Peter Valentine

My poem from today’s puzzle <br> <br> a/ is it enough to say <br> i carried the mountain <br> for there i carried it <br> forward on feathers <br> (red feathers black <br> feathers) to the mouth <br> of the sea <br> there near <br> d/ your body <br> i settled <br> perhaps completely <br> …i do like it there... <br> perhaps i’ll make a shrine <br> to the long moments <br> long listening <br> the shrine <br> to your <br> d/ oh honest <br> eyes <br> <br>

Poem made from today’s puzzle: <br> <br> a/ summer <br> green wood <br> a great trunk <br> the flooring uncovered <br> this takes a long time <br> this takes time <br> you count out <br> d/ the bones of the family <br> another unwieldy secret <br> zigzagging away <br> memory <br> a/ all dust by now

Usually I strictly follow the rules of my puzzle poem,’but today I took some liberties. The title is not from the puzzle and I added the word “again” at the end (not in the answers). But I was just in California over the weekend admiring Mt. Tamalpais and when “mountain” appeared in the across clues I decided to loosen the rules. <br> <br> tamalpais <br> <br> a/ here written in the mountain <br> in lines <br> some part of a journey <br> i’m packing for <br> d/ california <br> who once named me lover <br> your instrument paths <br> whistle the song of this land <br> and where daybreak hits <br> the hand splits <br> a/ over me again <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br> <br> a/ to the gloomy to the grifters to the <br> surrenders i present the golden plume of praise <br> d/ to the tiny the tortured steeping the <br> brightest moon under the sea i speak across <br> the night <br> a/ fly! fly! <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ the truth of the city is in the release of density <br> from trawling in a middle mass of chances… <br> a little music of d/ here <br> a sidewalk jumping game <br> over and over and over <br> looking up <br> counting <br> a/ one two <br> one two <br> one two<br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br> a/ o heart! in such a world as this where a brave of birds wild the sky in a tempest of joy you run in the orchards over d/ the rush of angels just a/ to see

Today’s poem - a haiku! - made from words found in today’s puzzle<br><br> a/ o happy flower d/ with what boundless ambition a/ and into dreams at last

Here’s my poem made from today’s puzzle: <br> <br> a/ the coffee rings <br> bronze shadow things <br> of you of coffee measurement of <br> in-progress projects shifted <br> to spent <br> d/ lines of code <br> maps for a prize <br> a tooth a pulse a soul <br> and a fork at the spot <br> where the fork is <br> at the a/ side

Today’s poem made from words in today’s puzzle. a/ = across clues. d/ = down clues. a/ = answers. <br> <br> a/ in the fabric of love <br> hide the eagles of madness <br> what weight <br> what madness <br> d/ that shredded plume of steel <br> of gold <br> that breaks across the warm constellation <br> as a/ ocean aeries tremble <br>

Today’s poem is a rhymer. Made from the words in the clues and answers to today’s puzz. <br> <br> a/ is it just a fly you say <br> do angels look to look away <br> and you can fly and you can play <br> the quiet in the low <br> d/ when dreamers surreptitiously <br> think the moon prosperity <br> might they together set it free <br> you see that might be a/ dope <br>

Today’s poem from today’s puzzle <br> a/ all is black <br> all is pretty <br> all is strength <br> all invisibility <br> d/ half of the water <br> half frozen, half measured <br> half of the wilted <br> half sudden, half peaceful <br> a/ two dreams <br> two dreams <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's crossword puzzle<br> <br> a/ a soul of green <br> a soul of gold <br> the soul of nobody at all <br> the song of a lover <br> the sleep of the old <br> d/ the tiny sounds of a tiny bee <br> and by and by the centipede <br> the sounds of the forest a/ tree <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> the night of a thousand ravens <br> <br> a/ in pain in fibrous grief <br> you emerge <br> s l o w l y <br> d/ to see the river of dreaming <br> to seep in <br> d r a i n i n g <br> d r a i n i n g <br> a/ a sliver <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ a message from the internet: <br> <br> rinse your world with rose water <br> your strange pretty world <br> pick a windowpane <br> d/ little world people <br> the seeds of sleep say where… <br> for to be and to be me <br> this body this story <br> this might be the answer <br> a/ to see<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br> a/ from sweet beginnings of you, of me—who made crucible d/ of the night until the longing collapsed to release… what? a storm? a kind of oil? and a/ we fell down down down the rain

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle <br> a/ the sea measures the works of minds in units without bearings volumes of ancient sailors the naked the lost in a milky eye in the laugh of water begone d/ no love… no calculation… there is and there is one truth a/ the sea

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br> a story of courage a/ in the weight of the flood spanning green worlds d/ you carry a wish up a ladder it’s a a/ secret key

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br> lake fishing a/ the line at the bottom wiggles where mudbugs move scratches letters in ancient language a tale, i think for whom this maple throws d/ fingers of light sweet as a hand that gently put the world down gently down and sung to 100 times a/ alas the crawdads

poem made from words in today’s puzzle <br> a/ i see you, son see you come up the road you look ready for things for tomorrow’s symphony d/ for the rainy world for a different world that’s not the one a/ i made up

Today’s poem. a/=across clues; d/=down clues; a/= answers <br> the night hunter<br><br> a/ a sound at the door<br> furtive, quick <br> someone’s name…<br> circled <br> the cry…<br> for nobody <br> for the night hunter<br> d/ who stored flowers <br> who stored the knives<br> in a cart <br> in a boot <br> on a roof <br> in a wall<br> in a hole in the earth<br> in a a/ fist<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> o sun o sun <br> <br> a/ instrument of diamond might just painter of the flower in the field <br> <br> d/ you permeate the mountains and… you found the hidden hedgehogs hurray! <br> <br> you drink of the fountain <br> but never never found you love <br> never swayed to the music like the boy and the girl in the church storage room <br> <br> as you race in again to fix the a/ dark <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle<br><br> a/ a sudden dip of moonlight <br> a city-shaping pupil <br> of reverent d/ light <br> and in one darting motion <br> the forehead of one man and the forehead of <br> the man in the moon <br> both find quiet oversight <br> and for a/ a minor moment <br> silence <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br> <br> a/ stand <br> stand a while <br> through the angers <br> stand <br> for the defeats <br> stand still <br> stand still <br> d/ one <br> just one <br> the belief of one <br> the practice of one <br> the one in the crowd <br> <br> a/ you <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br><br> a/ put all the people together in a love cannon<br> put in all the gold all the paper all the cheese<br> put in all the wind instruments <br> put in all the cats<br> put in the musical, cats<br> all all together in the cannon together<br> d/ now the moment of truth<br> a/ go time<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle <br> <br> a/ we go the way of all things<br> the past leaves the bones <br> in the tombs left <br> the name of the egyptian king carved in to <br><br>never<br> a billy goat’s cry<br> d/ and we are here perhaps<br> and what am i perhaps a parade of words<br> brief new i you awesome good put away<br> a/ come close<br> stay<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br><br> a/ love is no breeze <br> of a sudden blowing<br> love is a decision<br> true as tried<br> d/ and writing by you here<br> this undeniable morning<br> seeing you <br> this is my home<br> a/ i do<br> i do<br>

Poem made from words in the clues and answers of today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ who can speak to the story of the mountain <br> a pageant of dinosaurs? <br> the pioneering ladybug? <br> the earthquake? <br> d/ in the journey of the seabird <br> the seabird carried the families of the nation <br> and the breeze carried the seabird <br> and something spoken carried the breeze <br> that something that the <br> a/ poet lost<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle<br> a/ walking of night by the whistling wire d/ radio comes in like a hole in the dark if you’re death say so with a little laugh a/ no reason not to

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> a/ a thin pale man in a white suit comes to deliver a letter comes as the dust that comes in d/ the dread in the air the way the only way the river appears only a/ wet

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br> sf 1990 a/ the quality of life was the quality of friends kings of the slackers d/ werewolves who a/ stole time

Today's poem made from thenwords found in today’s puz <br> <br> a/ as you receded <br> dawn receded <br> and time and place receded <br> from being <br> d/ and we don’t have to talk about things like that <br> about the extinction <br> we are in conversation <br> we are building airplanes <br> we a/ agree to agree <br> <br>

Today’s poem from today’s puzz. a/across clues;d/down clues; a/answers <br> <br> a/ go on go in go after it <br> go there to the starting <br> point to it <br> go <br> d/ cast a word <br> to the water <br> flow once more <br> to the deep <br> to the magic deep <br> a/ and out again <br> <br>

Today’s poem is about my mother‘s impressions on scene California for the first time after immigrating from postwar England…. <br> arriving to the shoreline of a different sea <br> <br> a/ i see a field of gold <br> i see the silver d/ water <br> and a tree, a tree of oranges <br> the oranges hang upon the tree! <br> a/ i’m here <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br><br> a/ the moon scratches <br> d/ with a finger <br> to cut its name in gold <br> deep in the foolishness <br> of this nighttime a/ bowl <br> <br>

