Welcome to The Tangled Branch! Join us.
Search found 1314 matches
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: Sylvia Plath read by Patti Smith
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2085
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: TTB Anniversary
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1094
Re: TTB Anniversary
Yes-- congratulations to us. And yes, I am started to develop a fondness for you assholes too.Congratulations to us--we are a wonderful group! I'm actually getting sentimental about youse guys.
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: TTB Anniversary
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1094
Re: TTB Anniversary
Aye, Colm, Indar--
to another six years -- Sláinte!!
Sláinte
Kanpai – Cin cin
Prost,
Here’s looking at you kid — and now Lechyd da.
Skål – we are the bridges we will not burn.
~
to another six years -- Sláinte!!
Sláinte
Kanpai – Cin cin
Prost,
Here’s looking at you kid — and now Lechyd da.
Skål – we are the bridges we will not burn.
~
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: TTB Anniversary
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1094
TTB Anniversary
It was six years ago this week we spent a focused, frantic four days conceiving and giving life to this poetry site. While it has not been what we originally envisioned, six years of continued life is a major accomplishment in this current digital poetry environment. And it has been an incredible e...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:04 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: Hi My Name is Greg
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9090
Re: Hi My Name is Greg
Welcome Greg-- what a wonderful introduction. Glad you found the site. There are large differences between poems and song lyrics. But both require a curiosity for and deftness with words and how to build with them. A good ear is also valuable to both. Can't wait to see your work. Let me know if...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Some Mornings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13040
Re: Some Mornings
Love the construction of this-- a terse musing with bluntly effective opening and closing lines. Solid, solid bookends
"Extinct" . . . or dormant? Just asking.
"Palpable" is such a subtly powerful word. But it takes a special context for its use---like here.
Bravo.
T
"Extinct" . . . or dormant? Just asking.
"Palpable" is such a subtly powerful word. But it takes a special context for its use---like here.
Bravo.
T
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 8:54 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Leaving the Nest
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11335
Re: Leaving the Nest
Quite the pecking order!
Thanks Dave.
T
Thanks Dave.
T
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:13 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Leaving the Nest
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11335
Re: Leaving the Nest
Gyppo— glad your neighbor is establishing a beneficial detente with her local squirrels. My son and his family in St. Paul are being met with a squirrel population which has apparently achieved critical mass. They spent 4 days stripping foliage from the oaks in order to harvest the nuts.. they hav...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:49 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Leaving the Nest
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11335
Leaving the Nest
~
Leaving the Nest
I want you to go into the woods
where life is lush with surplus
I want you to listen, be healthy
and grow fat in smatterings
of pregnant sunshine
watch a red squirrel skinny
down a quavering branch
toward inexperienced leaves.
~
Leaving the Nest
I want you to go into the woods
where life is lush with surplus
I want you to listen, be healthy
and grow fat in smatterings
of pregnant sunshine
watch a red squirrel skinny
down a quavering branch
toward inexperienced leaves.
~
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:38 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: City Planners
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15088
Re: City Planners
Delightful! With a great closing line. My first question was whether "angles" in Line 1 is a typo. The mention of "grid" and later text suggests that there is no typo. So after rolling "angels" around for a while, I am still at a loss as to which word functions better. Each sort of subliminally ...