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Enjoyed the cosmic poem and it's different layout!
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Next: listless, lilies, philosophy, frisson, determine, illumination
Listless lilies
Listless lilies
listen listlessly
too lost lires
philosophizing
without frisson!
Listless lilies
Illuminate
lost
undetermined
corners.
Next: ephemeral, diagonal, structure, mindset, geraniums, memorable.
Love the lilting alliteration... I think ee cummings is growing on you, lol... Enjoyed :)
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Challenge: ephemeral, diagonal, structure, mindset, geraniums, memorable
the emperor of the scorpions
the emperor of the scorpions
wears a colorful diagonal sash
memorable for its bright
floral geraniums
a carapace contains
its mindset - ephemeral
at best, albeit better
than its unique visions
two pincers proceed its
advance, the cheliceræ
themselves each armed
with sharp teeth
however its metasoma
or tail does its pincers
one better with a sting of
a most virulent venom - a
sometimes deadly concoction
including complex neuro-
toxins - a veritable witch's
brew honed through the ages
thus structured like a war
machine the scorpion emperor
'tis quite formidable and fash-
ionable with its diagonal
geranium sash, claws, and sting
7/11/2024
Next: content, echo, precipice, dove, extol, season
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tailor
Enjoyed very much this poem. I think by this time you have enough poems for a children and one grown up collection!
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Next: content, echo, precipice, dove, extol, season
A veil of doves
A veil of doves
Sweeping
Contentedly,
Elegantly
Over the precipice,
Extoling the best of the season.
A numerous flapping of wings,
No, no echo!
Next: untiring, beaming, locusts, tidal, unravel, plums.
Enjoyed! Tried to find an acrostic/translation with no joy :)
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Challenge: untiring, beaming, locusts, tidal, unravel, plums
The Man in the Moon: Red Strings / My Take on a Japanese Fable
Untiringly he chewed his words
like a praying locust
beaming as if they were
sugarplums - invoking subatomic
red strings to unravel then
ushering in large tidal forces
stretching and exciting each
vibrating immutable red string
to tie 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
7/20/2024 r. 7/21/2024
Next: obstinate, midlands, continuo, caravan, quality, query
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tailor
Loved this poem and its aesthetical form!
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Next: obstinate, midlands, continuo, caravan, quality, query
The Caravan
Obstinately
winding its way,
without query,
through the low midlands
continuously...
continuously.
The distance
of the scene
confers to the
gazing eye
an illusion
of equality.
Next:violets, subsumed, secret, hount, lingering, lyrics.
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Love your poem... forming an image in my mind's eye to meditate upon; to explore further... Enjoyed :)
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Challenge: violets, subsumed, secret, hount, lingering, lyrics
violets
I poured myself a glass
of almond milk and kept
the jug - it was one of those
nights... sweltering -
I could see my energy
dollars winging away
though tattered window
screens - a lone box
fan in the window trying
to reign them in to no
avail. Lingering in my soul
the lyrical hymn we sang
in the choir this Sabbath
day... "His eye is on the
sparrow..." and I center.
So poetry it is: I wrestle
with “Who so list to hount”
subsumed in eternal gym-
nastics, sacred not secret,
and I remember planting,
rather transplanting, violets
into a plot of ajugas and
having to abandon them -
and the import of this simple
reflection becomes a revelation
becomes clear - and the scent
of violets fills the air
7/21/2024
Next: woolgathering, genesis, gentleness, potsherd, metaphor, privet
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tailor
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Loved this poem , the parallel between the sacred hymn and the scent of the violets(why did they have to be abandoned though?).
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Next: woolgathering, genesis, gentleness, potsherd, metaphor, privet
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Loved this poem , the parallel between the sacred hymn and the scent of the violets(why did they have to be abandoned though?).
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Next: woolgathering, genesis, gentleness, potsherd, metaphor, privet
daydreaming = ŵoolgathering
potsherd = caco
privet = hedge shrub
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Re: abandoned - ah, life / transitions / end of an epoch: "It was the worst of times."
daydreaming = ŵoolgathering (Yes)... (ŵ - Welsh language??)
potsherd = broken pottery piece... https://melaniemagdalena.com/potsher...cal%20context.Quote:
The word sherd comes from “potsherd,” a piece of a broken brittle substance of ceramic nature, most typically earthen pottery in an archaeological context. Shard is used to refer to glass-like fragments, such as obsidian, porcelain, glass, or other glassy substances, non-exclusive to an archaeological context.
privet = hedge shrub (Yes)
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tailor
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ŵoolgathering :( gathering signs
Next: , genesis, gentleness, potsherd, metaphor, privet
Nonsensical XXX
The genesis of gentleness.
Potsherded metaphors and
priveted woolgathering fantasies:
tumblerous games of the imagination.
Next: Neanderthal, vociferous, understatement, lenient, accelerate, strain.
A XXX poem!... Enjoyed !!!
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tailor
Challenge: Neanderthal, vociferous, understatement, lenient, accelerate, strain
a good day hunting
A red sun hung mid-day like a hangdog
god - neanderthals strained to butcher
two wooly rhinoceroses and a number
of red deer stampeded over a cliff to
escape a fire set earlier by the spear
waving antagonists - the earnest hunters
accelerating their efforts as distant
sounds of vociferous hyenas braved the
still smoldering undergrowth above
biting flies attacked the hunters upon bare
skin where ochre was sparsely applied
or worn away - no leniency given, an
understatement, by the voracious beasties...
when from seemingly nowhere 2-cave bears
emerge from the tree line making a beeline
towards the neanderthals sending them
scrambling, carrying away as much of the
butchered meat possible in a hasty retreat
a crescent moon rules the heavens overseeing
the cave bears gorging themselves near to
bursting barely noticing furtive hyenas
8/5/2024
Next: island, palace, mute, solemn, alure, seashells
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tailor
A cruel but real interaction between species! Enjoyed the succint to the point style and the mobility of the poem, with almost everybody running.
Next: island, palace, mute, solemn, allure, seashells
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