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- Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:58 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: On a Finger
- Replies: 4
- Views: 745
Re: On a Finger
Cheers for your input. I think this poem is rather too dense - obviously the meaning is crystal clear in my head, but it is rather unaccessable. If there isn't enough in there at first glance to make a reader think "hey cool", it doesn't matter how much deeper meaning there is because the reader is ...
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:03 am
- Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
- Topic: June Tabor - The Cloud Factory
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11591
Re: June Tabor - The Cloud Factory
I like. Which is definitly a result considering this is the type of music I almost never listen to. You may have opened doors for me.
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:45 am
- Forum: Prose/Fiction Discussion
- Topic: Graham Greene
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5121
Re: Graham Greene
Ah yes, the destructors, the most searched for Graham Greene story on google by virtue of Donnie Darko. :lol: A great little story though. I love how so many of his works make great films, "The Fallen Idol" is a great film, though falls short of the brilliance of the original short story "The Baseme...
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:39 am
- Forum: Prose/Fiction Discussion
- Topic: Who's reading what?
- Replies: 494
- Views: 206142
Re: Who's reading what?
Getting through Crime and Punishment slowly, I'd like to say that it is because I don't want it to end and I'm drinking in every word, which is partly true, though to be honest somewhere in my student lifestyle I lost the stamina for novels. It is one of those texts that sparks off so many ideas in ...
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:04 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: On a Finger
- Replies: 4
- Views: 745
On a Finger
I hope I'm not breaking any rules, but I posted this a while ago in the beginners forum. It's been redrafted and I think it's now ready to withstand the fury of the experienced forum... readyaimfire! On a Finger The years have turned its skin to another shade, With spring's light translucence wiring...
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:44 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: Hotel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 593
Re: Hotel
Good stuff, grabs your attention then goes on to make it worth your while. A good insight into the world of the damned - the whole thing fits together really well, the final image sets the whole thing into place for me. Thoroughly enjoyed this one.
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:37 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: Arghhhh
- Replies: 6
- Views: 744
Re: Arghhhh
Geat force and imagery, loved the end. Could help think of that Larkin poem that end "Such attics cleared of me! Such absences!". It's hard to accept that as an artist you can create something that goes beyond your our own sad little world, even though it was created within it - but you've done it h...
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:32 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: delicately
- Replies: 6
- Views: 572
Re: Delicately
Good imagery< I liked "cocoon sleep" especially.
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:25 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: On a Finger (3rd Draft)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 637
Re: On a Finger (3rd Draft)
Thanks, got another draft up now. Quite rewarding getting into the swing of revising a poem. Again, girl I like because it harks backs to youth in the way woman doesn't.
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:14 pm
- Forum: Poetry Discussion
- Topic: Please tell me I'm not the only one
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1314
Re: Please tell me I'm not the only one
Yeah, I have that a lot - of course in my case it developed into a florid psychotic mania and I wound up in a psychiatric ward. Feeling much better now, thank you. But yes, I think it is often the downside of a creative mind. Manic Depression is termed the artist's disease for good reason, and like ...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:11 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: Haiku Train
- Replies: 7631
- Views: 1002198
Re: Haiku Train
Or my nice blue shoes
Will be torn about the heel
And the puddle leak
Will be torn about the heel
And the puddle leak
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:24 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: On a Finger (3rd Draft)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 637
Re: Fingering
Thanks, I think you're right. Far and away my biggest influence is Larkin, so I'm looking to mix in the deep with obscene in my poetry - unfortunatly I'm not Philip larkin so it doesn't come off as well. I totally agree with the title, it needs to go - it was just an afterthought, I didn't have a ti...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:14 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: The party
- Replies: 6
- Views: 610
Re: The party
Hi,
You made me smile, so thanks for that.
again, I could crit, but it's be rather like taking a hammer and chisel to a blow-up doll.
You made me smile, so thanks for that.
again, I could crit, but it's be rather like taking a hammer and chisel to a blow-up doll.
