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Well, I'd usually ask for contributions around October time, but there didn't seem to be any point. That's really what determined my decision to finally close the old place down. It's frustrating more than anything else! But also sad. I've not done any maintenance/updates for a while now. Eventually...

I feel i'm shouting into the void. Is there anybody out there...If there is. Shall we quietly, without any further adieu, close this place? It seems tragic to look at the last post of a once thriving community and say: "Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done" But it see...

rooted and scented
a bile bear expelling bile
trapped and demented

Got it!

Thanks dudes, some pruning to be done. Mac Do you need 'me thinking' If i could find it, I'd ponder it. Sorry, not certain about that? Not, Some good points but: and before you know it Fuck, NO! Tony, Not sure you need "definitely" at the end. Without the word "because" at the st...

A concept piece for sure. I'm not a big fan of conceptual art, but conceptual poetry I can go for. Just come back from Krakow and we visited a 'modern' art place, and on the whole, what a crock of pretentious nonsense. YET, if your piece here was presented physically, would I feel the same? because ...

Because talking is exhausting. Should I meet you in a pub or at the summit of Mam Tor, I will not engage you with witticisms, you will not order another drink just to stay in my company nor tighten your hood and stride away across that vital ridge thinking; that’s the very girl for me. No. I will un...

That's a cool idea!

I thought so! I think the idea far superior to the poem, but sometimes that's how it is.

Cheers
Kris

I'll be happy to contribute. The small number isn't ideal, but for me it's less overwhelming! That's great to hear and much appreciated, and i agree. I've always found this place and its contributors far more civilised than most forums. It suited me back when it was Poet's Graves and it suits me no...

Hey Anna, Are we losing this forum? Well it's a long standing issue as to whether it's actually worth keeping the place running with so few contributors? Basically I run the place (well the technical side of things) and it takes time and costs. The locals and stalwarts have been brilliant in contrib...

Thanks Not.

That's a familiar red spade

It is indeed. Started sending off some of my old stuff, which is gaining more traction than my new stuff!

Cheers
Kris

Cheers Mac.

Some really good poems and somewhat illustrious poets on there. I look forward to seeing yours.

I have looked at Erat. but it's very off-putting for many reasons. I agree. Not for me. That's what's so frustrating about not having a regular contribution here. Even if it was a minimal amount of poets, 5 or 6 say, with the odd newbie blowing in from the frontiers. I could probably do more 'marke...

I know, I just find it so hard to let go of! But let go I must... I was discussing with Mac that i may just keep it going until October (when the begging bowl for contributions rears its head) if no-one is bothered in contributing, then farewell. Just out of interest T, what other forums do you post...

I've taken to posting a few poems on here https://poetrycircle.com/ And the quality and the feedback and the general vibe is nothing compared to this place. I'm genuinely sad about our demise, it deserves so much more. I can't put my finger on why it has not thrived? Or at the very least survived. W...

Thanks Mac,

No connection, was just looking for a simile for patience, that was slick and tied in to the 'The Glossy Ibis' - Oil!

It's a poem of contradictions, perhaps too many?

Cheers
Kris

He’s there again, as patient as oil, waiting for the No 4. Plumed and glassy-eyed and as broken as a drawer you may never open. Two statures in one - Glossy Ibis/Rumpelstiltskin yet as urbane as Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon. He’s a rare thing, as confident in his beauty as in his repulsion - A ...

Dark nights are drawing in

"And your humour is as black as them"

I think you might just about have got away with those 'Half Rhymes' ? Maybe not.

Enjoyed though, good stuff.

Cheers
Kris

Hey Anna, Plaudits for attempting such a difficult form. They are a great challenge though aren't they? I've attempted a couple, but certainly not to any great standard or to my own satisfaction, so I'm certainly not one to crit. I think NQS has helped out quite sufficiently. I certainly liked the m...

Finally finished 'Blood Meridian'

It was a trial in many ways, but ultimately rewarding, I think?

I'm going to continue my exploration of the classics with probably the ultimate classic - Moby Dick.

Had anyone actually read this novel, moreover finished it?

A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka

One for the list.

Cheers
Kris

Indeed, well deciphered.

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https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html

Thanks ABC, I love the dust as northern lights image So glad that worked for you. Sometimes you create imagery and you are happy with it, but think - really? Is that not a little excessive? So therefore you have justified said imagery, and we'll hear no more about it! I might try "slit in the t...