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by Dave
Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:15 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: street talk
Replies: 4
Views: 1074

Re: street talk

Thanks Tracy
Yes, its funny as an Irishman living in a town where people find it almost impossible to speak to any stranger in any kind of normal exchange. One can live in a place too long, even though it is actually a great city all told to live in. Lighty was a misprint
by Dave
Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:35 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: street talk
Replies: 4
Views: 1074

street talk

in some towns people talk, strangers exchange  words lighty as gulls   here in Hamburg they remain tight lipped, ignorant,  their empty faces   pass by    even when you say  thank you   or excuse me you left a trace  across my path   your shadow remains   or fuck off   even that  loses heat in the ...
by Dave
Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:06 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: stuffing
Replies: 6
Views: 1520

Re: stuffing

Hey Tracy There is nothing wrong in what you say. It all began for me with a youtube interview in German with an Austrian philosophy professor who claimed, as they do, to have overthrown 2000 years of philosophical ideas. If I understood the gist, and who knows if that is possible, it revolved aroun...
by Dave
Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:00 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: This Time
Replies: 2
Views: 891

Re: This Time

I enjoyed this. I am not sure if I personally am so fond of the personification, it nevertheless works. There are very affecting moments such as the addition of 'leaning' end of L1 plus the inching moss and water moving upstream giving the poem a magical air.
Dave
by Dave
Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:39 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: stuffing
Replies: 6
Views: 1520

stuffing

I'd like to apologise for the lack, the words that don't quite... so much stuff, stuffed in drawers, in orifices, life a form of rampant porn, I am - stuffed - with a decadent appetite, I ate two steaks, fries, eight scoops of ice cream... the waitress smiled but it was wasted given the need to fill...
by Dave
Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:39 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: glued
Replies: 2
Views: 741

glued

is it better to glue oneself to Constable's Hay Wain or Munch's Scream, or a nobbled piece of tarmac between the boots of justice and a leaf folded wetly, like paper, or miles lost in-between? we talk of warmth and cold, temperature numbered  in days and hours, in increments, our words landlocked in...
by Dave
Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:17 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Rootbound
Replies: 8
Views: 1540

Re: Rootbound

While I almost lost my throught the image overload in the centre of he poem this is a fun and elegant way to marry wisdom and philosopher with down to earth gardening. Like it a lot
by Dave
Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:14 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: sorrows to come
Replies: 3
Views: 980

Re: sorrows to come

Thanks for the good will, the pertinent comments, for recognizing that the first line was indeed a different start to the poem and needs ditching. Gyppo love what you have done with this. Elegant.
Dave
by Dave
Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:11 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: the loss
Replies: 2
Views: 830

Re: the loss

Thanks Tracy, a minor poem in minor key but I need to get back into writing again. Been a while.
by Dave
Sun Jan 15, 2023 11:34 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: sorrows to come
Replies: 3
Views: 980

sorrows to come

I wish I didn't measure time as it stretches forth,
I couldn't envisage a
 line of days drawn from today
to a single 
end moment, whose breathless nudge,
and leaf flutter
in azure above my head
seal the fate of an idea: 
perhaps I won’t
live long enough to see my grandchildren grown.