lol...

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Love your poem... forming an image in my mind's eye to meditate upon; to explore further... Enjoyed :)

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Challenge: violets, subsumed, secret, hount, lingering, lyrics

violets

I poured myself a glass
of almond milk and kept
the jug - it was one of those
nights... sweltering -
I could see my energy
dollars winging away
though tattered window
screens - a lone box
fan in the window trying
to reign them in to no
avail. Lingering in my soul
the lyrical hymn we sang
in the choir this Sabbath
day... "His eye is on the
sparrow..." and I center.

So poetry it is: I wrestle
with “Who so list to hount”
subsumed in eternal gym-
nastics, sacred not secret,
and I remember planting,
rather transplanting, violets
into a plot of ajugas and
having to abandon them -
and the import of this simple
reflection becomes a revelation
becomes clear - and the scent
of violets fills the air

7/21/2024

Next: woolgathering, genesis, gentleness, potsherd, metaphor, privet

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Thanks! :)

Loved this poem , the parallel between the sacred hymn and the scent of the violets(why did they have to be abandoned though?).
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Next: woolgathering, genesis, gentleness, potsherd, metaphor, privet

Thanks! :)

Loved this poem , the parallel between the sacred hymn and the scent of the violets(why did they have to be abandoned though?).
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Next: woolgathering, genesis, gentleness, potsherd, metaphor, privet

daydreaming = ŵoolgathering
potsherd = caco
privet = hedge shrub

Thank you !

Re: abandoned - ah, life / transitions / end of an epoch: "It was the worst of times."

daydreaming = ŵoolgathering (Yes)... (ŵ - Welsh language??)

potsherd = broken pottery piece

Quote:

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The word sherd comes from “potsherd,” a piece of a broken brittle substance of ceramic nature, most typically earthen pottery in an archaeological context. Shard is used to refer to glass-like fragments, such as obsidian, porcelain, glass, or other glassy substances, non-exclusive to an archaeological context.

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... https://melaniemagdalena.com/potsher...cal%20context.

privet = hedge shrub (Yes)

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Thanks!

ŵoolgathering :( gathering signs

Next: , genesis, gentleness, potsherd, metaphor, privet

Nonsensical XXX

The genesis of gentleness.
Potsherded metaphors and
priveted woolgathering fantasies:
tumblerous games of the imagination.

Next: Neanderthal, vociferous, understatement, lenient, accelerate, strain.

A XXX poem!... Enjoyed !!!

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Challenge: Neanderthal, vociferous, understatement, lenient, accelerate, strain

a good day hunting

A red sun hung mid-day like a hangdog
god - neanderthals strained to butcher
two wooly rhinoceroses and a number

of red deer stampeded over a cliff to
escape a fire set earlier by the spear
waving antagonists - the earnest hunters

accelerating their efforts as distant
sounds of vociferous hyenas braved the
still smoldering undergrowth above

biting flies attacked the hunters upon bare
skin where ochre was sparsely applied
or worn away - no leniency given, an

understatement, by the voracious beasties...
when from seemingly nowhere 2-cave bears
emerge from the tree line making a beeline

towards the neanderthals sending them
scrambling, carrying away as much of the
butchered meat possible in a hasty retreat

a crescent moon rules the heavens overseeing
the cave bears gorging themselves near to
bursting barely noticing furtive hyenas

8/5/2024

Next: island, palace, mute, solemn, alure, seashells

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A cruel but real interaction between species! Enjoyed the succint to the point style and the mobility of the poem, with almost everybody running.

Next: island, palace, mute, solemn, allure, seashells
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Next: island, palace, mute, solemn, allure, seashells

The Palace
A solemn building without allure
Made entirely
Out of seashells.

Majestic and mute
It stands on an island of clouds,
Alas!Soon the winds
will take it asunder.
Next: river, torches, veiled entourage, sunlit, emerge.

Enjoyed !

