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- Fri Oct 28, 2022 8:06 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Magic Fruit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2581
Re: Magic Fruit
The story was told by men, so I've always had my doubts
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:40 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Magic Fruit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2581
Re: Magic Fruit
Yes, a card we use that creates problems, then use again to try to rectify them.
So much has improved in the last 100 years, but it really feels like it's one step forward and two steps back
Thanks for the read and comments
So much has improved in the last 100 years, but it really feels like it's one step forward and two steps back
Thanks for the read and comments
- Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:18 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: death seen through a telescope
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2687
Re: death seen through a telescope
Typo on S3 L2.
This is a bloody good poem, Dave.
S1 is absolutely sublime, like the perspective is in S2
and the humanity in the concluding stanzas.
Has to be in Dave's Top Ten. Hope it reaches the audience it deserves.
Fantastic poeming.
This is a bloody good poem, Dave.
S1 is absolutely sublime, like the perspective is in S2
and the humanity in the concluding stanzas.
Has to be in Dave's Top Ten. Hope it reaches the audience it deserves.
Fantastic poeming.
- Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:55 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Magic Fruit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2581
Magic Fruit
An apple that probably never fell the gravity one the one that sent Apollo 11 to the Moon struck an asteroid last week with such precision the one that still keeps the doctor at bay reduces cholesterol and rots livers tells Putins where to aim just an apple when left alone but we have to meddle # ...
- Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:07 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Thanks but no thanks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2111
Re: Thanks but no thanks
I like repeats. Maybe a comma?
it, the trickling
because there's definitely a slightly longer pause after it.
it, the trickling
because there's definitely a slightly longer pause after it.
- Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:38 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Thanks but no thanks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2111
Re: Thanks but no thanks
I enjoyed this, Dave. The image of Rees-Mogg, his arrogance and contempt as he stretched out in the House of Commons, is something that'll be remembered for a long time. And something that must have caused untold damage to the Conservatives. No crits, just appreciation for a well-written and very v...
- Sun Jun 12, 2022 7:52 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Just For Looking At
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2238
Re: Just For Looking At
Trev, I think specifics would remove the charm in this poem. The items and associated exoticisms make me feel envious; my keepsakes are humbled...but no less important to me. These things are always site-specific, mean more to the possessors than the observer. Enigmatic, it leaves us to fill in the...
- Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:35 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Unrestrained
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2837
Re: Unrestrained
I'm reading this from a totally different angle. The key word in the first line ( animals, plural ) directed me to darker place...war crimes, rape. And then the language/metaphors for Russia/China's real intentions. How strongly we support Ukraine will determine how aggressive/passive those two c...
- Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:49 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Međugorje, scam of the Century
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3116
Re: Međugorje, scam of the Century
Thanks, Eric and Jackie for your approval; and Gyppo, for the link to that song. Linda, I suppose you just have to box clever. A friend of mine, who is intelligent, often speaks like an QAnon proponent. This scares me, because I always thought of the far-right as being on the lower IQ scale, e.g. Ki...
- Wed Jun 01, 2022 6:31 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Silverback
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2419
Re: Silverback
Not sure how much clearer you need to make it, Jackie.
I certainly got the sense and intended shape of it; 'chest hole'...I see two meanings, but both work.
Sing it, Jackie...Grey Pride
Nice write.
I certainly got the sense and intended shape of it; 'chest hole'...I see two meanings, but both work.
Sing it, Jackie...Grey Pride
Nice write.