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- Sun Mar 19, 2023 6:34 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Knob-Handled Pot
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1307
Re: Knob-Handled Pot
Thank you Mark, Gyppo and Dave—always appreciate your comments.
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Knob-Handled Pot
- Replies: 4
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Knob-Handled Pot
This perforated two-handled pot firmly seated up next to the fan grows a vine. It glints waxy green on hot days. Tentacles weave spills like locks from Rapunzel all-the-way-down-to-the-sill which I trim, so more will wind through the clay holes and off the cracked rim. Knob-handled pots sho...
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 9:35 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Winter Comfort
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2045
Re: Winter Comfort
Funny, Linda, even though you said "so the neighbors can't see in," you put me so firmly in the steaming kitchen that I imagined my life there. So I spent the rest of the poem wondering whether I closed the curtains so my grandmother wouldn't see me triple dipping, or so my neighbors now wouldn't wo...
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:59 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Voices On The Wind
- Replies: 2
- Views: 896
Re: Voices On The Wind
Gyppo, you imply there's purpose in the voices, and that they're aimed at you. Do you think that of other things that come blowing in the wind?
Jackie
Jackie
- Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:42 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: A Story and a Half
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1137
Re: A Story and a Half
Oh dear! Dave, is this jargon? The last thing I want is to make a reader feel low! So, I need to include more about how the game works. Will work on that. Linda, I read that you yell "Pigtail" if you want a second chance, and it sounds like you know about that, too. I don't think we did. I know what...
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:53 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Magic Fruit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2478
Re: Magic Fruit
The apple fits so neatly into meddling of massive proportions, Colm. Really clever! But are you surprised I don't like the ending?
Jackie
Jackie
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:45 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: death seen through a telescope
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2461
Re: death seen through a telescope
Love the poem, Dave.
I don't think the title does it justice, though.
Jackie
I don't think the title does it justice, though.
Jackie
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:17 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: A Story and a Half
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1137
A Story and a Half
The long side faces north with space round to chase and hide. I look up from behind by the red maple sprout or in front by the new oak, at the one and-a-half story roof and shout “Annie, Annie Over!” at a cloud, feeling proud (can’t think why now) if my ball clears the roof pitch putting me into...
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 12:13 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: death seen through a telescope
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2461
Re: death seen through a telescope
I'm still reading this, Dave, but the last stanza is a keeper—every word works (except I'd tweak the tense for "falls").
Jackie
Jackie
- Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:14 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Mother
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1388
Re: Mother
Kate, I'm sorry I didn't get to this in time, but we have just been through a funeral in our family and I can tell you those who gave tributes would have benefited greatly from Gyppo and Dave's advice.
My deepest sympathy,
Jackie
My deepest sympathy,
Jackie