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Challenge: river, torches, veiled, entourage, sunlit, emerge

today the ferryman

An entourage followed slowly
behind a hero's funerary bier
emerging from sunlit haunts
taking to torches in the misty
shadows along a fetid river
beneath great dank mossy trees

ahead a landing where a long punt
awaited with an impatient ferryman
veiled in a dark loose shroud

but before the hero is transferred
to the ferryman's guardianship
the boney hand of the ferryman
collects his fee then extends a
tablet asking for a gratuity as
the funerary party stares at sea

8/21/2024 r. 8/24/2024

Next: willow, legend, cauldron, reckon, fruition, butterfly

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tailor

Interesting take on a funeral entourage centered on the ferry man.
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Next: willow, legend, cauldron, reckon, fruition, butterfly

Next: willow, legend, cauldron, reckon, fruition, butterfly

The Legend of the Willow and the Butterfly

In ancient times thousands of years ago
there was a willow.
It was a proud tree
with branches pointed skywards,
and roots solidly planted in the soil.

One day a bad with arrived
with her cauldron and requested
all the leaves of the willow for her magic.
Proud of its leaves the willow said "no"!
But it didn´t reckon with the power of the witch.
She stripped it of all its leaves
and cooked them with fruition
in her big cauldron.

The willow bend its head and wept copiously.
He wept so much that a forest fairy heard him
from the far side of the wood.
She came to its succor
and drove away the witch.

Out of the cauldron,
where the willow leaves had been cooking
there emerged the most beautiful butterfly.
It poised delicately on one of its bare branches
and lo, its leaves were back.
But its crown remained for ever bent,
its branches now point to the ground
the wiiiow leaves flowing down like a mass of hair.
And, when visited by the wind,
it weeps in memory of its early times.

Next: universe, goat, Andromeda, star-ship, endless, mystery.

Wonderful legend poem !!! Enjoyed :) (S2 L1 perhaps with>witch)

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Challenge: universe, goat, Andromeda, star-ship, endless, mystery

The Tears of the Heliades
At velocities once only a
god could conceive of
we travelled through one
of Andromeda's mysteries
the Tears of the Heliades
utilizing dark photons
in a goat of a starship
as starships went, traversing
an endless universe none
the worse by our presence

8/27/2024

Next: dust, astrologer, nautilus, teeming, tribute, grimoire

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tailor

Thanks for the correction. The page doesn't allow editing. Trying tomorrow again.
Enjoyed the poem!
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Next: dust, astrologer, nautilus, teeming, tribute, grimoire

Next: dust, astrologer, nautilus, teeming, tribute, grimoire

Grimoire

Take the magic book
Out of the dust
and the dusk

Let it´s pages
live again
is my refrain.

Teeming with ancient words.
of lays and lords.
Tributes of the astrologers
to the firmament.

Or they dive
into de depths of the oceans
after spellbound nautilus.

Next: OVNY, empire, blast, spellbound, arthropod, soaring.

Excellent !

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Challenge: OVNY, empire, blast, spellbound, arthropod, soaring

like the sound of rushing waters

Xiphosurians in the first light of their empire
in latter Ordovician days... O' these cold and
cataclysmic times rarely heralded in modern
rhyme, deep within the Tornquist Sea soaring
lithe arthropodic OVNY beings - whilst conch-like
trumpets blast forth the music of the spheres
heralding kings and queens holding court, rapt,
spellbound - hearkening to the sage tidings
expressed by the brilliancy of celestial thought
- not unlike the sound of rushing waters

9/11/2024

Next: timorous, chihuahua, android, onset, avenger, babendil,

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Thanks for the correction, software allows no editing.
Enjoyed the Xiphosuriam poem.

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Next: timorous, chihuahua, android, onset, avenger, babendil,

Next: timorous, chihuahua, android, onset, avenger, babendil,

Nonsensical 5
At the sound of the
babendil
and the onset of the
tide
the small chihuahua
becomes timorous
becomes android
becomes avenger.

Next: parallel, grotesque, jam, elusive, llama, evergreen.

Lol... perhaps a sequel to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Chihuahua... Enjoyed !

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Challenge: parallel, grotesque, jam, elusive, llama, evergreen

Psychedelic Llamas Jam

Psychedelic llamas jam in a parallel
universe spitting evergreen lyrics at
their adoring fans already engaged in
swatting at elusive arpeggios from an
electric mandolin: broken cords like
grotesque butterflies on fire - a bonzo
drummer wields sticks of lightning in an
extended solo whipping the crowd into
a thunderous consummating applause

9/17/2024

Next: Aeon, anvil, forge, transom, frequency, earring

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Sure! Beverly Hills has to have its dog aristocracy!:)

Enjoyed this psychedelic music poem! One sees and hears the band.

