Charming poem!
Charming poem!
"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
My Word Can poem for our Thursdays at Two group: vocal, poise, sky, fractured wicker, switch, dome
lounging in an imagined garden
lounging in an imagined garden
switching gears from poised to pensiveness
with a fractured vocal searching sigh
I pondered the dominions of domed earthly skies
deep seated in wicker chair discomfortness
5/18/2023
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
A lot of words to be packed in five lines. Lol: "A fractured vocal searching sigh", here you surpassed yourself!
"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 ! Not bad for a 15-minute thought & write with the group... and I think I had a stupor of thought for about the first 2-minutes; L1 was actually the last line I came up with. I give all credit to Parker for these "flash" Word Can poems
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
My assignment for Thursdays at Two poetry group: (for 6/1/2023): From the perspective of a Dandelion
The Dandelion
I arose from the ground deep rooted
in late winter to take a look around - on
a stalk ending in bright yellow florets
between my lion's teeth leaves by day
I'm not annoyed by the butterflies and
bees - they rather tickle me searching for
pollen and perhaps some dew as I s-t-r-
e-t-c-h skyward to get a better view
My kin are nearby - some being nibbled
upon (we're rather tasty I've heard), others
like I, exult in what sunbeams find our way
waving serenely in the wind day by day
Before each nightfall I gather my florets
in a bunch to catch some sleep and dream
an ancestral dream of the plan of eternal
happiness and my part in this joyous scheme
For you see my kind is especially endowed
exhibiting all of the signs of post-mortal life
depicting stars, moon, and sun; each a degree
of glory defined by a Heavenly Father's love
My season sees a transition from yellow
florets to a portentous seed head upon my
hollow stem and I can now view the night-
time sky and ponder what lies before me...
When a færie maiden plucks my stem of
myriads of diadems, to softly blow upon my
face and release wishes to embrace the
immensity of the universe and all eternity
6/1/2023
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
A cute and wise Dandelion musing about its existence!
"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
My Word Can poem for our Thursdays at Two group: inclement/decline/private/languid/release/limit/pursuit
The Postman: Wrung Out
privately pursuing a languid reality
after toiling through all kinds of inclement weather
yes, I’d hit my limit in my declining years
now seek a release from all my cares
so I took up fishing, though I hate it so
just don’t bait my hooks… whatever
6/1/2023
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
Made me thoughtful this poem, specially as my reality isn't so languid at present.
"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
Praying you find peace.
My assignment (1 of 2) for Thursdays at Two poetry group: (for 6/15/2023): Inclement/other than weather
Inclement Whether
Inclement language can beleaguer Poetry
notwithstanding free speech, it simply is
concerning to the community at large - an
linguistic aberration barely worth the echo,
encourages no imagination for the asking
merely exposing itself offensively - a
elephant in the room casting no shadow
never, no, never is too strong a word to
trivialize its total effect upon the dance
6/6/2023
Golden shovel: "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." - Carl Sandburg
Acrostic: Inclement
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Last edited by tailor STATELY; 06-06-2023 at 05:17 PM. Reason: Golden shovel / Acrostic
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
re: Warm thanks, tailor!
Problem last evening in trying to log in on tablet.
Lol- Interesting reflection on language;
"Inclement language can beleaguer Poetry
notwithstanding free speech, it simply is
concerning to the community at large"
Schools should keep that in mind. Inclement language can also beleaguer Prose terribly!
"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
An Anonymous Man Named Jericho
There once was a man who lived in a sole
Whose humor was ever so droll
He'd just been evicted due to an increase in rent
Which had gone up more than 50%
Said he felt like the victim of whack-a-mole
6/17/2023
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
I saw this on my other forum and thought you people would get a giggle.
Couldn't find a better place to put it.
I lately lost a preposition
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
Up from out of in under there."
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wondered, "What should he come
Up from out of in under for?"
-Morris Bishop in the New Yorker, 27th September, 1947
IMV it would scan better without the "in" but I'm trying not to be picky.
Last edited by spikepipsqueak; 06-18-2023 at 03:22 AM.
Lol ! Enjoyed
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
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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
Enjoyed it too, spikepips! Would also prefer the last line without the "in", but I am not native!
"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
I suspect this anonymous has a very large family,Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
"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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