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- Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:35 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Spirit of the Sixties
- Replies: 5
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Spirit of the Sixties
Spirit of the 60s For me the spirit of the 60's was usually rum, and plenty of it. Far more reliable than drugs. Leaving school, finding a job, learning a trade. My teachers lied to me. ' You'll look back on your schooldays as the happiest days of your life.' "Great," I said. "So it's all dow...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 4:00 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: It's Just Laundry
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5880
Re: It's Just Laundry
Thoroughly enjoyable and well suited to rhyme. But, when read aloud, as others have suggested, there are a few little stumbles It's always worth reading your own work aloud once you're fairly happy with it. If you're shy do it with the door shut, or at the far end of the garden, or alone in the car...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 3:13 pm
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: Getting started for new poets.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11953
Re: Getting started for new poets.
It's feeling a bit like the good old days at MWC.
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:32 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: Can't see the woods for the tangled branches
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11799
Re: Can't see the woods for the tangled branches
Hi, Mark.
As another recent arrival I can tell you they're a reasonably civilised bunch. But you'll know most of them from other places anyway.
Gyppo
As another recent arrival I can tell you they're a reasonably civilised bunch. But you'll know most of them from other places anyway.
Gyppo
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 2:47 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: hello, Folks. You can't hide forever...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7982
Re: hello, Folks. You can't hide forever...
Thanks for the welcomes, Folks.
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: Getting started for new poets.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11953
Getting started for new poets.
Heresy: This is going to sound like heresy to some would-be poets. You don't need a major theme to write a poem. I would even argue you don't need to be inspired. But you do need a starting point . Even then you may find the starting point was nothing more than that and the final poem ...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 1:16 am
- Forum: The Commons
- Topic: Simile & Metaphor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6744
Re: Simile & Metaphor
And one has to wonder which of the three heaped up rabbits is the 'gender fluid' one
- Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:44 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
- Topic: hello, Folks. You can't hide forever...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7982
hello, Folks. You can't hide forever...
...and neither can I apparently -) Tom hunted me down. Gyppo here from MWC and the Best Writing Forum. I shall probably be taking part in the National Poetry Month at least, and look forward to meeting some old friends and perhaps making a few new ones as well. That's it for now, I'm a bit tired j...