re: words - (lol)... now cast in stone.
Enjoyed your poem very much... I see the influence of Isaiah :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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re: words - (lol)... now cast in stone.
Enjoyed your poem very much... I see the influence of Isaiah :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I can't even remember if Isaiah wrote about animals. To tell you the truth my imagination is very poor when it comes to Paradises. This one looks much more like an informal zoo.
Expectant about your next poem.
"informal zoo"... lol
Challenge: roses, daisies, cave, music, exquisite, germinate
music most sublime
inquisitive minds germinate not unlike
gardens in Spring when music fills the air -
from the elemental whisperings derived
from nature's soulful spirit to the exquisite
roar of vast cavernous stadia of rock & roll
a sweet rose's kissluscious music most sublime
even daisies blush
7/30/2023
Next: shimmer, tide pool, fading, shipwreck, moon, lavender
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Charming poem forming a flower!:)
Challenge accepted!
Next: shimmer, tide pool, fading, shipwreck, moon, lavender
Under the lavender moon
Under the dusky lavender moon
shimmers the fading wreck of the ship,
the fading wrecks of so many ships,
caught by the treacherous icebergs.
For the roaming aerial eye,
not far from there
a small tide pool swarms with of life:
snails, barnacles, mussels, anemones,
urchins, sea stars, crustaceans, seaweed, and small fish.
Their now is eternity.
Next: road, water, sunlight, surface, climb, happily.
Love tide pools... been much too long for me... my daughter is currently camping on our North coast... https://www.californiabeaches.com/beach/glass-beach/ : Reminds one of Erica Jong's poem :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: road, water, sunlight, surface, climb, happily
celestial proceedings
the water's surface: a mirror
in the moonlight -
sunlight can not compare
for its climb blots nearly all
other celestial proceedings
from view with its glare -
happily my road lies on the
celestial side not blinded
by everyday cares
7/31/2023
Next: dance, muse, piccolo, lightness, drift, mote
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed!
Challenge accepted!
Curious beaches! With stones instead of sand?Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
More rocky beaches: https://www.california.com/rocky-bea...low-your-mind/ and if I remember correctly: https://www.californiabeaches.com/beach/jade-cove/ :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Some of the most famous beaches of Brazil (donīt mind the text) The rocky ones are in Rio Grande do Norte, up in the north. I didnīt like them so well, when I was there. One has to be care not to hurt the feet on the stones, when getting into the water:
https://www.essemundoenosso.com.br/praias-de-natal/
Next: dance, muse, piccolo, lightness, drift, mote
Dancing to "baby elephant walk for piccolo".
Muses dancing too, highheeled
drifting with lightness,
balking motes
belying their fame
of ecstatic goddesses.
Next:beginning, wildflower, wonder, wandering, niche, engine.
Wonderful beaches :)
Love your lighthearted poem :)
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Challenge: beginning, wildflower, wonder, wandering, niche, engine
wandering
wandering and wondering
left my engine behind
espied in the beginning
a wildflower in a niche
wandering and pondering
upon this path and that
aimlessly meandering
to a shore strewn with jade
wandering and maundering
just a trifle bit worn
chanced upon the færies
and decided to rest
wandering and sauntering
now fully refreshed
sought out for my engine
to re-enter the race
8/1/2023
Next: yearn, matrix, Saturn, exile, dragonfly, diamond
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
:):):)
Next: yearn, matrix, Saturn, exile, dragonfly, diamond
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Yearning for home
Spinning a yarn
about this dragonfly
exiled in the matrix
of old Saturn,
a planet
hard as a diamond,
but without its lustre
and its promise of welt.
Next:underlying, detect, field, immense, bottomless, mammal.
Enjoyed ! "dragonfly / exiled in the matrix" :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: underlying, detect, field, immense, bottomless, mammal
invasion: day 1
detecting mammals...
underlying threat computed
probability of sentience high
landing craft deployed
enabling termination protocol
x-ray out
immensely gratefulfor vast fields teaming with life
and bottomless seas
8/3/2023
Next: cursive, delivery, sunset, blink, cello, colony
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed specially the second strophe.
Challenge accepted!
Next: cursive, delivery, sunset, blink, cello, colony
Things I like
Things I like:
Cursive writing
Sunset on delivery
The blinking of a birds eye
The far away sound of a cello,
Colonies of doves.
Next: blue, journey, elephant, tide, run, secret.
Very nice :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: blue, journey, elephant, tide, run, secret
elephantasy
elephants, with the right filter, are blue; it's
not a secret, they're like chameleons, it's true
- ask tipplers after more than a drink or two
and pink will be their common view. This is
so, they can hide when on their journeys,
which they eschew, ever on the run, whereto
in necessity they may enter into waters, into
the tide and swim leaving wakes of rainbows!
8/5/2023
Next: horoscope, ribbon, jewel, abbey, equinox, harbor
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed so much this imaginative poem:"they may enter into waters, into/the tide and swim leaving wakes of rainbows!" By the way, are you still saving all these poems on your poetry pages?
Next: horoscope, ribbon, jewel, abbey, equinox, harbor
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Thanx :) re: Saving? - Yes, still saving in a google.doc started circa November 2021 ?: at maybe 2.x poems per page @ 10 pt print with a bit of white space and dividers (just so) = 330+ pages so far. I may have referenced it somewhere ? Some of the better ones (very subjective here) go into my Padlet web page, which also contains my better poetry (ibid) from a previous 290 page google.doc @ 11 pt print, which was necessitated by google.sites corrupting my website (sheesh!) which contained my poetry circa 2003 - 2018... but I haven't caught up with the Padlet site (up to March 2023? ) yet and still need to clean up and edit (an ongoing process)... you may have seen the Padlet page somewhere in the past (it had a background of pink dogwood leaves and the first pix was my woodstove) as I was trying to fix some graphics at the time due to a photo saving site going pay only :( even for extremely low volume users like me. I also use the first few pages of the newer google.doc as a 2-page template for my Thursdays at Two poetry group :)
Hoping you are saving your gems too ;)
Looking forward to your next offering :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I'm glad you are saving the poems on a doc, because several of the poems I like best are more recent ones.I get the feeling that you are more at ease with the poetic tools.
I'm going to save some of mine for a long planned blog.
Mixmax
Wearing my horoscope sign on a ribbon(leo)
Jewels glimmer uselessly hidden
in a cave
by the abbey.
A ship leaves a harbor somewhere
heading for the equinox.
On a pasture a single ox
devours the landscape.
His name is Cronus.
Next: inheritance, watermelon, fierce, ship, eager, tend.
The only tools I'm using now are Rhyme Desk as my writing aid: https://www.rhymedesk.com/desk and google and wikipedia for research for quite a while now... with the use of the futureboy anagram solver... https://futureboy.us/lookup/nph-anag...orig=generator on rare occasions due to memory issues with this laptop - which will be solved with a refurbished laptop I purchased recently with much beefier memory. The laptop I'm using now doesn't even have enough memory for a windows 10 update, even after moving everything to a memory card :(
Look forward to your blog entry :)
Enjoyed your poem and the tie in with Cronus :)
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Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: inheritance, watermelon, fierce, worship, eager, tend
family reunion
an eagerly awaited family reunion
fierce was the sun
lemonade
a watermelon and cold chicken day
grilled corn on the cob and hot dogs
and burgers, and chilled potato salad with
sweet pickles also in the offering
children tilted at piņatas
adults played at horseshoes
and generally caught up -
the most fun was seeing who had received
an inheritance of features tending
closest to photos of long past loved ones:
great-great grandpas' ears,
great-great grandmas' eyes and smiles...
lastly the white elephant exchange
a time honored tradition before
all turning in early in preparation
for Sunday's worship service
8/7/2023
Next: soup, freckles, harmony, words, nuance, truffle
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I didnīt express myself so well. With tools I meant the basic tools to write a poem: words, images, rhyme and rythm. Your poems seem to flow more naturally today, probably because you have abandoned most helping devices.Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
I will be happy to explore Rhyme Desk (rhyming often is a big problem) and Futureboy. Thanks for the links and congrats for your new purchase!
Challenge accepted!
Ah. The so-called AI tools I dabbled with for a time were great for the Nonsense Poems' thread or perhaps offering scaffolds upon which to gain prompts that had to be fleshed out through way too much editing for some poetic forms I wanted to explore. I haven't trifled with the newer AI available and prolly will not.
Possibly the influence of our county's poet laureates, 2-emeritas & current, and the poetry workshops and readings are beginning to rub off on me (still learning :) )
The Rhyme Desk is helpful at a basic level for rhymes and thesaurus... I will often google if I need a word that Rhyme Desk balks at. It serves me as a better platform for me to write rather than using a text editor... though I cut/paste to a text editor... it's really not all that complicated.
