lol...

re: "take" - lol, yes, hidden within the solitude of dismall poverty.

Enjoyed your poem :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Sorry to learn that! Pensions seem not to be better than here.
Hopefully you still grow vegetables and fruit.
Curious about your new poem.

lol... only a poverty of words (hangin' in there otherwise :) )
: dismantlers

Challenge: entrancing, figs, leaves, introduction, ode, endeavor

Ode to a Fig Tree

Introduction to my humble ode on figs -
I would not endeavor to elucidate upon twigs,
branches midst brambles with deep root -
but its leaves and the royal entrancing fruit

Praised and cursed in Biblical lore the fig tree
has provided sustenance throughout antiquity
being deciduous with large sculpted leaves
of three to five distinct lobes one believes
suited ancient mother Eve and father Adam
for raiment after their transgression in Eden

Oh, how I look forward to late summer months
to pluck off the sweet morsels that confronts
the taste buds with soft spicy sweet - a taste
that must be acquired to be fully embraced
- the uninitiated expecting the jell of Newton
found within a soft cookie not free of gluten
oft not treats upon the noble fig tree again

7/5/2023

Next: finger, unicorn, veil, mound, race, valley

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Lol! Antlers-dismal-dismantlers-this linguistic profundity lost me. Love figs and enjoyed the poem on figs

Next: finger, unicorn, veil, mound, race, valley

Story
In a green valley
among mounds of hay
there lived a lonely unicorn
One day he ran a race with himself.
He ran and ran and ran and ran
until he was very far from home.
Suddenly he saw a veiled lady
who was crying because
she cut her finger,
The unicorn consoled her
and she instantly transformed herself
in a beautiful female unicorn.
A bad witch had...well
you know the story.
The male unicorn was happy
They lived from then on together
And run a lot of races

Next challenge: desert,wanderer, oasis, sand, run,intensive.

In a

"linguistic profundity" - I like that :)

Wonderful poetic story with a happy ending... brought to mind, in the way of unicorns, one of my favorite movies: "Legend" starring: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: desert, wanderer, oasis, sand, run, intensive

“I'll Be Seeing You”

A desert wanderer found itself on the planet Mars
There were no oases but dune upon dune of sand
Controlled from beyond sometimes 'woken' by guitars
It rollicked and rolled to its own tune as it scanned

For signs of life, for someday its origin would have none...
And it run and run, as it were, trundling through fields
Of rock and sand and crater under a far distant sun
That couldn't sustain even the mirage of cornfields

From this distance and parched environment
And still it ran far beyond mission parameters
Its intensive search providing much enlightenment
For mission specialists who were far from amateurs

Till one day the death knell tolled, out of the blue
And as it at last rested lifelessly was serenaded
By a recording of Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You"
Then only the sounds of the Martian wind pervaded

7/6/2023

Next: silent, demitasse, canary, news, sunglasses, remoteness

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Tragic and somehow cute! Mars is becoming fastly another life resort!
Challenge accepted!

Next: silent, demitasse, canary, news, sunglasses, remoteness

Breakfast (not at Tyffany's)

His ritual performed every morning:
feeding the canary
then slowly and silently
sipping a demitasse of cofee
while looking at the news.
Then he put his sunglasses on,
and went out.
Clad in the morning mist
the little town had an air
of remotedness.

Nex challenge: forest, singular, raids, restless, piano, lace.

Enjoyed: "Clad in the morning mist / the little town had an air / of remotedness." :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: forest, singular, raids, restless, piano, lace

forests under siege

let us raise a song of the forest
lamenting the forests under siege -
where singular insular raids amount
to a bazillion paper cuts laced with
indigenous hate - a restless and
delicate ecosystem in turmoil -
let it be balanced and controlled,
a movement pianissimo - a tribute
from mankind to mother earth

7/7/2023 r.

Next: city, luna moth, summer, imagine, judgment, silence

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Enjoyed this ecological poem!
Challenge accepted.

Next: city, luna moth, summer, imagine, judgment, silence

The infatuated moth

There once was a beautiful moth
That slept a lot
as it was lunar

It danced at night
to the city lights
and the summer heat

One day, can you imagine
It fell in love with a flower
Wanting to visit it at every hour.

It entered a request
not in jest
to become a butterfly.

After a severe indictment
and a fair judgment
the wish was granted.

So that became the lot
Of the lunar moth!

The rest is silence.

New challenge: park, Ferris wheel, pool, bees, intriguing, superlative

Wonderful poem: "It danced at night / to the city lights / and the summer heat" :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: park, Ferris wheel, pool, bees, intriguing, superlative

A Poke in the Eye

An intriguing and most superlative engineering
Ferris wheels are great from a distance
I went on one once at an amusement park...
Never again
I remember the thrill of rising until whirlpools
of nausea and vertigo introduced themselves
to each other whilst perched on top of the world...
And then horror of horrors the sensation of going
backwards in the sadistic contraption of torture...
Wild wildebeests couldn't drag me -
I'd rather get a poke in the eye

7/8/2023

Next: statue, windy, thirst, extinct, eavesdrop, tradition

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

The poem does justice to the feelings of the lyric I. Also diffuses the neologism "wildebeests" that punctilious people might not accept.:D
Myseif, I confess that being phobic of heights, I never ventured on a Ferris wheel

Challenge accepted!

Next: statue, windy, thirst, extinct, eavesdrop, tradition

The eavesdropping statue

In times of yore
without internet
and electronic
spying devices
we have today,
there existed the
now extinct tradition
of people meeting in discreet places
for the exchange of secrets
specially political ones.

On a windy March Roman day
two men met in a room
that held, beside an old statue,
only a likewise old table and some chairs.

After quenching their thirst,
with the vine they had brought
they discussed a secret
involving top politicians
of the country.

Next day the secret was
all over the place,
and both men
had hardly the time
to flee the country.

They hadn´t noticed,
that the statue was hollow
and had someone
hidden inside.

Next challenge: vineyard, storm, antipodes, rusty, exchange, enormously.