lol...

Sorry this took so long... started, then sat on it for a while to finish...

Challenge: latitude, climate, waves, intense, implement, around

love unbounded

Given the latitude of our agency
in this climate of worldly intensity
if we were but to implement
one iota each upon a positive bent
all simultaneously, without exception,
but for a nanosecond
waves of reenforcing energy
would fill the universe to such a degree
that a chord would be struck
as if harp strings plucked
by divinity and rebound -
resounding love unbounded all around

10/12/2024

Next: rosebud, synesthesia, violin, lighthearted, constellation, harmony

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Enjoyed this poem, speccially the end with it´s internal rhymes: "as if harp strings plucked/by divinity and rebound/ resounding love unbounded all around"

Challenge accepted!
Next: rosebud, synesthesia, violin, lighthearted, constellation, harmony

Thank you! Looking forward to your offering :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Next: rosebud, synesthesia, violin, lighthearted, constellation, harmony

No Use for Synesthesia

I am asked to write about rosebud,
but all i can manage today
is a sore throat.

Whether a lack of harmony
in my private constellation
or to much lightheartedness
ending up in consternation.

Anyway in the present case
I will have to listen
to the doctor
rather than to violins.
Snif!

Next: meadow, pleasant, iguana, waterfront, angels, peace.

Oh, my! Get better soon :)

Loved this: "Whether a lack of harmony / in my private constellation / or to much lightheartedness / ending up in consternation."

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Lol...my medication has me fuzzy (I'm supposed to be napping), but I did a quick research on "flaming iguanas" (no clue why) for a lark and received inspiration... a bit of fluff :)

Challenge: meadow, pleasant, iguana, waterfront, angels, peace

A Shameless Plug For a Band I Just Found Googling "Flaming Iguanas"

The Flaming Iguanas -
invite them to
your bar-b-que
in a meadow, at
a waterfront
angels will attend you
and pleasantly...
PEACE ☮

10/13/2024

https://www.google.com/search?newwin...gjp6HSkmw,st:0

Next: meditation, fishhook, shade, bliss, nimble, chimes

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Thanks.Hope you get better too whatever this medication is for. Today I nap so easily.


Enjoyed the flaming Iguanas...Saw real Iguanas only once.They were enormous.
Challenge accepted!
Next: meditation, fishhook, shade, bliss, nimble, chimes

Sorry fot this delay. Had a bad week!

Next: meditation, fishhook, shade, bliss, nimble, chimes

The Yogi

He sat there
in the shade
of a tree.
Legs crossed,
his nimble fingers
resting on his knees,
bliss on his face,
his soul fishhooked
by meditation.

From afar came the sound of the chimes inviting to church.

Next: alley, lively, train, puppets, silver, downs

Ditto... Hoping this week is more auspicious.

His poor soul... Enjoyed :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: alley, lively, train, puppets, silver, downs

bowling at the silver chalice

A lively set of lanes at the silver chalice;
alleys "ditched" just so - the pins flew!
most bowled like so many puppets
all downs and no ups for them -
we crankers had a field day against the chumps
plastics soaked in gasoline or M.E.K. -
like watching a train wreck.
dollars passed into hands after the 8-game block
- like a month's pay
those were the days

10/21/2024

https://calusbc.wordpress.com/2022/0...ersy-heats-up/

Next: spider, marvel, crystal, hours, marmor, aurora

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

This is the first poem about bowling I ever read. Enjoyed! But you aren´t going to tell me that there are serious controversies going on about the ball being allowed to be softer or harder"

Challenge accepted!

Next: spider, marvel, crystal, hours, marmor, aurora

Here's a thumbnail to scratch the surface:

The hardness of a bowling ball has been an issue since I was a junior bowler (60's on)

Back in the day we had plastic bowling balls, rubber bowling balls, and maybe a few other ancient "cover stocks".

The harder the bowling ball the less it would roll without "breaking" or "hook" . A ball that hooked was great on "oily" lanes... a ball that did not hook, or only a little was great on "dry" lanes. This was in the day of lacquer finished lanes... not seen anymore. Then there were "ditched" lanes which confiddled the issue even more... where the oil on the lane was applied to benefit better bowlers... but that's another issue... and there were ways to drill a bowling ball to make it do more or less hooking and rolling and sliding by offsetting the finger positions with relation to the the "weight block" pancake underneath the cover surface... also accomplished by drilling an extra non-finger hole to change the characteristics/dynamics similarly, but only one extra hole allowed.

Where was I ? The idea that indeed the hardness/softness of a bowling ball, and later highly porous rubber stocks circa '70's?... like the LT-48, was on every better bowler's minds. Some serendipitously found "softer" cover stock plastic balls that performed better than others. Then it was postulated that artificially softening the balls surface by one bowler would lead to even better get better results for the more expert bowlers... hence the article (not going to touch on the controversies of left-handed bowlers having an advantage over right-handed bowlers in my day). So... once the cat got out of the bag (there are always cats :) bowlers tried various means to gain an advantage by soaking their bowling balls in various substances, mostly dangerous and toxic, the best being a chemical called M.E.K.

Bowling officials became alarmed and finally came up with a density scale via a durometer and the "Durometer D" scale was established and nothing softer (ball stock) than 72 on the scale was legal anymore. I think that benchmark may have changed.

Bowling evolution continued with urethane coated lanes eliminating the highly flammable varnished lanes (fumes when first applied to the lane's wooden surface)... urethane bowling balls... imbedded "weight blocks" of various sizes and shapes within a bowling ball under the bowling ball's cover that replaced the standard "pancake" biased weight that all bowling balls in my era had...

Most bowlers in my latter bowling years brought 2 or more bowling balls to tournaments and leagues to adjust to "lane conditions" or oil patterns, using hard plastic balls for 10 pin spares (for right-handers) and adjusting to the changes over games due the oil pattern changing from use... which in my day gave the left-handed bowler an advantage since their oil pattern changed less than on the right-handers side due to there being more right-handed bowlers affecting "the shot" (I wasn't going to go there but it was a concern at the time and "lefties" were able to take advantage of such dynamics).

I've been essentially out off bowling since the turn of the century (that sounds weird) and bowling evolution has passed me by... but my heart is still there and I'm looking to purchase some used bowling shoes and start practicing again. I have a knee brace now that should help my once hyper-extended knee... but oh the cost inflation since I was active (I used to practice hundreds of games for free when I was a junior bowler and in the biz).

Lol, hope that helps :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

I'm amazed.i never saw anyone writing about bowling here in Brazil. Ii guess it's seen more like a hobby than a sport. I myself went bowling once or twice, but just for fun, there are some bowling halls here in São Paulo. I hope you find a place near your house.

Next: spider, marvel, crystal, hours, marmor, aurora

Spiderman

Spiderman- marvel born in crystal hours
marmored sky-bout of aurora.

Next: soft, limerick, chief, ghost, movement, ease.

Short & sweet minimalism... enjoyed :)

Challenge accepted !

Challenge: soft, limerick, chief, ghost, movement, ease

ghostbusted

Ghostbusters cornered their quarry double quick
softly sighed the ghostly apparition before them
its eyes glowing with fire then elicited a limerick:
"there once was an anonymous handkerchief
a baby ghost chock full of mischief
toppling whatnots then pass through walls with ease
its movements quite erratic if you please
so frenetic it caused the haunted great grief"
impressed the ghostbusters let down their guard
allowing the apparition a chance to escape
it cachinnated then shook and then its sheet did forsake
leaving the ghostbusters stunned mouths agape

10/24/2024

Next: foam, diadem, canopy, marmoset, cotillion, Tatibitati

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor