Riddle#30 “Fat”

RedCloak WizardJeanne

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Two days ago, my 4 year old grand-daughter tried calling me: “BIG FAT NANA”
HERE are the words I allow:
goddess
rubenesque
mama-jama
large-and-in-charge
opera sized diva
luxurious

In the car on the drive home we wrote this jingle:
Body size not here nor there
Names are bubbles in the air;
Pop them and they disappear!
Skip along with friends held dear.

Wonder how long the campaign to substitute the word will take?

Riddle #29 Rake

Oliver rakes

The old saying for plain, direct speech is “tell it in words of one syllable.” Robert Pinsky
Try not using any forms of the verb: to be.

I rake
to make
the ground flat.
Reach and pull;
push and pat.
Cold
knee work:
bend and
stretch-take
with my rake.

Riddle#22 Happiness

All of Life is a StudioAnnika

My first Pantoum:
A verse form consisting of a series of quatrains in which the second and forth lines of each verse are repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
Verse composed using metonymy.

Happiness is fleeting
Soap bubbles pop!
Giggles get itchy
Hiccups won’t stop.

Soap bubbles pop
Fleeting rainbow floats;
Hiccups won’t stop:
They’re random, then rote.

Fleeting rainbow floats
Popping in your face;
They’re random , then rote
Effervescent space.

Popping in your face
Is happiness bubble,
Effervescent space
On a planet of trouble.

Riddle#20 Fickle Spring

mountain bike in truck in snow

it
was
vernal
equinox:
snow in Austerlitz:
blue flakes laugh at crocus shoots, blue
with cold, not dew; fickle Spring, fickle earth, fickle moon.

Riddle#19 Bike Trails

backyard flow track
Bike Trails

Let’s get the little ones shredding!
Tearing up roots, gathering fagots,
Sweeping with branches, leaves and debris.
Beckoning pathways for bikes, ATVs.

Tearing up roots, gathering fagots,
Mitten-ed hands scoop them up swiftly
Break off the icicles crisply.

Sweeping with branches, leaves and debris.
Working construction so all can now see
The free-styling pathway country.

Beckoning pathways for bikes, ATVs.
Temples of trees making way for the speed;
Backyard flow tracks for the bucks and the steeds!

Hair Color

Jan Hutchinson has been delighting us with daily prompts for Poetry Month. Today’s poem should sound like a child wrote it.

Multi-color hair
Crayola Crayons

“Your hair is red,
Your hair is black;
I see it now as blue.
Soon we’re back

To brown and then
Your hair is green:”
Crayons in Crayola Box!
Hair color fit for Queen!

( I scrutinize the roots for a mirror clue;
But find none, save: imagination!)

Riddle #15 Fruity

portrait-of-a-pear-arlene-carmel

Fruity

Someone called me :
“Fruity”
today.

Did he see my core?
Or tender skin?
Reflection in the light?
Dwarfed stem?
Snappy bites to offer?
Juices flowing?
Sap?
Kinship with my seeds?
Fallen from a tree?
Or me: different?
An adventure in discovery?

Riddle#14 The Future

Annika's reflection

The Future

The lens of my eye
sees white:
a prism of all colors
of the rainbow:
white light.

Imagination
sees
mixed colors:
hues that move my soul:
vibrate
with
belonging.

All
I have been given
reflects:
tiny acts of caring,
daily dabs
of rainbow.

Riddle#14 Epigraph

QUICKSILVER!
A logo is an epigraph.

A motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme.
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc., suggesting its theme
quotation, quote, citation
1. repeat, recite, reproduce, recall, echo, extract, excerpt, proclaim, parrot, paraphrase, retell
2. refer to, cite, give, name, detail, relate, mention, instance, specify, spell out, recount, recollect, make reference to, adduce
3. estimate, state, tender, set, offer, bid
noun
(Informal) quotation, passage, excerpt, reference, extract, citation

The artist, like the saint shows us how to love.
To love, one must make oneself invisible.
Nancy Willard

Epigraph (A list poem)

jump start
motto
quotation
theme
repeat
echo
proclaim
cite
name
detail
instance
specify
adduce
state
offer

Riddle#5 (Privy)

Potty Introduction From 4 year old to 2 year old

Potty Introduction From 4 year old to 2 year old

Hush-
hush
no more!
Privy to the
toilet: overt, inside
throne of the intimate unconcealed two:
innate, well-rounded, sovereign prince and princess “private talk.”

Is this a fib?

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