casket into
a cavern of ancient limestones
where bickering riotous bats flit
through the ever-night damp air
hoping to be lost to the ages once
more, seeking to heal the ravages
of time spent out of stasis within
his casket far from ancient home

existing within the world of the
living is always a challenge of
predation and discovery - his prey
becoming ever more sophisticated -
hence the cavern and laborious toil
wending through grottos and past
pools, wedging into increasingly
tight spaces away from prying eyes

1/14/2023

Next: amber, sun, butterfly, stage, owl, invite

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Neither my usual Firefox or Brave worked. Managed to get in with Microsoft Edge now.:hurray:

[Danik 2016]

Interesting poem about the art of surviving? Enjoyed the imagery specially the "riotous bickering bats".

Next: amber, sun, butterfly, stage, owl, invite

The owl and the butterfly

Said the little blue butterfly to the old owl:
Nothing suits me more than dancing
in the sweet amber sun with my friends
I want every one to admire me
I feel eternally on the stage of the world.
Let me invite you to come with me!
The old owl didn´t answer.
She just closed her eyes resignedly
while her new friend
Ended in the paws of a stormy whelp.

Next challenge: auburn, sofisticated, solemn, basket, hut, yelding.

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem :) Poor butterfly :(

Challenge: auburn, sofisticated, solemn, basket, hut, yelding

upon tablets of clay were written / in the style of a Rubáiyát

a young sophisticate with auburn hair -
unyielding grace in the face of whate'er
solemn in her task - a basket of screeds
to deliver promptly she did forswear

to tablet makers to supply their needs
one of many hundreds of faithful Medes
that scribes might style their clays on which to write
copying virtues of their great king's deeds

alas to history is lost their light
their texts now shut and arts gone at their height
- perhaps not to Magi prophetic seers:
the birth of a King and a star so bright

1/14/2023

Next: young, sight, brink, myth, lion, stumble, sign

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! Some very sly usages -(un) yelding -s(hut)!

Next: young, sight, brink, myth, lion, stumble, sign

Under the Sign of the Lion

It was an unusual sight:
a lion cub stumbling about
surrounded by the drinkers
of the old tavern.
Some of the ladies
were on the brink of tears
about the young orphaned animal:
aw, he is so cute!

Gossip has it
that the cub lived in the tavern
until he had to be given back to nature.
The oldest cronies hold on to the myth
tha on dark moonless nights
there is a lion
Cautiously surrounding the tavern which,
for ever and a day
will be called:
The Sign of the Lion

Next challenge: rays, magic, underground, lifting, trial, efluviously.

[tailor STATELY]

Loved your poem :)

Fudging a bit:

Challenge: rays, magic, underground, lifting, trial, efluviously (acrostic :) )


in the light

evanescent rays o-
f winter sun urge seed-
lings from
underground's trial
vital in the mag-
ic of the season's progression
oh, miracles divine grant
us thine procession, we who are
seeking as seedlings -
lifting us toward th-
y promise in thy sight

1/16/2023

Next: translate, fresh, dance, midnight, wander, loose

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful!Good idea to make an acrostic of it.

translate, fresh, dance, midnight, wander, loose

Translations

The human body loves
to translate itself
in movement.
Be it through exercises
in the fresh air
or in the romantic turns
of a midnight dance...
Be it just wandering loosely
and carefree from place to place.
Is movement the way to harmony?
Perhaps!

Next challenge:new, optimal, caretaker, transcendent, search, dom.

[tailor STATELY]

Very nice poem !!

Challenge: new, optimal, caretaker, transcendent, search


As Pure As Fine Gentle Rain

Radiant transcendent beings... Some
Anciently searching - a lightsome people
In touch optimally with the divine feel
Nearer through the spirit as caretakers the
Yearnings as pure as fine gentle rain.

Dominions foretold without end... Others
Attest baptisms of water and fire just
Youthful stonewalled jests some don't get
Some receive the spirit, others just get wet.

1/18/2023

• golden (acrostic) shovel: "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Dylan
• acrostic: rainy days

Next: wriggle, island, disco, talk, moon, suite

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

A transcedent poem. Pondering however if the application of the word "new" is acceptable. ;)

wriggle, island, disco, talk, moon, suite

Instantaneous poem

People wriggle in a disco
on a deserted island
where the full moon
talks to the stars.
The talk reverberates
like a musical suite
over the lonely island
where people stamp and stomp
to the sound of it.

Next challenge: legend, snake, vivacious, eons, asleep, ruminate.

[tailor STATELY]

lol... I thought I could sneak "new" in using one of my techniques learned from the (now defunct) online "Poetry in Motion" daily contests. Nearly all my early haiku and minimalist poetry came from that era (circa 2003 and on).

edit: Found a similar game here :) https://magneticpoetry.com/pages/play-online

Love your poem :)

Back later with my effort...

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: legend, snake, vivacious, eons, asleep, ruminate


Thor's Bane

eons asleep
singularly coiled
snakelike
massive
no vivaciousness here
a legend -
slumbering ruminations
Ragnarok calls -
Jörmungandr answers
releasing its tail

1/21/2023

Next: bottle, stream, gnome, sound, slippery, farewell

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed!

Next: bottle, stream, gnome, sound, slippery, farewell

The gnome in the bottle

"A slippery farewell"
said the gnome
imprisoned in the bottle
before he dived
into the stream of forgetfulness.
No more sounds were heard,
in what seemed
just an empty bottle.

Next challenge: riotous, climate, bandworm, riding, neatly, tempest.

