I remember this Vintage Indar gem. A wonderful poem, like the reader is gazing out the window of the Starliner. But I wonder into what era? Would the images of the poem correspond to what a passenger might today observe from a lounge car window.
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- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:32 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: North on the Starliner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16425
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: The Dan Patch Express
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17667
Re: The Dan Patch Express
Dan Patch--I grew up holding him, at the instance of the authority of my father, in the same regard as Joe Luis and Honus Wagner. I enjoy all the memories loosely tethered to the threads of this poem. How interesting and compelling is the image of the high school football practice flashing in the ...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: An experiment: Two 'spoken offerings' at this link
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18629
Re: An experiment: Two 'spoken offerings' at this link
I couldn't get the audio to fire up. I used to use SoundCloud, but the site made some changes which rendered the platform less designed for my purposes. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I'll keep trying.
Cheers.
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Cheers.
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- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Fiona's Cat Speaks
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7200
Re: Fiona's Cat Speaks
I love this Gyppo. Animal POV poems are both challenging and intriguing. You have done exceedingly well with this. After reading your preamble, I just had to pull out the cat poem I wrote back in the MWC days: Co-Author Paws padding, I never hear before she drops in a crouch on the corner of my ...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 9:10 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Woke
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6292
Re: Woke
This presents such a succinct juxtaposition, which so strongly makes the point. Stunning to recall -- violence against women being such a cultural staple that that the threat is used as humor. How does it look to you if S.2 is made present-tense? The brevity of this multiplies its force. Very cr...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:15 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Consider
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6034
Re: Consider
Brilliant---
drawn from the rocks of earth,
bears memory of water, dreams of flight,
the lands, the forests, the temples of our ancestors.
drawn from the rocks of earth,
bears memory of water, dreams of flight,
the lands, the forests, the temples of our ancestors.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:13 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Quantum Physicists at a Bar discussing the Multiverse.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9463
Re: Quantum Physicists at a Bar discussing the Multiverse.
Witty, engaging, endearing. Very nice,
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- Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:34 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Garden Tour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11100
Re: Garden Tour
Great picture! Love it. Here's one from me: https://i.imgur.com/gCnzTpj.jpg The devolution of yard art is so quintessentially American--and not in a good way. Pink plastic flamingos, ok. Figurines of black boys fishing? Fourth of July approaches. How about a life-sized George Wallace wrapped i...
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 11:06 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: When I Was
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10048
Re: When I Was
I have never understood human need for wrathful gods - good gods yes but one that punishes makes little sense A mean and vengeful God has traditionally been a prime weapon of government for social control of its citizenry. The church-state deal has historically been the church legitimizing the aut...
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: When I Was
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10048
Re: When I Was
What delicious irony so gently presented amidst a wealth of imagery. I can see N in her bed at night, terrified by what she has been taught. By adults. People who are entrusted with her care. People who should know better. But I guess that was the intention then. Scare the shit out of her in ord...