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by Gyppo
Sun Sep 24, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: North on the Starliner
Replies: 5
Views: 16425

Re: North on the Starliner

Indar, This is a very visual poem.  It reminds me how on long train journeys the carriage seems to stay still and the world passes by. I loved the idea of the sun passing over the train three times, then finally being caught by the sea. I'm also rather taken by the idea of the metal cut-outs of Jack...
by Gyppo
Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:42 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: To My Sisters of a Certain Age
Replies: 2
Views: 5607

Re: To My Sisters of a Certain Age

I like this, even if it does paint a dark and unduly cynical picture.  Very nicely put together and with a neat mood switch. I'm sure that statistically the dark ending is about as rare as the perfect happy ever version, although it did work out right for Grace Kelly. Although I did, many years ago,...
by Gyppo
Wed Jul 05, 2023 2:17 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Garden Tour
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Re: Garden Tour

It's like the Halloween pumpkin lamps still rotting and oozing on doorsteps a week after the event.  Do these things become invisible to the owner?

I always take down my May Day votive offering  at the end of the day.  Leaving it up overnight seems wrong.

Gyppo 
by Gyppo
Wed Jul 05, 2023 2:10 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Some Mornings
Replies: 8
Views: 13041

Re: Some Mornings

I love this description, can sense the brooding potential in the supposedly extinct volcano. Quote:   Some days the silence is palpable. Like the silence which can suddenly descend in a previously noisy pub when someone asks, very quietly, very calmly, "Would you care to repeat that?" Nice one, Inda...
by Gyppo
Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:52 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Garden Tour
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Re: Garden Tour

Indar. The ornaments get more and more tacky each year.  There's a house not far from me where they have some very poor Christmas ornaments they set up about five years ago, and they just sit there, in very slowly decaying plastic glory, al year around.  The sun has bleached most of the colour out o...
by Gyppo
Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:33 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Garden Tour
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Re: Garden Tour

A wry comment on many aspects of modern life not just garden globes.  A fine picture, showing what's missing.

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:43 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: When I Was
Replies: 8
Views: 10048

Re: When I Was

I like that ;-)

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 18, 2023 12:17 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: When I Was
Replies: 8
Views: 10048

Re: When I Was

Being irreligious shouldn't automatically be seen as  being an enemy of religion.  Just that you don't want to live your life by that particular narrow set of rules .  There may be another path which suits, rather than full on atheism. Dad was brought up as a Baptist, but he never 'banged on' about ...
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 18, 2023 5:15 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: When I Was
Replies: 8
Views: 10048

Re: When I Was

A fine musing, Indar.  Thoroughly enjoyed the imagery as well, picturing the small child huddled in the 'safer' end of her bed, reaching out for something she desperately wanted to be there. And the adult version, still clearly spiritual in the presence of nature, ticking off one more thing on what ...
by Gyppo
Sat Jun 17, 2023 3:18 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic:  Well Scuff My Shoes!
Replies: 9
Views: 9182

Re:  Well Scuff My Shoes!

Since bankers wear ties and those wankers went to schools with school uniforms, called suits when you are an adult, and so many of those bankers are screwign us right left and centre, the only just intelligent conclusion anyone could come to is 'Never trust a man in a suit.' Dad always said you sho...