Peter Valentine

poem made from words in today’s puzzle… a/ the morning that carried me the small tree that carried me the name of everyone the triumphant glimpse this conversation that carried me that carried me d/ before a blood red a/ sea

Hoang-Kim Vu‘s approach to the across clues really influenced the vibe of today’s poem. Here it is: heaven a/ a place a sound nothing a brief light a well of light insignificant light nothing d/ across the sea across the fields covering the fields change return change it’s strange remembering what to a/ say

Dario Salvucci offered up an Oddysey of sea-themed words. I could have used many more for the poem but resisted the urge to ramble. Here’s the poem: a/ a shell in the largest ocean d/ in the drift and stir of currents not thrown away just thrown and thrown along and to a/ oh! belong

A poem for the first day of fall september a/ a scratchy little beetle in its scratchy work the day’s sinking backward… in the secrecy of the d/ ivy i see times thatched grain a/ unopened and i wish a life of silent wonder

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ hang on to time skating past the past is what pools in pools of time to let go of time is easy in the buzz of d/ the evening lingering in the aura of stars that comb the air for the beautiful inexact stars don’t believe in time… the stars see the past see the story of you see the earth see the shoes near the river wink and say a/ it’s all cool, man

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 words in today’s puzzle<br> soft things a/ in this full heart flying of hope eating the lore of friendliness— in a declaration of “hey!” i open the earth and skateboarding to the center show d/ you a word a/ shilo

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ maybe the moon’s bluffing flying in its path a rock, a thing it rose a million million d/ days to rest there like a finger a/ alas

poem made from words in today’s puzzle… a/ the day that preceded the big bang, what was that like? george says life is a lonesome question—george, who is the last of his bloodline… and yes who knows what the tortoise knows — like was that tortoise sometimes happy? and who knows what lonesome george knows of life when life preceded the big bang? d/ wait… really? really a/ no one?

I’d say anytime you put the word moon or love in the across clues, you’re going to get a moon poem or a love poem a/ you believed the moon to have feathers the moon that settled in the trees for the summer silver feathers — you told me — a billion silver feathers i wanna love the moon like you love the moon the soul of the moon to drink in the moon like the ocean d/ and reveal in the slowness of the cold water a/ that bare hope

What a clever puzzle today. Even though some words have gaps in the clues, I’m allowed to use them as complete word in the poem. So there. a/ your dust your leaves your stars your flame your dance your skin your air your name d/ and when you search and when you find the place you go you release again the a/ echo

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ life may be at that point in the well of sorrow opium-thick with regret you look d/ out discovering you are a bird you are ready crack a/ on!

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

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ in my orchard of regret is a small hammock for the scarecrow — who had a brain — and i regret to say the scarecrow is d/ not thinking more on this it’s a shame, really… who’s to go and put back the a/ wet straw

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ someone found a haw under the sink, a clean haw with colorful tips and d/ 21 pips! made its home, it has to mature in some corner in standard hot/cold conditions it has a long a/ sleep season yeah

So many wonderful words to choose from in today’s puzz. Here’s today’s poem: a/ we run rawboned out scratching the surface of the night night the old whale celestial, great we rush — like an astronomer of unwelcoming d/ physics enrobed in an equation of distance and you and i will never stop and a/ yet… oh! oh! oh!

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ the feeling in a number as akin as 11 as flowery as 17 4 in torment 3 for tea sorry 8 sorry 8 whatever it’s only 1 me d/ and a letter is its voice its sound the singer of its chemistry the pride of m the leaves under l b’s perfumery and what what is up with a/ ctrl c

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a city of dreams a/ the story of this land whose madness made thin d/ covered now in a cloth a/ of moonlight

Today’s poem made from today’s puzzle: a/ now let’s carry all robes all the robes of the wizards and princes of the young, the older the ordered and dependable let’s carry all the holy robes across d/ the passing night star light tendrils uplifting the holder offering up newborn kisses a/ yes! yes! we’re all yes!

Today’s poem fairly wrote itself… a/ along the moons of your ramadan close to your shoreline in a barrel of rain i steered for the gates of your nods d/ under waves of silk and lilac that i may feel for the key in the reef a/ below

Today’s poem made from words in today’s puzzle sometimes a day a/ summer’s song will hit the radio the apple will fall baseball baseball all before like for the very first time like time before star wars before all time d/ going by the door cracked the sound of ashes clothes in the fields look to the shallow places see the a/ edge open go home, bro, ok?… go home

poem made from words in today’s puzzle the life of god a/ fill the heart of the defeated monster with a can of black earth the road’s long — a viper unconcealed — who halves the land you hitch up for home where cream runs from d/ great pitchers feeling the hum of distance you stand in the lines of heat If you could reach out you could a/ join the sun

Today’s poem made from words in today’s puzzle jesus of starbucks a/ i have seen a man with leaky hands meek, lifeless, listening sickly to the earth said i to the man what are you listening to and the man said not what, who and in that d/ golden moment i saw a/ omaha

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ home is made of tea tea and the mary tyler moore show and d/ any cake left small sounds of the house the struggling trees all the words in the past a/ our glitter, our good not all there not all easy

poem made from words in today’s New York Times crossword puzzle a meditation to the sun a/ i see the day i praise the day i praise the day i feel the air i thank the air the wild air i see you i thank you i thank you a/ everyone you touch becomes gold everyone you love becomes strong everyone you change floats a/ away

poem made from words in today’s puzzle…. a/ i am the bird the pretty little gold bird laughing on the painter’s stand here a word, here a word, here-a here-a, word-word am i home? i am, perhaps, i am i won’t ask again d/ hush all is praise hush all is skies hush a/ it’s a tree this time… a tree!

poem made from words in today’s puzzle… a/ rice for the worker paper for the work a prize for the team a fortune for the company the ape man’s in you’re out my dog you’re on a another job you’re a passenger paint something d/ a summary of where things are are things happening where you are i think you think things are happening i think of holding you i think holding you i get through in summary a/ please know i well now you know i mean like

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

poem made from words in today’s crossword puzzle <br> a/ i may go out the way of the volcano the stone the root tell me are you asleep? d/ really, really close but not you too? who knew the sounds of sleeping a/ know the feeling

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ life. is it only setting or is life opening open- ing d/ yes, i know the little tasks the little tasks you missed your moment um… that’s just a moment i know you you can fly a/ now

poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ i see the glow in the road bed slow, i go not in protest i go with a rock i found d/ to show the way lifted to the sky to the spirits a/ play

Happy Saturday! My stars! If such an interesting puzzle can’t have an interesting poem then I don’t know what the world’s coming to: a/ let’s talk about hasenpfeffer straight up, tonight! wind up the windows and haul this jellyfish in — scratch this mattres from shrub to leaves from impossible to carolina to upside down… show this dish what what is and what is what d/ and stevie nicks and hacky sack but absolutely each variety of arriviste hairstyle while you and i beat the wine list and engage the a/ elements in rabbit stew

This Monday puzzle produced a head-scratcher of a poem . .. a/ in a mix of great wonder, bloody fury and arctic fleece the gods of the orange van leave the taqueria to stop d/ at a red light… it’s tuesday, a/ ted

Today’s poem is for my pal Diego who is heading home to take care of his dad for Diego a/ all the stars are the beginnings of a song and so it is, the song trails back to the stars it is the song of giving d/ and after the things you gave me the poems travelling through me the words can be sung to you to let you go first and be a/ new