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Next: Aeon, anvil, forge, transom, frequency, earring

Next: Aeon, anvil, forge, transom, frequency, earring

The house and the anvil
It existed for aeons
this mysterious house,
with its windows secured by transoms,
where the magic earrings where forged
and then shaped on the anvil.
The earrings got lost frequently:
they were stolen, scattered or reduced
to the metal that gave them their shape.
Also the anvil disappeared.
But the house still exists,
with its gables and transoms.

Next: latitude, climate, waves,intense, implement, around.

Enjoyed your enchanted poem :)

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tailor

Sorry this took so long... started, then sat on it for a while to finish...

Challenge: latitude, climate, waves, intense, implement, around

love unbounded

Given the latitude of our agency
in this climate of worldly intensity
if we were but to implement
one iota each upon a positive bent
all simultaneously, without exception,
but for a nanosecond
waves of reenforcing energy
would fill the universe to such a degree
that a chord would be struck
as if harp strings plucked
by divinity and rebound -
resounding love unbounded all around

10/12/2024

Next: rosebud, synesthesia, violin, lighthearted, constellation, harmony

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Enjoyed this poem, speccially the end with it´s internal rhymes: "as if harp strings plucked/by divinity and rebound/ resounding love unbounded all around"

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Next: rosebud, synesthesia, violin, lighthearted, constellation, harmony

Thank you! Looking forward to your offering :)

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Next: rosebud, synesthesia, violin, lighthearted, constellation, harmony

No Use for Synesthesia

I am asked to write about rosebud,
but all i can manage today
is a sore throat.

Whether a lack of harmony
in my private constellation
or to much lightheartedness
ending up in consternation.

Anyway in the present case
I will have to listen
to the doctor
rather than to violins.
Snif!

Next: meadow, pleasant, iguana, waterfront, angels, peace.

Oh, my! Get better soon :)

Loved this: "Whether a lack of harmony / in my private constellation / or to much lightheartedness / ending up in consternation."

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tailor

Lol...my medication has me fuzzy (I'm supposed to be napping), but I did a quick research on "flaming iguanas" (no clue why) for a lark and received inspiration... a bit of fluff :)

Challenge: meadow, pleasant, iguana, waterfront, angels, peace

A Shameless Plug For a Band I Just Found Googling "Flaming Iguanas"

The Flaming Iguanas -
invite them to
your bar-b-que
in a meadow, at
a waterfront
angels will attend you
and pleasantly...
PEACE ☮

10/13/2024

https://www.google.com/search?newwin...gjp6HSkmw,st:0

Next: meditation, fishhook, shade, bliss, nimble, chimes

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tailor

Thanks.Hope you get better too whatever this medication is for. Today I nap so easily.


Enjoyed the flaming Iguanas...Saw real Iguanas only once.They were enormous.
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Next: meditation, fishhook, shade, bliss, nimble, chimes

Sorry fot this delay. Had a bad week!

Next: meditation, fishhook, shade, bliss, nimble, chimes

The Yogi

He sat there
in the shade
of a tree.
Legs crossed,
his nimble fingers
resting on his knees,
bliss on his face,
his soul fishhooked
by meditation.

From afar came the sound of the chimes inviting to church.

Next: alley, lively, train, puppets, silver, downs

Ditto... Hoping this week is more auspicious.

His poor soul... Enjoyed :)

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Challenge: alley, lively, train, puppets, silver, downs

bowling at the silver chalice

A lively set of lanes at the silver chalice;
alleys "ditched" just so - the pins flew!
most bowled like so many puppets
all downs and no ups for them -
we crankers had a field day against the chumps
plastics soaked in gasoline or M.E.K. -
like watching a train wreck.
dollars passed into hands after the 8-game block
- like a month's pay
those were the days

10/21/2024

https://calusbc.wordpress.com/2022/0...ersy-heats-up/

Next: spider, marvel, crystal, hours, marmor, aurora

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This is the first poem about bowling I ever read. Enjoyed! But you aren´t going to tell me that there are serious controversies going on about the ball being allowed to be softer or harder"

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Next: spider, marvel, crystal, hours, marmor, aurora

Here's a thumbnail to scratch the surface:

The hardness of a bowling ball has been an issue since I was a junior bowler (60's on)

Back in the day we had plastic bowling balls, rubber bowling balls, and maybe a few other ancient "cover stocks".

