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- Fri May 10, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Back To Black
- Replies: 6
- Views: 96
Re: Back To Black
Thanks Phil and Caleb. I've seen Hamlet played by a black male and by a white female, not yet by a black female but I keep a lookout. I am just making an observation, not a point. Maybe it's just that Hamlet's greater fame draws more interpretations or is it its universality?
- Wed May 08, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Back To Black
- Replies: 6
- Views: 96
Re: Back To Black
Amy Winehouse. A film about her recently came out. The commonest comment I've heard is that the actress playing her part looks and sounds very much like her. It seems people feel that's important. Whereas Hamlet gets played by all sorts. Just an observation. Signifying nothing.
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: CalebPerry is in Mobius
- Replies: 3
- Views: 50
Re: CalebPerry is in Mobius
Well done Caleb.
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Snakeskin (May)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 67
Re: Snakeskin (May)
Thanks fellas and well done everyone.
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Back To Black
- Replies: 6
- Views: 96
Back To Black
Hamlet is allowed to be
boy or girl, black or white,
to play within a play
wearing sandals, stockings
or Doc Martens.
Amy must appear to be
exactly as we remember her.
She never reached that stage
where she could kick off
her fuck me pumps.
boy or girl, black or white,
to play within a play
wearing sandals, stockings
or Doc Martens.
Amy must appear to be
exactly as we remember her.
She never reached that stage
where she could kick off
her fuck me pumps.
- Sun May 05, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Crowstep
- Replies: 4
- Views: 70
Re: Crowstep
I remember that poem, very good. I was seeing "where youth displays its wares."
- Fri May 03, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: That Old Familiar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 147
Re: That Old Familiar
Thanks, Tristan.
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:12 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: That Old Familiar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 147
Re: That Old Familiar
Thanks Caleb. I agree with all you say, except that it's mostly Western consumption rather than values that's the problem. Yes, the future is exceedingly bleak and like most of us I can't bear too much reality. So I take refuge in football, poetry, creatures that don't exist.
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:29 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: That Old Familiar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 147
Re: That Old Familiar
Hello Caleb. Yeah, you're right about the grammar, though it's how it's what I'd use in everyday speech. I've turned the line around a bit. I'd never consider submitting this poem for publication, too personal.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Noon Journal of the Short Poem
- Replies: 12
- Views: 107
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Noon Journal of the Short Poem
- Replies: 12
- Views: 107
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Noon Journal of the Short Poem
- Replies: 12
- Views: 107
Re: Noon Journal of the Short Poem
Well done, Phil. I gotta confess I don't understand the poem, but then what do I know of Joy?
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: That Old Familiar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 147
Re: That Old Familiar
Thanks for the comments. Caleb, The Penguin is kind of an alter ego. I've been Penguin, or more often penguin, on several other sites. I don't know if you've heard of the IBPC, Inter Board Poetry Competition, (defunct now), Anyway, I won it about 10 years ago when posting as penguin on Wild Poetry F...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Object Permanence
- Replies: 10
- Views: 147
Re: Object Permanence
I don't know that the omission of that passage has made it any worse. I'd go no further than that. The epistemology of loss,,, whilst I quite admired the Berryman poem it seems to be begging for a lampoon. I might write one myself on the loss of one's balls.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: That Old Familiar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 147
That Old Familiar
You’ll never walk alone , The Penguin proclaims, when I’ve changed my avatar and name, faked my death and finally left the faithful following, the counting of likes and courting approbation. Birthday candles every day for someone I’ll never know, a demonstration against the right to demonstrate, 5 ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Lacuna
- Replies: 3
- Views: 71
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Boat Trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 150
Re: Boat Trip
Thanks all. I decided, after Phil's comments, that this line would have to go -
and splash the sky haphazardly.
and splash the sky haphazardly.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Things That Won't Stop Until They Stop
- Replies: 5
- Views: 108
Re: Things That Won't Stop Until They Stop
I don't think you should bin it, the first stanza is fine. I particularly like the crawling baby line. I just think it needs something more novel to finish with. The hyperactive child/ crawling baby might be worth enlarging.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:11 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Boat Trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 150
Re: Boat Trip
Thanks both. I'd not realised how alliterative those opening lines are. No, I've not retired, I just forget where I'm supposed to be quite a lot.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Lacuna
- Replies: 3
- Views: 71
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Object Permanence
- Replies: 10
- Views: 147
Re: Object Permanence
This will not be
the only loss this boy will ever face,
and some won’t end so happily.
Hello John. I think you could leave that passage out and have a more dramatic, poignant ending.
the only loss this boy will ever face,
and some won’t end so happily.
Hello John. I think you could leave that passage out and have a more dramatic, poignant ending.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Ray and Phil in Flight of the Dragonfly
- Replies: 8
- Views: 127
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Ray and Phil in Flight of the Dragonfly
- Replies: 8
- Views: 127
Re: Ray and Phil in Flight of the Dragonfly
Thanks. Having that Facebook poem accepted made me remarkably happy, almost optimistic. It won't last, though.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Boat Trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 150
Boat Trip
A city sliding serpentine, the swans upon the Severn stream towards us sinuous, then curve away as we draw close. She strokes the river from our boat, swallows suicidal dive then bank and soar the jeopardy to punctuate the canopy. All is floaty, on the bridges cars and buses undulate and shimmer in ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Absent
- Replies: 4
- Views: 163
Re: Absent
What you missed I can barely express, which I’m sure you’ll agree, must be irony?
You’d have hated it.
I wish you were there.
Loved it all, but those bits best. Yes, I think I've met Mr Beckett several times myself.
You’d have hated it.
I wish you were there.
Loved it all, but those bits best. Yes, I think I've met Mr Beckett several times myself.