Thanks Dave. Accessibility is often a compromise, but then opacity is onanism. Frustrating, but communication comes at a cost. I have a drawer full of mystery poems
Cheers
Phil
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- Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:52 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Aspirations
- Replies: 13
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- Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:16 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Aspirations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2606
Re: Craic
Thanks Linda. Pleased you enjoyed the sonics. Yes, James Dean, is iconic. Reality will have its end.
best
Phil
best
Phil
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:34 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Scabs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1655
Re: Scabs
Contaminating clocks and we cause an itch so much for mankind arrogance...
If your interested...the theme for March is Time
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/second.htm
muchly enjoyed
Phil
If your interested...the theme for March is Time
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/second.htm
muchly enjoyed
Phil
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 3:40 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Aspirations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2606
Re: Craic
Thanks B.
Nicely balanced feedback. I liked the pause on who, but, in general, I avoid that 'false drama'. Duly edited.
Blue mood I was thinking. Brook/ocean I wanted the contrast of actuality v fantasy. River was too ordinary
Cheers
Phil
Nicely balanced feedback. I liked the pause on who, but, in general, I avoid that 'false drama'. Duly edited.
Blue mood I was thinking. Brook/ocean I wanted the contrast of actuality v fantasy. River was too ordinary
Cheers
Phil
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 3:10 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Aspirations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2606
Re: Craic
I like your thinking Colm. I've attached a closing couplet
Cheers
Phil
Cheers
Phil
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:32 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Aspirations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2606
Aspirations
Version2 My shadows stray. They cling to blue like moody teenagers. That crew will never learn to swim. They paddle the freckled brook. Their spines are frail. And yet, this slouchy crowd, like kids of curious years, can lift the lids on glee. They bubble as if they found their golden path. The clo...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:21 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Man without anchor
- Replies: 6
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Re: Man without anchor
Man without anchor Hand on hat a gent bent into angles by a storm, urges his feet forward. He assumes he knows sanctuary from danger, although the trees flex this way and that, while a gull reverses and rain wets the sky. (in appreciation of Jacques Pŕevert) Great Dave. I could re-format, make mo...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:44 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Of Sligo
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1215
Re: Of Sligo
Enjoyed Trev. Plenty of simile, plenty of detail. No strong nit crits, but throwing a few options your way... It isn’t fashionable to write nostalgic poems that wear their sentiment long. These are scribbles for drawers, to stuff away like overcoats...are these kept in drawers? as public taste gallo...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:28 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Peace
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1478
Re: Peace
Lovely Colm. The opening line is a grabber. The cycle down cobbled streets is a great analogy (a little bumpy I suspect). A forgotten desperation another insightful one. Nice form play to conclude.
its repetition is the possessive.
Cheers
Phil
its repetition is the possessive.
Cheers
Phil
- Mon Feb 21, 2022 11:48 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: It's there
- Replies: 3
- Views: 879
Re: It's there
There's a lot of thinking in this Colm. Eloquently encased. Nice use of cling, and death/ego as manufacturers of belief. The nothing from nothing to nothing another belief question...like the use of diamonds in that context. The priest/physicist equation...a marriage formula indeed😃 You may be busy,...