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by Dave
Mon Aug 21, 2023 6:37 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: City Planners
Replies: 7
Views: 15087

Re: City Planners

All things have doubled edges I would say. Like the way the poem turns normal expectations.
 
by Dave
Mon Aug 21, 2023 6:35 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: The Dan Patch Express
Replies: 6
Views: 17667

Re: The Dan Patch Express

Love the poem and its simplicity and clarity. Good luck with weather in all its magic and horror.
by Dave
Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:06 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Some Mornings
Replies: 8
Views: 13039

Re: Some Mornings

Those last two lines are wonderful and devasting too. The silence they produce is brilliantly done.
by Dave
Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:04 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Soul Are
Replies: 1
Views: 6136

Re: Soul Are

Normally I am not a fan of poems that speak directly to inanimate objects but this works so well in your deft hands. Clearly setting out the history our part in it and pointing to an ironic future 'positively'. It is our tragedy as a race to be able to produce so much and achieve so much but only by...
by Dave
Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:16 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Night Vision
Replies: 7
Views: 8456

Re: Night Vision

I referenced Paul Simon because he has just issued a new album with religious themes and the lyrics of which came to him in his sleep.
by Dave
Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: When I Was
Replies: 8
Views: 10048

Re: When I Was

Excellent Linda Simple clear imagery and language. The final line is powerful and all the more so for the fact that you built to it without tipping the reader off that you were building towards it. It did not feel at all manipulative just surprising. I have never understood human need for wrathful g...
by Dave
Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:04 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Night Vision
Replies: 7
Views: 8456

Re: Night Vision

It seems you and paul Simon are having those visions, but he with less humour
by Dave
Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:02 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic:  Well Scuff My Shoes!
Replies: 9
Views: 9181

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.'
 
by Dave
Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:57 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Whale Tale
Replies: 7
Views: 7998

Re: Whale Tale

Caryl Churchill wrote a play on exactly this idea - that of nature going to war on humans
by Dave
Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:59 am
Forum: The Commons
Topic: "DAAN!" sees the light of day
Replies: 6
Views: 9207

Re: "DAAN!" sees the light of day

Congratulations, well done dan , always find it amazing to hear of someone publishing.