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Matty11
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Island Fiction

Post by Matty11 » Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:06 pm

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Colm Roe
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Re: Island Fiction

Post by Colm Roe » Fri Dec 27, 2019 8:01 pm

A nice slice of island life...sounds like Heaven to my ears  :)

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Re: Island Fiction

Post by Matty11 » Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:42 am

Colm Roe wrote:
Fri Dec 27, 2019 8:01 pm
A nice slice of island life...sounds like Heaven to my ears  :)
Thanks Colm. I didn't want to suggest 'heaven' and therefore revised a tad to counterbalance the 'comfortable' aspect.

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Re: Island Fiction

Post by Colm Roe » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:13 pm

When I say Heaven I mean the idea of living on an island,
a simple life lived close to nature :)

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Re: Island Fiction

Post by Wren Tuatha » Sun Jan 12, 2020 12:46 pm

Matty11 wrote:
Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:06 pm
Hi Matty, love the word choices and sonics here. A musical treat! Thanks!

I could murder a cuppa       hangover?
 mutters a knitting voice,
her claws purling patterns
  the Fair Isle way.                 love the knitting metaphor. Assume purling is the verb, had to read it a couple of times in the dense economy to be sure.

The kettle whistles, the brew
  as warming as a jumper -   not sure I'm inside this simile. not sure if I lose it at warming or jumper. I am a landlover... Never mind got it on the third.
outside gulls rock and roll
  drunk on a burgundy sky.

The winged ways gleam
  in those full-throated, fish
-happy voices. She hears
  the thrill of fraying waves.  Excellent final stanza, especially the last line--thrill of fraying waves!

 

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Re: Island Fiction

Post by Matty11 » Sun Jan 12, 2020 11:19 pm

Colm Roe wrote:
Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:13 pm
When I say Heaven I mean the idea of living on an island,
a simple life lived close to nature :)
Thanks for coming back Colm. Yes, the distinctions between simple and limiting have an individual consequence as are those 'progressions' outside tradition.

best

Phil
 

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Re: Island Fiction

Post by Matty11 » Sun Jan 12, 2020 11:22 pm

Assume purling is the verb,
Yes, it is Wren. Thank you for that thumbs up on the final line. A dud concluding line can kill the whole poem!

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Re: Island Fiction

Post by Gyppo » Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:23 am

Sleepily evocative.

Fraying waves:  I would never have thought of them this way, but now you've mentioned it the image has stuck.  Waves along the shoreline sometimes seem more solid than liquid, despite their movement, so fraying is a good metaphor.
I've been writing ever since I realised I could.  Storytelling since I started talking.  Poetry however comes and goes  ;-)

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Re: Island Fiction

Post by Matty11 » Wed Jan 15, 2020 1:34 am

Thanks for the thumbs up on that G. I wanted that one to work to contrast with the 'binding' of knitting.

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Re: Island Fiction

Post by poet-e » Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:22 am

Nice imagery.

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