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Enjoyed this haiku so much!
Next: friends, whispering, inclined, condor, parabolic, peripheral
Inspiration El Condor pasa:https://www.letras.mus.br/simon-e-ga.../traducao.html (Simon and Garfunkel created very different lyrics for that song
The condor
The condor flies over the Inca empire
all day long
whispering a song
all day long
a song of freedom.
In his par'bolic and peripheral position
he sings this song
all day long
the song of freedom
And all the friends so inclined
they sing the song
all day long
the song of freedom.
Next challenge: immense, universe, aeons, silence, squirrel, rebounding.
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Very inspired... Enjoyed! :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Challenge: immense, universe, aeons, silence, squirrel, rebounding
a cosmic silence
a squirrel sees the
immensity of the universe
in a nut
ground and tree and limb -
bounding and rebounding -
gathering and storing
nuts seemingly provided by
aeons in a cosmic silence
6/22/2023
Next: pique, ghostly, ziggurat, placid, wasp, awe
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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AAAAIIIII!
Next: pique, ghostly, ziggurat, placid, wasp, awe
The ziggurat
An usually placid wasp
dreamed about an awesome ziggurat
inhabited by millions of wasps.
It woke up
and there it was the ziggurat,
in front of her
with the wasps all swarming about it.
The wasp was piqued on finding
that all friends and family
had moved to the ziggurat.
No one had invited her.
But then the ghostly sructure disappeared
into thin air.
It had been a dream inside a dream.
Next challenge: quicksand, howering, dragging, belongings, hat, doorsteps.
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Enjoyed ! "a dream inside a dream" Very nice :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: quicksand, howering, dragging, belongings, hat, doorsteps
the howering had begun; the
howers crept as the blood moon
rose and Xquic observes...
as side hustles went on the black
web this one was quite lucrative -
and paid in crypto currency laundered
so much it was virtually untraceable
dragging the inert form carefully
through the doorsteps outside
was the most arduous task -
a red wheelbarrow near a chicken
coop proved its worth beyond relief
dinner had been rather nice and the
poison quite effective and swift
incriminating belongings were
removed from the body: cell phone,
watch, sorority ring... no need for
temptation to pawn or otherwise
profit by them, they fit nicely in the
septic cleanout - a most fitting end
quicksand would have been her ideal
choice for concealment - a fanciful
thought of disposal where all that
remained was a cloche hat bemused our
protagonist - but was far too intractable
a stolen car, however, would do in a pinch,
towed, then eased into the steeply
sloped lake where it would remain
concealed for decades - providing
a mystery for future sleuths to ponder
... and thus the howering comes to an end;
the blood moon waxes and Xquic sleeps
6/23/2023
Next: tears, boulevard, sedan, moonlit, pebbles, breeze
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Lololol! Was nonplussed about what was happening here until I discovered that I had misspelled "hovering", and you taking up the challenge, used an archaic spelling for "hours". Brilliant! That said, your dinner mustn't have been that "nice" yesterday + intensive watching of dark series.
Challenge accepted!
Next: tears, boulevard, sedan, moonlit, pebbles, breeze
During the night
The autumn was shedding cold tears on the ground
as a black sedan appeared on the boulevard
its headlamps illuminating the pebbles on the way
which shone ghostly in the dark night.
What was the sedan doing anyway
in front of the haunted old mansion
at this late hour?
The answer surely rested with the two heavily cloaked figures,
who got out of the car and went into the house
opening the door with a rusty key.
After a while they came out
and drove away
silently as they had come.
Soon the rain ceased and
the landscape shone silvery
bathed in the waning moonshine.
A morning breeze began to blow so very softly,
one could almost see the young flowers opening their buds.
Next challenge: airily. fathomless, sunrise, nest, siblings, hourglass.
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Exorcising an old house... enjoyed :)
Dinner ?: 2-soft tacos, minestrone, and 2-chimichangas. Yes, a bit of googling for "howering" - it just seemed to fit :) The poem took on a life of its own after my thought of adding the blood moon to the howering and then a wiki of blood moon which led me to the fabled Xquic. The black web and crypto and cars in lakes come from recent news stories. Googled for a style of woman's hat gave me "cloche hat" where I had an epiphany for the "quicksand" stanza. Glad you enjoyed :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Challenge: airily. fathomless, sunrise, nest, siblings, hourglass
rest your fathomless minds upon the sunrise -
come thou airily - see the hourglass as forever
full - we siblings, all, sharing a common nest
6/24/2023
Next: ravenous, conscience, drifting, ship, defiant, foregone
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Concise and beautiful!
Challenge accepted
!Next: ravenous, conscience, drifting, ship, defiant, foregone
A ravenous conscience keeps drifting
like a ship in a storm,
defiant as to its foregone destiny.
Next challenge: milliards, creature, rainbow, thunder, inviting, seamless.
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Likewise ! Imagining a "ravenous conscience" :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: milliards, creature, rainbow, thunder, inviting, seamless
microscopic milliards
microscopic milliards
after the thunder -
rainbow creatures
in inviting pools
their diversity one
seamless whole -
a microcosm of
flagellate swizzles
and ciliate giggles
and other odd beasts
who swim and swirl
protesting amorphous
amoebic intrusions
6/26/2023
Next: rays, susurrus, falling, aspen, paraffin, butterfly
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Lovely!
"a microcosm of
flagellate swizzles (had to google swizzles)
and ciliate giggles
and other odd beasts
who swim and swirl
protesting amorphous
amoebic intrusions"!
Next: rays, susurrus, falling, aspen, paraffin, butterfly
The Saucy Butterfly
Extending her wings provokingly
in the direction of the sun
bathing in the golden rays
soaring high and higher over the sussurous
of the aspen trees.
No, her wings are no glued with paraffin,
like those of the unlucky Ikarus
once where.
No, the world is hers
not even the sky is the limit.
Next challenge: gold, murmur, bottomless, screening, eventide, camel.
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Beautiful poem... S1 really stands out :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: gold, murmur, bottomless, screening, eventide, camel
"The Bright and Morning Star" / Revelations
The murmur of a lone camel far away
carries over desert golden sands
leading to a far and distant Samarkand
as eventide's lazy overture proclaims
The bottomless depths of a revealed
universe soon bursts into view -
and comes a new screening of the
heavens by poets and seekers of truth
A bright star appears out of Jacob
heralding our dear Savior's holy birth
6/29/2023 r. Rev 22:16
Next: perfection, roller, starlight, stone, giraffe, bronze
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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re: Thanks!
Loved this poem, specially the unusual part!
Challenge accepted!
Next: perfection, roller, starlight, stone, giraffe, bronze
Giraffe in starlight
A closed zoo
Ah but they forgot to lock the door,
Of this sleeping zoo.
On one of the enclosures
one perceives
the lonely profile of a giraffe
lit to perfection by the starlight.
In it´s stillnes.
might be a figure made out of bronze
or stone.
Out of nowhere
a ghostly roller appears
and disappears.
New challenge: vernacular, sweetness, raccoons, spring, gnomes, jumping
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Thanx :) I trimmed the poem of the last two lines since you last read.
Beautiful African tableau: "one perceives
the lonely profile of a giraffe
lit to perfection by the starlight.
In it´s stillnes.
might be a figure made out of bronze
or stone."
I liked that the roller put in but a brief appearance before flying away as if not to spoil the mood :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Challenge: vernacular, sweetness, raccoons, spring, gnomes, jumping
by the light of the moon
natty was one of a family of garden gnome
ofttimes left her manicured garden home
to visit with friendly har-rento umescos
in gnomic vernacular, or raccoons - those
masked old-agile souls; as agile in solving
puzzles as with clever-handedness in washing
food in nearby springs, that just amazed natty
jumping together in play natty and tattie
(her har-rento umesco best friend) would
annoy the færies who misunderstood
their nightly frivolity in the woods as they
searched for plump berries by the way
the divine sweetness they vastly coveted
when an alarm went out, loudly trumpeted
the færies hearing from fervid fireflies that
the two had wandered too far whereat
har-rento umescos and færies and gnomes
hurriedly assembled from out of their homes
to search fen, bog, and the odd hollowed log
when they were found at the home of a frog
playing at skittles by the light of the moon
6/30/2023 r. 7/1/2023 (spelling)
Next: mood, decline, voyage, sacrifice, whisper, Mars
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
