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Welcome April, We are pleased to have you here. Congratulations on being published. Do you have a link to your book(s)? I look forward to seeing the poems you choose to post, and getting your view on poetry. As you probably know, we are a small site, but have some good writers. We try to exchange ho...

Thank you, Indar.

The text has a sensuous texture, the sounds exhibit the title. S.3 doesn't come together, but maybe it doesn't need to. From a poem with the same name, by Bret Norwood: . . . . Don’t search or scry or scratch, but savor instead the steady stream of sights and sounds, if succulence is found, or not. ...

~ My Muse Passed Out She got shit-faced on grog and drambuie. Been sleeping it off since Thursday. My muse moved in with the mailman - following him home one morning. My muse hides in the attic with the rats and the bats among the cardboard suitcases. It sounds like she teaches them hopscotch. My mu...

Love the revisions. Now I get it, and really like the presentation.

Cheers.

T

I agree with Indar's comments and appreciate as well the lines she has highlighted.

Cheers.

T

Thanks Colm. You are right about the audience wanting to stay in the moment, and the reader's obligation to help them do so. And yes, the spoken poem is so different! The breaths and pauses are so much richer than punctuation, as you say. Indar- it must be a good group at the Bell Tower - I am not p...

I discover this morning that today is designated as World Poetry Day. Who knew? I wish I had been aware that this was coming. We could have arranged some fun way to commemorate the occasion. Let's do something on the site next year. As for today, I trust you will tip a pint or otherwise bend the elb...

Thanks Colm - you make perfect sense. I think I bear an additional responsibility when reading a poem to an audience which has never heard the poem and has no hard copy to look at to help with the understandability -- I try to give some context and info which allows a person a better chance of follo...

Thanks Colm, I appreciate your thoughts.

I read this at Open Mic last week and a friend was kind enough to record it (audio is still bad) :

Open Mic Reading