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- Fri May 17, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Abandoned
- Replies: 7
- Views: 150
Re: Abandoned
Thank yawl kindly. T I like it but i don't know why i like it. That's cool and my default position on poems I like. I find it much easier reasoning why I dislike poems, which doesn't make for a good critter, only a disagreeable one! Mac, Yes, dissimulating was very handy in this instance. death row ...
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
- Topic: The Chain
- Replies: 3615
- Views: 355503
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Bios
- Replies: 7
- Views: 125
Re: Bios
Good idea for a poem, well put together. Especially enjoyed the Stevie Smith reference and the Catholic or careless, well all of it really. Does the following require some punctuation? which states, I’m a Socialist, Aston Villa supporter and faithful husband. Life has been a disappointment. which st...
- Sat May 11, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Abandoned
- Replies: 7
- Views: 150
Abandoned
he writes of forgotten things. a raincoat left, sodden, on a bus seat. A bike, well loved, one wheel chained to an underpass a birthday card to Daryl on death row, unsent. the wilting aspidistra in the bay sash window and now, he writes about you on your childhood swing, your sinewy tanned arms and ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Any Other Business
- Topic: Bank Holidays
- Replies: 0
- Views: 37
Bank Holidays
Just spent the weekend circumnavigating our wonderful rail transport network. There was a landslide, a bus replacement service, 2 cancellations, and 3 hrs late each way, but we got there and back! If you need to be anywhere on actual time, you're fucked, but if time is not of the essence, all good. ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
- Topic: Lou Reed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 57
Lou Reed
This week I have mostly been listening to a Lou Reed tribute album, here is a fine cover of Coney Island Baby:
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Boat Trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 240
Re: Boat Trip
On first read I thought the alliteration somewhat excessive, but no, once read as a whole it slips and slides wonderfully. Loved the ending: she whispers to me in italics the world will not stay straight. Could be seen as gently humorous, or have darker connotations? Anyhow a fine return, good to se...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Absent
- Replies: 4
- Views: 217
Re: Absent
Thanks Mac. and I nearly got kicked off for telling the tutor so. Well played sir! I think many of these so called 'courses' are box ticking exercises to get bums on seats and money in the coffers, and ultimately pointless. A shame for those attending who really want to progress with their writing. ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:08 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Absent
- Replies: 4
- Views: 217
Absent
We agreed to attend the writing course together; of course I knew you wouldn’t appear. ‘I’ll make my own way there’ was a sentence bound in fatality, a lonely sentence. I acquiesced; possessed as I was in the belief that we two may change the world with pith and pen, me almost present - you as Mr Be...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Ghost-Meat
- Replies: 5
- Views: 215
Re: Ghost-Meat
A fun poem "but somehow correct;" indeed. How the mind wanders to fantastical things! Love the use of 'liminal' a new word to forget. Once in Thailand I came across such a menu, note the: 'Chicken soup poignant' also a shout out for 'Fried Prok with Garlic Paper' https://closetpoet.co.uk/w...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Bad Dream.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 435
Re: Bad Dream.
Does anyone actually learn anything on this forum, or are we just sniping from our respective preconceptions of what constitutes poetry? A very good point. Harking back to the 'good old days' of this forum. I learnt so much initially on here. All the simple but arguably vital constituents of writin...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Bad Dream.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 435
Re: Bad Dream.
It's accepting those differences that's the key!Yes, everyone's different.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Bad Dream.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 435
Re: Bad Dream.
A door opens and no one closes it. *OK. This say to me "THis is poetry." How does the door open? And if it's thanks to a person, which is typical, do you really need "no one" after? I'm not convinced you've thought through the logic of your sentence here. So there MUST be logic ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Posting Limit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 368
Re: Posting Limit
If you do, please record your own version of my favourite joke, it goes something like this, in fact it goes exactly like this:I'll have to record an audio.
What did the 0 say to the 8:
Nice belt.
I look forward to it.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Posting Limit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 368
Re: Posting Limit
Yes, that would be preferable.You should hear me cracking jokes
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Posting Limit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 368
Re: Posting Limit
Facetiousness really suits you John.
Cheers
Kris
Cheers
Kris
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Posting Limit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 368
Re: Posting Limit
and then drop the f bomb to express their somewhat tongue-tied limitations as commenters I'll take that on the nose, probably deserved! That said, I'm a huge fan of profanity. I find the snobbishness and pretensions in poetry almost unbearable sometimes, and certain poets do tend to take themselves...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:31 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: No Ways Tired
- Replies: 6
- Views: 194
Re: No Ways Tired
Thank fuck.This is the last poem in my MS.
i''ve no idea what "MS" means and I found it pretty impenetrable.
As you were.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Ex Punk
- Replies: 4
- Views: 156
Re: Ex Punk
Thanks guys.
I think you may be right about the punctuation. It seemed to make sense on the page, but when creating graphics, things change.
I'm updating my website and I'm finding creating images allows for much more flexibility in the structure and format, almost like cheating.
Cheers
Kris
I think you may be right about the punctuation. It seemed to make sense on the page, but when creating graphics, things change.
I'm updating my website and I'm finding creating images allows for much more flexibility in the structure and format, almost like cheating.
Cheers
Kris
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:47 am
- Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
- Topic: The Chain
- Replies: 3615
- Views: 355503
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:30 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Window writes short poem about a girl
- Replies: 2
- Views: 93
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Ex Punk
- Replies: 4
- Views: 156
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:28 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Creative impasse
- Replies: 2
- Views: 184
Re: Creative impasse
Thanks Tony, Having recently gone through the big C process, I felt almost compelled to write about it. Alas David recently wrote a series of poems that did the subject far better justice than i could, so thought I'd try a different approach. The idea was a 'meta poem' really. The fact that the N wa...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Unwrapping the Truth (version 3)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 239
Re: Unwrapping the Truth (version 3)
This is probably the first poem that I've read of yours that has actually used some poetic devices. It's a poem!
It has metaphors and everything...
Good work, crap title.
Cheers
Kris
It has metaphors and everything...
Good work, crap title.
Cheers
Kris
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Bad Moon.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 128
Re: Bad Moon.
I'm not sure why the man is motherless Caleb, I'm guessing it's not a specific man! but 'man' as a whole, that irrefutable connection to in-utero and the inevitable search for self once that connection is lost? On that note, yes the first stanzas worked well, then you drifted into self=pity... Defi...