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by Colm Roe
Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:40 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Magic Fruit
Replies: 6
Views: 2478

Re: Magic Fruit

Yes, a card we use that creates problems, then use again to try to rectify them. 
So much has improved in the last 100 years, but it really feels like it's one step forward and two steps back  :roll:
Thanks for the read and comments  :)  
by Colm Roe
Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:18 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: death seen through a telescope
Replies: 8
Views: 2461

Re: death seen through a telescope

Typo on S3 L2.
This is a bloody good poem, Dave. 
S1 is absolutely sublime, like the perspective is in S2
and the humanity in the concluding stanzas.
Has to be in Dave's Top Ten. Hope it reaches the audience it deserves.
Fantastic poeming.
 
by Colm Roe
Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:55 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Magic Fruit
Replies: 6
Views: 2478

Magic Fruit

An apple  that probably never fell the gravity one the one that sent Apollo 11 to the Moon struck an asteroid last week with such precision the one that still keeps the doctor at bay reduces cholesterol and rots livers tells Putins where to aim just an apple when left alone but we have to meddle  # ...
by Colm Roe
Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:07 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Thanks but no thanks
Replies: 5
Views: 2028

Re: Thanks but no thanks

I like repeats. Maybe a comma?
it, the trickling
because there's definitely a slightly longer pause after it. 
by Colm Roe
Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:38 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Thanks but no thanks
Replies: 5
Views: 2028

Re: Thanks but no thanks

I enjoyed this, Dave. The image of Rees-Mogg, his arrogance and contempt as he stretched out in the House of Commons, is something that'll be remembered for a long time. And something that must have caused untold damage to the Conservatives.  No crits, just appreciation for a well-written and very v...
by Colm Roe
Sun Jun 12, 2022 7:52 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Just For Looking At
Replies: 6
Views: 2147

Re: Just For Looking At

Trev, I think specifics would remove the charm in this poem.  The items and associated exoticisms make me feel envious; my keepsakes are humbled...but no less important to me. These things are always site-specific, mean more to the possessors than the observer. Enigmatic, it leaves us to fill in the...
by Colm Roe
Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:35 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Unrestrained
Replies: 7
Views: 2700

Re: Unrestrained

I'm reading this from a totally different angle.  The key word in the first line ( animals, plural )  directed me to darker place...war crimes, rape. And then the language/metaphors for Russia/China's real intentions.  How strongly we support Ukraine will determine how aggressive/passive those two c...
by Colm Roe
Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:49 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Međugorje, scam of the Century
Replies: 10
Views: 2971

Re: Međugorje, scam of the Century

Thanks, Eric and Jackie for your approval; and Gyppo, for the link to that song. Linda, I suppose you just have to box clever. A friend of mine, who is intelligent, often speaks like an QAnon proponent. This scares me, because I always thought of the far-right as being on the lower IQ scale, e.g. Ki...
by Colm Roe
Wed Jun 01, 2022 6:31 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Silverback
Replies: 8
Views: 2180

Re: Silverback

Not sure how much clearer you need to make it, Jackie.
I certainly got the sense and intended shape of it; 'chest hole'...I see two meanings, but both work.
Sing it, Jackie...Grey Pride  :D
Nice write.
 
by Colm Roe
Tue May 31, 2022 6:58 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Memorial Days
Replies: 7
Views: 1974

Re: Memorial Days

Linda, the impression I got from the last stanza was that they were 'working ladies', and if they stayed they'd never escape from brothel life  :(