Subject Poetry Contest.

[tailor STATELY]

Thank you for the entries.... we now have a contest!

Deadline will be at the end of the day Monday, July 4th, Pacific Daylight Time.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[tailor STATELY]

Still some time left to enter !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[tailor STATELY]

Is it Tuesday already? (just kidding)

Loved both of these poems.

YesNo - Nice little quatrain: 4x8; AABB. Sound/Music, be it nature or produced, does have an effect of turning our hearts one way or another, or, to use a word Ursual Le Guin has used in the past "entrainment":

Any two things that oscillate at about the same interval, if they’re physically near each other, will gradually tend to lock in and pulse at exactly the same interval. Things are lazy. It takes less energy to pulse cooperatively than to pulse in opposition. Physicists call this beautiful, economical laziness mutual phase locking, or entrainment.

L2 intrigued me for some reason... what silence do we get from the ground...that of the dead and otherwise past; this reinforces L3 where we laud the now and "praise the day". L4 re-inforces the entrainment from L1, rejected in L2.

cacian - "sound is a science"... back to entrainment, though I disagree with the "without the chemical appliance" - because sound/music can be organic as well in my opinion.

"each note" infinity and light in scope (sic)... a delightful insight.

A tough choice... I'm going with Yes/No as the winner, congratulations to both of you !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[cacian]

Tailor STATELY thank you very much and YesNo congratualtions

[Danik 2016]

Congrats, Yes/No!

[YesNo]

Thank you, tailor STATELY! And cacian and Danik! I like LeGuin's description of "entrainment" as "economical laziness".

The next subject will be "light" in any sense of that word whether as something to keep the darkness away or something that doesn't weigh too much or whatever else the word is used for.

Deadline hopefully by the end of July.

[cacian]

light
the garden of eden
darkness harness
to be even
is puissance
together they make
the perfect season
stars align to see them rise.

[YesNo]

Thank you, cacian! The contest has begun!

[tailor STATELY]

lightsome as a dove

light may be found in the eyes you behold
in those who feign not, with hearts full of gold
this light first given to all as a gift
yet burns bright in those no longer adrift
such light is best embodied by a child
whose agency remains yet undefiled

endure and remain

... lightsome through adversity

... to life eternal

7/19/2018

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[YesNo]

Thank you, tailor STATELY! Now we have a real contest with two entries. The last day to enter is Tuesday, July 31st. I will announce the winner on Wednesday.

[YesNo]

Thank you for posting your poems, cacian and tailor STATELY!

I liked the sound reading of both of your poems. I also liked both cacian's combination of light and darkness to make the perfect season and tailor STATELY's view of light as coming from the eyes of those with a child-like, undefiled heart. From the perspective of both sound and sense both of these poems are worthy entries.

Since I have to chose between them so the contest can continue, I will pick cacian's poem.

Congratulations, cacian!

[tailor STATELY]

Congratulations cacian !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[cacian]

.....

[cacian]

Thank you very much YesNo and tailor STATELY

and the next topic is:

summer

Good Luck Everyone!

[YesNo]

Green and Sky Blue

Summer’s reckless with its love of green.
The sky gives blue so bright it goes unseen.
We breathe each day enclosed in soothing light
While night awaits with stars and dark between.