Lol... you're right... I found the typo in the title and forgot the acrostic... (maybe I was thinking of Asperger's ??) fixing in previous post :)
Looking forward to your poem !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Lol... you're right... I found the typo in the title and forgot the acrostic... (maybe I was thinking of Asperger's ??) fixing in previous post :)
Looking forward to your poem !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks! I still have difficulty with acrostics
patience, rainbow, mosaic, stars, reveal, reality
On the Brink of a new Government
Reality demanded endless patience.
For years we were deprived of
the passing mosaics of stars
and the perception of
the dazzling colors of
rainbows.
Revelations of
the future
rest with the ramp
New challenge: sun, inspiring, eternally, void, arrow, reaping.
Enjoyed your poem :) Congratulations on the new government... praying for peace.
My effort needs attention... I fell asleep while editing if that says anything:
Challenge: sun, inspiring, eternally, void, arrow, reaping
the prairie chicken / 1847
a gingham bonnet protected her
face from the fierce sun - a fount
eternally blessed inspiring song
from those who sought to catch
her eye - those whose tender
hearts could not avoid cupid's
swift inerrant reaping arrows fly
1/2/2023
Next: arise, utter, shadow, agile, cool, choose
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks! It happens very often that I doze of in front of TV or when I am reading, even if the book is interesting. As for poems I rarely write them in the evening. Suppose it has to do with what we in Brazil call the best age.
Charming poem! Sly change of "void". These poems are a sort of mental gymnastic.
arise, utter, shadow, agile, cool, choose
The shadow
Out of utter darkness
a shadow arises.
I choose agility and
leave the room.
Outside the air is cool
and the serene sky
is covered with stars.
I awake: it was just a nightmare.
New challenge: white, seaside, thunder, cheerfully, ponder, freedom.
Very nice !
Will stare at the words for a while and see what tickles the toys in the attic :) Have a few errands to do first though.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: white, seaside, thunder, cheerfully, ponder, freedom
a sea change
the sudden white flash of lightning
brought a reverberation of thunder
that rattled my bones as I pondered
choices before me and I roared back
not cheerfully - a paragon of disarray
the seaside took no notice of me -
the surf crashed, ebbing and flowing,
lording over its freedom unaware of
the nexus unravelling between us
1/3/2023
New: toll, glance, crash, rain, swarm, rumor
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Lol! Loved the expression "tickle the toys in the attic "
A solemn poem.
Parafernnalia II
The bell tolled
The Internet crashed
The rain poured down
Bees rumored
All at once
and at a glance.
NEXT:Window, brown, alligator, roaming, nostalgic, sleeless
Thanx !
Enjoyed :) Looking forward to Parafernnalia I
Challenge: Window, brown, alligator, roaming, nostalgic, sleeless
Chillin' at Starbucks
Chillin' at Starbucks watching passersby -
Outside the window a brown sleeveless
alligator vest roaming, wearing a nostalgic
tee beneath with "Dark Side of the Moon"
dayglow and a Jerry Garcia red floral tie
Dude had teeth that shone in the dark
indistinguishable from a thresher shark's
My hot chocolate bubbled when I saw his
designer kicks as he and his entourage folded
into a pink convertible the size of an ark
1/3/2023 r. 1/5/2023
Next: invisible, view, aware, roll, gnome, folklore
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Loved this imaginative poem!
I´m afraid Parafernalia is buried somewhere in this thread, but I think I can oblige you.
invisible, view, aware, roll, gnome, folklore
Parafernalia 0
A whim, a vision, a dream perhaps
I saw a ciranda of gnomes.
They were disposed in a circle,
dancing with synchronized movements
each one performing with a roll of bread.
Then, I wasn´t quite aware when the scene changed and
the folkloric creatures suddenly
rolled on the ground and laughed.
They became more and more transparent
until they were totally invisible
and only their laughter remained.
It was a ludicrous view.
Next: incredible, bugs, cachalots, plastering, blue, fridge.
Delightful scene !
Challenge: incredible, bugs, cachalots, plastering, blue, fridge
a blue fridge
incredible bugs
plastered by a five year old
with wheat paste
next to cachalots and dinosaurs
and all nine planets
on a blue fridge
1/4/2023 r.
Next: bitter, toast, courage, joke, tooth, path
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Cute image! My fridge is white. It has, of course a cat, a lizard and several movie titles, but not a single planet.
bitter, toast, courage, joke, tooth, path
The tooth!
Her front tooth was gone.
It seemed like a bitter joke.
She looked into the mirror again
but saw only a big hole
where the tooth had been.
It would have fallen out
on the path that lead to her house,
as she was munching that hard toast.
She hadn´t even noticed.
Now it probably lay there, defiantly,
Mocking her and all the other teeth.
She summed up courage
and rang the dentist.
Next challenge(no editing possible): racoon, snow, happiness, farm, tripling, logic
Enjoyed your somber poem.
Challenge: raccoon, snow, happiness, farm, tripling, logic
balance
snowflakes on the farm -
through the powder a s-
tripling raccoon romps
in sublime happiness, so
ignorant of the frail eco-
logical balances in play
1/6/2023
Next: study, glare, aisle, waterfall, play, doubt
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
AAIII! https://petapixel.com/2023/01/03/cam...-falling-snow/
Next: study, glare, aisle, waterfall, play, doubt
I have to think a bit more about this.
Forgive for posting only now. If you watched the news yesterday you already know that we had Capitol Day here yesterday:
Congress, Presidential Palace and Justice Palace were all three of them invaded and had their rooms destroyed. The one good thing: it seems no people were harmed because the buildings were mostly empty.
Next: study, glare, aisle, waterfall, play, doubt
The destruction
It looked like a scene in a bad play:
The vaulted rooms reminiscent of church aisles
glared at me:
chairs torn from the ground,
tables turned upside down.
small waterfalls descending
on brand new carpets,
documents strewn all around,
begging in desperation
for a better home or study.
A melancholic sight, no doubt!
Next challenge: order, wind market, wan, speedily, joining.
Yes, I heard, extensive coverage here by the various media... still praying for peace.
Enjoyed your somber poem: "A melancholic sight, no doubt!"
Back later with my effort :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Forgot to mention my delight watching the raccoon dancing/catching snowflakes :)
Challenge: order, wind, market, wan, speedily, joining
gold country january 2023
I drove to a market to stock up on supplies -
a wan glow from the "stay home" moon shone,
but only at glimpses through the wind rage...
later I learned, with the winds roaring on the
order of a cyclone, disorder and desperation
speedily joined as mass flooding, uprooted
great trees, and mudslides due to saturated
soils befell unsuspecting families in the chaos
1/10/2023
Next: gown, cast, seed, fantasy, lake, point
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
re1: AAAAAIIIII!
re 2: I hope you got your supplies all right!
Next: gown, cast, seed, fantasy, lake, point
Fantasy
An empty stage
Just a gown carefully laid out
On the old chair beside the table.
The gown is wrought in golden seeds.
What shadowy character
From a non existent cast
is going to wear it?
At this point,
there is a change.
The stage is replaced
by a deep blue see,
birds sing, announcing aurora.
Next: rice, anemone, stairs, full, analogous, crying.
Very nice :)
Will come back later with my effort. Just got power back 2-hrs ago. At 4am PST or so after I posted my poem we got either a direct lightning hit and/or an F0 tornado hit... flash then hard shock to house... a power line went down about 2-miles away coincidentally and we weren't the only ones in the area to get the hard shock. Luckily since church was cancelled Sunday and we had had a break between storms I had set up my generator and another for my sister-in-law across the property and we were good to go to stop our food in the fridges from spoiling... we ran the generators for 3-hours then off because gas is way too expensive to keep them running constantly. Refilled 3-gas cans today which hold 5-gallons each cost just over $75.00 USD.
Cell service up and down not to mention no wifi with no power :(
Going to see what I missed on LitNet so far then ponder writing :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Take your time, tailor, avaiting your poem when you are ready for it. We are all being swept by tsunamis natural and political these days. Good thing you have these generators to protect your food from getting spoiled.
I'll take a look around too.
Challenge: rice, anemone, stairs, full, analogous, crying
the honey moon
he cavorted and danced emulating
an inflatable arm flailing tubeman -
analogous perhaps to an orangutan
with upraised arms with his great
ginger hair - only more sinuously, like
an anemone swaying in the open sea
she had rice still in her golden tresses
crying through her joyous lilting laughter
as she came down the stairs - lithe and
majestically sensuous in the full honey
moon that shone upon them both -
fćrie royalty on midsummer's night eve
1/12/2023
Next: lift, green, bridge, train, frame, triangle
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Charming romantic poem, loved the humorous contrast between the orangotanic groom and the emotive bride. And the glow of enchantment that emanates from the poem as if the honey moon had been yesterday.
Tha doesn´t make it easy for me, every attempt now can only be very modest.
Next: lift, green, bridge, train, frame, triangle
Travelling
When you want to feel
the wide world open to you,
take a lift on a train.
Settle on the roof
and just watch the flow:
hamlets, bridges, green fields pass you by.
Maybe a solitary smattering of cattle greets your eye,
or you overhear
the echo of a dog barking in the plains,
while the more distant mountains
ponder about merging into the
indefinite blue of the sky.
You stretch out on the top of the world
lazily listening to the distant song of a triangle.
Or is it a harmonica?
Next challenge: riotous, casket, lumbering, limestones, lost, bickering.
Enjoyed your poem very much... especially the wistful: "You stretch out on the top of the world / lazily listening to the distant song of a triangle. / Or is it a harmonica?"
Will revisit later with my effort :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks, tailor. Just a warning. I can't access Litnet from my PC today. It may be just maintenance, but it's better if you keep a copy of your poems somewhere else too.
Hoping things improve...
Challenge: riotous, casket, lumbering, limestones, lost, bickering
toil of the undead
lumbering, dragging a casket into
a cavern of ancient limestones
where bickering riotous bats flit
through the ever-night damp air
hoping to be lost to the ages once
more, seeking to heal the ravages
of time spent out of stasis within
his casket far from ancient home
existing within the world of the
living is always a challenge of
predation and discovery - his prey
becoming ever more sophisticated -
hence the cavern and laborious toil
wending through grottos and past
pools, wedging into increasingly
tight spaces away from prying eyes
1/14/2023
Next: amber, sun, butterfly, stage, owl, invite
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Neither my usual Firefox or Brave worked. Managed to get in with Microsoft Edge now.:hurray:
Interesting poem about the art of surviving? Enjoyed the imagery specially the "riotous bickering bats".
Next: amber, sun, butterfly, stage, owl, invite
The owl and the butterfly
Said the little blue butterfly to the old owl:
Nothing suits me more than dancing
in the sweet amber sun with my friends
I want every one to admire me
I feel eternally on the stage of the world.
Let me invite you to come with me!
The old owl didn´t answer.
She just closed her eyes resignedly
while her new friend
Ended in the paws of a stormy whelp.
Next challenge: auburn, sofisticated, solemn, basket, hut, yelding.
Wonderful poem :) Poor butterfly :(
Challenge: auburn, sofisticated, solemn, basket, hut, yelding
upon tablets of clay were written / in the style of a Rubáiyát
a young sophisticate with auburn hair -
unyielding grace in the face of whate'er
solemn in her task - a basket of screeds
to deliver promptly she did forswear
to tablet makers to supply their needs
one of many hundreds of faithful Medes
that scribes might style their clays on which to write
copying virtues of their great king's deeds
alas to history is lost their light
their texts now shut and arts gone at their height
- perhaps not to Magi prophetic seers:
the birth of a King and a star so bright
1/14/2023
Next: young, sight, brink, myth, lion, stumble, sign
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed! Some very sly usages -(un) yelding -s(hut)!
Next: young, sight, brink, myth, lion, stumble, sign
Under the Sign of the Lion
It was an unusual sight:
a lion cub stumbling about
surrounded by the drinkers
of the old tavern.
Some of the ladies
were on the brink of tears
about the young orphaned animal:
aw, he is so cute!
Gossip has it
that the cub lived in the tavern
until he had to be given back to nature.
The oldest cronies hold on to the myth
tha on dark moonless nights
there is a lion
Cautiously surrounding the tavern which,
for ever and a day
will be called:
The Sign of the Lion
Next challenge: rays, magic, underground, lifting, trial, efluviously.
