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- Tue Mar 26, 2019 7:50 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: Clandestine Writer says Hi
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12871
Re: Clandestine Writer says Hi
Welcome April, We are pleased to have you here. Congratulations on being published. Do you have a link to your book(s)? I look forward to seeing the poems you choose to post, and getting your view on poetry. As you probably know, we are a small site, but have some good writers. We try to exchange ho...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 4:09 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: My Muse Passed Out
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9771
Re: My Muse Passed Out
Thank you, Indar.
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 3:00 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Succulence
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7576
Re: Succulence
The text has a sensuous texture, the sounds exhibit the title. S.3 doesn't come together, but maybe it doesn't need to. From a poem with the same name, by Bret Norwood: . . . . Don’t search or scry or scratch, but savor instead the steady stream of sights and sounds, if succulence is found, or not. ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 10:34 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: My Muse Passed Out
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9771
My Muse Passed Out
~ My Muse Passed Out She got shit-faced on grog and drambuie. Been sleeping it off since Thursday. My muse moved in with the mailman - following him home one morning. My muse hides in the attic with the rats and the bats among the cardboard suitcases. It sounds like she teaches them hopscotch. My mu...
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:48 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Pontypool Park: A Formative Year
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8407
Re: Pontypool Park: A Formative Year
Love the revisions. Now I get it, and really like the presentation.
Cheers.
T
Cheers.
T
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:45 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Key of Spring
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5132
Re: Key of Spring
I agree with Indar's comments and appreciate as well the lines she has highlighted.
Cheers.
T
Cheers.
T
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:44 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: A Recurring Thought of the Spirit Mother
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10117
Re: A Recurring Thought of the Spirit Mother
Thanks Colm. You are right about the audience wanting to stay in the moment, and the reader's obligation to help them do so. And yes, the spoken poem is so different! The breaths and pauses are so much richer than punctuation, as you say. Indar- it must be a good group at the Bell Tower - I am not p...
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:00 am
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: Happy World Poetry Day!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18037
Happy World Poetry Day!
I discover this morning that today is designated as World Poetry Day. Who knew? I wish I had been aware that this was coming. We could have arranged some fun way to commemorate the occasion. Let's do something on the site next year. As for today, I trust you will tip a pint or otherwise bend the elb...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:16 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: A Recurring Thought of the Spirit Mother
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10117
Re: A Recurring Thought of the Spirit Mother
Thanks Colm - you make perfect sense. I think I bear an additional responsibility when reading a poem to an audience which has never heard the poem and has no hard copy to look at to help with the understandability -- I try to give some context and info which allows a person a better chance of follo...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:44 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: A Recurring Thought of the Spirit Mother
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10117
Re: A Recurring Thought of the Spirit Mother
Thanks Colm, I appreciate your thoughts.
I read this at Open Mic last week and a friend was kind enough to record it (audio is still bad) :
Open Mic Reading
I read this at Open Mic last week and a friend was kind enough to record it (audio is still bad) :
Open Mic Reading