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by Matty11
Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:52 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Aspirations
Replies: 13
Views: 2494

Re: Aspirations

Thanks Dave. Accessibility is often a compromise, but then opacity is onanism. Frustrating, but communication comes at a cost. I have a drawer full of mystery poems🤣

Cheers

Phil
by Matty11
Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:16 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Aspirations
Replies: 13
Views: 2494

Re: Craic

Thanks Linda. Pleased you enjoyed the sonics. Yes, James Dean, is iconic. Reality will have its end.

best

Phil
by Matty11
Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:34 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Scabs
Replies: 9
Views: 1587

Re: Scabs

Contaminating clocks and we cause an itch🤣 so much for mankind arrogance...

If your interested...the theme for March is Time

http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/second.htm

muchly enjoyed

Phil
by Matty11
Fri Feb 25, 2022 3:40 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Aspirations
Replies: 13
Views: 2494

Re: Craic

Thanks B.
Nicely balanced feedback. I liked the pause on who, but, in general, I avoid that 'false drama'. Duly edited.
Blue mood I was thinking. Brook/ocean I wanted the contrast of actuality v fantasy. River was too ordinary

Cheers

Phil
by Matty11
Fri Feb 25, 2022 3:10 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Aspirations
Replies: 13
Views: 2494

Re: Craic

I like your thinking Colm. I've attached a closing couplet😉

Cheers

Phil
by Matty11
Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:32 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Aspirations
Replies: 13
Views: 2494

Aspirations

Version2 My shadows stray. They cling to blue like moody teenagers. That crew will never learn to swim. They paddle the freckled brook. Their spines are frail. And yet, this slouchy crowd, like kids of curious years, can lift the lids on glee. They bubble as if they found their golden path. The clo...
by Matty11
Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:21 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Man without anchor
Replies: 6
Views: 1257

Re: Man without anchor

Man without anchor Hand on hat a gent bent into angles by a storm, urges his feet forward. He assumes he knows sanctuary from danger, although the trees flex this way and that, while a gull reverses and rain wets the sky. (in appreciation of Jacques Pŕevert)   Great Dave. I could re-format, make mo...
by Matty11
Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:44 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Of Sligo
Replies: 5
Views: 1161

Re: Of Sligo

Enjoyed Trev. Plenty of simile, plenty of detail. No strong nit crits, but throwing a few options your way... It isn’t fashionable to write nostalgic poems that wear their sentiment long. These are scribbles for drawers, to stuff away like overcoats...are these kept in drawers? as public taste gallo...
by Matty11
Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:28 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Peace
Replies: 8
Views: 1445

Re: Peace

Lovely Colm. The opening line is a grabber. The cycle down cobbled streets is a great analogy (a little bumpy I suspect😃). A forgotten desperation another insightful one. Nice form play to conclude.

its repetition is the possessive.

Cheers

Phil
by Matty11
Mon Feb 21, 2022 11:48 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: It's there
Replies: 3
Views: 851

Re: It's there

There's a lot of thinking in this Colm. Eloquently encased. Nice use of cling, and death/ego as manufacturers of belief. The nothing from nothing to nothing another belief question...like the use of diamonds in that context. The priest/physicist equation...a marriage formula indeed😃 You may be busy,...