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