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Sherman Alexie's avatar

"too wise

to think"

Damn!

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Ya that line gets me every time!

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Hasse's avatar

That one hit me too.

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Anton's avatar

Wow—this feels like discovering a lost scripture of revolution and rhythm. 🔥 Wolff’s voice moves between mystical awe and social fury with such fluid grace. “Immortality” reads like a whispered secret from the cosmos, while “On Seeing the Garment Strikers March” could’ve been written yesterday—still pulsing with relevance and reverence.

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Star Jameson's avatar

Exquisite!

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Cheers Star - so glad you enjoyed them!

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Fountain of Tears's avatar

This one is really good. Your comment poem is also an absolute banger.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Aw cheers Fountain - thanks so much for the kind words! :-)

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Hasse's avatar

Lovely poems. "Leaves of Tea" was beautifully contemplative (or perhaps un-contemplative) and "Lovescape" was blissful.

Your poem was a beautiful complementary piece to "Immortality." A whole lot said with not a lot of lines!

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Aw cheers Hasse - super appreciate it! Agree completely about Leaves Of Tea - each of the poems is a "leaf" and there are more from that series too (every poet made up their own name for the "very short poem" at the time - from ones that made perfect sense, like sketches or improvisations, to more poetic ones like mushrooms and bubbles, etc.). Haha - yeah, Immortality was definitely the main inspiration for my one :-) Glad that came through.

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Hasse's avatar

Those titles remind me of Leaves of Grass. :)

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Absolutely, great point - I think that's probably not an accident either - I imagine most of them are at least tangentially referencing Whitman.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

deep blue sky

doing invisible mending

there's all eternity

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Lovely 🖤

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The Sea in Me    (Síodhna)'s avatar

Love your poem Dick. It all songs. The short lined poems are amazing!

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Aw thanks Síodhna, super appreciate the kind words 🖤

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Portia's avatar

"it’s all songs—

or none of it is

i know which i prefer!"

So do I!

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Hehe - nice! :-)

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Ivan's avatar

Interesting poems, new on here, gothic feel to them.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Cheers for the comment Ivan! Much appreciated. Yeah, I can see what you mean.

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