Nonsensical Poetry

[tailor STATELY]

I just found this poem... I wrote it sometime last fall and it was just hanging about and not posted or added to my collections:

a chill sunny afternoon

a chill sunny afternoon this fall day
mister squirrel bounded into view
through oak leaves strewn during
days of wind and rain - an appoint-
ment with the færie queen seeking
advice regarding the coming Winter

the golden sunlight glimmering on
golden leaves, some still shimmering
with dew as they crackled delightfully
from mister squirrel's scurrying to
a bole in an ancient oak that led
to a portal into another dimension

Fall 2025

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

A cute poem. Enjoyed the sqirrel's
scurrying around between two dimensions.

[tailor STATELY]

From Thursdays at Two poetry yesterday:

Word can: bin, village, needle, launch, odd, make tea, cashmere

A Village Near Kashmir

In a village near Kashmir we walked
through a needle into a small cafe -
bins stacked here and there -
yet felt an odd comfort as we sat upon
luxurious Persian rugs - and as
the proprietor made tea we launched
into the small talk our local guides led
peeling back the centuries

5/7/2026

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem. Enjoyed specially the walk through the needle!

[tailor STATELY]

Thank you

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

A poetry dump from my Thursdays at Two poetry group efforts:

Romance and poetry / Golden Acrostic Shovel

"Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Crumbled edifices of ancient Romance
idealized eras long lost to ruin and
venerated in song and poetry,
invisible sylphs cultivate climbing ivy,
literature lauds stone gnawed by lichens
impairing the structural integrity and
zeitgeist of the system become as wallflowers
aware yet neglected from their need
tangible as they are, their ruin
iconic now - beauty of ages left to
outlast civilizations and time itself make
no allowance for the ghosts who haunt them
sacrosanct ruins doomed to never again grow

6/4/2026

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Word can (from 5/14/2026): sink back, vibrant, bite, finery

catch and release

such fight - a hook's bite
vibrant in your finery
sink back fair rainbow

6/4/2026

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Word can: cataclysm, real, body, trousers, pool

cataclysm

'twas my great-granddaughter's play
her cat in trousers
a cataclysm - yet
a real hoot
tears pooled from my eyes
as the poor thing writhed

6/4/2026

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Recovery / Cento & Acrostic

"Rare-sweet the air in that unimagined country"¹
"Even now there are places where a thought might grow"²
"Can you see the pride in the panther" ?³
"O child of beauty rare --"⁴
"Vast the realm of Being is"⁵
"Earth, round, rolling, compact--suns, moons, animals--all"⁶
"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky”⁷
"Ye lofty walls and towers, exalted hold"⁸

6/4/2026

First lines from these poems:
1. The Unfinished Dream by Walter De La Mare
2. A Disused Shed in County Wexford (1975) by Derek Mahon
3. Can You See the Pride In the Panther by Tupac Shakur
4. Holy Family by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. Vast The Realm Of Being Is by Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Carol Of Word by Walt Whitman
7. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
8. Praise of Cordova by Luis de Góngora

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor