I'm happy you both found something to like in this poem.
Dave, what a magnificent idea! Definitely going to try it out.
Colm, thanks for letting me know the flow is off on that line.
Jackie
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- Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:39 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Dry Season Scrimmage
- Replies: 8
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- Sat Feb 13, 2021 3:13 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Greens on Rice
- Replies: 4
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Greens on Rice
(to my mother-in-law) “Me take lunch? I’d rather teach!” I’d say. So always Friday after school I knew you'd keep a plate for me. Of course it would be greens and rice, your favorite, kept aside. You'd mock yourself: “It’s just the same old stuff spiced up today; in fact, most days this week.” S...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 2:22 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Dry Season Scrimmage
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3494
Re: Dry Season Scrimmage
Thanks so much Linda, Phil and T, for taking the time to look at this poem, and T, what magnificent nesting egrets! The egrets we're familiar with here, though, ( Bubulcus ibis ) while also white are not prone to startling movements—they follow grazing livestock and ride their backs picking off inse...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:12 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10303
Re: Greetings
Thanks, T, and Linda, I'll bring along all the female perspective I can muster.
Jackie
Jackie
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:48 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10303
Re: Greetings
Thanks, Tracy and Phil, for your greetings!
As poets we all work with language as much as any ESL teacher—today I learned cairn and tarn and sheiling from Phil.
Happy to be here,
Jackie
As poets we all work with language as much as any ESL teacher—today I learned cairn and tarn and sheiling from Phil.
Happy to be here,
Jackie
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:08 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Warmth in Cold Places (revised)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4841
Re: Warmth in Cold Places
Matty, I'm entirely drawn into this mystical narrative; I'd love to hear you read it aloud! Your word choice is so alive—as Dave mentioned, blister(s), broods. I especially liked the images of "no signpost but this cairn—a mocking finger" and "The stone I grasp listens, waits and weighs my purpose."...
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:31 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Dry Season Scrimmage
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3494
Dry Season Scrimmage
White starched shirts preen like egrets in branches aloft from the fray. In the 35 degree sun, gray-shorts-clad boys scramble dust-covered, cheering, after the sweaty ball. At the bell dust swirls desist. Players claim their shirts and launch departure taunts into the still air. They hover ...
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:44 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 7
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Greetings
Greetings to all! I look forward to participating both in discussing and writing poems for this board. I live on two continents and teach English to speakers of other languages; you may sense that in my posts.