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by Mark
Sat May 20, 2023 7:49 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Ambuscade
Replies: 8
Views: 5764

Re: Ambuscade

Hello Linda Yes, it's an outsider's commentary on current American politics and the Truman allusion you identify is correct except I say floats nowhere. Collapsing empires have no reverse gear. Traditional Western civilization appears to be undergoing various forms of demolition that collectively im...
by Mark
Thu Apr 06, 2023 12:48 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Ambuscade
Replies: 8
Views: 5764

Re: Ambuscade

A revision by way of title change. The future setting of the original post now seems to be here.
by Mark
Tue Mar 14, 2023 11:52 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Knob-Handled Pot
Replies: 4
Views: 1307

Re: Knob-Handled Pot

A wandering narrative that wends its way to a gentle conclusion. Multi-faced? Or faceted?
by Mark
Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:59 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Cousins' Gathering.
Replies: 3
Views: 1034

Re: Cousins' Gathering.

Smooth writing, a good narrative. Think we mostly know that grounded feeling of the extended tribe gathered together. 
by Mark
Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:50 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Opportunity
Replies: 0
Views: 12795

Opportunity

.
knocked as millions died
and billions were lied to
about food and freedom
and obvious conclusions
 
by Mark
Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:31 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Means
Replies: 4
Views: 982

Re: Means

Tracy Mitchell wrote:
Sat Mar 04, 2023 2:27 pm
 
If my calculations are correct, the next quad will be . . . Opportunity.

Cheers,

T
You know I'm so contrary that I might bug out now... :mrgreen:  better get busy. I have been forced to rest a bit due to an injury, so it might not be a quad, so there. 
 
by Mark
Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:27 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Means
Replies: 4
Views: 982

Re: Means

Thanks for comments, guys. It seems it may be more more pervasive at certain levels of society than we think and could explain much that seems otherwise inexplicable. This shit is real - in Mossel Bay one time there was this love triangle between three homosexual men, a hairdresser, a chef and some ...
by Mark
Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:39 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Means
Replies: 4
Views: 982

Means

.
While Satan
may or may not exist,
Satanism
definitely does.
by Mark
Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:30 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Motive
Replies: 6
Views: 1356

Re: Motive

Hey Dave I write these short poems because of a combination of laziness and limited time. It's also a challenge to try and create something unpackable, in this case with 7 words, I think it was. Of course, with anything complex in so few words, opacity is a likely result, unlike say, a 7-word descri...
by Mark
Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:21 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Motive
Replies: 6
Views: 1356

Re: Motive

I like your quad-reply :mrgreen: yeah, in general, hand baskets and hell seem inadequate descriptors. Maybe God will send a few meteorites to land in just the right places but it seems doubtful.