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Beautiful nostalgic poem.
Next: harbor, seagulls, sand dollar, rope, eye, concession
The seagull
I like to fly
and keep my realms
under a watchful eye.
Without ropes and concessions,
The open sky is my harbor,
there I meet fellow seagulls
enjoying themselves.
When I feel an urge,
of landing near a shore
Sand dollars greet me.
Next challenge: stage, imperative, lurking, distress, longing, fertile.
Light and airy poem... enjoyed very much :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: stage, imperative, lurking, distress, longing, fertile
lurking in familiar shadows
lurking in familiar shadows upon a
fertile stage the natural man in
his madness assails the moral imperatives
of a world crying in its distress
longing for a higher loving-kindness
7/16/2023
Next: troubadour, dolphin, illusory, catspaw, windowpane, constellation
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Snif!"a world crying in its distress longing for a higher loving-kindness"!
Challenge accepted:troubadour, dolphin, illusory, catspaw, windowpane, constellation
Pictures
A melancholy dolphin
looking through a windowpane
at the clouds of an illusory sky.
Flowers swaying under catspaws.
Far constellations pierce the night,
and a lonely troubadour´s
plaintive song.
Next: watermelon, ongoing, waterfall, drowsy, Lilliput, racing.
Wonderful !
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: watermelon, ongoing, waterfall, drowsy, Lilliput, racing
escape
a watermelon rind kind of day -
ants, like racing lilliputs, growing
drowsy in the intense heat
as viewed from above the bustling
throng - an ongoing ruin to nowhere
escape -
contemplating a waterfall
I meditate
and soon begin to bathe
in the tranquility
of rushing waters
7/17/2023
Next: starlight, greet, embodiment, tranquil, persimmon, lily
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Interesting contrast between part one and two of the poem.Enjoyed!
Challenge accepted.
Next: starlight, greet, embodiment, tranquil, persimmon, lily
Wow: In English"caqui" is elegantly called persimmon.
Persimmon
Under the starlight or under the sun
Greets me persimmon, persimmon
embodiment of sweetness
with its soft, translucent flesh,
offering orange pleasure,
instead of the tranquil contemplation
of the lily.
Next challenge: looking glass, grass, amazing, praying mantis, recurrent, cycles.
Delightful ! :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: looking glass, grass, amazing, praying mantis, recurrent, cycles
58:11
a praying mantis swayed her head
in an elegant recurrent gimbaled fashion
when upon encountering a looking glass
observed otherworldly cycles there -
each day was warm and untroubled
each night a delightful misty rain
aromatic honeysuckle and star jasmine
ever wafted on a light breeze
lazily a shallow brook passed by
burbling in its course with tiny rising
waterfalls as it meandered serpentine
to a sea far, far away from view
the grass shone an inviting blue
hummingbirds afire glowed
industrious færies tended garden groves
and an inkblot toad or two
eternity seemed as but an instant
as the praying mantis beheld this new
realm - then realizing her prayer
was answered swiftly entered in
7/18/2023
Next: galaxy, elegant, imbroglio, sense, queue, whirlpool
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Aaii!
Challenge accepted!
Next: galaxy, elegant, imbroglio, sense, queue, whirlpool
Street Scene (Inspired in a supermarket Foto by Tony Walton)
The well dressed lady in the queue
took the elegant galaxy
out of her Prada bag.
She answered the phone,
she seemed to try to calm
the agitated voice
that reached her through the phone
in a whirlpool of emotion.
The people behind her
were dozing on their own cell phones.
Not sensing, nor really caring,
of any internal imbroglios
of emotion amongst them...
Nothing it seems
would interrupt their sleepy boredom
Next challenge: blustering, forward, banquet, lizard, opera, gorgeous.
Enjoyed :)
Perhaps:
"The people behind her
were dozing on her own cell phones."
Unawares -
Not sensing, nor really caring,
of any internal imbroglios
of emotion amongst them...
"Nothing it seems
would interrupt this sleepy boredom."
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: blustering, forward, banquet, lizard, opera, gorgeous
divine diva
an operatic lizard - so she was famed abroad
two slights in print that made her wince
that sometimes made her feel like such a fraud
knowing all her blusterings could never convince
she retired most elegantly gorgeous to the mint
and lent her publicist the task to properly evince
certain media where they could stuff their print
the consequences not so dire as to be banned
from banquets, und so weiter, without a single squint
7/19/2023
Next: downy, gladly, nature, evanescent, wisp, pathway
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks for the elegant suggestions, tailor, I simply forgot to include two words.
I have to alter a pronoun too. Tomorrow because of my eyesight.
Challenge accepted!
Elegant poem! The diva didn´t put herself forward though! "und so weiter" :).
Next: downy, gladly, nature, evanescent, wisp, pathway
About the future
Nature cultivates evanescent pathways.
A downy wisp of a chick may turn
into a glorious fowl or what?
One would gladly know the future
at least the nearest one,
but also is afraid of it.
Next: armory, chest, river, delightful, shadow, restore.
Enjoyed ! Great first line: "Nature cultivates evanescent pathways" :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: armory, chest, river, delightful, shadow, restore
once the river man
he took all personal attacks to heart
and placed each shaft in an armory -
an iron clad chest deep in the lighted
recess of his mind - not for retribution
for he was a delightful man in the ways
of war far from his familial river roots
who would just as easily restore a kind-
ness for evil as kind for kind... and so
he lived in peace amongst the brutality
of his age as all men ought who fall
short of the supernal grace of God
7/20/2023
Next: reticent, yoga, panda, poet, reed, ponder
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
A moving poem! It requires much discipline to master hurt feelings.
Challenge accepted!
The philosophical panda
There once was a reticent panda
who regularly practiced yoga
and was a poet in his spare time.
He also liked to ponder
on the secret ways of life
and the meaning of the word "reed".
New challenge: figs, deer, sunshine, effort, raw,, climbing.
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