lol...

Enjoyed very much... very zen :)

Challenge: solid, sound, brakes, enterprise, channeling, wood

an anonymous wood-chiseled enterprising young man

an anonymous wood-chiseled enterprising young man
solid and sound in his tactics and battle plan
flew his fighter jet majestically into the wild blue
channeling Luke Skywalker in pursuit of an anomaly or two
slammed on his air brakes after downing luftballons dangling a psychedelic '60's minivan

2/13/2023

Next: forbid, admire, mud, chart, launch, portrait

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Enjoyed! An anomaly or two seems to be the new normal in our American skies!

Challenge: forbid, admire, mud, chart, launch, portrait

Forbidden glory?

I always admire someone
who gets up
after sticking the nose deep in the mud
and find a glorious place
in the world chart
launching or not
one own portrait.

Next challenge: cake, round, superlative, party, rollicking, ants.

Enjoyed very much ! :)

pic·nic (pĭk′nĭk) n. (thefreedictionary)
1. A meal eaten outdoors, as on an excursion.
2. Slang An easy task or pleasant experience: finishing the project on time was no picnic.
3. A smoked section of pork foreleg and shoulder.

Word challenge: cake, round, superlative, party, rollicking, ants

A Real Picnic

I recall a bygone picnic, a rollicking party (If
memory serves) - all in attendance there
pleasantly engaged. A plump pig in a pit is
invitingly roasting with an aroma that no
ground could withhold - and a struggle,
rousting children battling a piñata there
involving superlative batting skills. Where is
the conflict ? Ah, the ants 'round a cake no
yonder eyes mark - a quick work in progress.

2/16/2023

anagram: impigrity n 1623 -1721 quickness; speed

Golden shovel: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass

Next: study, sense, window, chair, chimney, amber

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Lol!Enjoyed specially the work in progress

study, sense, window, chair, chimney, amber

The study

Steeped in an atmosphere of amber
The study conveys a sense of intimacy yet isolation
If you look through the ivy surrounded window.
You will see a desk with a computer
and books strewn all around.
In front of the table a chair.
The youth on the chair
evoques the human detachment of Edgar Hopper.
And that´s all. There is no chimney.

Next challenge: wind, wild, memory, child, milestone, road.

Invoking Edward Hopper! Wonderful poem :)

Challenge: wind, wild, memory, child, milestone, road

diving for pearls

a wild child eschewing the road
milestones marked by restlessness
a memory squandered to the wind

2/18/2023

Next: accent, beam, countryside, reflection, breakfast, inspire

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Grr! Can´t edit the name. Thanks for pointing it out. Enjoyed the "memory squandered in the wind"

Next challenge: accent, beam, countryside, reflection, breakfast, inspire

Have to think about it. Back later.

I have no quibble with "evoques" / evokes :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Neither have I. Am in fact rather nostalgic.

Next challenge: accent, beam, countryside, reflection, breakfast, inspire

A reflection

If you want to be more close to nature,
visit the countryside
or, if you can´t
exchange your usual breakfast in the kitchen
for a cosy picnic on the lawn
in the company of beaming children.
If there are no children and the isn´t any lawn,
listen to the accent of the birds,
that grace the tree in front of your window.
Maybe they inspire you to write a poem.

No editing possible today.
So, here the next challenge: monument, solemnity, astonishment, lustrous, diversity, turtle.

Lovely poem :) Accept challenge...

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: monument, solemnity, astonishment, lustrous, diversity, turtle

A Sign of Spring

Evidently 'twas a monument to diversity
Only matched by the lustrous solemnity
Purporting man's independence of Deity
When to everyone's complete astonishment
The statue, to remind man's need for humility,
Was initiated by a turtledove's excrement

2/19/2023

Next: brilliance, dance, city, parade, candle, voice

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Lo!! An irreverent tailor!Who would have thunk.

Next challenge accepted.

Next: brilliance, dance, city, parade, candle, voice

The Dancer

She could dance
with such brilliance
that the whole city
stopped what it was doing
just to watch her
As if it was a parade.

