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Sorry! Replacing link tomorrow when on PC, as I have difficulty with copy and past on tablet. Anyway the piece is The Entertainer.
The Hermit
In a cavern
ciose to a willow tree
a hermit composes
a treaty on the transit
of the Centaur constellation.
Afar the stars shine indifferently
Next: salamander, rules, fire, adamant, hillside, interact
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Ah, yes... found this one: https://www.google.com/search?client...id:PYrlKGYUcBM
Brought up to date as the theme to "The Sting" starring: Robert Redford and Paul Newman... great movie :)
Very nice: "Afar the stars shine indifferently". :)
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tailor
Challenge: salamander, rules, fire, adamant, hillside, interact
where have the salamanders gone ?
new rules ?
where have the salamanders gone ?
"fire lizards" were common
before the drought
not a good year for mantids neither
- nary a single one
nor rattlesnakes - but I'm adamantly
fine with that
but then I rarely venture up our hillside
nor down to the meadow nor ponds
much anymore to interact,
to explore -
such are rules that must
be broken
9/7/2023
Next: curious, fresh, logic, hour, tears, mandolin
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tailor
re: Thanks! Yes, that is the link!
Charming poem!The woodlouses one found in the gardens when I was a kid, seem to have disappeared too.
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Next: curious, fresh, logic, hour, tears, mandolin
Next: curious, fresh, logic, hour, tears, mandolin
The (un)logic of tears
Have you ever been curious
about the phenomena of tears?
Some people weep easily,
others remain dry eyed
even at the most
tearing events.
There are those
that are moved to tears
at the sweet sound
of a mandolin,
at a intense movie scene
or the antics of a child or
a small animal,
yet remain frozen eyed
at a funeral.
The secret working
of tears
is a mystery
to this hour.
Next: wagon, gossip, tide, swans, anthem, lovely.
Brilliant! Love your poem :)
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Challenge: wagon, gossip, tide, swans, anthem, lovely
our swansong
how lovely were the little moments
gossiping about nothingness
perhaps an anthem for the times
since time and tide wait for no one
we hitched our wagon to the stars
this to be our swansong
9/8/2023
Next: comfort, gamut, portrait, showers, able, dance
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Beautiful poem, hope though that the swansong is only poetic and that the swans are all well and kicking.
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Confort gamut,
lost streaks of rainbow.
Portrait of a lady,
A colorful,
sleepy and slopy hillside.
Clouds dancing overhead
enable showers.
The world has become
a small place
wrapped for present
in a curtain of water.
Next:chess, entertainment, softly, platform, weird, timeless.
Beautiful imagery... enjoyed very much :)
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Challenge: chess, entertainment, softly, platform, weird, timeless
Games
Perhaps it's weird in these Latter-days -
entertainment platforms for gaming is not
my forte; chess is more my idea of timeless
warfare with a side of "Risk" or "Stratego"
or dimpleboarded marble checkers, not the
American checkers - not that I get to play
much of anything any more he softly sighed
Scrabble or Yahtzee are fond memories
Dabbling with backgammon without really
understanding its nuances was a short lived
diversion - it's classic board games for me
Where the entertainment platforms shine
is the endless streaming possibilities...
why, for less than $1000.00 USD per month
one can access the entirety of archived
drivel available for mind-numbing binge
watching - and I've done it too, to a much
lesser extent: another opioid for the masses
Perhaps government has got it all wrong with
caring for our homeless: spending billions
of dollars on planning commissions and feas-
ibility studies with an endgame strategy of
getting absolutely nothing constructively done
other than lining the pockets of the privileged
... such are the games we play
9/9/2023
Next: locus, prism, bonsai, clock, cards, ficus
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tailor
Enjoyed the poem even not knowing most games mentioned. The connection with politics is opportune and sigh familiar.
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Next: locus, prism, bonsai, clock, cards, ficus
Musings
The locus of the ficus
is more than a wordplay.
What's on the cards
for the bonsai?
Viewed through
the prism of time,
cards and clocks
point at the future.
Next:tournament, variant, buffalo, direct, insect, environment.
Enjoyed the word play :)
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tailor
Challenge: tournament, variant, buffalo, direct, insect, environment
savanna provenance
young bucks tilting
at life tournaments
for dominance
dung, and more dung
buffalo chips
a direct impact on
the environment of
the savanna -
nutrients and
atmosphere
insects in their
variant forms
drone
9/11/2023
Next: adamant, winter, direct, thought, swag, blink
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tailor
Enjoyed the savanna tournaments!
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Next: adamant, winter, direct, thought, swag, blink
Winter Zero Grade
Winter that year was adamant.
Snow kept falling directly and
continuously
on rooftops and roadsides.
The white landscape made anyone blink
that ventured on the streets.
Yet the taverns where full.
The guests drank to keep warm,
at least they thought this a good excuse,
and went swaggering home.
Next:festival, barn, leaves, track, intense, fragments.