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by Colm Roe
Sat Dec 22, 2018 7:29 pm
Forum: The Commons
Topic: Site Update
Replies: 5
Views: 12396

Re: Site Update

I'm sure that warning was always there and I just never noticed it before. 
Thanks for the reassurance Marc  :)
by Colm Roe
Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:22 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Fragments of You & a Glass of Pinot (11:38 pm)
Replies: 12
Views: 8307

Re: Fragments of You & a Glass of Pinot (11:38 pm)

Very cliched opening S.
Then the middle stanzas make amends in spades.
Final S unfortunately drops back to cliche.
Love S4.
by Colm Roe
Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:13 pm
Forum: The Commons
Topic: Site Update
Replies: 5
Views: 12396

Re: Site Update

Thanks CP,
Should we be concerned about the 'Not secure' site exclamation?
And yes Tracy...I found a way to find my way back  :roll:
 
by Colm Roe
Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:20 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: I'd Like to Ask You A Question
Replies: 31
Views: 19600

Re: I'd Like to Ask You A Question

Has Idyllwild been badly affected? I remember your poem, and googling photos of it...beautiful place.
by Colm Roe
Sat Nov 17, 2018 6:53 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: I'd Like to Ask You A Question
Replies: 31
Views: 19600

Re: I'd Like to Ask You A Question

Hi indar, Knowing a little of your circumstances makes this even more poignant...you haven't just lost (I'm still hoping not) a house. (And I hope all your neighbours are safe) You obviously invested part of yourself in your home.  It is, for the most part, prose. Usually not a good thing, but it ad...
by Colm Roe
Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:40 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: The Bokeh Effect
Replies: 8
Views: 5414

Re: The Bokeh Effect

Liking this Tim. 
But it reads like a first draft; something you had to 'put down'.
Agree with most of Dave's suggestions.
It's a keeper...but needs to be refined IMO. 
by Colm Roe
Thu Nov 15, 2018 6:32 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Paradise
Replies: 4
Views: 3327

Re: Paradise

Don't see why you'd lose S1. S1 and S2 build towards the real tragedy in S3. That 'build' felt like the approaching fire.  Loss of life aside, when I heard about the amount of homes lost I thought about all those personal/irreplaceable items. So S3, especially the first half really resonated. 'Fed b...
by Colm Roe
Thu Nov 15, 2018 6:09 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Autumn
Replies: 6
Views: 4179

Re: Autumn

Thanks to all for reading. I naturally choose calm days to remove leaves. I have a reasonably small garden with a large raised deck that has three big trees growing through it. One, now a proud 40', was a tiny sapling growing in less than a handful of nothing more than dust in a damaged section of t...
by Colm Roe
Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:18 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Autumn
Replies: 6
Views: 4179

Autumn

I don't know if leaves and wind do what they do to frustrate me. I think they're subtle hints. Swept up in labours, only to wake and repeat. Neat piles, created in calm, then spread back before I have a chance. My lawn,  pretty in green prettier with golden litter. One day I'll stop, and when they'r...
by Colm Roe
Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:14 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: error
Replies: 2
Views: 3033

Re: Elegy

Late again here, but I keep returning to that image...even the moon is using its gravity to pull him back!
Powerful.
I'll be back.