[tailor STATELY]

lol... enjoyed :)

Challenge: riotous, climate, bandworm, riding, neatly, tempest

Bandworm by Psywhispering

bandworm - a riotous beat
riding speed percussions into a
tempest neatly affecting climate
change from the energy generated
and carbon exhaled through dance

1/23/2023

Next: debut, crevice, rock, midnight, modest, glance

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Climate devastating bandworm!

debut, crevice, rock, midnight, modest, glance

The Crevice

A modest crevice
made her debut
just at midnight
gracing the
salient rock.

She was so insignificant,
she couldn´t be
detected at first glance.
Yet she bore in herself,
the secret of
the future ruin of the rock

Next challenge: roar, riddle, ransom, ranting, rusty, realm.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :)


how sublime !

the rantings of rhythm and rhyme
from the realm of glorious lyricists
by roaring front men offering riddles
in their syncopated rusty deliveries
of ransomed words - how sublime !

2/10/2023

Next: reflection, impact, thought, line, shift, detail

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Very elegant take with "r" rolling though the poem.

reflection, impact, thought, line, shift, detail

The impact of a thought

A thought may impact
a train of reflection,
like a pebble, that
thrown into the water
disturbs its quiet surface
or a small shift in
the line of the horizon.
The devil, the saying goes,
lives in the details.

New challenge: solid, sound, brakes, enterprise, channelling, wood.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed very much... very zen :)

Challenge: solid, sound, brakes, enterprise, channeling, wood



an anonymous wood-chiseled enterprising young man

an anonymous wood-chiseled enterprising young man
solid and sound in his tactics and battle plan
flew his fighter jet majestically into the wild blue
channeling Luke Skywalker in pursuit of an anomaly or two
slammed on his air brakes after downing luftballons dangling a psychedelic '60's minivan

2/13/2023

Next: forbid, admire, mud, chart, launch, portrait

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! An anomaly or two seems to be the new normal in our American skies!

Challenge: forbid, admire, mud, chart, launch, portrait

Forbidden glory?

I always admire someone
who gets up
after sticking the nose deep in the mud
and find a glorious place
in the world chart
launching or not
one own portrait.

Next challenge: cake, round, superlative, party, rollicking, ants.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed very much ! :)

pic·nic (pĭk′nĭk) n. (thefreedictionary)
1. A meal eaten outdoors, as on an excursion.
2. Slang An easy task or pleasant experience: finishing the project on time was no picnic.
3. A smoked section of pork foreleg and shoulder.

Word challenge: cake, round, superlative, party, rollicking, ants



A Real Picnic

I recall a bygone picnic, a rollicking party (If
memory serves) - all in attendance there
pleasantly engaged. A plump pig in a pit is
invitingly roasting with an aroma that no
ground could withhold - and a struggle,
rousting children battling a piñata there
involving superlative batting skills. Where is
the conflict ? Ah, the ants 'round a cake no
yonder eyes mark - a quick work in progress.

2/16/2023

anagram: impigrity n 1623 -1721 quickness; speed

Golden shovel: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass

Next: study, sense, window, chair, chimney, amber

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol!Enjoyed specially the work in progress

study, sense, window, chair, chimney, amber

The study

Steeped in an atmosphere of amber
The study conveys a sense of intimacy yet isolation
If you look through the ivy surrounded window.
You will see a desk with a computer
and books strewn all around.
In front of the table a chair.
The youth on the chair
evoques the human detachment of Edgar Hopper.
And that´s all. There is no chimney.

Next challenge: wind, wild, memory, child, milestone, road.

[tailor STATELY]

Invoking Edward Hopper! Wonderful poem :)

Challenge: wind, wild, memory, child, milestone, road


diving for pearls

a wild child eschewing the road
milestones marked by restlessness
a memory squandered to the wind

2/18/2023

Next: accent, beam, countryside, reflection, breakfast, inspire

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Grr! Can´t edit the name. Thanks for pointing it out. Enjoyed the "memory squandered in the wind"

Next challenge: accent, beam, countryside, reflection, breakfast, inspire

Have to think about it. Back later.

[tailor STATELY]

I have no quibble with "evoques" / evokes :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Neither have I. Am in fact rather nostalgic.

Next challenge: accent, beam, countryside, reflection, breakfast, inspire

A reflection

If you want to be more close to nature,
visit the countryside
or, if you can´t
exchange your usual breakfast in the kitchen
for a cosy picnic on the lawn
in the company of beaming children.
If there are no children and the isn´t any lawn,
listen to the accent of the birds,
that grace the tree in front of your window.
Maybe they inspire you to write a poem.

[Danik 2016]

No editing possible today.
So, here the next challenge: monument, solemnity, astonishment, lustrous, diversity, turtle.

[tailor STATELY]

Lovely poem :) Accept challenge...

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: monument, solemnity, astonishment, lustrous, diversity, turtle


A Sign of Spring

Evidently 'twas a monument to diversity
Only matched by the lustrous solemnity
Purporting man's independence of Deity
When to everyone's complete astonishment
The statue, to remind man's need for humility,
Was initiated by a turtledove's excrement

2/19/2023

Next: brilliance, dance, city, parade, candle, voice

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lo!! An irreverent tailor!Who would have thunk.

Next challenge accepted.

[Danik 2016]

Next: brilliance, dance, city, parade, candle, voice

The Dancer

She could dance
with such brilliance
that the whole city
stopped what it was doing
just to watch her
As if it was a parade.

During her performance
of the vertical dance
she floated in the air
like the flame of a candle.

But her voice was so small
Her song didn´t carry far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzwts92Eyk&t=5s

Next challenge: twins, jest, musing, raft, loneliness, chocolate.

[tailor STATELY]

Incredible poem to go with the video !! "she floated in the air / like the flame of a candle." :)

Accept challenge.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: twins, jest, musing, raft, loneliness, chocolate


The Long Night

"I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty." - O. Henry


She wore a fashionable argyle twinset
on this bleak snowy February day -
the morrow marching towards Spring

Single paned windows strained, taxing
the rustic wood stove to its noble limit

Musing in their simple abstractions
loneliness never entered into the cal-
culus of cats; a clutter of chocolate
point Himalayans majestically
lounging about in their divinity

Crafts lay strewn about the flat, also
coloured yarns and cores on the floor
that the kitties had tired from hours ago

A kettle sang brightly for attentiveness -
hot water longing to steep mint leaves,
peppermint, whose scent would soon fill
the home-style beeswax candle lit home

A few worn books lay nearby from her
library; books by Poe and by O. Henry -
just in case the last few meager sticks of
firewood didn't last through the long night

2/28/2023

Next: pen, piano, sea, society, mosaic, breath

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Interesting picture of a woman living in a cold country among cats and books.
Challenge accepted: pen, piano, sea, society, mosaic, breath.


Mosaic

A piano playing by itself on the high sea
its keys moved by the heavy breath of the wind.
Far from the maddening society
my pen surfs on the white paper
engendering mosaics.

Next challenge: wild, withered, song, summer, drums, future.

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem ! :)

Accept challenge.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks!

[tailor STATELY]

It's World Poetry Day !!!

Challenge: wild, withered, song, summer, drums, future

wild summer drums

wild summer drums beat
a future of withered song
fire poetry

3/21/2023

Next: pottery, collage, sharp, elapse, bold, pace

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed your synthesis!

Accepting the challenge: pottery, collage, sharp, elapse, bold, pace


Collage

Pieces of pottery
grace the old furniture
Vintage atmosphere
Life elapses at a bold pace
But time stands still
ignoring the scattered pieces
glued together
and the sharp contours of the frame.

New chalenge: cosmonaut, rendition, logic, wary, stealthy, frolicking.

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful "Collage" !

Challenge: cosmonaut, rendition, logic, wary, stealthy, frolicking


Laika / a Triversen style poem

"Quiet and charming" Laika was the logical
choice of a trio of cosmonaut dogs to be
the first to orbit the earth in the name of science

Mushka was chosen to stay behind on earth
as the control dog with whom to compare
the mass of data received from cold space

Albina, as backup, had already ridden inside
a rocket, twice!, successfully recovered before
Laika's flight - which was sadly to be one way

Thus in the name of science Laika's nose was
affectionately kissed and she wished bon voyage
before her capsule was closed... then whoosh!

In retrospect Laika's heroic sacrifice in space
was deemed egregious - though yielding some
necessary science as a precursor for man's flight

This once wary and stealthy dog of the streets
in one rendition was last seen frolicking over
the rainbow bridge with quite the doggy tale to tell

3/22/2023 r. 3/24/2023

Next: beach, loop, asking, mystery, glass, parrot

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor


edited out (S1): Of the dogs groomed to go into the beyond
Laika's phlegmatic demeanor put her a wet
nose ahead of her comrades Albina and Mushka

[Danik 2016]

One can´t even imagine the anguish of such an animal lonely in a closed capsule in the space. It´s not their choice! I like that the poem reflects about this. And I like the hopeful last strophe.

Challenge accepted, have to think a bit about it.
Next: beach, loop, asking, mystery, glass, parrot

[tailor STATELY]

"One can´t even imagine the anguish of such an animal lonely in a closed capsule in the space. It´s not their choice!"... Agreed. In my research I read about many other animals in space research including one famous French kitty who survived her launch and re-entry only to... I'll leave it at that :( . Evidently we've evolved to where tardigrades are the current sacrifice of choice: "One small step for man... "

Looking forward to your offering :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Next: beach, loop, asking, mystery, glass, parrot

A mystery
A wondrous beach
Surfers flying above the high waves
in ingenious loops
landing softly on the ever ruffled
surface of the sea.

But what has this to do
with the parrot that
discovered himself
in the looking glass
asking unanswerable questions?

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) Imagining the parrot brings a smile... the sea a longing.

New challenge ?

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Oh my!Forgot the new challenge.

Here it is: market, enterprise, Easter, ongoing, gracefully, customize.

[tailor STATELY]

Thank you ! Accept challenge... back anon, or later :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: market, enterprise, Easter, ongoing, gracefully, customize


snow cone supernova

historic starship enterprise
surprise marketing solutions
distributions customizing cars
stars streaking gracefully exit
Inuit Easter egg hunts
confronts an ongoing conflict

4/4/2023

Next: marsh, abstract, close, voyage, sanctuary, unleash

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this modernist poem!

Challenge accepted.I`ll be back

[Danik 2016]

Challenge:marsh, abstract, close, voyage, sanctuary, unleash

In March

In March the marsh in dry countries
is abstract.
In my country it is
i a dire reality when all storms
are unleashed.
One doesn´t want to come too close.
One prefers voyaging
to a santuary.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) L4 has me puzzled with "i" starting the line. I will use "i" on occasion to diminish myself or to keep with an overall non-capitalized form. Perhaps a finger slip ?

Looking forward to the new challenge :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! The 'i" was just a rest of a deleted sentence, and as you know, editing on Litnet is only possible if the software is in the right humor.
Oh, heck!
Senior episodes in series, forgot the challenge again.
Here it is: banner, lustrous, epic, reinventing, ephemeral, lantern.

[tailor STATELY]

resolute

a banner year we desired
and certain resolutions
to be kept

not reinventing the wheel
- small changes;
till lustrous

epic in scope
our hope is in
our resilience

we are, after all,
ephemeral as light
in lanterns by day

4/8/2023

Next: reason, peel, crosswalk, houseplant, agile, memory

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

"we are, after all,
ephemeral as light
in lanterns by day"!

Enjoyed your poem very much, but I am not quite sure what is "a banner year", an outstanding year?

Will be back to meet the new challenge.

[Danik 2016]

Challenge: reason, peel, crosswalk, houseplant, agile, memory


With neither Rhyme nor Reason

a peeled orange
walks arm in arm
with a houseplant
on the crossroad,
jamming the traffic.
and atracting
curious glances.

as the lights change
they disappear
with such agility,
that the bystanders
rub their eyes.
What the heck was this?
A vision, a memory
a hallucination?

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed. Lol... sounds like L.A. only... https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=song+nobody+walks+in+L.A.&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f2934ea1,vid:PBLxKr9Wk3A

Third time's a charm :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Next challenge: lose, loud, entertainment, prairie, grievous, settlement

[tailor STATELY]

lol...

Challenge #1: ashamed, forget, commerce, ombudsman, spring, wood



Dandelion Whine

The hierarchal marching chairs were ashamed
- brass complaints went to the thrombudsman
not forgotten in the commerce of the cacophony
of bands; woodwinds to the wombudsman, and so
on... a Spring tradition of weeding out dandelions -
while beautiful and edible are quite tone deaf

4/11/2023

Challenge #2: lose, loud, entertainment, prairie, grievous, settlement


consequences

loud entertainment
enclosed prairie settlement
grievous consequence

4/11/2023

Next: posture, forest, tiger, alarm, steward, mist

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol...two poems:)

Enjoyed both but
1st poem: are dandelions edible for humans?
2nd poem: Elegant and concise telegram style, only "lose" remained somewhat lose.

Next: posture, forest, tiger, alarm, steward, mist

Mystery in the mist

The challenging posture
of the tiger
in the forest
alarmed the steward.
Then mist enveloped the scene
including the steward.

New challenge: olympic, constellation, endorse, underdog, limp, accept.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed !... Tiger in the mist :)

• 1. Yes... https://foodprint.org/blog/how-to-eat-dandelions/ :)
• 2. enc-lose-d... lose enclosed in enclosed :)
• 3. Forgot a form of forget in my first version :)

Accept challenge !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: olympic, constellation, endorse, underdog, limp, accept



Olympic Færieland

Accepted within a færieland of mists, fern,
and driftwood wanderers joyously roam
an Olympic Coast jewel within the bright
constellation that is Washington state

Endorsed by limpid-eyed woolgatherers who
meander cold lucid tidal pools like exuberant
flower children in search of a new high - whilst
limpets hector underdog denizens in their path

4/12/2023

Next: harvest, arch, letter, alive, barrel, tree

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed !... Tiger in the mist :)

• 1. Yes... https://foodprint.org/blog/how-to-eat-dandelions/ :)
• 2. enc-lose-d... lose enclosed in enclosed :)
• 3. Forgot a form of forget in my first version :)

Accept challenge !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

1. Lovely link, poor Dandelions
2.;)
3. You used forgotten!

[Danik 2016]

Challenge: olympic, constellation, endorse, underdog, limp, accept



Olympic Færieland

Accepted within a færieland of mists, fern,
and driftwood wanderers joyously roam
an Olympic Coast jewel within the bright
constellation that is Washington state

Endorsed by limpid-eyed woolgatherers who
meander cold lucid tidal pools like exuberant
flower children in search of a new high - whilst
limpets hector underdog denizens in their path

4/12/2023

Next: harvest, arch, letter, alive, barrel, tree

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor


Not quite sure whether I understood the poem
Accept challenge!

[tailor STATELY]

Lol... as used in prefacing my poem Belling the Poet: "Why should poetry have to make sense?" - Charlie Chaplin... merely an homage with my tangled words of a park in Washington state... prolly best relegated to the Nonsense Poetry thread.

re: forgotten - I had forgotten a form of forget, then on further perusal didn't forget to edit with forgotten :)

re: Dandelions - I don't eat them, only admire :)

re: "Accept challenge!" :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

re:Oh, I see now!

re: :)

re: :)

[Danik 2016]

Next challenge: harvest, arch, letter, alive, barrel, tree

Harvest

An old letter in an ark
A barren tree, still alive
in the garden,
caressed archly by the wind.
There is no barrel,
not even overturned
in this picture.

Next challenge: choir, mostly, emotion, climbing, substantially, staircase.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed ! "archly"... what a charming word :) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/archly

Accept challenge :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: choir, mostly, emotion, climbing, substantially, staircase



as we ascend

a staircase choir's voice ascends to heav'n
radiating joy, substantially, as angels
minister to those overcome by emotion
in the perfect light that is Christ revealed


climbing ev'r higher

we must lift others as well

burdens mostly light

4/14/2023

Next: debut, tower, distance, answer, candle, ghost

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Did you notice that your poem has the form of a tree or a house? :)

Next: debut, tower, distance, answer, candle, ghost

The house ghost

There was a sort of house ghost
In the tower building
where I lived once.

It made its debut
on a Carnival night
romping about,
luxuriating in noise,
delighting in candle tricks!

The riddle of its presence
remained without answer and
from the present distance
the story hardly seems true
any more.

New challenge: entropy, enactment, vampire, solidly, roots, aspire.

[tailor STATELY]

re: house - I hadn't noticed, lol. The form is Haibun... https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/haibun-poems-poetic-form popularized by Basho, also master of the Haiku. I've written more than a handful of them where I usually indent and then center the Haiku where formatting is possible - usually not so boxy.

