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>

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. 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 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 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>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br><br> the mariana trench <br> <br> a/ where and where <br> in all the world’s discovered <br> places down the endless slope <br> where went the rope <br> went i <br> d/ who betrayed the air <br> for water… feeling… sounding <br> only down and long and long <br> i long to a/ fly <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br><br> a/ the will-you words of innocence i say <br> give off a yellow smoke <br> the radiation of a sure thing <br> and the sound of office machines <br> where the tigris and the euphrates meet where i <br> d/ a-go a-paddling <br> through the internet <br> as the body of a tree <br> and as a tree and as a tree <br> i log, i log, i log <br> in to the a/ stream <br> <br>

My friend Keith regularly goes to one of those float places where they have sensory deprivation tanks. Today’s poem made from today’s puzzle is how i imagine he feels… <br> <br> a/ in the water’s easy stir know <br> i, wearily, my surroundings… my well of <br> egyptian d/ pearl and <br> the undergoing butterfly sound of whales a/ <br> aware of no other <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ our lips say i love you <br> our eyes drift together <br> and hand in hand you <br> d/ remove me from <br> the a/ record <br> <br>

Today’s poem made from words found puzzle. a/ = across clues; d/ = down clues; a/= answers <br> <br> a/ follow me follow <br> to the golden meadow <br> to the heart tree and <br> dream and suddenly <br> dream <br> of life of things <br> d/ to show to <br> a/ see <br> love <br> care <br> peace <br>

Today’s poem <br> <br> metamorphoses <br> <br> a/ through the city <br> heavy through the night <br> d/ the buildings bunch and droop <br> as the instant thickens and <br> a/ the crowds go in <br>

Today’s poem made from today’s puzzle: <br> <br> a/ time<br> melting <br> second by second <br> vanishing <br> like bubbles <br> d/ pop <br> pop <br> pop <br> and there you <br> a/ are <br>

Today’s poem made from words found in today’s puzzle <br> <br> night serenade <br> <br> a/ as the tree burns <br> i stand as close as the wolf <br> d/ and something is shaped <br> in the sound <br> a/ i sing <br> <br>

Kiran Pandy I found david bowie blasted throughout the clues in this puzzle. Were you listening to Hunky Dory when you constructed this? Here’s today's poem made from the clues and answers… <br><br> a/ turn on the tv<br> is he lost, hopelessly <br> is he david bowie<br> thin of face, unflinching<br> the super-brained in super-space<br> in danger of a crash<br> d/ a reptile fashioned<br> in the breath of stars<br> o patrons, fans put the man back together - <br>that’s a good trick… that’s cosmic<br> and a bit dramatic, the irony<br> a bird sings <br> a lungful of <br> a/ oddity<br> it’s a movie<br> it’s on tv<br><br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle<br><br> summer song <br> <br> a/ the music of the ground <br> in stones hidden in <br> a music of wood <br> a music of you! <br> the grasshopper song <br> it moves you to spin <br> as a young bird calls <br> and the young bird calls <br> d/ as the horn the horn of the morning <br> a/ blew <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today’s puzzle<br><br> a/ rush in heavily rush <br> unceremoniously <br> in to the scenery <br> d/ of eternity <br> be hero to <br> the story <br> to things <br> known <br> be thirst <br> for the hiding things <br> a/ just go <br> asap <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br><br> a/ a lost day … too late now <br> for the egg carton show <br> too late <br> to do anything about it <br> one has to do anything and so <br> d/let this day go in a whisper with <br> a/what tiny thanks we have <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ the red apple can charm <br> the gold apple can trick you <br> the sword doesn’t charm <br> the sword doesn’t trick <br> the sword halves the apple <br> d/ try to make sense of the pear <br> try…. a/ and take umbrage <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ something there is that ye shall find <br> in tihs the slightest pile of time <br> d/ the line that pairs the chain that rhymes <br> and the hurricane <br> a/ in the typos<br>

Today’s poem from today’s puzz <br> <br> a/ in the great walls <br> of the great passage <br> loud and loud <br> the heartbeat of the great giant <br> the talk of dogs <br> i wake a wish of what might be <br> of how the coyote <br> d/ with unforced lips <br> collapses in heat <br> collapses in oceans <br> a/ blabs hello <br> <br>

Hi all. Sorry I’m slow to the draw in answering your nice comments. Thank you @tracy @francis. @jerry to answer your question about my poems. My poem is compsed of words found in the clues and answers and is always 3 parts …. a/ across clues ; d/ down clues ; a/ answers. My rule is i can only use words found in those parts of the puzzle for those corresponding parts of the poem. Here is today’s poem <br> <br> public messages <br><br> a/ the sign on the restroom: surrender the cat<br> surrender?….<br> it’s a heavy cat <br> i take a measurement<br> it’s heavy<br> i take the cat out<br> it’s sunny. i smoke.<br> must i comfort the cat?<br> d/ (appearing befuddled)<br> i might a/ hug it<br> or give it a mouse<br><br>

Hi solvers. Yesterday’s poem was about a shampoo bottle, today’s poem is about muffin tins <br><br> a/ before you muse on who to whose before <br> you form the wonder, know i someone who <br>might know… <br><br> the muffin tins smell trouble <br><br> d/ for what with crispy finish this crust <br> becomes let it stand up in jam that things well <br> done come in to being and come now<br> <br><br> a/ can’t we handle<br>

Today’s poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> a/ your mind is a flower <br> happy, gentle <br> and colorful in the touch of sunset <br> and your body is a scoop <br> of sticks and pebbles <br> d/ as you listen to <br> the rain coming in to you <br> you already now <br> a/ a field of steam <br> <br>

Today’s poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br><br> a/ is time a moment <br> a foot-on-the-gas chance <br> of attempting, of winning… <br> <br> is time a shape <br> the sun in his channel <br> of stories of language of stories… <br> <br> was i the one <br> d/ the certain one <br> the one driving <br> who recognized the limit of things was i <br> the a/ one up ahead <br> <br>

Today’s poem made from words found in today’s puzzle <br><br> portrait of a supercouple at rest <br> <br> a/ picture the world in a big cup <br> slowly… slowly… <br> d/ step up <br> a/ drink! <br> <br>

Today's poem made from words found in today's crossword puzzle <br> <br> a/ in the story of the corn animals, the animals love to walk in the corn… <br> <br> outside the corn, things are tough: modern activity, the busy city… inside the corn, things are nice and friendly and the animals walk d/ along with the people creatures… <br> … and they’ve played with the people and so forth… <br> <br> … and so it is and so it shall be that the people said the word and the word is a/ free <br> <br>