Today’s poem made from words found in today’s puzzle <br> <br> a/ across the curve of planets <br> the sound of the wolf <br> the sign… the expanse of a king <br> once in the why of things <br> d/ bound along the water of time <br> her dream seen new <br> her world in wonder <br> the winter lake a/ the valley rim <br> the mountain the river the air… <br> the i-o-i-o-i-o-ooooo! <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br><br> a/ you live in the sea <br> and wear the skin of a shark <br> you live in shadow <br> and wear the skin of a man <br> you live in a wall and wear stone skin <br> you live in fire and wear no skin <br> and d/ with your coat of laughter you change <br> the music you change the world <br> you change you <br> change <br> a/ as i crumble <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle (a/across clues ; d/down clues; a/ answers) <br> <br> a/ little can be written of time’s children <br> d/ of the disappearing disappearing <br> a cat’s paw bath <br> a/ a soak <br> a laugh<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ for you might be a tree <br> you might be a tree <br> in a field washed in stars <br> and who’s to say you might <br> for the world surreptitiously be <br> the “neural transmitter” tree <br> d/ the one that thought that goes where thought goes <br> the thought you hold that every thought you <br> hold might hold you down <br> that one <br> that thought <br> that you <br> a/ at last awake unafraid<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ i’m the city who feeds the day with minutes <br> where the time to go is where you say you look <br> away <br> d/ before the year’s gone <br> before the traces of going along <br> it’s a date <br> it’s a wrap <br> it’s good riddance all <br> you might go back to the beginning <br> and a/ skip manuals<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle was inspired by Mallory Montgomery’s ginger cat (from her profile pic) <br> <br> a/ everyone knows the sound of a cat, bro <br> the perfect sound <br> like a river of jewels like a river <br> spitting stars like <br> d/ a piano in a clock <br> around and around and around <br> spreading out its <br> a/ purrs <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> a/ find the hard to find things things lost in the air a flag… a lentil find d/ the way every day every nickel say the word banana banana banana a/ and go on go and ask who or ask what ask all of it… ask the sky

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle<br> a/ here no words exist here in the jaws of the whale where music and astronomy hang where death hopes here where i discovered you d/ the self wanderer in a forest skirts the edge on little bird feet look, see, look again look a/ softly i’m the tree

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br> a/ i, mountaintop of heavy green seeded coat in and out the years 100,000 years gave d/ your moon its name your kingdoms rose and wither’d your terrible wars tossed under time there, there the a/ day it’s opening

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle<br> a/ with the sun in its cauldron the world misty green a flask - brave tartar - a flask! for capturing the mushroom king who named the world stupid d/ for the children of spring the patch-feet children of the sistine parade what run through morning ring-a-ring-ring a/ come wood ear come fish come the hero to be

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle<br> a/ i invite the early light to pierce your d/ brilliant garden and flow out-spreading the unchecked a/ fog to ask, to ask in spring

Today's poem made from words found in today’s NYT crossword puzzle #poetry #crossword <br> <br> a/ in the hotel room <br> i catch a glimpse<br> the heavens sweeping<br> like the planet was a boat<br> i watch the sound of the room<br> the sound that happens<br> through the energy of a feeling<br> i feel<br> d/ that<br> we loved every second here<br> am i wrong about that?<br> about the every new second that we<br> a/ lost<br>

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle <br> <br> a/ the dynamic fundamentals of choice <br> that you’ll find stuffed <br> in spreadsheets: <br> radio bands crack dives bible looks slap bag shock wind grassy region slippery tree your turn d/ friend many a friend perhaps definitely played a part played tennis played in the leaves way up in the waiting room played the seven card <br> a/ for a couple a’ dirt hotdogs <br> in all caps <br>

Hi all, here’s today’s poem. I love how the randomness of words in the clues and answers pushes me to make poems about subjects I would otherwise never think to address. <br> <br> a/ the shampoo bottle <br> immersed in the river <br> defeated <br> leaks <br> makes the sound of the river <br> the colorful plastic <br> d/ sunken <br> planted in <br> a/ that drone of thirst <br> whirrs… <br> use me <br>

Today’s poem made from today’s puzzle words (across clues, down clues, answers) <br> <br> a/ the night the night listened <br> not to this <br> shame not <br> to the great <br> terror of time <br> fiddlesticks! <br> the night listened <br> to the night <br> d/ to the magic <br> the wonder of the <br> a/ silent <br> present <br> dark <br>

Today’s poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br><br> forever<br><br> a/ a kind of great sleep<br> in a cave of water <br> in a cloud of jupiter<br> d/ a still flight<br> a path home<br> life a/ open now<br> as i die<br><br>