Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
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Ask Not
Written by FS Lawrie E A (ret'd) Image by FS Lawrie TY (ret'd) Dedicated to WO Lawrie A (RIP)
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Footnotes
Well, they don't, do they? Image made by author from free for non commercial use items.
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The Rhymoceros
I very much approve of the Rhymoceros. Image source Flicker.com licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 photographer Ned Trifle
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Pataphor
It's derived from Pataphysics, it's more than a metaphor. Pataphysics is a fore-runner - not to say a strand - of surrealism. There, that's my title justified. Image is a screenshot, is it my copyright or wikipedia.org's? Good question. I take full responsibility.
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Inter Alia
Oddball, queer fish, guiri, other. I have been all of them. Inter alia is among(st) others in Latin. Image source is pixabay.com and is free for commercial use with no attribution.
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Some
Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020
striking imagery here.
Do you mean "algæ-d" at line 8?
Your poem finishes very strongly with these lines.
"the sun’s departure
under the horizon’s guillotine,
...
Read full commentPosted in Retirement options for tube trains, #7, Foulness Island
I did enjoy this.
Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2020
However, I think the first line is misleading. I wonder if the sentiment would work better by 'fronting' the adverbial phrase like this "For the oak tree, there is no remedy for humanity."? This makes the focus of the poem the oak tree from the...
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Weird
Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2020
is good. And that's all I have to say.
E x
Read full commentPosted in The Walrus and the Pearl
Atmospheric
Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2020
eerie, too. I love the idea of a mourning fog and what it might be mourning.
Ewan x
Read full commentPosted in House Ghost
I reckon
Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2020
the lightning bird will be out and about today.
This is terrific poetry.
E x
Read full commentPosted in Hamerkop
This deceptively simple
Posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2020
poem is deep and moving. Not a word wasted. That's why it's today's Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day: why not share or retweet if you like it too?
Read full commentPosted in The Places
Ahh,
Posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2020
sublime. Dextrous and thrilling use of language.
Read full commentWell done.
Best
Ewan
Posted in Salamander
Yes,
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
Victorian in feel, more Tennyson, as has been said, than the romantics.
The repetition of wallet in two stanzas in a row brought me up short, but it's just a quibble. Wallet itself is a relatively new import from the US in 1913 (OED 2nd...
Read full commentPosted in The Impostor
White noise
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2020
is played very loud as an "interrogation" technique by most intelligence agencies. That's the point , government people know about Rueda's phone. It's easy enough to keep track of a mobile, even if it's switched off. Teniente Elizondo doesn't...
Read full commentPosted in "Señor Bean" [Mr Martínez: Eleven]
Good poem,
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2020
I wonder how many buildings I've lived or worked in over the years have gone. A really good poem that starts very well.
I'm just wondering about the ending. It's a bit flippant, at least for me, I'd certainly lose the exclamation mark....
Read full commentPosted in Closure By Slideshow
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