Thanks. And I forgot the next challenge. So here goes:
android/ music/ nightingale/ secret/impending
Thanks
android/ music/ nightingale/ secret/impending
"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
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
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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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Last edited by Danik 2016; 07-08-2022 at 03:08 PM.
"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
"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
"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
Quite a tale ! Loved it. Thank you for the new word challenge... it may take awhile (lol)
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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Last edited by tailor STATELY; 07-09-2022 at 11:00 PM.
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
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
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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
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
"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
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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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
double
Last edited by Danik 2016; 07-12-2022 at 09:58 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
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/f...iler-19537589/
Next challenge: river/skyscraper/ elves/Andalusia/ laughing
"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
Wonderful poem
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
"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
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