Enjoyed your poem :)

Challenge accepted... more entropy :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: entropy, enactment, vampire, solidly, roots, aspire




entropy

vampire roots solidly entrenched in our culture
and zombies: entropic wannabe like vultures
waiting for the unwary who aspire nothing more
than a trip to the theater or local grocery store

in peace when the lights dim and an alien invasion
in ships we're familiar of the apocalyptic persuasion
during a pandemic with overtones of a world war
(not the reenactments of the atrocities of yore)...

but more inventive since our technology is just
so media centric: news on the telly we cannot trust
AI, AI, AI ! and society has become an unhinged
state with healthcare, rents, homelessness fringed

with political shenanigans and unrest that would
make a Machiavellian Borgia blush misunderstood...
still, we're trying to be environmentally green -
electric cars not many can afford- a smokescreen

of optimism as climates change and forests burn -
I long for a simpler time, when I was about to turn
five or so unaware of the adulterated mess in my
utopian world: vampires and zombies in shorter supply

4/16/2023

Next: knock, wild, list, grave, breeze, dignity

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Great syntheses of how one experiences these crazy times!

Next: knock, wild, list, grave, breeze, dignity

On a grave note

Divested of her light dignity,
a breeze turned wild
may become a tornado,
knocking over
everything
in her way.

In her wake,
lists of
destruction.

Next challenge: vintage, hamlet, forcefully, dim, labor, controversy.

[tailor STATELY]

Thank you :) Enjoyed your poem; lots of tornadic activity this side of the equator in our "Tornado Alley" lately. Back in the '80's I spent a brief stint for some tech training near Minneapolis and became acquainted with tornado warnings... luckily nothing came of them.

Challenge accepted :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: vintage, hamlet, forcefully, dim, labor, controversy



a rusting tractor

in a devastated country hamlet a rusting tractor
sits idly - its vintage form a stark contrast
to the task it performed as forcefully as the
many men it had replaced controversially way
back when - when the labor returned from the
war - the fortunate hale few now scarred with
dim haunted eyes now needing work themselves
to again scrabble a meek existence for the
families they were torn in a war never ending

4/17/2023

Next: storm, time, captivate, composer, note, collage

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem, the contrast of the useless tractor and the jobless laborers.
Challenge accepted. :)

[Danik 2016]

Next: storm, time, captivate, composer, note, collage

Tentative Homage to E T A Hoffmann

Captivated by inner storms
the wild composer captures
the errant notes of his music,
engendering ghostly narratives,
collages that traverse time
bequeathing maiden, monsters
and a cat.

Next challenge: journey, weird, bouquet, wonder, exhilaration, timeless.

[tailor STATELY]

"Nicknamed 'Ghost Hoffmann' in his own country."

Enjoyed this poem very much :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: journey, weird, bouquet, wonder, exhilaration, timeless


living in babylon

this journey of ours can be as heady
as a large bouquet of star jasmine
fresh picked off the vine in late spring -
we timeless beings existing in a world
as weird as the depths of imagination -
but not of the world - sharing a wondrous
communion, a revelatory exhilaration
even when things aren't so rosy at all

4/20/2023

Next: poetry, emotion, morning, wind, pastel, song

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! "his journey of ours can be as heady/as a large bouquet of star jasmine/fresh picked off the vine in late spring" :)

Accept challenge:poetry, emotion, morning, wind, pastel, song

Gone With the Wind...

Gone with the wind is this peregrine song
the obvious attempt at poetry
about a wintry morning
a sky in pastel colors
overshadowing the barren earth.

Gone with the wind is the sob,
the secret token of a deep emotion
hidden and almost self forgotten
under a heavy layer of stone.

Next challenge: mirrors, water, leaf, underwhelming, indolent, rasping

[tailor STATELY]

"the secret token of a deep emotion
hidden and almost self forgotten
under a heavy layer of stone." :) Enjoyed !

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: mirrors, water, leaf, underwhelming, indolent, rasping



on waking

a stellar jay's less than stellar loud
raspings cast aspersions through
the air temporarily making the
bucolic life most underwhelming

indolence and fog greet my waking -
for a time - let mirrors waste and
the hours become like water while
the oak spends its energy on leaves

4/22/2023

Next: straw, swing, gaze, gift, bubble, crystal

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed: "indolence and fog greet my waking -/for a time - let mirrors waste and/the hours become like water while/
the oak spends its energy on leaves".

Challenge accepted:
Next: straw, swing, gaze, gift, bubble, crystal

[Danik 2016]

Challenge: straw, swing, gaze, gift, bubble, crystal

Do we live
in a crystal bubble
swinging under the
neutral gaze
of the universe?

Imagination
sometimes
hangs
on a single straw.

Challenge: loop, hinge, radar, optimal, wolf, emblematic.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed very much :)

Challenge accepted.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: loop, hinge, radar, optimal, wolf, emblematic



phew!

out of the loop is the new aesthetic
when asceticism's optimal goal is
wont, radar love's unhinged lyric
calls: "don't need no phone at all" -
so, if keeping the wolf from the door
is all you can do, 'tis emblematic
of your success in a hard fought war

4/23/2023

Next: virtue, blue, school, Venus, houseplant, reflect

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the sophisticated poem!

Challenge accepted!

[Danik 2016]

Next: virtue, blue, school, Venus, houseplant, reflect

Idle Reflection (Rumination)
No one can say
that cheese is blue,
that all that you learn in school
is true,
that Venus is a virtuous houseplant.
So what?

Next challenge: Billboard, electricity, storm raging, serenity, pond.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :)

Accept challenge.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: Billboard, electricity, storm raging, serenity, pond



7.23.2011

Cherry and her Billboard way -
harnessing all the electricity
from raging storms across the
pond... remembering the tragic
day she found her serenity

4/25/2023

Next: spectrum, crowd, plot, night, avenue, heat

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

:)
Challenge accepted.

[Danik 2016]

Next: spectrum, crowd, plot, night, avenue, heat

The spectrum

Wandering along the avenue
without feeling the heat
of the night
he remembered
the same avenue
crowded
with plotting
shadows.
He might have told
who had exploded
the place.
But now he was himself
just an inefficient,
errant shadow!

Ufa!

Next challenge: supper, onions, clock, dangerous, sliding, mighty.

[tailor STATELY]

Tragic poem... Enjoyed :)

Challenge accepted !

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: supper, onions, clock, dangerous, sliding, mighty


NonZens

a clock sliding through
the day reveals a
dangerous liaison
of universal truths
mighty in their influence -
not unlike whole onions
who when unfolding
the secrets of their
petals at supper time
do so reluctantly

5/1/2023

Next: necklace, dragon, hope, sphere, musically, iron

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Elegant poem that set me thinking of the different strata of time!:)
Challenge accepted!

[Danik 2016]

Challenge: necklace, dragon, hope, sphere, musically, iron


Hope
Wearing his necklace of fire
The dragon of hope
Slowly ascends into space!

To the mortal perception
each sphere rings
with it´s own music,
sounds forged
with the lofty iron of church bells.

Next challenge: resolution, anthem, direct, spleen, increasing, abstract.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed Hope very much ! Very evocative :)

Spleen ? (lol)... Challenge accepted !

Challenge: resolution, anthem, direct, spleen, increasing, abstract



surrender

'twas as rare as a Tutwiler spleenwort
and 'bout as abstract: the resolution
on our new anthem became increasingly
misdirected as one could imagine - what
with the entire artsy community having
a hand in the process... but all settled
and done and our new overlords pleased:
"Hocus Pokus" by Focus played with conch
shells and didgeridoos and Theremin
caught their intergalactic fancy; our new
flag a rectangle of pure lily livered white

5/5/2023

Next: gravity, lost, fragrant, channel, exile, wings

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Now this was a surprise:https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/tutwilers-spleenwort/
Very original solution!
Challenge accepted: gravity, lost, fragrant, channel, exile, wings



The gravity of exile:
The lost fragrance of home
The capped wings
The closed channels.
Being a new being
among landscapes
of iron and cotton.

[tailor STATELY]

:)

Enjoyed your poem of exile and loss.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Sorry!
New challenge: oblivion, sustain, anthropomorphic, climb, really, unafraid.

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: oblivion, sustain, anthropomorphic, climb, really, unafraid


a demented oblivion

sustain me my simple anthropomorphisms
whilst I climb walls within my mind: ants
chanting monastic holy anthems within my
skull - a charnal house of Serengeti plainness
- bones of elephants and rhino, who speak
unafraid and unsympathetically of man, play-
ing upon drums stretched of great ape hide
so taut that the beating might really strike
some sense into our collective consciousness
before we all cede into a demented oblivion

5/6/2023

Next: prism, throng, ending, mirror, web, river

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Oh my, this is serious!

Challenge:prism, throng, ending, mirror, web, river

Procession
Seen through a certain prism,
What is humanity
But a long never ending moving throng
of creatures basking in
Mirages, mirrors, myths, mores(dissolving)
And now Web, the great electronic Maya.
The immense river flows
in an unknown direction
unto unknown seas.

New challenge: breeze, lively, moss, underrated, singular, coronation.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed very much :) I decided to go the other way with singularity:



... and done

lively was the breeze
when the singularity came upon us
heralded by a coronation of coronal fire -
a mass ejection from the sun
kindling underrated moss and tree, and spun
whirlwinds of flame as our dear star danced
the tarantella with its new companion
flames overtaking all...
and then there were none to sing the praises
of earth but holy angels who were there
when His work begun

5/7/2023

Next: harbinger, rainforest, gold, spirit, canoe, mussurana

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Very interesting solution: the world as we know it ending in fire!

Challenge accepted!

[Danik 2016]

Next Challenge:harbinger, rainforest, gold, spirit, canoe, mussurana

The Mussurana
Gliding almost invisibly
along the trees of the rainforest
the mussurana
might be seen
as a harbinger of bad news.

But the spirits of
the ancestors
of the lonely,
who descend
the Amazon
in their canoes
know better:
the black snake
is a protector.
It´s hoard of gold
the forest.

Next challenge:charisma, wind, imperial,mistery, analogous

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) "It´s hoard of gold / the forest."

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: charisma, wind, imperial, mistery, analogous

View From the Tower of the Winds


charismatic are the
ever shifting winds -
Boreas, Eurus, Notos,
Zephyrus imperial in
their majesty given full
reign by mysterious
Aiolos; analogous to
Ouranos mythic master
of the starry night sky

5/15/2023

Next: teach, spider, frame, cottage, fountain, button

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the mythological poem!

Next: teach, spider, frame, cottage, fountain, button

Framed picture

A small cottage near a fountain,
one almost hears the murmur
of the water.

Timid flower buttons surround
the cottage
like an open necklace.

In a corner,
below the slanted roof
a small spider
busily weaves her net.
Nobody taught her
this ancient craft.

New challenge: mother, endeavor, simply, praise, castle, dreaming.

[tailor STATELY]

Wow :) Beautiful poem !

Challenge accepted !!

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: mother, endeavor, simply, praise, castle, dreaming


happy simple dreams

'twas once upon a late night dreaming
waking, walking, within that dream -
skies abundantly azure blue with a
golden castle simply floating in the air

færie-godmothers were in rich supply
like wishing wells endeavoring every
wish to fulfill whilst honeysuckle and
patchouli pervaded the crystal breeze



give praise to happy
childlike dreams where flying is

of the simplest means

5/16/2023

Next: page, glide, zone, abstract, wisp, echo

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Imaginative poem!
Challenge accepted.