Loved your poem :)
Fudging a bit:
Challenge: rays, magic, underground, lifting, trial, efluviously (acrostic :) )
in the light
evanescent rays o-
f winter sun urge seed-
lings from
underground's trial
vital in the mag-
ic of the season's progression
oh, miracles divine grant
us thine procession, we who are
seeking as seedlings -
lifting us toward th-
y promise in thy sight
1/16/2023
Next: translate, fresh, dance, midnight, wander, loose
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Beautiful!Good idea to make an acrostic of it.
translate, fresh, dance, midnight, wander, loose
Translations
The human body loves
to translate itself
in movement.
Be it through exercises
in the fresh air
or in the romantic turns
of a midnight dance...
Be it just wandering loosely
and carefree from place to place.
Is movement the way to harmony?
Perhaps!
Next challenge:new, optimal, caretaker, transcendent, search, dom.
Very nice poem !!
Challenge: new, optimal, caretaker, transcendent, search
As Pure As Fine Gentle Rain
Radiant transcendent beings... Some
Anciently searching - a lightsome people
In touch optimally with the divine feel
Nearer through the spirit as caretakers the
Yearnings as pure as fine gentle rain.
Dominions foretold without end... Others
Attest baptisms of water and fire just
Youthful stonewalled jests some don't get
Some receive the spirit, others just get wet.
1/18/2023
• golden (acrostic) shovel: "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Dylan
• acrostic: rainy days
Next: wriggle, island, disco, talk, moon, suite
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
A transcedent poem. Pondering however if the application of the word "new" is acceptable. ;)
wriggle, island, disco, talk, moon, suite
Instantaneous poem
People wriggle in a disco
on a deserted island
where the full moon
talks to the stars.
The talk reverberates
like a musical suite
over the lonely island
where people stamp and stomp
to the sound of it.
Next challenge: legend, snake, vivacious, eons, asleep, ruminate.
lol... I thought I could sneak "new" in using one of my techniques learned from the (now defunct) online "Poetry in Motion" daily contests. Nearly all my early haiku and minimalist poetry came from that era (circa 2003 and on).
edit: Found a similar game here :) https://magneticpoetry.com/pages/play-online
Love your poem :)
Back later with my effort...
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: legend, snake, vivacious, eons, asleep, ruminate
Thor's Bane
eons asleep
singularly coiled
snakelike
massive
no vivaciousness here
a legend -
slumbering ruminations
Ragnarok calls -
Jörmungandr answers
releasing its tail
1/21/2023
Next: bottle, stream, gnome, sound, slippery, farewell
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed!
Next: bottle, stream, gnome, sound, slippery, farewell
The gnome in the bottle
"A slippery farewell"
said the gnome
imprisoned in the bottle
before he dived
into the stream of forgetfulness.
No more sounds were heard,
in what seemed
just an empty bottle.
Next challenge: riotous, climate, bandworm, riding, neatly, tempest.
lol... enjoyed :)
Challenge: riotous, climate, bandworm, riding, neatly, tempest
Bandworm by Psywhispering
bandworm - a riotous beat
riding speed percussions into a
tempest neatly affecting climate
change from the energy generated
and carbon exhaled through dance
1/23/2023
Next: debut, crevice, rock, midnight, modest, glance
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Lol! Climate devastating bandworm!
debut, crevice, rock, midnight, modest, glance
The Crevice
A modest crevice
made her debut
just at midnight
gracing the
salient rock.
She was so insignificant,
she couldn´t be
detected at first glance.
Yet she bore in herself,
the secret of
the future ruin of the rock
Next challenge: roar, riddle, ransom, ranting, rusty, realm.
Enjoyed :)
how sublime !
the rantings of rhythm and rhyme
from the realm of glorious lyricists
by roaring front men offering riddles
in their syncopated rusty deliveries
of ransomed words - how sublime !
2/10/2023
Next: reflection, impact, thought, line, shift, detail
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Very elegant take with "r" rolling though the poem.
reflection, impact, thought, line, shift, detail
The impact of a thought
A thought may impact
a train of reflection,
like a pebble, that
thrown into the water
disturbs its quiet surface
or a small shift in
the line of the horizon.
The devil, the saying goes,
lives in the details.
New challenge: solid, sound, brakes, enterprise, channelling, wood.