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Delightful poem ! Enjoyed :)
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Challenge: silence, earth, restless, domain, awareness, dove
the singularity
like doves
the world
moaned - then
silence as
a once
restless Earth
finds relief -
a new
awareness takes
her first
breath then
beholds her
domain through
counterfeit tears
4/17/2024
Next: rufous-bellied thrush, prism, balcony, starlight, gaze, wonder
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed the new awareness poem!
Challenge accepted!
Next: rufous-bellied thrush, prism, balcony, starlight, gaze, wonder
rufous-bellied thrush-National bird! :)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous-bellied_thrush
"Minha terra tem palmeiras
onde canta o sabiá
as aves que aqui gorjeiam
não gorjeiam como lá."
("My homeland has got trees where the trush sings. The birds that sing here, don´t sing as the birds there.")
Gonçalves Dias
Modest Symphony in Green and Yellow
Each afternoon when the sun is getting down
and I sit on my small balcony
I hear the song of the sabiá laranjeira.
There are miriads of them
hidden in the few trees
that are left.
Night falls so gently to their song
(but what about the police cars racing through the streets?)
Filtered through a prism
the world looks serene.
But who is going to speak about
the horrors of the night?
The drunken cars,
the lost bullets,
the violence?
The thrush has long gone to sleep
and I gaze with renewed wonder and delight
at the starlight.
Next: nation, flag, colors, citizens, flowers, bald eagle
Enjoyed very much :) Beautiful bird song. Lovely epigraph prefacing your poem :) The dichotomy of delightful birdsong and urban life is well versed. Loved the last stanza: "The thrush has long gone to sleep / and I gaze with renewed wonder and delight / at the starlight." :) !
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Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Modest Symphony in Green and Yellow
"Minha terra tem palmeiras
onde canta o sabiá
as aves que aqui gorjeiam
não gorjeiam como lá."
("My homeland has got trees where the trush sings. The birds that sing here, don´t sing as the birds there.")
Gonçalves Dias
Each afternoon when the sun is getting down
and I sit on my small balcony
I hear the song of the sabiá laranjeira.
There are myriads of thrushes
hidden in the folds of
the few trees
that are left in my street.
Night falls gently lulled by their songn
(but what about the police cars racing through the streets?)
Filtered through a rainbow prism
the world looks serene.
But what about
the horrors of the night?
The drunken cars,
the lost bullets,
the hidden corpses?
The birds have long gone to sleep
and I gaze with renewed wonder and delight
at the starlight.
But it´s the dark terror of the city
that fills my dreams.
A corredted version of the poem in # 752 as I detected an in-congruence at the end
Enjoyed :)
Challenge: nation, flag, colors, citizens, flowers, bald eagle
ephemeral world
each nation flies its colors
a flag which embodies pride
to its citizens of like brothers
and sisters who loosely abide
I would be like the bald eagle
which soars where'er it soars
preferring nature's flowers' regal
hues which prithee will endure
4/25/2024
Next: gollywobbler, snickersnee, Jolly Roger, "three sheets to the wind", gale, transom
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed!
LOL Challenge accepted!
Next: gollywobbler, snickersnee, Jolly Roger, "three sheets to the wind", gale, transom
Help!
gollywobbler,snickersnee
Jolly Roger help me
For Ì'm totally at sea.
three sheets to the wind",
gale and transom
the word at least is handsome
New:raw, plenty, Andromeda, cardboard, streaming, stone landscape
Lol! Enjoyed ! :)
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Challenge: raw, plenty, Andromeda, cardboard, streaming, stone landscape
Cosmic Revenge: A Love Story
Andromeda grinned as she passed through with
savage raw power; gravitational forces straining
stars and planetary stone landscapes become
as wet cardboard paste into the furnaces of Hades
- spewed out as elemental particles streaming
into rival merging black holes shrieking aloud
Kraken had been beloved of Andromeda - how
curious the cosmic reality versus mythology, and
thus her revenge upon the Milky Way as they
merged, as it were, as one - a barred spiral in the
end - with what plenty remained of Andromeda
embracing the remains of Kraken forevermore
4/29/2024
* "The Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda Galaxy are moving toward each other at about 130 km/s, and—depending upon the lateral movements—the two might collide in about five to six billion years. Although the Milky Way has never collided with a galaxy as large as Andromeda before, it has collided and merged with other galaxies in the past.[190] Cosmological simulations indicate that, 11 billion years ago, it merged with a particularly large galaxy that has been labeled the Kraken.[191][192]" - Wikipedia
Next: scorpion, amaranth, urn, candlewax, threadbare, oblivion, reason
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed this cosmic love story!
Next: scorpion, amaranth, urn, candlewax, threadbare, oblivion, reason
Challenge accepted, but maybe I´ll need a bit time as I have to revise my last translation in record time.
Next: scorpion, amaranth, urn, candlewax, threadbare, oblivion, reason
Under the Sign of the Scorpion
A mysterious urn aban-
doned in a forgotten nook.
Shaded by a amaranth flower
it leads a shadowy exixtence,
seemingly condemned
to an oblivion,
threadbare reason
doesn´t explain.
But no, the fresh marks
of candlewax
suggest secret rituals.
Next: food, profuse, cells, inate, portfolio, ancient.
Enjoyed ! "Shaded by a amaranth flower / it leads a shadowy exixtence, / seemingly condemned / to an oblivion,":)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: food, profuse, cells, innate, portfolio, ancient
the ensorcell
anciently ensorcells were profusely utilized.
færie children innately practiced with them
long before being weaned from wet food.
a vast portfolio was established and published
by a wizarding gnome, a run of one now on
display at an enchanted kiosk beneath a
stone footbridge in the wood where it is oft
sourced by lovers and dreamers alike who've
shown to be in possession of a pure heart
to be noticed - an
ensorcell I fain invoke
upon thee... see me ?
5/9/2024
Next: ragamuffin, ladybug, apron, whisper, stalk, abendrot
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Interesting poem! Quite ensorcelled by it.
Challenge accepted!
Next: ragamuffin, ladybug, apron, whisper, stalk, abendrot
Ladybug-joaninha
Ragamuffin
Ragamuffin, ragamuffin
greeting the abendrot
ragamuffin, ragamuffin
flaunting the apron
ragamuffin, ragamuffin
wooing and whispering,
stalking a ladybug,
Ragamuffin!
Next: lilacs, corner, plentiful, wanderlust, drops, magic.
Delightful poem ! Enjoyed :)
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Challenge: lilacs, corner, plentiful, wanderlust, drops, magic
an impromptu wanderlust
heady lilacs lined the baby tears' path
of an impromptu wanderlust -
blossoms not yet turned to rust
their heavenly fragrance hath
a færie magic wholly ensorcelled
me and I danced with unbounded joy
so much as to the sun's utter annoy-
ment; dark clouds soon dispelled
my pleasant mood with plentiful drops
of sylvan rain - thus soaked.
I espied a wee cottage cloaked
within a privet's verdant copse
after rounding a corner and knocked
upon its door... shortly a sleepy eyed
tawny frogmouth in bedclothes did guide
me to a modest low chamber stocked
with a repast provisioned for a lord
and I ate ravenously for who knew
what the morrow would bring hitherto
then slept within a dream secured -
I dreamt of færie lords surrounding
me in a dell after dismounting their
dragonflies, their lances laid bare
of malice I pondered upon this astounding
turn of events, I, a lone traveler within
a dream no less my courage did take
and faced the princes and kings and spake,
as to equals, what their purpose was herein
laughter lifted and filled the færie dell -
I was amazed at their glad countenances
for such are poems written of - of chances
when the lost are found - who can foretell ?
5/18/2024
Next: parallax, sonata, gegenschein, paradox, lodestone, expanse
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Charming poem:
Next: parallax, sonata, gegenschein, paradox, lodestone, expanse
Challenge accepted!
parallax-https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parallax#:~:text=par%C2%B7%E2%80%8Bal%C2%B7%E2%80% 8Blax,points%20on%20the%20earth's%20orbit (I want my Mammy!)
gegenschein-https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gegenschein
lodestone-https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lodestone
Next: parallax, sonata, gegenschein, paradox, lodestone, expanse
Wild Asteroid Sonata
Paratax, paralax, paraglider
expanded path to Pará
paradoxical dancing in the gegenschein.
Nein, apocalyptic whine with no rhyme!!!
NAvoid the lodestones in the Milky Way!
Next: entourage, frenetic, entranced, billows, adroitly, ontological.
Bravo ! Enjoyed :) Perhaps this your inspiration: https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en...-serra-pelada/
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Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor