Nonsensical Poetry

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I think I lean toward Autumn too. Wood - not every day. I get some delivered (the product of church wood cutting projects )... maybe 3-4 pickup truckloads each winter already split as well as make "rounds" with my chainsaw of downed trees which I split with a heavy maul... it gets stacked, or not, and covered with tarps to cope with rain and snow, with maybe 3-days supply stacked indoors near the wood stove. I think I've split close to 1.5 cords of wood this past fall/winter myself... with a little bit more to do.

My latest Word Can poem from our poetry group: form, grovel, spray, limestone, proximity, otherworldly

Raid !

otherworldly beings - our new over-
lords have us join queues - long lines
of humanity now grovel within
their proximity upon a limestone
laid courtyard - I laugh in a
Pollyannaish way to myself -
wishing I had a can of bug spray

4/18/2024 *goes with my AI/Overlord poetry arc as of late nicely

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
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My assignment for today's Thursdays at Two was to include an idiom, or even make one up, within a poem. I do this quite frequently anyway so it was no stretch, but still a fun exercise:

a poet's shoes...

a poet's shoes should be
like a gardener's hands -
worn, earth stained
from scouring landscapes
picking under leaves
invoking rainbows and celestial
dandelions three where I
released a dundered wasp that
was bashing at an indoor window
pane with its antennæd
head on a fool's errand
waiting for it to crack

a poet knows pain -
one wouldn't know it
by the stiff upper lip
one could suffer so
waiting for it to crack

some say I'm a few rivets
short of a pair of blue jeans;
me - I like blue jeans
like my memory the faded
the better, soft and blue
like my blue jeans too
not cardboard rigid as if
waiting for them to crack

they're offering euthanasia now
trafficking to a new extreme
I hope I don't become like
the befuddled wasp and find
my way to their picture window
banging my head for attention
waiting for it to crack

4/29/2024 r. 5/2/2024

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem it's not usual to write about the poet's shoes. And I love blue jeans.

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From our Tuesday's at Two poetry group:

I have a proud heritage of ancestors that goes back to the Mayflower and to Presidents John & John Q Adams - this poem is not about those Adams…

Word Can poem: prearrange, encounter, refluent, towel, various, extraneous, bi-weekly, pool

In the Adams’ Tradition

bi-weekly, yes, prearranged twice a week,
and every other week, to the pool refluent in
my diligence schooled in the Adams' tradi-
ition to always carry a towel, I’m no fool, in
case of an encounter with any of the various,
extraneous aliens should one ever be encount-
ered on my travails - a hitchhiker to the stars

5/2/2024

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol. Wasn´t acquainted with this particularity of the Adam's tradition. Just musing a bit on the role of a towel in case of a surprise encounter with one of those extraneous beings. Enjoyed the poem!

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Putting it all together after an edit or two to avoid the "Banned" notice: no joy ??? Oy.

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My poem for 2pm today (PDT)...

“Wednesday's child won't go to bed” ¹

Days blur together at a certain point. Our
abstractions of Monday thru Sunday's voices
yearn for clarity and meaning. What then must
transcendency have to offer? Perhaps to bide
aware of our timeless state we become like
lucid thought itself seeking wonders yet unsettled
each moment no more than transient ghosts!

6/20/2024

Golden shovel ref: L5 of With Writings and Tomes of Bards Who Have Braved by MJ Donnelly

¹ alternate saying to traditional nursery rhyme

6/20/2024

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tailor

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem. Can relate to that feeling about the days of the week. Glad that nonsensical has come to it's senses.

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Agree... hard to believe a spurious link would cause so much trouble with an erroneous notification.

Roll Over Robert Graves

Livia loathed the republic
poison, et al
Lucius Aelius Sejanus
suicide in a jail cell -
all in her repertoire
she was the life of the party

to have survived so long
dear Claudius, how ?
a pillow to be worried for
masked by skilled examiners -
poison not so much
for love ever abiden

as for the nation
as it went up in flames
it mattered not -
better a republic in ruins
Livia would have harped
and in the end
all will be forgavin

6/29/2024

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tailor

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School outing: To the grocery store !

Let's go down to the grocery store !
and see what fine foods we could
once afford - ah, see the bacon
behind the case let's race down
the isle to gawk at the steaks and
ribs - ah, I remember when Dad
would bar-b-que on his tiny round
rig with charcoal piled high - a
sprinkling of lighter fluid - and
WHOOSH! with the touch of a match,
seems so long ago. Though the state
has placed a tax on butchering the
beasties - thank heavens for the feral
piggie invasion - who needs a lawn or a
victory garden when doctors can cure
trichinosis prophylactically

7/1/2024

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Agree... hard to believe a spurious link would cause so much trouble with an erroneous notification.

Roll Over Robert Graves

Livia loathed the republic
poison, et al
Lucius Aelius Sejanus
suicide in a jail cell -
all in her repertoire
she was the life of the party

to have survived so long
dear Claudius, how ?
a pillow to be worried for
masked by skilled examiners -
poison not so much
for love ever abiden

as for the nation
as it went up in flames
it mattered not -
better a republic in ruins
Livia would have harped
and in the end
all will be forgavin

6/29/2024

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Grim Roman history? Enjoyed,!

[Danik 2016]

School outing: To the grocery store !

Let's go down to the grocery store !
and see what fine foods we could
once afford - ah, see the bacon
behind the case let's race down
the isle to gawk at the steaks and
ribs - ah, I remember when Dad
would bar-b-que on his tiny round
rig with charcoal piled high - a
sprinkling of lighter fluid - and
WHOOSH! with the touch of a match,
seems so long ago. Though the state
has placed a tax on butchering the
beasties - thank heavens for the feral
piggie invasion - who needs a lawn or a
victory garden when doctors can cure
trichinosis prophylactically

7/1/2024

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Grim pig meat story!

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lol...

My latest Word Can poem - cleaned up ... crease, use, headache, serene, gush, wear

Origami

I gushed with delight, I swear
But what a headache if I were to attempt
An origami piece so intricate

The use of fresh paper creased
Ever so many times and manipulated

Here a unicorn! there a dragon and
Other fanciful beasts…

Serene in demeanor the artist imbued
Dharma in each elegant masterpiece

6/20/2024

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem! Enjoyed!

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Word Can poem: for 7/4/2024: kool-aid, spirit, genre, resemble, club (not in our poetry setting due to the holiday)

But is it Kosher ?

genre ?
Job 40: 15-24
Behemoth -
Purplesaurus Rex
club soda
chilled
drink the
kool-aid
a spirited
effervescence
resembling a
Mogen David
wine spritzer
(so I'm told)

7/7/2024

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tailor