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Sorry I didn't make this clear: “the meanest things in creation"1... 10/19/2023 1 - (quote coined by) Ichthyologist William Leo Smith.
The acrostic is Stargazer... a Stargazer in this sense is the ocean fish I wrote about :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks! I recognized the accrostic but I didn´t know it was the name of a fish.
Word Can poem (10/19/2023): pest, hay, fresco, place, redeem, moon
askance the harvest moon
askance the harvest moon
al fresco dining
with a lacy table cloth
and antique place settings
upon hay bales for
table and seating - bales
redeemed from the fields
citronella wafts in
the light breeze to help
keep the pests away
and dinner lingers on and on
as long as memory lingers
10/19/2023
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
My poem assignment for today's Thursdays at Two poetry group: Pencil
"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away." - Earl Nightingale
Pencil
Porcupine quills are barbed. You’re
echidna wary if avoiding the sure
needles, pins, darts, and stings to
cacti glochidia things. Do you see
icicles after a severe freeze ? - the
lances stabbing downward en point.
11/2/2023
Golden shovel: “You’re sure to see the point.” Last line
from THE PENCIL’S STORY by Florence Hoatson
Acrostic: Pencil
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Sorry. tailor. I somehow missed the word can poem from 10/19/2023
I liked this poem about a cozy harvest dinner on hay balls like in the old times!
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Enjoyed the Pencil poem. Dutifully read THE PENCIL’S STORY by Florence Hoatson which must be an usual school assignment in USA. And learned what a "Golden shovel" is in poetry:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden...aying%20homage.
Thanx :)
re: Sorry. tailor. - Lol, I just posted it. The poem was a hand written poem that I lazily took until today to type it out and add.
re: Pencil... - here's the link and analysis I forgot to post... https://englishsummary.com/lesson/th...ish-class-9th/
I am using Florence's poem as my offering for our Thursdays at Two segment of reciting a poem by another author AND used it as a vehicle for my assignment poem too (two hours to go!!! :) ) I hadn't run across the poem until I went into research mode for ideas.
I find adding an acrostic front end to my Golden shovels helps me with the writing of some assignments because they're practically half written and all I have to do is fill in the blanks :) . Unfortunately the content usually suffers for the form, but once in a while they come out just fine :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
My Word Can poem for 11/2/2023: substance, laborious, fuel, guidance, lockbox, council, aisle, court
lock box
in the courts of academia
a lockbox is consulted
located in a lonely narrow aisle
opened then shaken like a word can
polished bones are interpreted
over which they stand in council
laborious is this stalwart task
but it fuels their imagination
and gives them guidance - but
of substance... not so much
11/2/2023 r.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
?-Looks like a class of medical students-Anyway a bonny poem.
Yeah, maybe a clunker... how about the following idea for my next assignment (4-5 words I don't usually use) for 11/16/2023 ?
just kidding around
as a child I practiced lamprophony,
necessary in a family of five children,
often employing gerdoying to great
effect with cars and trains and planes,
and space battles played on paper:
x's vs. o's drawn at random then
slicing laser beams from x or o drawn
by pencil with catastrophic results
- who needed a video game back then?
speaking of games my father taught
me lessons of the scacchic persuasion
we had woopies that we either visited
or were visited by that we adored, a
Grandfather from Alaska and a Great
Aunt who lived just a few blocks away
lines: well, tried for a decastich here;
came up with 101.230448921377 or so
11/5/2023
gerdoying: imitation sound of a crash
lamprophony: speaking in loud and clear tones
scacchic: of, like or pertaining to chess
woopie: well-off older person
decastich: ten-line poem
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Lol! Thanks for thevocabulary!
I liked the poem but there seems to be some problem here:
"lines: well, tried for a decastich here;
came up with 101.230448921377 or so "
Also this verse seems not to be so aligned with the rest of the poem.
The theme changes abruptly from childhood to the form of the poem.
I agree... just got an early start and thought to throw it out for some feedback :)
Took me more than 15 minutes to get 17 as an exponent as 10 with significant accuracy ( 10^1.230448921377 )... google kept asking me if I was a robot, lol.
Nearly time for church...
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks!
Maybe you use another line with decastich in the poem and add that big number in a PS.
Ok, putting that poem on the shelf...
Latest idea:
Words may change... I have until next Thursday after all :)Code:abc-cadabra
abracadabra
blustery
mnemonic
dulcimers
endure
forests
dazzling
hilltops
glissandi
jigsaw
click
lick
blossom
nick
manifesto
portobello
umiaq
racing
starships
teleportation
impromptu
visions
curlew
xenial
vocabulary
zaniness
11/9/2023
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Loved the structure of this poem!:)
Missed some letters, like "H", "K", "W", "Q" and "Y". But as you also have some letters appearing twice, "C","D" and "M", that should be easy to change, if you want the whole alphabet in your poem.
re: structure - look closer and think of it as a turnstile with the spine showing the alphabet a-z :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor