Nonsensical Poetry

Excellent ! I use the King James Version translation ( KJV - 1611 A.D. ) following my faith's practice :)

A history of translations: https://www.bibleblender.com/2019/bi...ern-day-bibles

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Very interesting link, thanks. And the King James translation is famous. Just learned from your link that there is also a new King James translation.

Thursdays at Two poetry assignment for 2/20/2025: Close my eyes / point to a place on a map / write a poem around that place

St Kitts (St Christopher)

“It tek time to foine ant’s belly. or It takes time to find the ant’s belly. or Persevere until you accomplish your goal, no matter how difficult it seems.”
- a saying (and translation) from St. Kitts


Liken to the whimsy
of pin the tail on the donkey
with no tail, no donkey
just a push pin in hand

I whirled about thrice, eyes closed
felt for the wall behind me
then reached out thrusting the pin into
the flat earth before me
and voila! St. Kitts is pierced nearby
thus chosen

I know naught of St. Kitts
so I perused...

"The hidden gem of the Caribbean"
shaped like a whale,
a binary federation including
the nub Nevis,
part of an arc of small islands off Puerto Rico
leading to Venezuela -
with all the charms of the Caribbean Blue:
bright sun
fresh sea breezes
stunning shores
lush rainforests
majestic mountains
Island fishing
resorts
a colonial heritage with all the trappings
... and so much more

Hence: a pastoral poem writ in 1764
by James Grainger
"The Sugar Cane", extolled, in epic verse,
in four "books" the culture surrounding
this ubiquitous colonial treasure:
"... Spirit of Inspiration, that did’st lead
Th’ Ascrean Poet to the sacred Mount,
And taught’st him all the precepts of the swain;
Descend from Heaven, and guide my trembling steps"
... the sugar cane industry ceased since 2005

I extract the push pin
and from the flat earth therein
a hole remains -
the entire Caribbean Sea drains
the sea laid bare
and treasure everywhere
glittering the sea bed in what once was blue
Inca and Aztec plunder - a glorious golden hue
tempest wrecked ships and from piracy
as far and as wide the eye can see:

conquistadors' hoard

lost civilizations' gold

Davy Jones locker

2/20/2025

Interesting assignment!. Enjoyed this presentation of St Kitts.

As Only an April Fool

Spring has lost its wits... as only an April fool
I tried to nap snug as a cat the cold day away
the fire stove becoming impotent as I slept
rain and hail, and snow (in small measure)
the water bucket keeping the kitchen floor dry
I need venture outside to get a supply of wood
outside as I hope for a respite between downpours
before the night envelopes this homely home

4/1/2025

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Oh my! It explains why it is still hot here.
Enjoyed the poem, but not the weather it described.
How do you do on wet days? Does wet wood work?

My wood is covered by a tarp and has remained thankfully dry :)

As Only an April Fool, Pt. 2

electrical storm

births an evening thunder hail
pierces the darkness

4/1/2025

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

:)

Rain, thunder and lightning
Waterland
People stranded at the underground
Home sweet home!

Google AI: Widespread Flooding:
Heavy rain, described as a month's worth of rainfall in just a few hours, led to severe flooding across São Paulo.
Subway Chaos:
Passengers were forced to navigate flooded subway stations, with some even climbing onto handrails to avoid the rising floodwaters.
Transport Disruptions:
Cars were washed away, and one man was even seen riding a jet ski down a flooded street.
Electricity Outages:
Over 100,000 homes reportedly lost electricity due to the storm.
Other Incidents:
A section of a shopping mall roof collapsed in the northern district of Vila Guilherme due to the weight of the rain, and a British Airways plane was struck by lightning at Guarulhos International Airport.
People stranded:
People were seen swimming in floodwaters to escape a stranded bus in Guarulhos, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo
Emergency Response:
The Guarulhos prefecture mobilized a task force to clean streets, remove debris, and provide assistance to families affected by the storm.

Terrible.

Yes that's it. I only don't remember hearing anything about the British Airways plane but the rest all happened. I remember when rain was a good thing. Today people are afraid of the rain, afraid to go out or have trees falling on their heads or their cars. Anyway I'm lucky because I'm usually at home. I used the subway when I still worked.

Ok, catching up with some Word Can poems from Thursdays at Two (as one might remember we only had maybe 10-15 minutes to come up with something/edits aside later as noted :) :


Word Can: Saline, wearily, contact, shift, possibly, accept, recess

at the seashore

in contact with my inner self
shifting memories in the recesses of my mind
I walk, not wearlily, with a spring in my step
accepting two rivulets of saline tears down my face
as memories ebb and flow
possibly sealing my bond with the sea

12/19/2024 r. 12/20/2024
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Word Can : wrap, tell, throng, adjective, string, overhead

tell your story in a poem

there’s no overhead to join the throng
sing with joyous voice your song -
or better still tell your story in a poem
written down on festive paper
using colorful adjectives, verbs, et al
then wrap in a festive box
tied tightly with the reddest string
as a present for a future generation

1/2/2025 r. 1/16/2025
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Word Can: hide, animal, insight, teacher, overload, bedrock, yapping, resist, sour

Resist !

resist! resist! the animal in me cries out
a limbic insight borne of eons of DNA memories
though experience is the best teacher
sensory overload, a sour bile rises in my throat
I choke it down
I rise from the bedrock, spear in hand
keeping the fire between me and the cave bear
… a distant yapping - hyenas in the darkness
waiting for scraps perhaps
no place to run
no place to hide

2/6/2025
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Word Can poem: pruning, tour, red, parking lot, voucher, seed pod, tern

tern

tern, tern
tour de force winged one
bring me a seed pod from Samarkand
of wisteria prunings from that far land
where a red sun rises, and a crescent moon
lingers still, bashfully wan - sighing
“pave paradise put in a parking lot”
a voucher for your presence
a penny for your thoughts

2/20/2025 r. 3/6/2025
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Word Can poem: Wave, think, pattern, thistle, farmyard, epiphany, ladder,
heat, tabulate

In a farmyard far from home

In a farmyard far from home
I wandered in the heat of day
Past a copse of thistles stomped down by cows
I found a ladder near a trough
And whilst I stooped to drink
An orb spider’s web caught my eye
At least I think it was
I marveled at the web’s intricacies
A moiré pattern that shimmered in hypnotic waves
And I received an epiphany of sorts
That spiders are much better at math than I
The sums they must tabulate

3/6/2025
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Word Can poem: compelling, comfort, withhold, description, brusque, silence, tundra, tin

As a child...

As a child in North West Seattle fair
I became aware
I recall a brusque tundra-esque day in Winter
An apt description
Wearing a tin star and pearl handled six shooters
Retiring from watching Roy Rogers on the telly
Absorbed in the compelling comfort of silence
I began searching in encyclopedias and dictionaries
And books of fairy tales and other lore
Where nothing could withhold my imagination

4/3/2025
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Word Can poem:: aunt, familiar, earth, flounder, moisten, seething, french (words from a session I missed last time)

a possible interpretation of a French aunt and uncle making out by a 5 year old

a lasting familiarity
ma taunt and mon oncle
moistened lips
like two flounders
French kissing
seething poissons
with not a dearth of passion

5/1/2025

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Word Can poem: zero, torch, petition, star, glimmer, smudge, portion

Peace of a Dove

a zero portion
nary a smidgen of smudge -
a torch for a light
in a sea of drudge -

may I petition
the stars up above
just a bit of their glimmer
for the peace of a dove

5/1/2025
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Word Can poem: promising, motion, misty, tennis, distant, longitude,
apparent, concern

In worn tennis shoes…

In worn tennis shoes I set out for
the Misty Mountains - a distant land as
far as latitude and longitude was mete

A long loping motion I maintained
at least for a while
then a casual saunter

For what lay behind me offered
no apparent consideration nor concern
Thus seeking a promising destination

I wandered less as the crow flies
through bucolic ways to a pleasant place
where I could rest my bones

5/15/2025 r.5/17/2025 r. 6/20/2025
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Word Can poem: tendril, ruin, felt, press, gloom, dun, drop

Absconded by a Medieval Naturalist

me tendrils felt
to ruin drop
a deepening gloom
oppressed into a
dun coloured book
ne’er to see
the light of day again

6/5/2025

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Word Can poem: tilt, smudge, heart-stopping, touchy, ignite, eggs, intimate, describe

I’ll Have My Eggs…

I’m touchy about my eggs
Let me intimate, let me describe
Tilt a pan this way and that
A heart-stopping act
Ignites my passion to eat
Leaving nary a smudge
Left on my plate

6/19/2025


Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Enjoyable read all of them, but I liked best the first one "at the sea shore". The difficulty of reading them on the paddles is that there are now so many poems that it is not easy to access the most recent ones.

I know what you mean... what I do is press the End key on my keyboard to access the most recent ones, and to add to the multitude, since they're essentially all on one page... perhaps I should weed my garden :)

Can you please post the link again? I don't remember where it is anymore. No I don't think you should exclude any poem unless you are dissatisfied with it. It is always good to have a considerable body of work if you want to publish the poems.

Lol... it gets buried every time we move on: https://padlet.com/tailorstately/ben...ay-kn9o45weuso

Here's a Word Can poem I must have missed:

Word Can : photograph, presentation, mind, eminent, lift, management, lock

preeminently morose

preeminently morose
"... all I've got is a photograph…"
is plucked from my memory
unlocking feelings I’d wished to hide -
a presentation to move me
I imagine
by the current management of my
heart… an attempt to lift me
out of my doldrums, my ennui
but all I can manage is pain

2/4/2025

It appears more polished than most... I must have missed that day and received the words to work on at my leisure.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor