lol...

Lovely!

"a microcosm of
flagellate swizzles (had to google swizzles)
and ciliate giggles
and other odd beasts
who swim and swirl
protesting amorphous
amoebic intrusions"!

Next: rays, susurrus, falling, aspen, paraffin, butterfly

The Saucy Butterfly

Extending her wings provokingly
in the direction of the sun
bathing in the golden rays
soaring high and higher over the sussurous
of the aspen trees.


No, her wings are no glued with paraffin,
like those of the unlucky Ikarus
once where.
No, the world is hers
not even the sky is the limit.

Next challenge: gold, murmur, bottomless, screening, eventide, camel.

Beautiful poem... S1 really stands out :)

Challenge accepted !

Challenge: gold, murmur, bottomless, screening, eventide, camel

"The Bright and Morning Star" / Revelations

The murmur of a lone camel far away
carries over desert golden sands
leading to a far and distant Samarkand
as eventide's lazy overture proclaims

The bottomless depths of a revealed
universe soon bursts into view -
and comes a new screening of the
heavens by poets and seekers of truth

A bright star appears out of Jacob
heralding our dear Savior's holy birth

6/29/2023 r. Rev 22:16

Next: perfection, roller, starlight, stone, giraffe, bronze

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

re: Thanks!

Loved this poem, specially the unusual part!

Challenge accepted!

Next: perfection, roller, starlight, stone, giraffe, bronze

Giraffe in starlight

A closed zoo
Ah but they forgot to lock the door,
Of this sleeping zoo.

On one of the enclosures
one perceives
the lonely profile of a giraffe
lit to perfection by the starlight.
In it´s stillnes.
might be a figure made out of bronze
or stone.

Out of nowhere
a ghostly roller appears
and disappears.

New challenge: vernacular, sweetness, raccoons, spring, gnomes, jumping

Thanx :) I trimmed the poem of the last two lines since you last read.

Beautiful African tableau: "one perceives
the lonely profile of a giraffe
lit to perfection by the starlight.
In it´s stillnes.
might be a figure made out of bronze
or stone."

I liked that the roller put in but a brief appearance before flying away as if not to spoil the mood :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: vernacular, sweetness, raccoons, spring, gnomes, jumping

by the light of the moon

natty was one of a family of garden gnome
ofttimes left her manicured garden home
to visit with friendly har-rento umescos
in gnomic vernacular, or raccoons - those
masked old-agile souls; as agile in solving
puzzles as with clever-handedness in washing
food in nearby springs, that just amazed natty

jumping together in play natty and tattie
(her har-rento umesco best friend) would
annoy the færies who misunderstood
their nightly frivolity in the woods as they
searched for plump berries by the way
the divine sweetness they vastly coveted
when an alarm went out, loudly trumpeted

the færies hearing from fervid fireflies that
the two had wandered too far whereat
har-rento umescos and færies and gnomes
hurriedly assembled from out of their homes
to search fen, bog, and the odd hollowed log
when they were found at the home of a frog
playing at skittles by the light of the moon

6/30/2023 r. 7/1/2023 (spelling)

Next: mood, decline, voyage, sacrifice, whisper, Mars

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Quote:

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Originally Posted by tailor STATELY

Thanx :) I trimmed the poem of the last two lines since you last read.

Beautiful African tableau: "one perceives
the lonely profile of a giraffe
lit to perfection by the starlight.
In it´s stillnes.
might be a figure made out of bronze
or stone."

I liked that the roller put in but a brief appearance before flying away as if not to spoil the mood :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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re: Thanks!

I don´t remember the two other lines but anyway the effect is good, because the emphasis is now all on the Nativity!

re 2: I had a problem with the meaning of "roller". I thought first it was a scooter, in German they are called Rollers and I intended to insert a child on a nightly visit to the giraffe on the roller. But when I checked on the word I found it as part of a
machine or, slang, a drug, possibly a rolled cigarette. I didn´t know what to do with this roller, so it had to appear and disappear in the poem

Quote:

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Originally Posted by tailor STATELY

Challenge: vernacular, sweetness, raccoons, spring, gnomes, jumping

by the light of the moon

natty was one of a family of garden gnome
ofttimes left her manicured garden home
to visit with friendly har-rento unescos
in gnomic vernacular, or raccoons - those
masked old-agile souls; as agile in solving
puzzles as with clever-handedness in washing
food in nearby springs, that just amazed natty

jumping together in play natty and tattie
(her har-rento unesco best friend) would
annoy the færies who misunderstood
their nightly frivolity in the woods as they
searched for plump berries by the way
the divine sweetness they vastly coveted
when an alarm went out, loudly trumpeted

the færies hearing from fervid fireflies that
the two had wandered too far whereat
har-rento unescos and færies and gnomes
hurriedly assembled from out of their homes
to search fen, bog, and the odd hollowed log
when they were found at the home of a frog
playing at skittles by the light of the moon

6/30/2023

Next: mood, decline, voyage, sacrifice, whisper, Mars

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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Very cute!
"har-rento unesco"?

Challenge accepted!

Thanx :)

Roller: https://a-z-animals.com/blog/lilac-b...bird-of-kenya/
Song (cute bird but not very melodic): https://www.google.com/search?q=afri...id:jXTpaAVZcyo

re: "har-rento unesco"? - Had to find some kind of vernacular: taken from a Gnome Dictionary (old-agile soul)... https://www.runehq.com/item/translation-book

natty: well dressed / tattie: potato

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Now that was very helpful, tailor, thanks. I expected a lot of things called roller, but not this beautiful multicolored bird. Inserting a line to correct the poem. The Gnome Dictionary has also been very helpful!:)

Giraffe in starlight

A closed zoo
Ah but they forgot to lock the door,
Of this sleeping zoo.

On one of the enclosures
one perceives
the lonely profile of a giraffe
lit to perfection by the starlight.
In it´s stillness.
it might be a figure made out of bronze
or stone.

Under the first rays of the upcoming day,
a gentle roller appears
and disappears.

After the cute gnome poem!

Next: mood, decline, voyage, sacrifice, whisper, Mars

Transit

So now he was on Mars.
The voyage had been
much less of a sacrifice
than he expected.
The last thing he remembered
were those little voices
whispering "ko umesco, ko umesco."

He found he could breath normally,
stretch himself, move, walk
His mood improved with every step.
Nothing had changed so much after all.
There was even a declining sun
in the horizon (there was a horizon),
preceding the shadows of the night.
Or was the receding ball
mother earth?

New challenge: universe, synchronous, unsurpassed, thirst, gentle, omnivorous.

"Giraffe in starlight" - Yes, your ending is more balanced :)

Love your "Transit" poem... "whispering "ko umesco, ko umesco."" ! Wonderful utilization of the gnome language :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: universe, synchronous, unsurpassed, thirst, gentle, omnivorous

it's five o'clock somewhere

the universe is omnivorous -
and when it thirsts it creates
stars and subsequently syn-
chronous planets where hydrogen
and oxygen may combine, and
liquid water is formed for a time,
sometimes being stored as ice
in the cold reaches of space
only to be collected later in un-
surpassed methane cocktails
and gently slurped at 5:00 pm

7/1/2023

Next: twilight, abandon, sitar, frequency, harbinger, asylum

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Lol! Enjoyed the poem in spite of it´s cosmic pessimism.

Next: twilight, abandon, sitar, frequency, harbinger, asylum

Challenge accepted!

The harbinger of truth

He came from nowhere,
the young man with his sitar
He arrived in the asylum
at twilight.

And he played
his music
for them
frequently,
passionately.

One day he went away
abandoning his sitar.
They never saw him again,
but each twilight
the sitar played for them
passionately,
plaintively.

Next challenge: sublime, word, evolution, android, groping, energy.

Ah, the harbinger of truth... enjoyed very much :)

"cosmic pessimism" - lol, more a tragic comedy perhaps :)

Challenge: sublime, word, evolution, android, groping, energy

Rapid AI Mnemosyne

Groping for energy
AI's androids
are evolutionary sublime -
word

7/2/2023

Next: disco, spell, tetrahedron, display, iguana, rainforest

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

re: Changed the title of the poem to include the forgotten word. Thanks for calling my attention to it.

Enjoyed the compact energetic poem

Challenge accepted!

Next: disco, spell, tetrahedron, display, iguana, rainforest

Nonsensical
A disco with tetrahedron floor.
On the walls rainforest motives.
On the floor an iguana as if under a spell
displays her dancing art.

Next challenge: horizon, awakening,sledge, antlers, handkerchief, dreams.

Enjoyed the surrealistic poem :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: horizon, awakening, sledge, antlers, handkerchief, dreams

monday morning

dismantlers of dreams never slaking bare their
sledges upon the awakening while the conscious
groggily become horizontal seeking drink and
a crumb after a spent penny to avoid mischief
surrenders to the day waving a white handkerchief

7/4/2023

Next: morning, zenith, meadowlark, waterfall, ring, pendulum

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Original take! Only the poor "antlers" remained in solitude (unless they are hidden somewhere).

Next: morning, zenith, meadowlark, waterfall, ring, pendulum

Accident
But what happened to the ring
dropped by the sanguine fiancee,
the gentle meadowlark
found in the waterfall?
No even a pendulum
could locate it.
It was past morning.
The sun was nearing its zenith.

New Challenge: entrancing, figs, leaves, introduction, ode, endeavor.

re: "take" - lol, yes, hidden within the solitude of dismall poverty.

Enjoyed your poem :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Sorry to learn that! Pensions seem not to be better than here.
Hopefully you still grow vegetables and fruit.
Curious about your new poem.

lol... only a poverty of words (hangin' in there otherwise :) )
: dismantlers

Challenge: entrancing, figs, leaves, introduction, ode, endeavor

Ode to a Fig Tree

Introduction to my humble ode on figs -
I would not endeavor to elucidate upon twigs,
branches midst brambles with deep root -
but its leaves and the royal entrancing fruit

Praised and cursed in Biblical lore the fig tree
has provided sustenance throughout antiquity
being deciduous with large sculpted leaves
of three to five distinct lobes one believes
suited ancient mother Eve and father Adam
for raiment after their transgression in Eden

Oh, how I look forward to late summer months
to pluck off the sweet morsels that confronts
the taste buds with soft spicy sweet - a taste
that must be acquired to be fully embraced
- the uninitiated expecting the jell of Newton
found within a soft cookie not free of gluten
oft not treats upon the noble fig tree again

7/5/2023

Next: finger, unicorn, veil, mound, race, valley

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Lol! Antlers-dismal-dismantlers-this linguistic profundity lost me. Love figs and enjoyed the poem on figs

Next: finger, unicorn, veil, mound, race, valley

Story
In a green valley
among mounds of hay
there lived a lonely unicorn
One day he ran a race with himself.
He ran and ran and ran and ran
until he was very far from home.
Suddenly he saw a veiled lady
who was crying because
she cut her finger,
The unicorn consoled her
and she instantly transformed herself
in a beautiful female unicorn.
A bad witch had...well
you know the story.
The male unicorn was happy
They lived from then on together
And run a lot of races

Next challenge: desert,wanderer, oasis, sand, run,intensive.

In a

"linguistic profundity" - I like that :)

Wonderful poetic story with a happy ending... brought to mind, in the way of unicorns, one of my favorite movies: "Legend" starring: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: desert, wanderer, oasis, sand, run, intensive

“I'll Be Seeing You”

A desert wanderer found itself on the planet Mars
There were no oases but dune upon dune of sand
Controlled from beyond sometimes 'woken' by guitars
It rollicked and rolled to its own tune as it scanned

For signs of life, for someday its origin would have none...
And it run and run, as it were, trundling through fields
Of rock and sand and crater under a far distant sun
That couldn't sustain even the mirage of cornfields

From this distance and parched environment
And still it ran far beyond mission parameters
Its intensive search providing much enlightenment
For mission specialists who were far from amateurs

Till one day the death knell tolled, out of the blue
And as it at last rested lifelessly was serenaded
By a recording of Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You"
Then only the sounds of the Martian wind pervaded

7/6/2023

Next: silent, demitasse, canary, news, sunglasses, remoteness

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Tragic and somehow cute! Mars is becoming fastly another life resort!
Challenge accepted!

Next: silent, demitasse, canary, news, sunglasses, remoteness

Breakfast (not at Tyffany's)

His ritual performed every morning:
feeding the canary
then slowly and silently
sipping a demitasse of cofee
while looking at the news.
Then he put his sunglasses on,
and went out.
Clad in the morning mist
the little town had an air
of remotedness.

Nex challenge: forest, singular, raids, restless, piano, lace.

Enjoyed: "Clad in the morning mist / the little town had an air / of remotedness." :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: forest, singular, raids, restless, piano, lace

forests under siege

let us raise a song of the forest
lamenting the forests under siege -
where singular insular raids amount
to a bazillion paper cuts laced with
indigenous hate - a restless and
delicate ecosystem in turmoil -
let it be balanced and controlled,
a movement pianissimo - a tribute
from mankind to mother earth

7/7/2023 r.

Next: city, luna moth, summer, imagine, judgment, silence

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Enjoyed this ecological poem!
Challenge accepted.

Next: city, luna moth, summer, imagine, judgment, silence

The infatuated moth

There once was a beautiful moth
That slept a lot
as it was lunar

It danced at night
to the city lights
and the summer heat

One day, can you imagine
It fell in love with a flower
Wanting to visit it at every hour.

It entered a request
not in jest
to become a butterfly.

After a severe indictment
and a fair judgment
the wish was granted.

So that became the lot
Of the lunar moth!

The rest is silence.

New challenge: park, Ferris wheel, pool, bees, intriguing, superlative

Wonderful poem: "It danced at night / to the city lights / and the summer heat" :)

Challenge accepted !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Challenge: park, Ferris wheel, pool, bees, intriguing, superlative

A Poke in the Eye

An intriguing and most superlative engineering
Ferris wheels are great from a distance
I went on one once at an amusement park...
Never again
I remember the thrill of rising until whirlpools
of nausea and vertigo introduced themselves
to each other whilst perched on top of the world...
And then horror of horrors the sensation of going
backwards in the sadistic contraption of torture...
Wild wildebeests couldn't drag me -
I'd rather get a poke in the eye

7/8/2023

Next: statue, windy, thirst, extinct, eavesdrop, tradition

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

The poem does justice to the feelings of the lyric I. Also diffuses the neologism "wildebeests" that punctilious people might not accept.:D
Myseif, I confess that being phobic of heights, I never ventured on a Ferris wheel

Challenge accepted!

Next: statue, windy, thirst, extinct, eavesdrop, tradition

The eavesdropping statue

In times of yore
without internet
and electronic
spying devices
we have today,
there existed the
now extinct tradition
of people meeting in discreet places
for the exchange of secrets
specially political ones.

On a windy March Roman day
two men met in a room
that held, beside an old statue,
only a likewise old table and some chairs.

After quenching their thirst,
with the vine they had brought
they discussed a secret
involving top politicians
of the country.

Next day the secret was
all over the place,
and both men
had hardly the time
to flee the country.

They hadn´t noticed,
that the statue was hollow
and had someone
hidden inside.

Next challenge: vineyard, storm, antipodes, rusty, exchange, enormously.

Enjoyed The eavesdropping statue :) I didn't know the historic precedence.

Challenge accepted !

Really stretching on this one... :)

Challenge: vineyard, storm, antipodes, rusty, exchange, enormously

An Anonymous Poor Man Named Paulus Antipodes

There once was a man named Paulus Antipodes
Who worked in a vineyard and all it embodies
Once lived in an enormously large rusty hut
Which after brainstorming he exchanged for somewhat
Airier digs for the viewing of heavenly bodies

7/10/2023

Next: box, liana, oblivious, necktie, market, film

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

re: the historic precedence was invented

An Anonymous Poor Man Named Paulus Antipodes-enigmatic!

Next: box, liana, oblivious, necktie, market, film

Challenge accepted!

Antonio Chrisostomos

Antonio Chrisostomos said
"I went to the market",
oblivious of his red necktie.
His girlfriend Eliana asked why
he went to the market
wearing a red necktie.
"To buy a box of potatoes".
"Where are they?"
"There were only tomatoes."
"End of the scene"
Cried the film director.

Next chalenge: cathedral, angels, tower, inspiration, flat, dispel.

Eliana... Clever ! Enjoyed :)

Challenge accepted !

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tailor

Challenge: cathedral, angels, tower, inspiration, flat, dispel

"; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way." - Paul Dirac

NonZens: An Homage to the poet J. Robert Oppenheimer

Michael Angelo painted
in his shanty humble flat -
a cathedral in his mind
with a fervent brush attack

Angelic inspiration flamed
for his lofty spiral tower
from his palette verdigris !
of which he had no lack

The nave he splashed
neon yellow then deftly drew
with an elemental sharpie
a pollock in basic black

The apse, his greatest
creation, a mural of apples
nigh a blithe kangaroo with
an asp lurking in its sack

Upon an ivory altar a
nightingale was portrayed
that also served as the choir
inspired by Paul Dirac

The façade was allowed to
seed graffiti styled naïveté
to dispel the critics' grief of
Michael's psychedelic shack

7/10/2023

Next: flummox, dagger, intrepid, naïveté, portray, seaside

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Got a bit flummoxed about the poem above, specially after confirming the suspicion that Mr. Oppenheimer's poetic status wasn't literary. Enjoyed however the extremely creative decoration of the cathedral.
Challenge accepted!

The Picture
The scene was flummoxing.
Two knights were portrayed
staging an intrepid dagger duel.

The curious part of it was:
they were fighting in their heavy armour,
on the shore of a seaside
with the sea in the background
like two crazy Quijotes.

The style of the picture was naive,
possibly it had been drawn
by the hand
of a child.
Next challenge: rumour, shop, multitude, destitute, running, funny.