Poetry

>>9910597
which poets have you been reading anon

>~500 poems in word files, pages and notebooks
>about 30 of them are good

Should I publish?

Could get some input on this please?

Oh column cut like gear-
shaft stuck to roof and ground--

how you did turn the earth
and moon, and were you wound

by hands to track and keep
place your timeless shadow.

True to test you stand, in
rest--your shade by your side.

Today, vines small and thin
twist round stone and quiet.

Grass, trees, violets, and weeds
sit within you shadow

as sunlight beams to you:
Monarchs oscillate the grove--

Luna's coop in granite groove.

You, in my eyes, perfect
as is. A monolith

telling time to none which
care. And should this soft woods

be dozed, and grasses razed,
for pages stained in lampblack

that ignite the glories
of this old column's past--

these eyes would not read them.
For green round chipping stone

is all I've ever known
you to be; not of then--

Oh pillar of man, pinned
forever to the land,

stand always!, left as is.

>>9910689
I doubt that they are good.

Infirm and phlegmy quavers whet the air,
his reddened unshaved jowls slick from croaked rheum.
He hawks - and roughly sponges at the bare
drip by his crooked jaw - crisp yellowed spume.

The acrid puke sits on the gaunt old floor
and keels into the runnels of a crate.
His troubled breath restored, he bulged and swore,
and raked the air atop his raw-skinned pate.

A sloppy burrow of streeled leaden threads
secretes his lank and pliant gut from view.
The stench of pasty sweat and cabbage sheds
beneath the bubbling cannula - and pew.

With plodding stump, the surpliced priest appeals
through aged affective arts of psalms, and spiels.

have any of you read banjo patterson's works? i enjoy his poetry

especially "the man from snowy river" and "clancy of the overflow"

classic stuff.

>>9913666
seems a bit oversaturated to me

>>9913666
Like I said before. You've gotta ask yourself what intent is here. Plus I agree with >>9913753.

>>9913666
Loved it.