Looking forward to your new poem :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I sometimes look for rhymes in the net, will have a look ar Rhyme Desk. Some Apps I liked at the beginning I find limited now . As for Chat gtp didn't manage to download it yet, But, anyway, wouldn't exchange my own attempts for an app.
Poetry
Poetry is a magic
created out of words,
wearing unexpected nuances
flowing in rhythmical cadences.
Songs of harmony or disruption,
poems may contain everything:
From the stock market
to the gushes of the heart.
From delirant dishes
of soup and truffles
to the sunny face of a freckled child.
From a clouded sky
to intergalactic adventures.
From the fragile here and now,
to the multiple evocations
of eternity.
Next: erosion, island, dawn, game, retumbant, round.
Wonderful Ars Poetica ! Enjoyed :)
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Challenge: erosion, island, dawn, game, retumbante, round
shore party
searching for game and water after
dawn upon an uncharted deserted
island with diamond bright sands at
our backs we cut through dense lianas
meter by bitter meter into the jungle
'round about noon we'd had enough
of the cacophony of sound of unseen
game when we came across a sinkhole
created by the erosion of limestone
filled to its rim with cool fresh water
we'd no sooner filled our waterskins
when we heard the retumbante snarl
of a glaring black beast that curdled
the very blood in our veins - our cook,
no less, shot the black beast in mid-
flight with his ancient flintlock pistola
men of the high seasremain linked to the harsh land
joined at the hip
8/8/2023
Next: seed, linen, horse, reservoir, swarm, float
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Poor beast! Enjoyed this parody of an adventure story. On a desert island with cook!:D
Challenge accepted!
Next:seed, linen, horse, reservoir, swarm, float
Next:seed, linen, horse, reservoir, swarm, float
Moving Pictures
Seeds planted by the wind
Linen floating in the air
Horses galloping on the prairie
Swarms of fishes in the reservoir
A choir of children on the lawn
https://www.google.com/search?q=Coro...oinfantil+no+g
Next:orchestra, bells, wood, peacock, timing, intense.
Wonderful poem :)
I chose this short video: https://www.google.com/search?q=Coro...id:apX10TonJEA A wonderful idea for the children and what better place for the public :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: orchestra, bells, wood, peacock, timing, intense
decibels
bad orchestral timing in the wood -
a white bellbird was being harangued
by a peacock new to the hood
the tension in the air was intense
bells tolled when the dust had dispensed
after the white bellbird struck back
with his song
8/9/2023
The White Bellbird: https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/worlds-loudest-bird
Next: memory, parse, literary, texture, button, whisper
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Lol!Charming concise poem! By the way this bellbird is called here "Araponga-da-amazônia". We are a loud people!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Arap...id:hf_nXtG51B0
Challenge accepted!
Next: memory, parse, literary, texture, button, whisper
The Diary
When you take it in your hand
and press the button
that opens it
you almost hear the whisper
of the secret voices
that habit its memories.
The feel of its texture
its books smell
evoke literary adventures.
No parsing here,
rather the rustle
of ancient signs.
Next:swan, empowering, weaning, space ship, cryptic, dawn.
Enjoyed :)
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Challenge: swan, empowering, weaning, space ship, cryptic, dawn
"The souls of all good poets passed into swans" - Pythagorus
swan song superman
empowering
the weaning of our species
from the confines of earth
created a new dawn for man
cryptically black swan
events named Apollo -
space ships with lunar landers
whose bulwarks were
as thin as tin cans
8/10/2023
Next: coin, portfolio, vellum, vanish, kitty, studio
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Lol! Had to laugh at the title. Enjoyed the bringing together of swans and Apollo Mission.
Studio in the Shadow
The pink vellum portfolio
had a coin engraved in its front.
On the window sill of the studio
a white white kitty sat in contemplation.
Soon it vanished into the garden..
Next::gate, road, footprints, enchanting, cloud,
Nice portfolio... kitties get bored easily, lol :) Enjoyed !
Only 5-words (woohoo!)...
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Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: gate, road, footprints, enchanting, cloud
an open gate
an open gate
footprints upon a road
where clouds await
enchanting
8/11/2023
Next: lamp, solitary, wreath, wing, twilight, bubble
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Something went missing! Very charming concise poem.
Challenge accepted!
Next: lamp, solitary, wreath, wing, twilight, bubble
Bubbles
A solitary lamp burning
In the street
in the twilight.
A wreath on the bride's head
another on the fresh grave
In the cemetery.
Left wing, right wing.
So many bubbles
bursting in the wind.
Next: endeavour, blasting, ring, shrub, teapot, melody.