[Danik 2016]

Next: page, glide, zone, abstract, wisp, echo
The next page

Blank page
Abstract zone
Letters gliding
over the paper
Wisps whispering:
Echo, echo, echo

New challenge: font, power, star, rendering,visibly, tangle.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) Challenge accepted !


star

star - font of power
visibly rendering light
a quantum tangle

5/21/2023

Next: age, power, humanity, wind, island, paradox

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Charming synthesis!

Challenge accepted!

Next: age, power, humanity, wind, island, paradox

[Danik 2016]

Next: age, power, humanity, wind, island, paradox

The paradox of humanity

Does humanity progress with age?
I don´t think so.
The thirst after power and fame
Is to great.
Wisdom touches it
only lightly as the soft wind
that sweeps over a small island bends
the vegetation slightly
without leaving a stronger mark.

New challenge: chance, theater, evolving, crossing, ethereal, beings.

[tailor STATELY]

Excellent ! Thoughtful and soulful poem... enjoyed very much :) Perhaps to>too in L4

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: chance, theater, evolving, crossing, ethereal, beings


Commendaces & Consolation

Xyphon, I, a lowly man, did journey by and by
aye, did chance upon Phrontis' lonely mound
renowned Menelaus himself mournfully wrought -
shot dead was Phrontis by the vengeful Apollo

Hollow are the beings who've stopped evolving
solving naught but imputed impediments -
predicaments of desiccated human theater -
greater an epic tragic ode of consequences alike

Belike crossing ethereal waters without a drachma,
ah, insufficient for the ferryman's fare thereupon

5/23/2023

Next: balance, frame, bubble, density, vision, pyramid

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this Homer inspired poem and its musings
Challenge accepted!

Challenge: balance, frame, bubble, density, vision, pyramid

[Danik 2016]

Challenge: balance, frame, bubble, density, vision, pyramid

I and the bubble

I live in a bubble
Sometimes it is round
and I must be cautious,
for, as the ground keeps
gliding away under my feet,
owning to the bubble's
continuous movement,
there is a lot of
stumbling.

At
other times
the bubble becomes
a lofty and dense pyramid
offering a distant vision of summits.

I balance between these two frames,
but I can´t format them.
They keep escaping me.

[Danik 2016]

Editing not possible

New challenge: transcendence, inspiration, jolly, grapes, implying, world.

[tailor STATELY]

Imaginative... enjoyed :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: transcendence, inspiration, jolly, grapes, implying, world


Transcendence at 4th and Vine

transcendence is jolly for grapes implying
spirited wines or brandies - whilst those whose
inspiration lies in the world of sobriety acquit
themselves as candies, jams, and jellies

5/27/2023

Next: fossil, landscape, Venus, tangle, empire, whisper

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Excellent ! Thoughtful and soulful poem... enjoyed very much :) Perhaps to>too in L4

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Thanks for the correction. Have to include it above

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the "sweet" poem.

Next: fossil, landscape, Venus, tangle, empire, whisper

Oil race

Entire empires whisper wistfully
about secret fossil landscapes,
yielding the precious petrol.
There is more than one Venus necessary,
To unmake entanglements.

Next challenge: vessel, amplitude, journey, traveling, lingo, inviting.

[tailor STATELY]

Thanx :) I came up with the title out of the blue, and then, as a lark, googled "4th and Vine" and found a gem of a wine shop with that name in St. Petersburg, Florida, lol.

Enjoyed "Oil race"... yes, too many entanglements indeed.

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: vessel, amplitude, journey, traveling, lingo, inviting


future extinctions

perhaps you've never heard of me -
a new world spirit vessel of the old
forest - it would take quite some time
traveling - a journey to where tall
lush trees whose amplitude once flor-
ished where we olingos loved to get
lost in, now an uninviting oblivion

5/28/2023

Next: distortion, paint, laugh, elbow, spider, lonely

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed!Poem makes one think about the disappearance of the forests.
The Witch
She looked at the distorted painting,
With a sad, hollow lonely laugh.
At her elbow rested
The spider she had adopted as a pet.

Next challenge:bonfire, road,underwhelmed, rustic, roof, interwoven.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed your solution :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Website gone all wonky...

Challenge: bonfire, road, underwhelmed, rustic, roof, interwoven


no direction lost

a fierce bonfire-like flame flickered
in my mind's eye of reflection -
the rustic proof of interwoven
dimensionality within my imagination
so underwhelmed by my reality
that it shimmered like the intense
superheated air upon a desert road
wherewith I found no direction

5/30/2023

Next: rabbits, guitar, hill, language, location, identity, violet

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Very imaginative poem. Hope real direction is ok.


Three little rabbits
Three little rabbits play the guitar
on a hill full of violets.
Being true rabbits
they didn't have any qualms on identity.
They spoke the secret language of hares,
and changed their location each time
an enemy approached.
Ñew challenge: enigma,well, antics, surrounding, intention, wonky.

[tailor STATELY]

A hare raising tale :)

Challenge: enigma, well, antics, surrounding, intention, wonky


Adieu and Farewell

I once fell into an enigma well -
it wasn't my intention to enter that spell
wonky were its surroundings
as one would expect
and the antics of all who dwelled therein
were enough to make me aware
that I didn't belong -
so I scrabbled and scraped
within the confines of my mind
to loosen the fetters that had me enthralled
till at last light appeared and it beckoned
with hope and I tossed off all there was
that had beguiled me

5/30/2023

Next: constellation, usurp, break, restless, scholar, bridge

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

All is well that end´s well.:)

Challenge accepted!

[Danik 2016]

Congress
Restless constellations of power
wanting to usurp more power
elevating tension to breaking point
burning bridges behind them
defying the science of scholars.
Next challenge: wild, singular, dogwood, music, umbrella, spiralling.

