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Challenge:prism, throng, ending, mirror, web, river
Procession
Seen through a certain prism,
What is humanity
But a long never ending moving throng
of creatures basking in
Mirages, mirrors, myths, mores(dissolving)
And now Web, the great electronic Maya.
The immense river flows
in an unknown direction
unto unknown seas.
New challenge: breeze, lively, moss, underrated, singular, coronation.
Enjoyed very much :) I decided to go the other way with singularity:
... and done
lively was the breeze
when the singularity came upon us
heralded by a coronation of coronal fire -
a mass ejection from the sun
kindling underrated moss and tree, and spun
whirlwinds of flame as our dear star danced
the tarantella with its new companion
flames overtaking all...
and then there were none to sing the praises
of earth but holy angels who were there
when His work begun
5/7/2023
Next: harbinger, rainforest, gold, spirit, canoe, mussurana
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Very interesting solution: the world as we know it ending in fire!
Challenge accepted!
Next Challenge:harbinger, rainforest, gold, spirit, canoe, mussurana
The Mussurana
Gliding almost invisibly
along the trees of the rainforest
the mussurana
might be seen
as a harbinger of bad news.
But the spirits of
the ancestors
of the lonely,
who descend
the Amazon
in their canoes
know better:
the black snake
is a protector.
Itīs hoard of gold
the forest.
Next challenge:charisma, wind, imperial,mistery, analogous
Enjoyed :) "Itīs hoard of gold / the forest."
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: charisma, wind, imperial, mistery, analogous
View From the Tower of the Winds
charismatic are the
ever shifting winds -
Boreas, Eurus, Notos,
Zephyrus imperial in
their majesty given full
reign by mysterious
Aiolos; analogous to
Ouranos mythic master
of the starry night sky
5/15/2023
Next: teach, spider, frame, cottage, fountain, button
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed the mythological poem!
Next: teach, spider, frame, cottage, fountain, button
Framed picture
A small cottage near a fountain,
one almost hears the murmur
of the water.
Timid flower buttons surround
the cottage
like an open necklace.
In a corner,
below the slanted roof
a small spider
busily weaves her net.
Nobody taught her
this ancient craft.
New challenge: mother, endeavor, simply, praise, castle, dreaming.
Wow :) Beautiful poem !
Challenge accepted !!
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: mother, endeavor, simply, praise, castle, dreaming
happy simple dreams
'twas once upon a late night dreaming
waking, walking, within that dream -
skies abundantly azure blue with a
golden castle simply floating in the air
færie-godmothers were in rich supply
like wishing wells endeavoring every
wish to fulfill whilst honeysuckle and
patchouli pervaded the crystal breeze
give praise to happychildlike dreams where flying is
of the simplest means
5/16/2023
Next: page, glide, zone, abstract, wisp, echo
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Imaginative poem!
Challenge accepted.
Next: page, glide, zone, abstract, wisp, echo
The next page
Blank page
Abstract zone
Letters gliding
over the paper
Wisps whispering:
Echo, echo, echo
New challenge: font, power, star, rendering,visibly, tangle.
Enjoyed :) Challenge accepted !
star
star - font of power
visibly rendering light
a quantum tangle
5/21/2023
Next: age, power, humanity, wind, island, paradox
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Charming synthesis!
Challenge accepted!
Next: age, power, humanity, wind, island, paradox
Next: age, power, humanity, wind, island, paradox
The paradox of humanity
Does humanity progress with age?
I donīt think so.
The thirst after power and fame
Is to great.
Wisdom touches it
only lightly as the soft wind
that sweeps over a small island bends
the vegetation slightly
without leaving a stronger mark.
New challenge: chance, theater, evolving, crossing, ethereal, beings.
Excellent ! Thoughtful and soulful poem... enjoyed very much :) Perhaps to>too in L4
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: chance, theater, evolving, crossing, ethereal, beings
Commendaces & Consolation
Xyphon, I, a lowly man, did journey by and by
aye, did chance upon Phrontis' lonely mound
renowned Menelaus himself mournfully wrought -
shot dead was Phrontis by the vengeful Apollo
Hollow are the beings who've stopped evolving
solving naught but imputed impediments -
predicaments of desiccated human theater -
greater an epic tragic ode of consequences alike
Belike crossing ethereal waters without a drachma,
ah, insufficient for the ferryman's fare thereupon
5/23/2023
Next: balance, frame, bubble, density, vision, pyramid
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed this Homer inspired poem and its musings
Challenge accepted!
Challenge: balance, frame, bubble, density, vision, pyramid
Challenge: balance, frame, bubble, density, vision, pyramid
I and the bubble
I live in a bubble
Sometimes it is round
and I must be cautious,
for, as the ground keeps
gliding away under my feet,
owning to the bubble's
continuous movement,
there is a lot of
stumbling.
At
other times
the bubble becomes
a lofty and dense pyramid
offering a distant vision of summits.
I balance between these two frames,
but I canīt format them.
They keep escaping me.
Editing not possible
New challenge: transcendence, inspiration, jolly, grapes, implying, world.
Imaginative... enjoyed :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: transcendence, inspiration, jolly, grapes, implying, world
Transcendence at 4th and Vine
transcendence is jolly for grapes implying
spirited wines or brandies - whilst those whose
inspiration lies in the world of sobriety acquit
themselves as candies, jams, and jellies
5/27/2023
Next: fossil, landscape, Venus, tangle, empire, whisper
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks for the correction. Have to include it aboveQuote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
Enjoyed the "sweet" poem.
Next: fossil, landscape, Venus, tangle, empire, whisper
Oil race
Entire empires whisper wistfully
about secret fossil landscapes,
yielding the precious petrol.
There is more than one Venus necessary,
To unmake entanglements.
Next challenge: vessel, amplitude, journey, traveling, lingo, inviting.
Thanx :) I came up with the title out of the blue, and then, as a lark, googled "4th and Vine" and found a gem of a wine shop with that name in St. Petersburg, Florida, lol.
Enjoyed "Oil race"... yes, too many entanglements indeed.
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: vessel, amplitude, journey, traveling, lingo, inviting
future extinctions
perhaps you've never heard of me -
a new world spirit vessel of the old
forest - it would take quite some time
traveling - a journey to where tall
lush trees whose amplitude once flor-
ished where we olingos loved to get
lost in, now an uninviting oblivion
5/28/2023
Next: distortion, paint, laugh, elbow, spider, lonely
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed!Poem makes one think about the disappearance of the forests.
The Witch
She looked at the distorted painting,
With a sad, hollow lonely laugh.
At her elbow rested
The spider she had adopted as a pet.
Next challenge:bonfire, road,underwhelmed, rustic, roof, interwoven.
Enjoyed your solution :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Website gone all wonky...
Challenge: bonfire, road, underwhelmed, rustic, roof, interwoven
no direction lost
a fierce bonfire-like flame flickered
in my mind's eye of reflection -
the rustic proof of interwoven
dimensionality within my imagination
so underwhelmed by my reality
that it shimmered like the intense
superheated air upon a desert road
wherewith I found no direction
5/30/2023
Next: rabbits, guitar, hill, language, location, identity, violet
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Very imaginative poem. Hope real direction is ok.
Three little rabbits
Three little rabbits play the guitar
on a hill full of violets.
Being true rabbits
they didn't have any qualms on identity.
They spoke the secret language of hares,
and changed their location each time
an enemy approached.
Ņew challenge: enigma,well, antics, surrounding, intention, wonky.
A hare raising tale :)
Challenge: enigma, well, antics, surrounding, intention, wonky
Adieu and Farewell
I once fell into an enigma well -
it wasn't my intention to enter that spell
wonky were its surroundings
as one would expect
and the antics of all who dwelled therein
were enough to make me aware
that I didn't belong -
so I scrabbled and scraped
within the confines of my mind
to loosen the fetters that had me enthralled
till at last light appeared and it beckoned
with hope and I tossed off all there was
that had beguiled me
5/30/2023
Next: constellation, usurp, break, restless, scholar, bridge
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
All is well that endīs well.:)
Challenge accepted!
Congress
Restless constellations of power
wanting to usurp more power
elevating tension to breaking point
burning bridges behind them
defying the science of scholars.
Next challenge: wild, singular, dogwood, music, umbrella, spiralling.
Political ambition for power vs. the sciences of reality to its breaking point :( Well done :)
Challenge: wild, singular, dogwood, music, umbrella, spiraling
A Song of Eternity
Under the umbrella of a stolid Dogwood
tree, beneath its pink blossoms one by
one spiraling down upon me, I, seemingly
alone in the wilderness 'cept a singular
Sonoran blue butterfly searching nearby
for the Canyon liveforever to perpetuate
its species - I heard it lift up its tiny voice:
the sweetest music this side of eternity
5/31/2023
Next: vole, candelabra, hollow, gingham, river, flat, pungent
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Aaii!
Challenge accepted!
(Some problematic aspect afflicting the sign of Skorpios) Both our presidents are similarly beset by congress)
Do we now have seven words?
The vole
Vole, vole
Play your role
After all
You aren' t a mole.
Lit the candelabra
In the hole
Traverse the hollow
In a gingham
And the river in a canoe.
Hide in a monster flat
Meet a companionable rat
Don't taste life 's pungency
Vole, vole, etc.
New challenge: p.o
along, gate, lawn, histrionic,donkey, listen,history
Enjoyed :) Lol... must have miscounted... six should be enough...
Challenge accepted ! (along, gate, lawn, histrionic, donkey, listen, history)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: along, gate, lawn, histrionic, donkey, listen, history
The Magnificent Maggiore
a donkey would sidle along an old rough hewn
fence to a gate near a lawn where an orchestra
often played and listen most intently - when as
soon as it heard Richard Strauss' Don Quixote,
Opus 35, Maggiore, it would become histrionic
and bray and bray and bray incessantly - seems
it had something to do with its family history
6/3/2023
Maggiore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JPd76o8L94
Next: flute, bright, sunflower, arbor, meadow, brook
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
AAIIII! Super enjoyed poem and D. Quixote Opus 35!
Challenge accepted!
Next: flute, bright, sunflower, arbor, meadow, brook
Tableaux
A brook beside a meadow
under a bright, sunny sky.
Behind the meadow a cozy arbor.
Sitting in front
a youth in a green hunting suit
plays the flute.
Beside him a single sunflower
lifts its opulent head
skywards.
New challenge: emerge, luck, vagrant, hoard, castle, invisible.
Wonderful tableaux :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor