Poetry Forum

The Tangled Branch will be running a NAPO forum (National Poetry Writing Month) if anyone is interested. Basically you write a poem a day for the month of April. No critique involved. It is on one of the hidden forums so you will need to become a member of the site. https://www.tangledbranch.com/boa...

I think tastes in poetry are very fragmented John.

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I like the floorboards line Caleb. Reminded me of Samuel Beckett, where awareness and significance, through isolation, shrinks to small worlds.

It's a viewpoint John, and a sensible one, though difference is such a stimulus to conflict. Hopefully, communication helps a tad.

A door opens and no one closes it. The sky has the lock in its one good hand. The evening has passed its sell by date. Newspapers whisper of happiness. A light will always flicker on and off, like a lighthouse, dreaming. Even stone, you’ve forgiven. Like it a lot Tony. It leaps from the mundane. Li...

Post more than 2 poems a day.

I have updated that rule John to take into account those that post at weekends.

I think it may restore a balance between frequent and infrequent posters of poems Caleb.

I think it may restore a balance between frequent and infrequent posters of poems John.

I think a two poem limit per week is a reasonable rule for PAT.
For example, one poem posted in Experienced and one poem posted in Beginners, or two poems posted in Beginners.

I think a two poem limit per week is a reasonable rule for PAT.
For example, one poem posted in Experienced and one poem posted in Beginners, or two poems posted in Beginners.

I think a two poem limit per week is a reasonable rule for PAT.
For example, one poem posted in Experience and one poem posted in Beginners, or two poems posted in Beginners.

The marionette is free! The reference to hang/grove perhaps a darker echo 'I have outlasted my belief' is a great line. Thank you for sharing your MS John. I am not religious, but the poems did give me some insight on the illness. Congratulations on your survival and triumph!

The bathtub analogy was a surprise John

(Prefer this to the Dylan original)

Thanks John and Caleb. This poem is not on PAT. I sometimes write a poem by cannibalising parts of my 'pocket poems' that I post here.

Much liked the imaginative image of glowing skin through the consumption of ones poetry John. If God was watching a glass of water made me wonder if She thirsts Of course, that would reflect some humanity

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An interactive map

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I have a poem appearing in this anthology.

For those interested in prose poems

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