lol...

lol! loved this funny ghost poem!
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Next: foam, diadem, canopy, marmoset, cotillion, Tatibitati

Miss Tatibitati and the Marmoset

Miss Tatibitati liked:
- taking foam baths
-wearing sparkling diadems
- dreaming of future joys
under a wast canopy of satin.

Tito, the marmoset, liked:
- eating nuts
- swinging from tree to tree with his friends
noisily
- dreaming of future joys
under a wast canopy of tree crowns

Together they danced the cotillion
in fairyland
when they met.

Next: music, scales, harmony, tempest, raging, traces.

Delightful poem... and Fairyland !!!

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Challenge: music, scales, harmony, tempest, raging, traces

The Music of the Pleiades

The music of the Pleiades will soon reach
its peak 'midst tempestuousness as the
scales are yet tipped in Mars' and Pluto's
raging ire, stilling traces of Merope's voice.
thin is the veil that leads to introspection:
seek the power of Scorpio's new moon,
don a warrior's armor to see it through
for an ending is near: death and rebirth -
and in the end harmony will be restored.

10/27/2024

Next: stardust, imagine, water, hours, dream, Dimplydandelions

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tailor

Loved this concert of the Pleyades!

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Next: stardust, imagine, water, hours, dream, Dimplydandelions

Scattered Stardust

Imagine
a waterfall,
water falling
an hourglass,
hours falling
a flowery dream,
Dimplydandelion.

Next: wistful, cat, top, border, leaves, game.

Wonderful! and minimalistic: "a flowery dream, / Dimplydandelion." :)

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Challenge: wistful, cat, top, border, leaves, game

the catacombs

Where ethereal beings not yet quickened roam
who muse wistfully in the catacombs
within its borders whose topography
allows leaves to rustle in amidst cacography
and glyphs of artful graffiti that appear at entrances
where the bold few intrude with askance glances
some for a lark whose games take chances
of encountering bogeys and joining their dances
some who attempt daring trysts for romances
some rebuffed but few rejecting ardent advances
the living rarely venture in far from its periphery
where one can hear the seashore and the kittiwake
but those who do chance becoming inventory
the very thought makes me inescapably quake

10/28/2024

Next: All Hallow's Eve, askance, apparition, haunt, witch, bats

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tailor

Lol! Catacombs out of cats. Enjoyed though the descriptive poem!
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Next: All Hallow's Eve, askance, apparition, haunt, witch, bats

Next: All Hallow's Eve, askance, apparition, haunt, witch, bats


All Hallow's Eve

What are these mysterious noises?
The hollow laughters?
The fluttering of bat's wings?

The picture sharpens:
Apparitions looking disdainfully askance
haunt the sleeping mortals,
while ugly witches preside
over their ominously boiling cauldrons

With the first light of morning,
the spook is gone.
A soft falling dew.
prepares the earth
for the footprints
of angels and fairies.

Next:nook, entranced, whisper, willow, tide, daylight.

Wonderful ! :)

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Challenge: nook, entranced, whisper, willow, tide, daylight

The Seelie Court

The whisperings of the willow called
entranced I sleepily left my nook and
comfort knowing not what would betide
daylight was failing, soon all was veiled
a new moon peeping through the mist
gave me courage against the will-o-wisp
dancing as if to a gigue just before me
when I chanced upon a Seelie Court and
light blazed upon the faces of the sylphs
as if high noon once again, the forest
echoing with their haunting song of lament
for one come among them recently dead
and I stayed and listened till I fade away

10/31/2024

Next: hollow, shadow, owl, shriek, timorous, apostrophe²

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tailor

Enjoyed this fairy poem!

Challenge accepted though puzzling about the 2 of apostrophe2!
Next: hollow, shadow, owl, shriek, timorous, apostrophe2

Merriam Webster: "The Other Kind of 'Apostrophe'
It's when we speak to you and it's like you're not here."

"What to Know
As a literary device, apostrophe refers to a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object, such as Yorick's skull in Hamlet. It comes from the Greek word apostrephein which means "to turn away.""... "Apostrophe's Other Use

If you study drama or rhetoric, you will be familiar with an entirely different idea of apostrophe—that is, the making of a speech or address to an absent person or a thing that is personified (such as Death)." https://www.merriam-webster.com/gram...device-meaning

Oh, my! Apostrophe for me as a verb used to be simply addressing someone. See what I can make of that.

Next: hollow, shadow, owl, shriek, timorous, apostrophe2

To the owl

Dearest owl
hiding in the hollow shadow
of our expectations,
of our dreams of a better future,
lend us your ancient wisdom!
I´m so timorous
I could shriek
but there is also this hope
that refuses to die!


Next: victory, peace, windows, galaxy, range, newborn.

Wonderful ! An implied apostrophe by implementing an apostrophe. "lend us your ancient wisdom!" :)

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Challenge: victory, peace, windows, galaxy, range, newborn

Lament

Tucked outside on an arm
of the spiral Milky Way galaxy
journeys an oblate blue charm

revolves around a jaundiced sun
150 kilometers away
at first glance appears moribund

yet teems with spirited life
albeit more and more endangered
on the cusp, on the edge of a knife

for the eyes are the windows
of the soul and on closer inspection
endless Pyrrhic victories are exposed

the self-appointed stewards
have abrogated their responsibilities
- the ones reaping all the rewards

it is not strange that
appearances can be deceiving -
a higher intelligence is grieving

having formed the newborn orb
in its pristine state in eons past
full of peace and promise, now lost

11/13/2024

Next: magical, contest, sacred, lotus, swans, pool

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