During her performance
of the vertical dance
she floated in the air
like the flame of a candle.

But her voice was so small
Her song didn´t carry far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzwts92Eyk&t=5s

Next challenge: twins, jest, musing, raft, loneliness, chocolate.

Incredible poem to go with the video !! "she floated in the air / like the flame of a candle." :)

Accept challenge.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: twins, jest, musing, raft, loneliness, chocolate

The Long Night

"I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty." - O. Henry


She wore a fashionable argyle twinset
on this bleak snowy February day -
the morrow marching towards Spring

Single paned windows strained, taxing
the rustic wood stove to its noble limit

Musing in their simple abstractions
loneliness never entered into the cal-
culus of cats; a clutter of chocolate
point Himalayans majestically
lounging about in their divinity

Crafts lay strewn about the flat, also
coloured yarns and cores on the floor
that the kitties had tired from hours ago

A kettle sang brightly for attentiveness -
hot water longing to steep mint leaves,
peppermint, whose scent would soon fill
the home-style beeswax candle lit home

A few worn books lay nearby from her
library; books by Poe and by O. Henry -
just in case the last few meager sticks of
firewood didn't last through the long night

2/28/2023

Next: pen, piano, sea, society, mosaic, breath

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Interesting picture of a woman living in a cold country among cats and books.
Challenge accepted: pen, piano, sea, society, mosaic, breath.


Mosaic

A piano playing by itself on the high sea
its keys moved by the heavy breath of the wind.
Far from the maddening society
my pen surfs on the white paper
engendering mosaics.

Next challenge: wild, withered, song, summer, drums, future.

Wonderful poem ! :)

Accept challenge.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Thanks!

It's World Poetry Day !!!

Challenge: wild, withered, song, summer, drums, future

wild summer drums

wild summer drums beat
a future of withered song
fire poetry

3/21/2023

Next: pottery, collage, sharp, elapse, bold, pace

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Enjoyed your synthesis!

Accepting the challenge: pottery, collage, sharp, elapse, bold, pace


Collage

Pieces of pottery
grace the old furniture
Vintage atmosphere
Life elapses at a bold pace
But time stands still
ignoring the scattered pieces
glued together
and the sharp contours of the frame.

New chalenge: cosmonaut, rendition, logic, wary, stealthy, frolicking.

Wonderful "Collage" !

Challenge: cosmonaut, rendition, logic, wary, stealthy, frolicking

Laika / a Triversen style poem

"Quiet and charming" Laika was the logical
choice of a trio of cosmonaut dogs to be
the first to orbit the earth in the name of science

Mushka was chosen to stay behind on earth
as the control dog with whom to compare
the mass of data received from cold space

Albina, as backup, had already ridden inside
a rocket, twice!, successfully recovered before
Laika's flight - which was sadly to be one way

Thus in the name of science Laika's nose was
affectionately kissed and she wished bon voyage
before her capsule was closed... then whoosh!

In retrospect Laika's heroic sacrifice in space
was deemed egregious - though yielding some
necessary science as a precursor for man's flight

This once wary and stealthy dog of the streets
in one rendition was last seen frolicking over
the rainbow bridge with quite the doggy tale to tell

3/22/2023 r. 3/24/2023

Next: beach, loop, asking, mystery, glass, parrot

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor


edited out (S1): Of the dogs groomed to go into the beyond
Laika's phlegmatic demeanor put her a wet
nose ahead of her comrades Albina and Mushka

One can´t even imagine the anguish of such an animal lonely in a closed capsule in the space. It´s not their choice! I like that the poem reflects about this. And I like the hopeful last strophe.

Challenge accepted, have to think a bit about it.
Next: beach, loop, asking, mystery, glass, parrot

"One can´t even imagine the anguish of such an animal lonely in a closed capsule in the space. It´s not their choice!"... Agreed. In my research I read about many other animals in space research including one famous French kitty who survived her launch and re-entry only to... I'll leave it at that :( . Evidently we've evolved to where tardigrades are the current sacrifice of choice: "One small step for man... "

Looking forward to your offering :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Next: beach, loop, asking, mystery, glass, parrot

A mystery
A wondrous beach
Surfers flying above the high waves
in ingenious loops
landing softly on the ever ruffled
surface of the sea.

But what has this to do
with the parrot that
discovered himself
in the looking glass
asking unanswerable questions?

Enjoyed :) Imagining the parrot brings a smile... the sea a longing.

New challenge ?

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Oh my!Forgot the new challenge.

Here it is: market, enterprise, Easter, ongoing, gracefully, customize.

Thank you ! Accept challenge... back anon, or later :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: market, enterprise, Easter, ongoing, gracefully, customize

snow cone supernova

historic starship enterprise
surprise marketing solutions
distributions customizing cars
stars streaking gracefully exit
Inuit Easter egg hunts
confronts an ongoing conflict

4/4/2023

Next: marsh, abstract, close, voyage, sanctuary, unleash

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Enjoyed this modernist poem!

Challenge accepted.I`ll be back

Challenge:marsh, abstract, close, voyage, sanctuary, unleash

In March

In March the marsh in dry countries
is abstract.
In my country it is
i a dire reality when all storms
are unleashed.
One doesn´t want to come too close.
One prefers voyaging
to a santuary.

Enjoyed :) L4 has me puzzled with "i" starting the line. I will use "i" on occasion to diminish myself or to keep with an overall non-capitalized form. Perhaps a finger slip ?

Looking forward to the new challenge :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Lol! The 'i" was just a rest of a deleted sentence, and as you know, editing on Litnet is only possible if the software is in the right humor.
Oh, heck!
Senior episodes in series, forgot the challenge again.
Here it is: banner, lustrous, epic, reinventing, ephemeral, lantern.

resolute

a banner year we desired
and certain resolutions
to be kept

not reinventing the wheel
- small changes;
till lustrous

epic in scope
our hope is in
our resilience

we are, after all,
ephemeral as light
in lanterns by day

4/8/2023

Next: reason, peel, crosswalk, houseplant, agile, memory

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

"we are, after all,
ephemeral as light
in lanterns by day"!

Enjoyed your poem very much, but I am not quite sure what is "a banner year", an outstanding year?

Will be back to meet the new challenge.

Challenge: reason, peel, crosswalk, houseplant, agile, memory


With neither Rhyme nor Reason

a peeled orange
walks arm in arm
with a houseplant
on the crossroad,
jamming the traffic.
and atracting
curious glances.

as the lights change
they disappear
with such agility,
that the bystanders
rub their eyes.
What the heck was this?
A vision, a memory
a hallucination?

Enjoyed. Lol... sounds like L.A. only... https://www.google.com/search?client...id:PBLxKr9Wk3A

Third time's a charm :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Next challenge: lose, loud, entertainment, prairie, grievous, settlement

lol...

Challenge #1: ashamed, forget, commerce, ombudsman, spring, wood

Dandelion Whine

The hierarchal marching chairs were ashamed
- brass complaints went to the thrombudsman
not forgotten in the commerce of the cacophony
of bands; woodwinds to the wombudsman, and so
on... a Spring tradition of weeding out dandelions -
while beautiful and edible are quite tone deaf

4/11/2023

Challenge #2: lose, loud, entertainment, prairie, grievous, settlement

consequences

loud entertainment
enclosed prairie settlement
grievous consequence

4/11/2023

Next: posture, forest, tiger, alarm, steward, mist

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Lol...two poems:)

Enjoyed both but
1st poem: are dandelions edible for humans?
2nd poem: Elegant and concise telegram style, only "lose" remained somewhat lose.

Next: posture, forest, tiger, alarm, steward, mist

Mystery in the mist

The challenging posture
of the tiger
in the forest
alarmed the steward.
Then mist enveloped the scene
including the steward.

New challenge: olympic, constellation, endorse, underdog, limp, accept.

Enjoyed !... Tiger in the mist :)

• 1. Yes... https://foodprint.org/blog/how-to-eat-dandelions/ :)
• 2. enc-lose-d... lose enclosed in enclosed :)
• 3. Forgot a form of forget in my first version :)

Accept challenge !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor