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by Colm Roe
Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:28 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: From my Autobiography ~ 1996
Replies: 6
Views: 4327

Re: From my Autobiography ~ 1996

I like the early years— the pinch and scrape and work. The argue years. The limited success, the messes on mess. I care much less for that guy, a wild man— a person who loved himself a bit too much. Mornings snapped like clean sheets. I rested my head against your warm breasts— last stars in an ear...
by Colm Roe
Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:24 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Too sick to work, but I have to do it. (A bit of a rant)
Replies: 3
Views: 2801

Too sick to work, but I have to do it. (A bit of a rant)

If I don't work I don't get paid, forty years and only three sick days systems,  my taxes support them. I should be in bed now, and tomorrow. But I'll get up finish a 70 hour week, and wasted sleep all day Sunday. While they scratch their arses and drink the benefits, all the while complaining about...
by Colm Roe
Fri Sep 07, 2018 6:49 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Nothing In The Dark
Replies: 12
Views: 8315

Re: Nothing In The Dark

When lamps are doused within the house, there’s nothing new or strange; your eyes, when blind, betray your mind, but little else is changed. The closet’s cache: a cotton sash, some clothing, socks, and shoes - no wretched beast, no man deceased, no bomblets to defuse. Beneath the bed exists no drea...
by Colm Roe
Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:09 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Leavings
Replies: 10
Views: 7104

Re: Leavings

:)
by Colm Roe
Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:48 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Leavings
Replies: 10
Views: 7104

Re: Leavings

Thanks Mark.
I know I've used up all the poetic licence I had left with 'leavings' 
They aren't scraps of whatever...just the plural of leaving  :lol: All the good things Time takes from us.
Glad you enjoyed some of it.
by Colm Roe
Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:55 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: Greetings
Replies: 8
Views: 14460

Re: Greetings

Hi and Welcome Hugh  :)
by Colm Roe
Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:40 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Some Background
Replies: 18
Views: 10769

Re: Some Background

We should be able to take more than 'a shot'.
And your/our job is to communicate. This might be clever in your mind...but
we all seem to be spending more time trying to decipher...instead of enjoying the intent. 
 
by Colm Roe
Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:12 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Leavings
Replies: 10
Views: 7104

Leavings

He knows the cut of them the ambled drift, or sudden drape of them, these leavings  are driven by a bigger clock. Younger, he just dropped a gear, revs screamed them back through his rear view. With road to spare, until time spliced the movie  and director became actor. These leavings weren't in the...
by Colm Roe
Mon Sep 03, 2018 6:25 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Missed signals
Replies: 11
Views: 7542

Re: Missed signals

Thanks Oliver.
The more I look at this poem the more content I am with it.
I could personalise it by saying things like 'But when my wife's mother died she fell into herself'  :lol:
But it's not that kind of poem.
Anywho, I appreciate your comments.
 
by Colm Roe
Sun Sep 02, 2018 6:16 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Sincere Apathy
Replies: 15
Views: 9582

Re: Sincere Apathy

The 'Wizard of Oz' reference cleverly ties in well with the last S.  After reading it I was sorry not to read one more link (i.e. yellow brick road) near the end. Overall it's a good read, fluently written and honest. They are a problem (of our making). Being a sucker for fluffy creatures and someon...