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:01 am
- Forum: Prose/Fiction Discussion
- Topic: Sherlock Holmes - best detective ever?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4248
Re: Sherlock Holmes - best detective ever?
Always gotta love Morse, but then like most of the general public I've never actually read any of the novels so have no business mentioning him here really do I?
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:48 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: Baroque
- Replies: 3
- Views: 410
Re: Baroque
Hi, I like this a lot, the melting of the contrast and conflict of the erotic to the routine is brilliant. The lost potency... brill... The whole thing captures the warm pleasure of a enticed semi in yer trousers that never comes to fruition but was nice anyway. I'm struggling to find something to a...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:26 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: Jesus quipped
- Replies: 6
- Views: 687
Re: Jesus quipped
And thus it came to pass that Joseph did leaveth the stable and drowned his sorrows in newly wined water. 

- Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:18 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: On a Finger (3rd Draft)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 637
On a Finger (3rd Draft)
The years have turned its skin to another shade, With spring's light translucence wiring the blood, And summer's heavy rays double tapping the grave And autumnal rains seeping through the opening pours The winter's darkening nights into hollow bone. That digit keeps present a static joint Encapsulat...
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:40 pm
- Forum: Poetry Discussion
- Topic: Good answer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 965
Re: Good answer
Yes, that is a good interpretation. I've always seen the priest and the doctor as primarily emblematic of man's frantic but horrifyingly futile desire to avoid death... but I think the strength of Larkin's poetry is that many of his poems contain a duplicity in meaning. I don't know what it is about...
- Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:26 pm
- Forum: Poetry Discussion
- Topic: Rhyme, meter and all the rest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 852
Re: Rhyme, meter and all the rest
I think there's a lot in that... To turn it on it's head I've heard it said that maths is the purest form of poetry. I think there is a kind of poetry in Maths, but you don't really get to see it untill you're at a high level or if that subject really turns you on... (alas, I am in neither group...)
- Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:44 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: Teenteaser
- Replies: 6
- Views: 729
Re: Teenteaser
I liked this, the change of tone with the italics worked well.
- Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:53 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: Haiku Train
- Replies: 7631
- Views: 1002198
Re: Haiku Train
With discerning eyes,
I map your face, counting all
The hairs on your chin.
I map your face, counting all
The hairs on your chin.
- Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:08 pm
- Forum: Poetry Discussion
- Topic: Edward Thomas and Englishness
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7562
Re: Edward Thomas and Englishness
Hmm, " A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not though death had undone so many. "? Yes, food for thought Wab, certainly. What is nationality, and is it important? I have no ready answers, but I have just finished reading "Brave New World", I'm reminded of the Savage's exile from his tr...
- Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:14 am
- Forum: Any Other Business
- Topic: International Philosophy - Greece v Germany
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1840
Re: International Philosophy - Greece v Germany
Would Italy be allowed the likes of Marcus Aurelius and Cicero too?
Thomas More should really make the GB team IMO, "utopia" is a very important humanist work.
On that subject, where did Erasmus come from? *googles* Rotterdam, hmm, anyone else from the Netherlands to make a team with him?
Thomas More should really make the GB team IMO, "utopia" is a very important humanist work.
On that subject, where did Erasmus come from? *googles* Rotterdam, hmm, anyone else from the Netherlands to make a team with him?
- Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:18 pm
- Forum: Prose/Fiction Discussion
- Topic: Larkin on Fiction
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3884
Re: Larkin on Fiction
Well, I read "A Girl in Winter". Good, but not great. Worth the read if you're a Larkin fan though, because, and I know this is a cliche, but it really does shed new light on his poetry, and there are some really great passages in there even if it does drag a little at times. As one might predict, t...
- Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:37 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: Haiku Train
- Replies: 7631
- Views: 1002198
Re: Haiku Train
With cement, of course,
cracks in grounded soles will heal
and no waves break them.
cracks in grounded soles will heal
and no waves break them.