I'm a bit at sea with this poem. I know what kosher ist. There is a juxtaposition of elements, but...
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I'm a bit at sea with this poem. I know what kosher ist. There is a juxtaposition of elements, but...
A nonsense poem... Genre can reference a literary work... Job Bible verse references Behemoth, which was a dinosaur, right? lol... Purplesaurus Rex was a dinosaur representing a purple/grape kool aid flavor, then instead of tap/bottled water use club soda instead to add the kool aid to... which appears to look like a kosher (Mogen David) wine spritzer (so I'm told)... quite nonsense :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Oh, I see! :)
Oh, I see! :)
For today's assignment later in the day for the Thursdays at Two poetry group. Supposed to a found poem... irregardless, this is what I came up with:
Acrostic: using First Lines of Famous? Poems
Pale amber sunlight falls across
Origami-folded toads
E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower
My thoughts are like fire-flies, pulsing in moonlight
Silence! stir not! for a whisper
A bobcat creeps between pinon pines
Rare-sweet the air in that unimagined country
Elfins of the Autumn night
Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer
Each life converges to some centre
After the wolves and before the elms
Very like to a dream
Earth has not anything to show more fair
Nature has a thousand choirs
Let us go then, you and I
Ye scenes beloved! O welcome once again!
The birds must know. Who wisely sings
Hark! ah, the Nightingale!
I would my soul were like the bird
Named from her woods, with fragrant bowers adorn'd
God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers
Softly drops the crimson sun
7/18/2024
Acrostic: First Line of "Prelude" by Susan Coolidge "Poems are heavenly things,"
The body is comprised from First Lines from poems/poets listed below:
S1
1 "Autumnal" by Ernest Christopher Dowson
2 "Arroyo Seco" by Harryette Mullen
3 "The Divine Comedy" by Dante: The Vision Of Paradise: Canto XXIII
4 "A Mood" by George MacDonald
5 "The Fishers" by H. P. Nichols
S2
1 "A Land Before Time" by Bonnie Manion
2 "The Unfinished Dream" by Walter De La Mare
3 "There Are Fairies" by Madison Julius Cawein
S3
1 "Laurentian Shield" by F. R. Scott
2 "The Goal" by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
3 "My Country in Darkness" by Eavan Boland
4 "The Morning Drive" by Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
5 "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth
6 "Nature Has A Thousand Choirs." by Freeman Edwin Miller
7 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
8 "Sonnet, On Taking A Favourite Walk, After Recovery From Sickness" by Thomas Oldham
S4
1 "The Way to Sing" by Helen Hunt Jackson
2 "Philomela" by Mathew Arnold
3 "The Daring One" by Edwin Markham
4 " Madeira" (An excerpt of the Lusiads - Book 5) by Luís de Camões
5 "God Scatters Beauty" by Walter Savage Landor
6 "Angelus" by Susan Coolidge
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed the poem. It makes sense and has a longer acrostic. Recognized some acquaintances!
Thank you! :)
Addendumb: Turns out my above poem is more a "Cento" type poem than a "Found" poem... more study and practice needed :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
For last Thursday's Thursday at Two poetry assignment I modified and edited a recent Lol challenge poem:
The Man in the Moon: Red Strings / Haibun in the style of Matsuo Basho
Untiringly he chewed his words like a praying locust
beaming as if they were sugarplums - invoking subatomic
red strings to unravel then ushering in great tidal forces
stretching and exciting each vibrating amaranthine string;
tying one end to the pinky finger of one - then the other
to another's creating a bond between two beings thus
quantum entangled forever never to be broken asunder
fated they were joined
in the way of the kami
harmoniously
7/20/2024 r. 8/1/2024
and my Word Can poem from 7/18/2024: feed, hand, manage, acorn
city squirrels
how’s a city squirrel to manage?
acorns in short supply - even then
no place to secrete in the city’s
concrete a winter’s cache…
humility becomes paramount -
to feed from the hand of man
and perchance a drop of water
from a bottle by the charitable
few who take notice in summer
7/18/2024 r. 8/1/2024
8/1/2024's Word can poem to follow later :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
The Man in the Moon: Red Strings / Haibun in the style of Matsuo Basho
interesting poem, liked the haiku finish off, but got a bit lost if the bond is between words or creatures or words methamorphosed into creatures.
city squirrels- AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIII! Hope there are places to leave water for these small animals, with the great heat you probably are having.
Thanx !
One sees squirrels and other creatures reaching out for water on fb on occasion. What cities need, perhaps, is more fountains or water works available for the poor critters. We have water in a trough for the deer, etc. In the wild it must be getting desperate in the heat zones :(
The bond is between people... red strings binding two at their pinkie fingers... I threw in a little theoretical physics, ref: "string theory", to update the poem :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
re:We don't have sqirrels here, but some shops put water out for dogs..
re poem: I see.
Some more of my recent poetry from our Thursday at Two group:
Assignment: Poem about a book -
Absorbed in Reading: Blue Lipstick; an Acrostic/Golden shovel poem
Blissful musings upon an old dim lit page: It
liberated my eager mind and blithely took
unassuming control of all that was me -
eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious sort of like
Like a vagabond I intruded suddenly upon a
iopterous clan of færies - a one in a million
probability in all honesty... in former years
sangfroid might have been my demeanor; to
tell the truth I was startled. Hard things I'd read
in other texts of their propensities and all,,,,,
chortled a greeting and closed the page! the
kerfuffle avoided I turned to lighter books
8/15/2024
Golden shovel: line from "Advanced English" by John Grandits in his book Blue Lipstick / Concrete Poems
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Word Can poem from 8/1/2024: Connoisseur, belly, haywire, velvet, anticipation, centerpiece, sheave
The Candy Store / Old Sac
anticipation… bins scattered like
haywire sheaves
strewn within the candy store
at the river’s shore
lest things go first awry - to the
jelly belly aisle -
candies to prepare the palate for
velvety connoisseur
chocolates - the centerpiece of candyland!
8/1/2024
Haven't turned my last Word Can poem into electronic media yet...
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Blue Lipstick
You were inspired!
"sangfroid "
"Iopterous"
and specially
"eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious" competing with Joyce's "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenth urnuk!" as the kerfuffliest word in the English language.
Good take on the word can poem. Rather a difficult combination of words.
Thanx ! :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Ah... Thursdays at Two poetry in nearly an hour ;) My assignment offering for today and last time's Word Can poem:
Word Can poem from 8/15/2024: bona fide, dignitary, jaundice, curdle, silo, lamp
Mad World
A lamp cast a jaundiced light
as bona fidie dignitaries spoke
in tones that would curdle milk
at the township waterwork’s meetin’
Leaving I was impressed with tall
silos, barns, and other pharmacopeia
more befuddled than before…
wondering how the old-timers
would be able to pay their bills
8/15/2024 r. 9/5/2024
painters of the night
living away from the skyglow of cities
I beheld the heavens to see its
depth - alas the starfield was
diminished: a full moon held my gaze
I took in the clear still warm air
in deep breaths listening to the
din of a multitude of amorous frogs
serenading the night when the
clamor abruptly ceased around me
somewhere hidden in the darkness
a mountain lion called out -
an inexplicable sound,
making an instant impression upon
me - hairs stood on end in an
involuntary primal response as
an iciness enveloped me; shivers
down my spine - a hyper-awareness
and imaginings in a nanosecond
a friend once told me
mountain lions were always
there - always watching
9/5/2024
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor