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- 06 Jun 2022, 10:07
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Kate, Visiting a Friend During Mating Season on her Ostrich Ranch
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5265
Re: Kate, Visiting a Friend During Mating Season on her Ostrich Ranch
I admire quirky and this has tons of it as it well as great imagination. However, the premise does not corelate to any experience I've had or even heard of. I just cannot wrap my head around an ostrich in heat pursuing a human to mate with. You're a bird guy and maybe you know something of the matin...
- 05 Jun 2022, 18:34
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Secret Life Of Trees
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4897
Re: Secret Life Of Trees
Thanks Michael
- 03 Jun 2022, 21:41
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Red Garden
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5298
Re: The Red Garden
Thank you
- 03 Jun 2022, 12:16
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Red Garden
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5298
The Red Garden
It has always been that the earth is broken, scarified and tilled. Each sowing done by humble hand with hopes of a bounty to fill near- empty bins of grain, each seed producing after its own kind. Nothing is more proletarian than the Russet whose eyes remain dark with remembrance of the struggle tha...
- 29 May 2022, 07:32
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: What The Gardener Heard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3386
What The Gardener Heard
The Nation magazine article says that urine makes good fertilizer. So I bought a six pack of Fat Tire hacked away at it all day until dark so the neighbors wouldn't see and gave the bed a good wetting. In about an hour, the Clematis was extolling me on Socialism, agrarian reform and collective farmi...
- 27 May 2022, 07:01
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Lone Star
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3437
Lone Star
Texas is the North Korea of the US,
where the Handmaid's Tale meets the Taliban.
We should sell it back to Mexico
for a fifth of Tequila and two straws.
where the Handmaid's Tale meets the Taliban.
We should sell it back to Mexico
for a fifth of Tequila and two straws.
- 16 May 2022, 19:40
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Waiting for the Muse at The Setting Sun
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2887
Re: Waiting for the Muse at The Setting Sun
Great imagination.
- 16 May 2022, 05:00
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Secret Life Of Trees
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4897
Re: Secret Life Of Trees
Thanks Bob
- 15 May 2022, 19:19
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Secret Life Of Trees
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4897
Secret Life Of Trees
As kids, I scratched your name in the skin of a Beech tree. It was all I knew of love. Beneath the ground they say trees can communicate. Great tap roots find each other, exchange information like the gossip of a mongering fishwife. and chat like lovers over tea When I die and they dress my body, te...
- 06 May 2022, 20:25
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Elvis Sightings
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4107
Re: Elvis Sightings
Whimsical. He sure was a whack job.
- 06 May 2022, 19:51
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Z
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5189
Re: Z
Thanks John. Good to see you here.
- 05 May 2022, 20:38
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Hi Dad (revision 3)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5706
Re: Hi Dad
Sweet poem. Never seen a letter poem, but I like ot
- 03 May 2022, 06:35
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Z
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5189
Re: Z
Thanks Michael
- 02 May 2022, 03:07
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10527
Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
I second TGIGF.
- 02 May 2022, 03:06
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Poems that placed in the February IBPC 2022: Congrats, Siva, and Billy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5335
Re: Poems that placed in the February IBPC 2022: Congrats, Siva, and Billy
Fine poems. Congrats to Siva and Billy and the Block.
- 01 May 2022, 21:27
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10527
Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
The Cannoneer At the American Legion there's a WWII field artillery piece, its tripod sprawled on white gravel like a Grandaddy Long Legs. When I was a kid, we held dances there and I was in love with Mary Alice Paxton, but when I asked her to dance, she smiled and walked off. They keep it greased a...
- 01 May 2022, 12:54
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10527
Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
I accept for Cannoneer ( thanks Billy). I second Phone of the Wind.
Thinking on 2 more
Thinking on 2 more
- 30 Apr 2022, 15:11
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Making It To Heaven
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2944
Re: Making It To Heaven
Thanks Bob
- 30 Apr 2022, 04:14
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Making It To Heaven
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2944
Making It To Heaven
Like a groupie stalking the back door of a concert stage hoping to catch a glimpse or nod from his idol, I will take up a post at the Pearly Gates right around quitting time, with a lawn chair, Thermos of coffee and left over meatball sandwich for as many times as it takes for St Peter to take notic...
- 30 Apr 2022, 04:12
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Z
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5189
Re: Z
Thanks for a careful read and thoughtful comment.
There have been a million poems about Ukraine.
I enjoyed writing it.
There have been a million poems about Ukraine.
I enjoyed writing it.
- 29 Apr 2022, 01:42
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Disappearing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6510
Re: Disappearing
Reads much better
- 28 Apr 2022, 15:23
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: A TGIGF reflection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4097
Re: A TGIGF reflection
Some really great turns of phrase.
- 28 Apr 2022, 15:21
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Disappearing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6510
Re: Disappearing
Bob, I've written this poem. To me it meanders a bit and the reference to letting a bird go is too stale in comparison to the balance of the poem.
Let it marinate. It seems one long in the making.
Let it marinate. It seems one long in the making.
- 28 Apr 2022, 15:06
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Sometimes There’s Nothing Else To Do
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6133
Re: Sometimes There’s Nothing Else To Do
Yes. We who write are obliged to chronicle.
I like the overall feel; the security of N home vs the atrocities in the news..
I like the overall feel; the security of N home vs the atrocities in the news..
- 28 Apr 2022, 15:03
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Z
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5189
Z
You can tell it's Spring by the few green hairs that stubble a crotch between asphalt and sidewalk, subsisting on the meager dust packed in over the years.I raise a glass to their tenacity, want to erect a steel cage for protection from careless feet, cigarette butts. In Ukraine it's raining missles...