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by AlienFlower
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.
by AlienFlower
Tue Mar 14, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Knob-Handled Pot
Replies: 4
Views: 1307

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...
by AlienFlower
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...
by AlienFlower
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
by AlienFlower
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...
by AlienFlower
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?   :D

Jackie
by AlienFlower
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
by AlienFlower
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...
by AlienFlower
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
by AlienFlower
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