Very nice, Cassie! With your entry I can set the deadline as one week from today, December 14th. I will announce a winner on December 15th.
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Very nice, Cassie! With your entry I can set the deadline as one week from today, December 14th. I will announce a winner on December 15th.
The deadline has passed. Cassie you are the winner by default. I will turn it back over to you. Maybe a fresh topic will bring more interest.
Shame. I thought it was a great topic idea. Ok, well lets see if this will generate any ideas. The next prompt is.....Gifts. Make of it what you will.
The gift I gave was soon tossed out
Into a park-side garbage bin.
I watched the beggars searching there.
I saw one smile, hold it with care.
My heart was whole again.
Thanks for the great start YesNo. Lets hope for a few more. I'll make the deadline Dec. 31st to allow for Christmas and so we can start the New Year with a new challenge.
Seasons Greetings to you all. :)
Christmas Gifts 2017
a bright fob watch and folding knife
with Grandpa upraised in faux gold;
certificates for drum and ink
for printing gifts of my poems
binoculars... a minuscule
yet serviceable folding pair
that I might survey my earthly
kingdom in the cool of Yule's air
hickory farms and gourmet fruits
for to nibble upon throughout
Twelvetide (should they last that long)
bound for my pa rum pa ta tum
but greatest of these the gift of
family, and a gift supreme -
that of our dear, dear Savior
from our Heavenly Father
12/30/2017
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Happy New Year everyone. I hope it brings you all peace, health and happiness.
Two great entries for this one and both so very different at first glance but when reading again brought to me the true meaning of gifting at Christmas. Yes/No shows that we should be grateful for what we have as there is always someone less fortunate than ourselves and instead of bemoaning the fact that what we were given is not what we want should think about what we can give to others in order to make their lives better, whilst tailor STATELY revels in his gifts, appreciating their worth and reading through them the love of family and friends and the reason why it is called Christmas.
So...after much deliberation I announce the winner to be... tailor STATELY. Congratulations. :)
Thank you Cassie Hughes ! Enjoyed your entry too YesNo.
Next subject: Your Family Tree.... deadline January 15th, 2018
Congratulations, tailor STATELY!
Thank you YesNo ! ............... 13 days to go !!!
One fall when leaves were gone the clearings came.
Those worth the haul were taken, but the rest
Would have to carry on. As if a flame
Had come to burn this forest’s ancient best,
The parent trees, the wisdom they possessed,
The ground turned bare as youthful family trees
Preserved their hold on Earth tenaciously.
Wonderful entry... Thanks for getting us started.
... 6-days left...
And the winner is: YesNo ! Congratulations !!
Thank you! Next topic is "cold weather". The deadline will be one week after the first entry arrives.
A Late Spring in Garden Valley
The searing cold has gone -
at last
Snow has kissed the Dogwood's bloom
And lilacs come to life !
Bees once more tread upon dandelion
heads
As oak gives way to pine
4/21/2018
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Thanks for entering, tailor STATELY! You are the winner!
I like the alliteration in "lilacs come to life".
Thank you ! ... (where has everyone gone ?) I hear crickets.
Deadline... (scratches head)... I'll follow your lead and it will be 10-days after the first entry.
Subject: Dogwood Tree (or Dogwood Trees)... https://www.google.com/search?q=dogw...w=1205&bih=608
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Chain
There was a dog, dog, dog,
In a wood, wood, wood,
Sleeping under a Dogwood tree.
There was this girl, girl, girl
In the wood, wood, wood,
Her name was Annie Lee.
The girl, girl, girl,
In the wood, wood, wood,
Her name was Annie Lee,
Found the dog, dog, dog
In the wood, wood, wood,
Sleeping under the Dogwood tree.
There was this boy, boy, boy
In a wood, wood, wood,
His name was John Albee
He found the girl, girl, girl,
Who found the dog, dog, dog
Sleeping under the Dogwood tree.
Where is the boy, boy, boy
His name is John Albee
Where is the girl, girl, girl
That was called Annie Lee?
And where the dog, dog, dog
That slept under the Dogwood tree?
That is a mistery
For you and me!
