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Tristan, Mac

Thanks you!

Ah yes, I well remember this one Ray. Great.


Seth

Thanks, Mac! The maze is quite small, but the spot is great. Glad about the liking the maze poem. It is partly an old one that didn't go anywhere for a few years and then I found it again and completed it. Nice when that happens. Thanks, Ray! I am on the brink of purchasing some new flippers. Glad a...

Thanks Ray, Tristan, Mac, David!

Three cheers for Snakeskin, as ever.

I note there is a trio of us in the new Snakeskin bookshops and libraries edition.
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/?fbcli ... ffF95yDeQo

Congrats to my fellow contribbers.

Seth

I had three poems appear over at the Glasgow Review Of Books recently...https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2018/0 ... eth-crook/

Congrats, Tristan

Well done.

And I'm glad the AOO is back.


Seth

Huzzah!

Great, Mac

Seth

Greetings, Raymondo Very good. Wondered if "call" is enough rather than "called". Especially liked the last stanza and the internal "nod"/"God" rhyme. If I were quibbling...and you have not left me with much to quibble about..."broken record" seems a...

Greetings!

Enjoyed it.
I especially liked the last two sections...the "i" and "r" sounds.

I wonder if this bit might be cut/replaced since the information has rather been given in the title?

"A prehistoric..."

Seth

Greetings, JJ I also enjoyed it and read it in the same way as Charles. If I were quibbling...and hey, why not?..."Ancient" might seem redundant when applied to Celts. Okay, we may say Celts are still around, but it is bit of a stretch because we all know it is an old classification. If so...

Righto!

Greetings, Tristan. Welcome to Parnassus. :D Although not so active as in years gone by, I am still around. Alas, all too often the duty of the mod reduces to bumping the terminally idiotic from the forum. We have certainly had a few of those down the years. Here are the main types: 1. People who re...

If you can still bear to read/write/think on the subject anymore, Oxford Poetry has a "Europe" deadline closing on the 30th...http://www.oxfordpoetry.co.uk/

Greetings, Perry Though there is no formal rule against first presenting your poem with extended commentary, we PGers strongly discourage it. Since the poems are being posted in a workshop, they are being posted with a view to obtaining constructive criticism. If the poem is surrounded with blurb fr...

Thanks, Wilko Glad about the humour! Thanks, Luke I am not quite so cosy, having become something of a sea swimmer over the summer. Thanks, Tristan Yes, I will look again at the transition and later sections. Thanks, Mac Usurpers may do. And thank you for the overall description of the poem...which ...

I have a photo in the first edition of Nitrogen House...whose site has also just gone on-line. It is a mag from the Highlands, my part of the world..so I am all for it, naturally. Here...http://nitrogenhouse.com/

Very good, Mac

Seth

Ta, Mac

Ta, JJ

Thanks, Mac

And also Halloween connected. Over at the Nitrogen House....new mag from my general area.

http://nitrogenhouse.com/

Greetings, Charles "Yes, reading it back the tone is quite moralistic so fair enough if that's it..." Stranger may perhaps have had a few at 11.25 on a Friday and was perhaps merely quoting the barman. Still, I have some sympathy with Stranger's crit if it was the suggestion....if I can pa...

Good one. At first I wondered about the use of the "cotton on" cliché, but then saw the link with the later thread theme. But then I did wonder about the "lost on me" last line. Can longer threads be "lost on" a person? Perhaps, but I wonder if there is a more material ...

Low tide, water far out. Small, moored boats of the bay are drowning in the dry. Where are all the shore crabs? Are they buried, waiting, drumming a sand-scaped song? Are there pointy prophets, hidden, odd-eyed, tapping "Soon, soon, we will be saved!"? Ours, in comparison, is a feeble plot...

Usually this ruin, no roof, no doors,
[tab][/tab]is a wistful comment:

what shouldn't be. But not today,
[tab][/tab]when the summer strides,

when doors and roofs are exactly
[tab][/tab]what shouldn't be.

Thanks, all Thanks, JJ You are, of course, qualified to judge....zany delirium, I will certainly take that. "Natural" in my case. Glad you enjoyed the humour, the rolling out of the movements, the ending. Huzzah. Good to know it works. Thanks, Ross Greetings. Yes that passe stanza is sligh...