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- Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:28 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: From my Autobiography ~ 1996
- Replies: 6
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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...
- 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
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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...
- 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...
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:09 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Leavings
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7104
- 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 All the good things Time takes from us.
Glad you enjoyed some of it.
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 All the good things Time takes from us.
Glad you enjoyed some of it.
- Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14460
Re: Greetings
Hi and Welcome Hugh
- 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.
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.
- 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...
- 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'
But it's not that kind of poem.
Anywho, I appreciate your comments.
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'
But it's not that kind of poem.
Anywho, I appreciate your comments.
- 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...