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by Matty11
Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:34 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Finale
Replies: 6
Views: 1403

Re: Finale

Good call Jackie!
by Matty11
Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:29 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Happiness (revision4)
Replies: 8
Views: 1952

Re: Happiness (revision4)

Thanks Eric. I once wrote poems without adjectives and adverbs. The mantra being they slowed a line and were telly. Some truth in that, but the poems were rather colourless and unspecific. Too much burden for the readers to fill the space. As usual, a balance, though here I was more seduced by the v...
by Matty11
Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:02 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Breakdowns
Replies: 2
Views: 677

Re: Breakdowns

:lol: delivers on many levels Eric. I don't feel you need avant garde. Overcooked, besides we can glean. So much experience/demise is an oily mess!

Phil
by Matty11
Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:00 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: The Green Man
Replies: 8
Views: 1403

Re: The Green Man

Great. Particularly liked the twiggy Buddha.

May know/interest...

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53745/lob
by Matty11
Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:12 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Staff Conference
Replies: 9
Views: 1426

Re: Staff Conference

60 watt brain and extreme sitting😂...fun and serrated.

Typo on I'm

ether rather than air, which you repeat?

enjoyed

Phil
by Matty11
Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:28 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Finale
Replies: 6
Views: 1403

Re: Finale

Cheers Eric. I'm snared by NAPO mania, but will try to catch up with your wonderful poems.

Phil
by Matty11
Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:51 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Finale
Replies: 6
Views: 1403

Finale

These facts are true, some more, some less: this room, my photographic myth, the anchored grins, a dreamy mistress, that apple pie none should resist; this dying light, our comic theatre that ghosts above the waves of ifs and buts; and you, my lover, whisper the script along haphazard cliffs. We're ...
by Matty11
Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:42 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Merry-G0-Round
Replies: 2
Views: 613

Re: Merry-G0-Round

Lovely Eric. The merging, the holding on.
by Matty11
Wed Mar 30, 2022 8:35 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: A Place Just Right
Replies: 13
Views: 2134

Re: A Place Just Right

So what concerns did you have with the poem Eric?
I ask because I can learn from a poet's choices.

best

Phil
by Matty11
Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:09 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: A Place Just Right
Replies: 13
Views: 2134

Re: A Place Just Right

Enjoyed the journey Eric, taking the ordinary, but giving it resonance. Noticed a few edits, posting/format niggles? Or something you feel not quite right about the poem?

Phil