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- Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:34 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Finale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1560
Re: Finale
Good call Jackie!
- Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:29 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Happiness (revision4)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2056
Re: Happiness (revision4)
Thanks Eric. I once wrote poems without adjectives and adverbs. The mantra being they slowed a line and were telly. Some truth in that, but the poems were rather colourless and unspecific. Too much burden for the readers to fill the space. As usual, a balance, though here I was more seduced by the v...
- Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:02 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Breakdowns
- Replies: 2
- Views: 707
Re: Breakdowns
delivers on many levels Eric. I don't feel you need avant garde. Overcooked, besides we can glean. So much experience/demise is an oily mess!
Phil
Phil
- Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:00 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: The Green Man
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1445
Re: The Green Man
Great. Particularly liked the twiggy Buddha.
May know/interest...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53745/lob
May know/interest...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53745/lob
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:12 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Staff Conference
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1495
Re: Staff Conference
60 watt brain and extreme sitting...fun and serrated.
Typo on I'm
ether rather than air, which you repeat?
enjoyed
Phil
Typo on I'm
ether rather than air, which you repeat?
enjoyed
Phil
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:28 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Finale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1560
Re: Finale
Cheers Eric. I'm snared by NAPO mania, but will try to catch up with your wonderful poems.
Phil
Phil
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:51 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Finale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1560
Finale
These facts are true, some more, some less: this room, my photographic myth, the anchored grins, a dreamy mistress, that apple pie none should resist; this dying light, our comic theatre that ghosts above the waves of ifs and buts; and you, my lover, whisper the script along haphazard cliffs. We're ...
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:42 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Merry-G0-Round
- Replies: 2
- Views: 650
Re: Merry-G0-Round
Lovely Eric. The merging, the holding on.
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 8:35 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: A Place Just Right
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2207
Re: A Place Just Right
So what concerns did you have with the poem Eric?
I ask because I can learn from a poet's choices.
best
Phil
I ask because I can learn from a poet's choices.
best
Phil
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:09 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: A Place Just Right
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2207
Re: A Place Just Right
Enjoyed the journey Eric, taking the ordinary, but giving it resonance. Noticed a few edits, posting/format niggles? Or something you feel not quite right about the poem?
Phil
Phil