[tailor STATELY]

Political ambition for power vs. the sciences of reality to its breaking point :( Well done :)

Challenge: wild, singular, dogwood, music, umbrella, spiraling


A Song of Eternity

Under the umbrella of a stolid Dogwood
tree, beneath its pink blossoms one by
one spiraling down upon me, I, seemingly
alone in the wilderness 'cept a singular
Sonoran blue butterfly searching nearby
for the Canyon liveforever to perpetuate
its species - I heard it lift up its tiny voice:
the sweetest music this side of eternity

5/31/2023

Next: vole, candelabra, hollow, gingham, river, flat, pungent

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Aaii!

Challenge accepted!

(Some problematic aspect afflicting the sign of Skorpios) Both our presidents are similarly beset by congress)

[Danik 2016]

Do we now have seven words?

The vole

Vole, vole
Play your role
After all
You aren' t a mole.

Lit the candelabra
In the hole
Traverse the hollow
In a gingham
And the river in a canoe.
Hide in a monster flat
Meet a companionable rat
Don't taste life 's pungency

Vole, vole, etc.

New challenge: p.o
along, gate, lawn, histrionic,donkey, listen,history

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) Lol... must have miscounted... six should be enough...

Challenge accepted ! (along, gate, lawn, histrionic, donkey, listen, history)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: along, gate, lawn, histrionic, donkey, listen, history


The Magnificent Maggiore

a donkey would sidle along an old rough hewn
fence to a gate near a lawn where an orchestra
often played and listen most intently - when as
soon as it heard Richard Strauss' Don Quixote,
Opus 35, Maggiore, it would become histrionic
and bray and bray and bray incessantly - seems
it had something to do with its family history

6/3/2023

Maggiore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JPd76o8L94

Next: flute, bright, sunflower, arbor, meadow, brook

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

AAIIII! Super enjoyed poem and D. Quixote Opus 35!

Challenge accepted!

Next: flute, bright, sunflower, arbor, meadow, brook

[Danik 2016]

Tableaux
A brook beside a meadow
under a bright, sunny sky.
Behind the meadow a cozy arbor.
Sitting in front
a youth in a green hunting suit
plays the flute.
Beside him a single sunflower
lifts its opulent head
skywards.
New challenge: emerge, luck, vagrant, hoard, castle, invisible.

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful tableaux :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: emerge, luck, vagrant, hoard, castle, invisible


an emergent gloom


an emergent gloom
reverberated as

one, a vagrant lad,
beheld his luck -
a dragon's hoard

in a decrepit castle
beckoned brightly
as legend lore went

his luck was bad -
the dragon invisible

6/8/2023

Next: silence, knock, silken, glow, thrush, manzanita

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Interesting twist at the end. Enjoyed!

Challenge accepted!

Next: silence, knock, silken, glow, thrush, manzanita

The secret garden

A silent knock
with a silken glove
on a hidden door.
An odor of manzanitas
Light winged thrushes
fluttering
in the evening glow
of a parting sun.

Next challenge:
laundry, monsters, forest, undertaking, handsome, gathering.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed, especially "Light winged thrushes / fluttering / in the evening glow" :)

Challenge accepted !

Challenge: laundry, monsters, forest, undertaking, handsome, gathering



monsters' laundry day

the monsters were having a laundry day - free
laundry undertaken in the forest you say ? and
the handsome and the winsome responded forth-
with gathering all the laundry they had which the
monsters in their abject glee then absconded with

6/8/2023

Next: wire, wicker, frozen, dahlia, constellation, polka dot

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! A monstrous revenge!

Next: wire, wicker, frozen, dahlia, constellation, polka dot


Parafernalia
Jarring sounds pounding
on the wireless
Heart out of wicker
Frozen acid polca dots.
And a constellation
of red dahlias

Next challenge:gate, goat, loan, ladder, exception, entourage.

[tailor STATELY]

Wow... sounds like a spy thriller or something out of the sixties... enjoyed :)

Challenge: gate, goat, loan, ladder, exception, entourage



da g.o.a.t.

loaned me his car did he, yeah -
he was da g.o.a.t. with an entourage
that could fill a carnival boat - a liner
ship of great exception with escalators,
not ladders, to get from deck to deck,
what the heck, like that dude gates
must have to toodle around the carib-
bean or somethin' - yeah he was da
g.o.a.t. - loaned me his car like he had
a million of them, said he liked the
way I dressed in my zoot suit, a feather
in my cap down on his luck, just lost
my car and last buck so no cab fare,
yeah - loaned me his car, da g.o.a.t.

6/10/2023

Next: chapter, alarm, feather, avenue, rain, parrot

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

So "da goat ' is s food truck! Enjoyed!

The next chapter
This is about a parrot,
a special parrot.
His feathers glittered
in the sun
and he spoke words
of wisdom
he himself didn't understand.
He loved imitating a siren of alarm,
causing a commotion.
People run desperately to the window .
But no, it was only the rain
falling softly on the pavement
of the avenue.

Next challenge: biscuit,linger, worldwide, crater, endemic, naturally

[tailor STATELY]

"and he spoke words / of wisdom / he himself didn't understand." enjoyed :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

Challenge: biscuit, linger, worldwide, crater, endemic, naturally



exposé

desecraters of lives - those
sons of biscuit eaters tarnish
reputations; flaying in public
first endemically then worldwide
- a lingering conundrum perhaps,
alas, preternaturally driven

6/11/2023

Next: vocal, pitcher, exhilaration, design, vacuum, envelope

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Enjoyed!
Challenge accepted!

[Danik 2016]

Inpermanence

A very vocal pitcher
became exhilarated
over the delicate design
of a vacuum cleaner.
Resting on the same table
lay a small perfumed envelope.
Gracefully it sailed to the ground
and was seen no more.

Next challenge: tower, bard, allusion, vineyard, albatross, up,