The Poetry Wire - Going From Bard To Verse

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LindsD May 2020 7:22am, 29 May 2020 37,168 posts	0 LindsD
Serendippily May 2020 7:23am, 29 May 2020 17,861 posts	0 Serendippily Biting Brian
LindsD May 2020 7:27am, 29 May 2020 37,170 posts	0 LindsD Contemplating posting it on the politics thread.
Diogenes May 2020 7:55am, 29 May 2020 49,202 posts	0 Diogenes You should. I saw this last night and was going to add it, put was waiting until I could get the text rather than just an image. Hard-hitting brilliance.
Peregrinator May 2020 8:30am, 29 May 2020 606 posts	0 Peregrinator Sadly, it will not be possible to hold those making decisions, affecting all of us, to account. Sadly.
Diogenes Jun 2020 11:18am, 2 Jun 2020 49,353 posts	0 Diogenes So, (SS) when I was doing my poetry course, one of the things they got us doing was making found poems by collecting words and phrases from disparate sources. One of the things I tried was making one out of Fetch thread titles, but it didn't really work. Today, looking in my notebook I came across the list I'd made and somehow the words came together into something not entirely displeasing. You'll probably recognise some of them. What’s making you smile today? What’s making you smile today? Something beginning with the things you want to say? Morning light and streaky bacon, lets count to a million, one letter at a time. Everybody else seem to love wildflowers and Switzerland isolation and politics, the new normal. Hide and seek, gone off-grid a treasure hunt without a map Shop for something nice. Phantom girls saturated in wine The music game, heart rate off the scale. The benefits of giving up.
Alice the Camel Jun 2020 12:34pm, 2 Jun 2020 4,317 posts	0 Alice the Camel That’s brilliant, Dio! Very pleasing!
LindsD Jun 2020 12:53pm, 2 Jun 2020 37,371 posts	0 LindsD I like it!
JCB Jun 2020 1:26pm, 2 Jun 2020 1,230 posts	0 JCB Off the chart!
Serendippily Jun 2020 11:19pm, 2 Jun 2020 17,911 posts	0 Serendippily