The Poetry Wire - Going From Bard To Verse

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Diogenes Jun 2020 6:36am, 3 Jun 2020 49,362 posts	0 Diogenes Today’s dose of Brian:
LindsD Jun 2020 7:27am, 3 Jun 2020 37,396 posts	0 LindsD Hand that shakes with rage not age And the last verse is genius.
Peregrinator Jun 2020 8:31am, 3 Jun 2020 615 posts	0 Peregrinator What’s making you smile today? by Diogenes ^^^ - making me smile today. And the dose of Bilston.
Lizzie W Jun 2020 10:42am, 8 Jun 2020 23,221 posts	0 Lizzie W Madman in the Vegetable Aisle I am in the market and there is a girl shopping for vegetables and she is picking them up, tomatoes avocados peppers heads of lettuce and she is weighing them, inspecting them and rejecting the ones she thinks she should reject. And she is standing there, goddess over those vegetables, two perfect legs running up to the bottom of a salmon colored dress and a mess of blonde hair. Her hands are running through mounds of broccoli and she must eat healthy, I say to myself, she must be one of those health food freaks and she probably runs all the time and reads health magazines, I say. And I am standing there, pretending to actually want to buy vegetables and pretending to know what makes a bad vegetable and what makes a good one and I have been in love once, I say to myself, and maybe it could happen again. Perfect legs, salmon dress. I could be better, I say, I could be great, I say like the movies, I say, trying to work up enough courage to ask her to get coffee, no, not coffee, she won’t like coffee she’s one of those health food freaks so I decide I’m going to ask her to go out for a steak then realize she probably doesn’t eat red meat, focus, I say, as I am the madman in the vegetable aisle, digging my thumbs into tomatoes and ruining them. Sushi! I will take her to sushi and I will tell her stories and won’t drink too much and I will write her poems that aren’t like this one but by the time I’ve arrived at this conclusion she is out of the vegetable aisle and I can’t see her anymore. Thin, almost clear tomato juice was running down the slants of my thumbs and I sigh and walk back to the tobacco counter to buy nicotine gum so I can quit smoking and think about the nights where I would drink too much and she wouldn’t be in that salmon dress and we would venture into other people, thinking about the times that we were once in love and how much better that was. I would think those things as she ate eggs and wheat toast with water for the 365th consecutive morning and I would still smoke and not be able to remember that day in the vegetable aisle, rotting in bed watching the cooking channel and she wouldn’t be a goddess anymore though she would still be picky with vegetables and it’s better for her to be as she is now. © 9 years ago, Robert Paulson
LindsD Jun 2020 11:44am, 8 Jun 2020 37,598 posts	0 LindsD I like that.
Serendippily Jun 2020 1:20pm, 8 Jun 2020 17,977 posts	0 Serendippily Me too
Lizzie W Jun 2020 9:24am, 11 Jun 2020 23,254 posts	0 Lizzie W bbc.co.uk
Serendippily Jun 2020 9:28pm, 11 Jun 2020 18,011 posts	0 Serendippily For Purps - Nothing lies between I went There was a space I fell through A seconds glitch I landed What I passed through I cannot picture I picked myself up and carried on
Diogenes Jun 2020 9:31pm, 11 Jun 2020 49,723 posts	0 Diogenes Good stuff. I tried and failed to find a transcription of the Agard
Peregrinator Jun 2020 10:07pm, 11 Jun 2020 616 posts	0 Peregrinator Really appreciating the ideas here. Recently walking I've loved the contrast that the grey sky makes with the oak trees.