Thank you Danik 2016 ! (cute poem)
Deadline 10-days from today... May 5th - end of day... 12 am PDT
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Dogwood Tree
It was our neighbor’s dogwood tree
That prettified our lawn
And made us proud that we lived there
When Spring said there’s no need to care
The Winter has long gone.
Thanks YesNo... We have a contest !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Time's a ticking ! ... deadline E.O.D. May 5th (P.D.T.)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
beauty
is a narrative
of the free
but with a dogwood tree
it excels styling
it is the lining
of
stars in their milling
startling
horizons and shinning.
Thank you cacian !
Come on you poets... a little less than 7-hours to go... deadline 12:00 midnight tonight 5/5/2018... that's Pacific Daylight Time for all y'all.
I should have a decision on Monday.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Danik 2016 - A delightful poem reminiscent of jumping rope or clapping verse: "Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack All dressed in black, black, black With silver buttons, buttons, buttons All down her back, back, back. She asked her mother, mother, mother For 50 cents, cents, cents To see the elephants, elephants, elephants Jump over the fence, fence, fence. They jumped so high, high, high They reached the sky, sky, sky And they didn't come back, back, back 'Til the 4th of July, ly, ly! "
YesNo - prettify: an interesting choice of words coupled with proud. Enjoyed the personification with Spring.
cacian - Interesting choice of shinning as a variant of shining. I enjoyed the abstraction of your poem; it made me think of the dogwood blossoms as stars shining in startling horizons.
And the winning entry belongs to cacian. Thank you all for entering!
A recent photo I took I'm considering for a cover: http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...8572cfc350.jpg
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
hey thank you very tailor STATELY for the feedback.:thumbsup:
I have not had a winning for a while so this is really nice :biggrin5:
and the next topic for the subject entry is:
CLOCKS
look forward to reading your entries and good luck:seeya:
Congrats, cacian! Thanks for our comments and the kids rhme, tS!
the digital age
its roundabout face
was numerically
peculiar -
with three hands
in motion... one
perceptively
one less so and one
lesser still
'til one day
was taken away
what was it ever for ?
5/8/2018
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Congratulations, cacian! That should make a beautiful and striking cover, tailor STATELY.
thank you YesNo.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
any more entries would be smashing!!!
Clocks
A clock must change to measure time
And yet it cannot change
The way its changes mark our days.
We won’t let it act strange.
Although it’s bored with what it does
That has to be enough
Of entertainment it will get.
We do the funny stuff.
Life
tick
ticktack
ticktackticktack
ticktackticktackticktack
ticktackticktackticktack
ticktackticktack
ticktack
tack
ta
t...
three great entries keep them coming :)
ok here we go
tailor STATELY:
a great title with a great choice of words. a fun piece to read and reread,liked the way it ended on a question mark.
YesNo:
a factual piece with a great ending. much enjoyed.
Danik
tiktak is repetitive but that is what clocks do :)
and the winner is
tailor STATELY.
Thank you all for taking part.
Congrats tS!
Now that the contest is over, an explanation: my poem was an attempt at concrete poesy. It was intended to have the form of a round clock but I wasn´t able to save that format. So all I was a managed was a half clock.:blush5:
Thank you cacian and Danik 2016 !
I would have loved to see your concrete poem come to fruition Danik 2016... enjoyed your poem YesNo as well.
My poem was inspired by the news in England: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...tell-time.html
and more: https://www.google.com/search?num=10....0.HXs-3aESrjQ
The next subject will be: Færies... one of my favorite topics. Deadline 10 days from the first entry. Bonne chance !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
away with the faeries
they say but
they hold a good posture
when it comes to foster
an ideaology
that is made to prosper
without a fairy
there is no prairie
cinderall worry
only a lobster
to have in a hurry !!
Congratulations, tailor STATELY!
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The Faeries of Oubliette Woods
Some thought that they had all long gone.
Some thought they never were.
But in fresh woods forgotten still
They flourish safe and always will
Though we sense not a stir.
Thank you YesNo, and thank you both for the entries !
Deadline will be the end of the day of the first of June: E.O.D. 6/1/2018 P.D.T.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY