I was thinking about doing the NaPoWriMo
thing but I’m simply not writing enough (sorry Tracy!)
Anyway here’s a draft of a new one
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- Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:33 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Distant Hills
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1677
- Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:29 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Distant Hills
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1677
Distant Hills
There is enchantment in distant hills - you wonder could you walk directly to them, crossing sheep meadows, skirting yellow fields, over gates, always keeping off the road. Or would you lose your aim in hidden troughs, waylaid by riverbeds along the route? Would you recognise the hill when closer - ...
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:42 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: when the time comes war will too
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1645
Re: when the time comes war will too
Very good - rings true, especially at the current time.
‘All ideas are sand’ is absolutely spot on and perfect!
‘All ideas are sand’ is absolutely spot on and perfect!
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:39 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: A Place Just Right
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2159
Re: A Place Just Right
Yes! Lovely sense of place and ennui
Excellent!
Excellent!
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:37 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Something
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1354
Re: Something
Enjoyed this and as Tracy says it has a ritualistic almost liturgical feel to it. Bravo!
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:34 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Man without anchor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1272
Re: Man without anchor
Nicely done.
Just enough to expand thought without being too ‘told’.
Just enough to expand thought without being too ‘told’.
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:30 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Staff Conference
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1461
Re: Staff Conference
“I am pretty sure some folks can relate to this one.”
Yep
Yep
- Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:02 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Ukraine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 895
Re: Ukraine
Yeah maybe…
- Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:59 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Maggot. (March 7th 2022)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1250
Re: Maggot. (March 7th 2022)
Not a great poem, i know, but I needed to blurt something out about the horror in Ukraine
Marc
Marc
- Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:56 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Maggot. (March 7th 2022)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1250
Maggot. (March 7th 2022)
In cute dinosaur socks, a child dies on a gurney, his inconsolable mother buckling at her knees. The columns and crowds of displaced and terrified, pack platforms in stations which no trains can leave. A baby’s mitten, a child’s glove, another, all dropped in the rush, reach up from the sludge, as i...