Enjoyed both :)
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Enjoyed both :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Esther Chilton offers the word "birds" for this week's Writing Prompts: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/07/...cription_popup
I like the way those birds can fly,
but I prefer the ground. That’s why
I do not envy wings, though I
would sing the way some do.
birds
dinosaurs transmogrify:
birds
7/9/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
A cat runs down the street
hides at the corner,
one whisker is visible
the whisker twitches
the cat is laughing!
:)
tinky 2
tinky reposes
on a bed of red roses
in his twitchy dreams
7/10/2025 r.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
say it ain't so
does Guardians'
pitcher Luis Ortiz
wear black socks
7/10/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
The screen won’t load.
I stare.
It stares back.
We both pretend
to know what's wrong.
Aaaaiiii!Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
Litnet having its tantrums?Quote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
AND ALSO FOR YOU
Inspiration is for me
the Spirit guiding me to see
and smiling when I do what He
has told me I should do.
Written for Esther Chilton's Writing Prompts with prompt "inspiration": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/07/...cription_popup
Even with the wind unwinding,
even with the darkness binding
faith asserting truth is finding
life beyond the grave.
Written for Esther Chilton's Writing Prompts with prompt "faith": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/07/...ng-prompts-75/
Enjoyed :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thank you, tailor!
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Written for Esther Chilton's Writing Prompts with prompt "voice": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/07/...cription_popup
Given voice choice words are sending
blessings, curses. Hearts are rending
or uplifted. May true mending
words come speedily.
Written for Esther Chilton's Writing Prompts with prompt "kind": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/08/...cription_popup
Every thought needs careful weeding.
Every deed needs Spirit leading.
Every word is somewhere seeding
what is kind or what is not.
Enjoyed both :)
Employed both words:
let heav'n rejoice
a kind voice
with gentle words
the melodious song of birds
let heav'n rejoice
8/13/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Hours slip like rain threads,
afternoons dissolve in haze—
something stirs ahead.
Nice haiku :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I like those "gentle words", tailor, and how "afternoons dissolve in haze", Tony.
Written for Esther Chilton's Writing Prompts with prompt "window": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/08/...cription_popup
Through the window lights are shining
like a star to earth that's signing:
all is well. Its silver lining
suddenly appears.
"A silver lining"... love this metaphor... :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
the windows to your soul
the windows to your soul
belie the precious time you keep
downcast as they scroll
captively when one should sleep
8/21/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
at unfathomable speed
26,000 light years away
in the galactic center
star S4714
orbits at 8% of the speed of light
an unfathomable speed
roughly 12.6 AU away from
a massive black hole, Sagittarius A
8/22/2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*_cluster
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
May the windows to our souls be a blessing to those around us. Nice one, tailor!
Written for Esther Chilton's Writing Prompts with prompt "strike": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/08/...cription_popup
Strike and so obey
if the cause be right.
Seek and you shall find.
Let the way unwind
from the dark to light.
Into the light... Enjoyed :)
forge ahead
let's strike while the iron is hot
for time is of the essence lest
your peace of mind be fraught
do this and ye shall be blessed
8/27/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
a man of simple tastes
a draught of chilled
peppermint tea
a finishing bite nicely
upon the tongue
8/29/2025
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tailor[/b][/font]
a touch too much
added a pinch too much cinnamon
to my rice and milk - it doesn't mix
very well, coats the side of the bowl
and sits on top like so many motes
8/30/2025 r. 8/31/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor[/b][/font]
Nice ones, tailor. Good reminder to forge ahead even with occasionally too much cinnamon.
Esther Chilton offers "element" for this week's prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/...cription_popup
Discernment
An element of truth may be
so buried in the mud that we
see mud and think the mud we see
is truth when it is not.
Thanx. Thoughtful axiom :) Hope to return with a poem :)
pspsps #11 (Schrödinger's Cat reprised)
a cat was removed from its element
sealed in a container, became revenant
having survived or not when unobserved
a priori bordering on the absurd
for those not in physics a nonevent
9/5/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor[/b][/font]
It's probably a good idea to keep one's cat away from those Schrodinger experiments.
Esther Chilton offers "charge" for this week's prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/...cription_popup
The tease was offered without charge.
Addiction would come later.
So, if you're tempted, better say
this will cost more some other day
when total cost is greater.
So true... enjoyed :)
A Positive Experience
I get a charge out of nature
the sweet petrichor after a rain
on a cool September's day
9/10/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor[/b][/font]
That petrichor is a wonderful experience.
Esther Chilton offers "promises" for this week's prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/...cription_popup
Promises are here and there.
Beware the promise everywhere.
Beware the blame that darkens air.
You promised to forgive.
Abide
He promises to forgive
never leading us astray
unequivocally where
the white dove abides
9/17/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor[/b][/font]
Amen, tailor! He never leads us astray.
Esther's prompt word this week is "cards": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/...cription_popup
A Useless Whine
The front end doesn't work today.
The rear end doesn't either.
The middle's not an end at all,
no matter where the wild cards fall,
so nothing now works neither
(except my mouth).
I hate when that happens to my car... enjoyed :)
reading the tarot 9.24.2025
today's tarot card has been disclosed
the Four of Wands, reversed for Scorpio:
assess and prioritize - finding joy in the moment
let creativity, though challenging, shine
9/24/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed the tarot poem.
Thank you :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thank you, tailor. May we find joy in the moment.
Esther Chilton offers "club" for this week's prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/10/...cription_popup
I used to think
a club would do,
but love does more
and blesses, too.
Wonderful tiny poem :)
Sofia Marie mid-January 2026
radiant my joymy Granddaughter a member
of the pudding club
10/1/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Congratulations, tailor! (and blessings to Sofia Marie, assuming I understood the word "pudding" correctly)
Esther Chilton offers "shade" for this week's Writing Prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/10/...cription_popup
We wouldn't be here
were there not more
than shades for eyes
than earth or skies.
Behold the opened door.
:)
Enjoyed your poem :)
Beneath the Eucalyptus Tree
There once was a man quite staid
Sought a wife, so he ardently prayed
She soon came to his attention
Then married, then contention
As for family - received only shade
10/8/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
a spider sprite
a spider sprite runs in the air
upon a filament too fine to see
10/10/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor