All things have doubled edges I would say. Like the way the poem turns normal expectations.
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- Mon Aug 21, 2023 6:37 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: City Planners
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16042
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 6:35 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: The Dan Patch Express
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17764
Re: The Dan Patch Express
Love the poem and its simplicity and clarity. Good luck with weather in all its magic and horror.
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Some Mornings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13888
Re: Some Mornings
Those last two lines are wonderful and devasting too. The silence they produce is brilliantly done.
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:04 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Soul Are
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6190
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...
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Night Vision
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8563
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.
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: When I Was
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10165
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...
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:04 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Night Vision
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8563
Re: Night Vision
It seems you and paul Simon are having those visions, but he with less humour
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:02 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Well Scuff My Shoes!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9313
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.'
- Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:57 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Whale Tale
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8148
Re: Whale Tale
Caryl Churchill wrote a play on exactly this idea - that of nature going to war on humans
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:59 am
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: "DAAN!" sees the light of day
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10140
Re: "DAAN!" sees the light of day
Congratulations, well done dan , always find it amazing to hear of someone publishing.