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- Sat Jan 13, 2018 9:35 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Bugged
- Replies: 10
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Re: Bugged
Hi Kate, I take Tracy's point about an allegory. Like Sharon I wonder about insects/organs (the insect on its back triggered a thought of Kafka's Metamorphosis). The dynamic of flailing/groping/thrashing are pinned brilliantly with the finality of starvation . best Phil I just googled insects/organs...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 2:50 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Neptune on a Wednesday
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16127
Re: Neptune on a Wednesday
hi Sharon,
Picking up on Kate's point. I did wonder about the use of livid too?
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phil
Picking up on Kate's point. I did wonder about the use of livid too?
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phil
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:29 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Neptune on a Wednesday
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16127
Re: Neptune on a Wednesday
There is a lot to like here Sharon (seascape/landscape settings/genres are amongst my fav reads). I meet him where the salt marsh sucks the earth There's a walk from Laugharne, one that Dylan Thomas often took, that came to mind. You can sit on a bench and look over the salt marsh - you can listen t...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:01 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Red Sled
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7198
Re: Red Sled
Thanks Sharon and Tracy. 'script' > scribe or inscribe? just asking. I was trying to convey the parallel of a playwright scripting a scene. The word sounded 'speedy' :roll: Not sure. Sledges" is a new word I needed to look up, I didn't fit it to this context. Must be a UK thing. :) Could be. I'll tr...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:42 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Red Sled
- Replies: 8
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Red Sled
revision We stand in awe. Our cardboard snowboarding a joke - she is laughing at us clowns. Her blades inscribe the hillside, insist on the steepest route - speed writes her fate. She tumbles and rolls, body cradled into the snowman. The lads race to help, cursing - their black ribbons of words bla...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:03 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: hi
- Replies: 4
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