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Vote Larry!

By Kilb50 on Wed, 22 May 2024

Our nation's saviour. A Petrarchan sonnet. Best recited with a Churchillian twang.

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Extra in a B-Movie Western

By Kilb50 on Mon, 04 Sep 2023

They say that God looks like John Wayne...

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Painting Horses

By Kilb50 on Fri, 14 Jul 2023

I was a drifter before I started painting horses...

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The Reason Why I Like Cooking for You

By Kilb50 on Sat, 27 May 2023

I won't need much in the afterlife.

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Many thanks onemorething. A

Posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2021

Many thanks onemorething. A pamphlet - published by the wonderfully named Nathaniel Butter - from 1642 recounts the story of the Woolwich toadfish. Whether the wonderfully titled Lord Strange (James Stanley, 1607-1651) was dispatched into the mix...

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I enjoyed the anachronisms in

Posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2021

I enjoyed the anachronisms in this - Menelaus stocking up on feta and tiramisu for a speed-dating party made me laugh. Men fighting over women, the root of all Western Literature, as somebody once said. Great read.

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Magical & with an

Posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2021

Magical & with an undercurrent of menace, where 'each has a role to live,' I enjoyed walking through your imaginary woods Richard. All best wishes to you.

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Many thanks airy & eds for

Posted on Fri, 18 Jun 2021

Many thanks airy & eds for PoD. This poem was written a long time ago - way back in the mid 80s I think - & recently revised. Moral: Don't throw away unsatisfactory early drafts!

Posted in A Feast of Bells

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Great stuff Mark. Really

Posted on Fri, 04 Jun 2021

Great stuff Mark. Really enjoyed this.

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I'm glad you didn't lurk in

Posted on Sun, 07 Mar 2021

I'm glad you didn't lurk in metaphor onemorething. Deceptively simple, your poem is a treasure of considered wisdom and emotion. Louise Gluck's later, intensely personal poems came to mind. Great writing!

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A very well composed poem,

Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2020

A very well composed poem, onemorething. I really like the way the poem gradually shifts its focus from external to internal damage and ends with an overt comparison. Very enjoyable!

Posted in A Broken Pot’s Lament

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Ewan - this was written as a

Posted on Thu, 04 Oct 2018

Ewan - this was written as a CW prompt many years ago, back in the 80s. Can't do CW prompts to save my life these days!

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Pattern-poems can, I think,

Posted on Sun, 06 May 2018

Pattern-poems can, I think, sometimes feel a bit forced in their construction. This poem, Parson, is inspired with its shape complementing and formally adding to - in an exciting way - its subject. And as a footy fan the crowning glory of elderly...

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Thanks for your comments

Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018

Thanks for your comments Parson. It's been a long time since I read Carver - too long in fact.