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Umm
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Dangerous Mind
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Joined 6th Dec 2015Forum Posts: 2392
Feel free to post your all time favorite poems by fellow DU members here. Give them a shout out. Can be really old or new writes -- just poetry you have found on DU & adore 📓💕
For anyone who may not know. If you copy & paste the link of the poem, it should pop up in your post once you've submitted it -- just like below ^-^
Umm
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Dangerous Mind
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Joined 6th Dec 2015Forum Posts: 2392
busted television with adjectives (acrylic on plexiglass)
under the bridge
set in the monotony
of grey mud-slung tires
jettisoned branches
month-old socks and milk cartons
I discovered an abandoned television
alien and outlandish
protruding rays of wormtangle wire
graced
with gloriously useless knobs.
even without the plug it was electric
bright
lit the space about it
pulled together all of the under-bridge
made a welcome room of it
but still held a distance
seductively threatening
flashing a jagged tube-shard smile
singular
divergent.
beneath the bridge
I thought of you.
set in the monotony
of grey mud-slung tires
jettisoned branches
month-old socks and milk cartons
I discovered an abandoned television
alien and outlandish
protruding rays of wormtangle wire
graced
with gloriously useless knobs.
even without the plug it was electric
bright
lit the space about it
pulled together all of the under-bridge
made a welcome room of it
but still held a distance
seductively threatening
flashing a jagged tube-shard smile
singular
divergent.
beneath the bridge
I thought of you.
Written by braggman
(Steve Bragg)
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Amorous_tryst
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Dangerous Mind
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Joined 12th June 2017Forum Posts: 945
Now this is a really good idea for a thread, like I can keep up with all the new writes. Your posted poem definitely deserves a 'bump'.
Bluevelvete
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Tyrant of Words
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Joined 21st July 2020Forum Posts: 2349
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Umm
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Dangerous Mind
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Joined 6th Dec 2015Forum Posts: 2392
Danka Amorous_tryst & Bluevelvete 💗
for the support & starting this thing off
for the support & starting this thing off
Umm
Forum Posts: 2392
Dangerous Mind
1
Joined 6th Dec 2015Forum Posts: 2392
Summer Evening, an Essex poem
the constant chirruping
as tired sun relaxes on
the stalks of heather pushing up
between rusted oddments
this is the summer-baked south east
in all its lack of cogent form
it’s in the train station
where someone’s placed a mattress and
littered beer cans and bags around
the detritus that follows everyone
even the homeless
hopeless
drunk
I write the same poem
always and time again
(don’t think I don’t know that)
but only because
I look at witch country
and can’t fathom
just what I find so painful and
enticing in its raggedy scrubland
and crooked promenades
and old leaning buildings
and churches like a beacon in
the shifting modernising sea
as tired sun relaxes on
the stalks of heather pushing up
between rusted oddments
this is the summer-baked south east
in all its lack of cogent form
it’s in the train station
where someone’s placed a mattress and
littered beer cans and bags around
the detritus that follows everyone
even the homeless
hopeless
drunk
I write the same poem
always and time again
(don’t think I don’t know that)
but only because
I look at witch country
and can’t fathom
just what I find so painful and
enticing in its raggedy scrubland
and crooked promenades
and old leaning buildings
and churches like a beacon in
the shifting modernising sea
Written by The_Silly_Sibyl
(Jack Thomas)
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