The harder the bowling ball the less it would roll without "breaking" or "hook" . A ball that hooked was great on "oily" lanes... a ball that did not hook, or only a little was great on "dry" lanes. This was in the day of lacquer finished lanes... not seen anymore. Then there were "ditched" lanes which confiddled the issue even more... where the oil on the lane was applied to benefit better bowlers... but that's another issue... and there were ways to drill a bowling ball to make it do more or less hooking and rolling and sliding by offsetting the finger positions with relation to the the "weight block" pancake underneath the cover surface... also accomplished by drilling an extra non-finger hole to change the characteristics/dynamics similarly, but only one extra hole allowed.

Where was I ? The idea that indeed the hardness/softness of a bowling ball, and later highly porous rubber stocks circa '70's?... like the LT-48, was on every better bowler's minds. Some serendipitously found "softer" cover stock plastic balls that performed better than others. Then it was postulated that artificially softening the balls surface by one bowler would lead to even better get better results for the more expert bowlers... hence the article (not going to touch on the controversies of left-handed bowlers having an advantage over right-handed bowlers in my day). So... once the cat got out of the bag (there are always cats :) bowlers tried various means to gain an advantage by soaking their bowling balls in various substances, mostly dangerous and toxic, the best being a chemical called M.E.K.

Bowling officials became alarmed and finally came up with a density scale via a durometer and the "Durometer D" scale was established and nothing softer (ball stock) than 72 on the scale was legal anymore. I think that benchmark may have changed.

Bowling evolution continued with urethane coated lanes eliminating the highly flammable varnished lanes (fumes when first applied to the lane's wooden surface)... urethane bowling balls... imbedded "weight blocks" of various sizes and shapes within a bowling ball under the bowling ball's cover that replaced the standard "pancake" biased weight that all bowling balls in my era had...

Most bowlers in my latter bowling years brought 2 or more bowling balls to tournaments and leagues to adjust to "lane conditions" or oil patterns, using hard plastic balls for 10 pin spares (for right-handers) and adjusting to the changes over games due the oil pattern changing from use... which in my day gave the left-handed bowler an advantage since their oil pattern changed less than on the right-handers side due to there being more right-handed bowlers affecting "the shot" (I wasn't going to go there but it was a concern at the time and "lefties" were able to take advantage of such dynamics).

I've been essentially out off bowling since the turn of the century (that sounds weird) and bowling evolution has passed me by... but my heart is still there and I'm looking to purchase some used bowling shoes and start practicing again. I have a knee brace now that should help my once hyper-extended knee... but oh the cost inflation since I was active (I used to practice hundreds of games for free when I was a junior bowler and in the biz).

Lol, hope that helps :)

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tailor

I'm amazed.i never saw anyone writing about bowling here in Brazil. Ii guess it's seen more like a hobby than a sport. I myself went bowling once or twice, but just for fun, there are some bowling halls here in São Paulo. I hope you find a place near your house.

Next: spider, marvel, crystal, hours, marmor, aurora

Spiderman

Spiderman- marvel born in crystal hours
marmored sky-bout of aurora.

Next: soft, limerick, chief, ghost, movement, ease.

Short & sweet minimalism... enjoyed :)

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Challenge: soft, limerick, chief, ghost, movement, ease

ghostbusted

Ghostbusters cornered their quarry double quick
softly sighed the ghostly apparition before them
its eyes glowing with fire then elicited a limerick:
"there once was an anonymous handkerchief
a baby ghost chock full of mischief
toppling whatnots then pass through walls with ease
its movements quite erratic if you please
so frenetic it caused the haunted great grief"
impressed the ghostbusters let down their guard
allowing the apparition a chance to escape
it cachinnated then shook and then its sheet did forsake
leaving the ghostbusters stunned mouths agape

10/24/2024

Next: foam, diadem, canopy, marmoset, cotillion, Tatibitati

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