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.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Enjoyed ! "archly"... what a charming wordhttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/...english/archly
Accept challenge
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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 higherwe must lift others as wellburdens mostly light
4/14/2023
Next: debut, tower, distance, answer, candle, ghost
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Last edited by tailor STATELY; 04-14-2023 at 07:50 PM. Reason: syntax
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
re: house - I hadn't noticed, lol. The form is Haibun... https://www.writersdigest.com/write-...ms-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
Last edited by tailor STATELY; 04-17-2023 at 12:05 AM. Reason: Ta !
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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
Last edited by tailor STATELY; 04-16-2023 at 06:58 AM. Reason: wrong word list
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Thank you
Challenge accepted
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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
Last edited by tailor STATELY; 04-17-2023 at 04:33 PM. Reason: title / indent
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Enjoyed the poem, the contrast of the useless tractor and the jobless laborers.
Challenge accepted.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
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.
Last edited by Danik 2016; 04-19-2023 at 08:27 AM.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
"Nicknamed 'Ghost Hoffmann' in his own country."
Enjoyed this poem very much
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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 challengeoetry, 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
Last edited by Danik 2016; 04-21-2023 at 09:47 AM.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
"the secret token of a deep emotion
hidden and almost self forgotten
under a heavy layer of stone."
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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