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by Tom
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:58 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.
Replies: 6
Views: 16

Re: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.

Post any warm-up stuff you like or can find, or create.

 
by Tom
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:56 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.
Replies: 6
Views: 16

Re: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.

A NaPo opening day poem: Opening Day Redux   --Psychic Potatoes tell me this is NaPo – tell me  tune to the God Frequency at which  galaxies sing to each other at which  Baudelaire hums to himself. I bypass flutes in the rainforest, jump straight to alpha  wave brain massage, deep subconscious heali...
by Tom
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: Chat Room, Eatery and Harpsichord Lounge
Replies: 0
Views: 1

Chat Room, Eatery and Harpsichord Lounge

We are kicking this off early.  Soft opening.  Still, no new poems yet.
I can't wait for you folks to start filtering in . . . staggering in . . . skipping in . . . 
by Tom
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.
Replies: 6
Views: 16

Re: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.

Another oldie:          This is How Afore sunrise I scarfed cold beans gulped black coffee from yesterday  and packed me a sammich. Dog cocked a leery eye, then stirred, took a crap by the barn and bounded  toward the pickup - wasn’t gonna to get left. I ducked into Jr’s room to pinch his .22  and a...
by Tom
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.
Replies: 6
Views: 16

Re: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.

Nice Colm, except for the cutting off the flute part. Here's an older one I found: [Whopping Supercolossal Apologies to Sailcat] Tell your Daddy and your Momma too.   You got something better to do than stick around and do chores on the ranch.   You go write poems at The Tangled Branch.  You’ll be t...
by Tom
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: Announcements
Replies: 0
Views: 5

Announcements

Announcements and whatnot get posted here.  Check back here for NaPo news, announcements about Open Mic, Best Poem Contest, arrival of the pastel-collage propeller-beanies at the Merch Kiosks, how the little breaches in the reservoir dam upstream are maintaining, and where the emergency exits are i...
by Tom
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:37 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: "NaPo" she says, and pokes again.
Replies: 6
Views: 16

"NaPo" she says, and pokes again.

This is a pregame warm up.  Get the juices flowing.  

 
by Tom
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: WELCOME TO THE PARTY
Replies: 0
Views: 11

WELCOME TO THE PARTY

✌️ https://i.imgur.com/5VCrEpy.jpg   WELCOME TO NaPo 2024 [NaPo = National Poetry Month]   The Seventh Annual Tangled Branch NaPo Celebration!! The Tangled Branch  is pleased to again play host to The NaPo Challenge -- the writing of a poem a day -- 30 poems in thirty days.   Everyone is invited to ...
by Tom
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:10 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: Instructions -- As Promised
Replies: 0
Views: 8

Instructions -- As Promised

INSTRUCTIONS, DIRECTIONS, GUIDANCE (we don’t have rules--because, you know, poets don’t follow rules) Each poet gets their own thread in which to post all of their poems.  Feel free to post comments in everyone else’s threads -- but post your own poems to your own thread only. What to Do: 1. Start ...
by Tom
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:32 pm
Forum: National Poetry Month Celebration 2024
Topic: What to Expect
Replies: 0
Views: 9

What to Expect

https://i.imgur.com/fIbr2cg.jpg          What to Expect: Expect this here, in no particular order: 1. At first the days will feel like they are coming fast.  But as the month moves on, you will feel like they are coming at light-speed x3. 2.  The good thing is after about the fifth or sixth day, yo...