Enjoyed "The Picture" :)
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Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Enjoyed "The Picture" :)
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: rumour, shop, multitude, destitute, running, funny
rumours
rumours shop the destitute mind
running whispers tittered to the multitude
- funny how they continue to persist
as if there was nothing better to do
7/12/2023
Next: orange, studio, mandolin, dusk, proliferate, seaside
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed this rumourous and destitute poem.
Challenge accepted!
Next: orange, studio, mandolin, dusk, proliferate, seaside
Living in the clouds
I bought an orange studio
on the seaside.
in it books proliferated
like kittens.
in the dusk
one could hear
the nostalgic strings
of a mandolin.
Next challenge: summer, wood, antelope, wealth, intensely, circling.
Such a beautiful poem... took me there; would be a heaven on earth :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: summer, wood, antelope, wealth, intensely, circling
savannah overture
pale woodwind sounds
would suit the wealth of
antelope grazing about
in high summer -
carrion eaters circling
the savannah's lucid skies
wait for predators
to relinquish their kills
intensely aware of
other prying eyes
7/13/2023
Next: damselfly, meadow, cattails, breeze, stubborn, diamond
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks (blush)!
Very original poem Enjoyed!
Challenge accepted!
Next challenge: damselfly, meadow, cattails, breeze, stubborn, diamond
Damselflies
Damselflies grace with their beauty
the green neadows of cattails
dancing in the mild stubborn breezes
or reveling in the diamond transparency
of the drops of the spring rain.
Next challenge:coffee, estate, bulls, noon, evidently, genuine.
From my cellphone...
Enjoyed very much !!!
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: coffee, estate, bulls, noon, evidently, genuine
the fog will lift
red bulls and coffee espressos
evidently are seen as pick me ups
both before and after noon - they
would interfere with my naps so -
'tis better far to feel genuine with-
out jitters - the fog will lift in the
estates of my mind as He sees fit -
such is the word of wisdom in me
7/14/2023
Next: genuine, tapestry, access, core, conservator, hummingbird
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
LoL! You always open unusual directions. Had a look on Red Bull, a drink that never interested me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull
Challenge accepted:genuine, tapestry, access, core, conservator, hummingbird
Challenge accepted:genuine, tapestry, access, core, conservator, hummingbird
The double
A genuine hummingbird
has access to a likeness
in the tapestry hung
in a conservatory.
He sings his best song
But the image doesnīt answer.
He sings and sings
he excels in his performance,
but nothing moves
the other bird.
Hurt to the core he
flies away
He woves
never he'll
sing a note again.
But, soon surrounded
by the songs of
other hummingbirds,
he canīt resist.
He sings to the top og his voice!
Next challenge: air, image, litter, joyous, transgression, softly.
I haven't ever tried a Red Bull; some of their commercials are clever. There's a new kid on the block, whose name escapes me, when it comes to alleged pick-me-ups that is being debated in our government's halls.
Beautiful poem... the redemptive power of an unrequited love :)
Challenge accepted !
I googled: surreal painting air, image, litter, joyous, transgression, softly and found this idea for an ekphrastic prompt: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/34181/time-transfixed
Challenge: air, image, litter, joyous, transgression, softly
12:43 pm
12:43 pm and all I can think about
in the lingering silence is the image
of you on a train who knows where
I look in the mirror and you're not
there; the air littered with memories of
transgressions that drove you away
softly I sigh and reflect upon more
joyous times when we were together
- the mind is a terrible thing to lose
7/15/2023
Next: harbor, seagulls, sand dollar, rope, eye, concession
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Beautiful nostalgic poem.
Next: harbor, seagulls, sand dollar, rope, eye, concession
The seagull
I like to fly
and keep my realms
under a watchful eye.
Without ropes and concessions,
The open sky is my harbor,
there I meet fellow seagulls
enjoying themselves.
When I feel an urge,
of landing near a shore
Sand dollars greet me.
Next challenge: stage, imperative, lurking, distress, longing, fertile.
Light and airy poem... enjoyed very much :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: stage, imperative, lurking, distress, longing, fertile
lurking in familiar shadows
lurking in familiar shadows upon a
fertile stage the natural man in
his madness assails the moral imperatives
of a world crying in its distress
longing for a higher loving-kindness
7/16/2023
Next: troubadour, dolphin, illusory, catspaw, windowpane, constellation
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Snif!"a world crying in its distress longing for a higher loving-kindness"!
Challenge accepted:troubadour, dolphin, illusory, catspaw, windowpane, constellation
Pictures
A melancholy dolphin
looking through a windowpane
at the clouds of an illusory sky.
Flowers swaying under catspaws.
Far constellations pierce the night,
and a lonely troubadourīs
plaintive song.
Next: watermelon, ongoing, waterfall, drowsy, Lilliput, racing.
Wonderful !
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: watermelon, ongoing, waterfall, drowsy, Lilliput, racing
escape
a watermelon rind kind of day -
ants, like racing lilliputs, growing
drowsy in the intense heat
as viewed from above the bustling
throng - an ongoing ruin to nowhere
escape -
contemplating a waterfall
I meditate
and soon begin to bathe
in the tranquility
of rushing waters
7/17/2023
Next: starlight, greet, embodiment, tranquil, persimmon, lily
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Interesting contrast between part one and two of the poem.Enjoyed!
Challenge accepted.
Next: starlight, greet, embodiment, tranquil, persimmon, lily
Wow: In English"caqui" is elegantly called persimmon.
Persimmon
Under the starlight or under the sun
Greets me persimmon, persimmon
embodiment of sweetness
with its soft, translucent flesh,
offering orange pleasure,
instead of the tranquil contemplation
of the lily.
Next challenge: looking glass, grass, amazing, praying mantis, recurrent, cycles.
Delightful ! :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: looking glass, grass, amazing, praying mantis, recurrent, cycles
58:11
a praying mantis swayed her head
in an elegant recurrent gimbaled fashion
when upon encountering a looking glass
observed otherworldly cycles there -
each day was warm and untroubled
each night a delightful misty rain
aromatic honeysuckle and star jasmine
ever wafted on a light breeze
lazily a shallow brook passed by
burbling in its course with tiny rising
waterfalls as it meandered serpentine
to a sea far, far away from view
the grass shone an inviting blue
hummingbirds afire glowed
industrious færies tended garden groves
and an inkblot toad or two
eternity seemed as but an instant
as the praying mantis beheld this new
realm - then realizing her prayer
was answered swiftly entered in
7/18/2023
Next: galaxy, elegant, imbroglio, sense, queue, whirlpool
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Aaii!
Challenge accepted!
Next: galaxy, elegant, imbroglio, sense, queue, whirlpool
Street Scene (Inspired in a supermarket Foto by Tony Walton)
The well dressed lady in the queue
took the elegant galaxy
out of her Prada bag.
She answered the phone,
she seemed to try to calm
the agitated voice
that reached her through the phone
in a whirlpool of emotion.
The people behind her
were dozing on their own cell phones.
Not sensing, nor really caring,
of any internal imbroglios
of emotion amongst them...
Nothing it seems
would interrupt their sleepy boredom
Next challenge: blustering, forward, banquet, lizard, opera, gorgeous.
Enjoyed :)
Perhaps:
"The people behind her
were dozing on her own cell phones."
Unawares -
Not sensing, nor really caring,
of any internal imbroglios
of emotion amongst them...
"Nothing it seems
would interrupt this sleepy boredom."
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Challenge: blustering, forward, banquet, lizard, opera, gorgeous
divine diva
an operatic lizard - so she was famed abroad
two slights in print that made her wince
that sometimes made her feel like such a fraud
knowing all her blusterings could never convince
she retired most elegantly gorgeous to the mint
and lent her publicist the task to properly evince
certain media where they could stuff their print
the consequences not so dire as to be banned
from banquets, und so weiter, without a single squint
7/19/2023
Next: downy, gladly, nature, evanescent, wisp, pathway
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks for the elegant suggestions, tailor, I simply forgot to include two words.
I have to alter a pronoun too. Tomorrow because of my eyesight.
Challenge accepted!
Elegant poem! The diva didnīt put herself forward though! "und so weiter" :).
Next: downy, gladly, nature, evanescent, wisp, pathway
About the future
Nature cultivates evanescent pathways.
A downy wisp of a chick may turn
into a glorious fowl or what?
One would gladly know the future
at least the nearest one,
but also is afraid of it.
Next: armory, chest, river, delightful, shadow, restore.
Enjoyed ! Great first line: "Nature cultivates evanescent pathways" :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: armory, chest, river, delightful, shadow, restore
once the river man
he took all personal attacks to heart
and placed each shaft in an armory -
an iron clad chest deep in the lighted
recess of his mind - not for retribution
for he was a delightful man in the ways
of war far from his familial river roots
who would just as easily restore a kind-
ness for evil as kind for kind... and so
he lived in peace amongst the brutality
of his age as all men ought who fall
short of the supernal grace of God
7/20/2023
Next: reticent, yoga, panda, poet, reed, ponder
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
A moving poem! It requires much discipline to master hurt feelings.
Challenge accepted!
The philosophical panda
There once was a reticent panda
who regularly practiced yoga
and was a poet in his spare time.
He also liked to ponder
on the secret ways of life
and the meaning of the word "reed".
New challenge: figs, deer, sunshine, effort, raw,, climbing.
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Enjoyed the philosophical panda! :)
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Challenge: figs, deer, sunshine, effort, raw, climbing
The Dog Days of Summer
Raw heat in the summertime sunshine
Figs should be ripening and bold deer amble
At will in daylight nibbling early plums -
Climbing our property's hillside effortlessly
California quail with their young make their
Furtive rounds wary of our cat Rosie -
Running like the dickens when a threat
is perceived - at flight when in need
Robert's home caught on fire near dusk, just
A hoot and two hollers from us - thankfully
Not igniting our wooded tinder dry hills -
Pray our community will avail with open arms
7/22/2023
Next: Sirius, compilation, timepiece, cobble stones, market, favela
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Oh my! With this mild winter, I forget that it is high summer up there. Hope all goes well for you, family and the people around you.
Challenge accepted!
Next: Sirius, compilation, timepiece, cobble stones, market, favela
Sirius
The light of Sirius
transcends compilation
and the sad efficiency of timepieces.
It envelopes alike manor houses, market and
favelas (small unpaved streets, no cobble stones there).
It brings to market
contrasts and differences
happiness and sorrow,
while remaining aloof.
Next: aloof, mountain, feverish, gesture, questioning, atitude,
Enjoyed :) "The light of Sirius / transcends compilation / and the sad efficiency of timepieces."
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: aloof, mountain, feverish, gesture, questioning, attitude
121:1
aloof as a mountain with a feverish pitch
no questioning of attitude at this altitude
a single simple gesture becomes manifest
7/24/2023
Next: paramount, family, tradition, bubble, dilemma, wilderness
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed the concise poem, but didnīt understand the title.
Challenge accepted: paramount, family, tradition, bubble, dilemma, wilderness
Family traditions
Family traditions are of paramount importance,
as they knit related lives close together.
Sometimes however they place the family in a bubble
creating dilemmas
eventually exposing
an underlying wilderness.
Next: amazing, story, awakening, anthropomorphic, lighthouse, enhancing.
lol... hate those family bubble situations... enjoyed ! :)
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Challenge: amazing, story, awakening, anthropomorphic, lighthouse, enhancing
a lighthouse stands sentinel
enhancing the seascape a lighthouse
stands sentinel over all within sight
there's something anthropomorphic -
an awakening of the imagination
when viewing seals off the surf as
their heads bob up and down watching
us on the beach watching them -
'tis easy to recall amazing stories
of merman and mermaids beckoning
mortal men into the deathly depths
7/25/2023
Next: eaves, peace. messenger. jollity, reward, mosaic
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Charming seaside poem:
"...here's something anthropomorphic -
an awakening of the imagination
when viewing seals off the surf as
their heads bob up and down watching
us on the beach watching them -"
Challenge accepted:eaves, peace. messenger. jollity, reward, mosaic
The dove's nest
Under the eaves of the roof
a conspicuous nest
reveals the secret work
of those jolly messengers of peace.
Itīs true that doves gurr instead of singing,
but they reward their neighborhood
with a mosaic of discreet colors.
Next: untimely, flavors, rain, justice, empower, necklace.
Loved your poem... "Itīs true that doves gurr instead of singing, / but they reward their neighborhood / with a mosaic of discreet colors."... I was taught doves "coo" but "gurr" works too; funny how each culture interprets the songs of nature differently
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Challenge: untimely, flavors, rain, justice, empower, necklace
untimely rain
Chinatown
untimely rain
in San Francisco
drove them inside
she wore a necklace
of matched natural pearls
where's the justice in that
for the oysters likely served
with garlic butter - unique flavors
empowering passion? - a godsend for older
women with osteoporosis - now there's justice
7/26/2023
Next: button, quake, cottage, garlic, gallery, hypnotic
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Liked the stairs, but poor rich women with osteoporosis.
Challenge accepted
The quaking cottage
It was a small house beside a gallery
The sight of that shaky cottage
had an hypnotic effect on me.
It was a precarous enchantment.
The button in the entrance,
when pressed
gave forth an eerie sound.
Not even garlic would drive away
the kindred spirits of their abode,
Next:hourglass, incense, drawer, song, ancient, fulfill.
Enjoyed the haunted house :)
Challenge accepted !
Challenge: hourglass, incense, drawer, song, ancient, fulfill
blue water lilies
incense permeates halls where
monks chant reverberating songs
that fill ancient sacred temples
appeasing silent insensitive gods -
sands slip through the hourglass...
drawers of waterpause by blue water lilies
fulfill destinies
7/28/2023
Next: Capricorn, bronze, caricature, tribute, creation, gown
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Very charming contrast between monks and water lilies
Next: Capricorn, bronze, caricature, tribute, creation, gown
On The Sing Of Capricorn
His four hoofs solidly
planted on the ground,
come wind, come rain,
sometimes sun,
sometimes snow
and then sun again.
It doesnīt budge.
In its stubborn stillness
it resembles a caricature
of a bronze statue,
a whim of careless nature,
that chooses the gowns
for its numerous creatures
to celebrate creation.
Next: round, underground, peak, laughter, grinding, flames.
Enjoyed very much :) Perhaps 'sign' instead of 'sing' in the title ?
Challenge accepted !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks for the correction, tailor. Why do old neurons always invert letters (sigh!)?
Will correct the poem, when edition is possible.
Curious about your next poem.
Challenge: round, underground, peak, laughter, grinding, flames
Goin' underground now -
Goin' underground now -
the grinding of old bones have ceased
Flames never appealed to me -
being put in an urn; my laughter forgotten
A headstone instead where one might come 'round
to see my name and read a poetic inscription
accompanied by an angel blowing a trumpet
I'd like to think I passed on at my peak
spiritually prepared for a joyous reunion
7/29/2023
Next: fog, distant, tiger, peacock, master, prestige
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Oh, no!That was a bad choice of words! There should be a lot of rattling of bones and keys yet!!
Next: fog, distant, tiger, peacock, master, prestige
Animal Paradise
A distant country
Seen though massive curtains of fog!
The proud peacock at the entrance
exhibits its elegant fan
and there they are all of them:
tigers, lions, foxes, elephants
and the cheeky little apes frolicking
on ever green trees along with chanting birds.
Fierce animals mingle with tame ones,
and there is enough food and water for all.
There are no masters and no hunters,
no sweating for prestige.
No one knows the meaning of
boredom and humanity.
Next:roses, daisies, cave, music, exquisite, germinate.