[Ed Shacklee]

The heartbreak of Syria, here.

Best,

Ed

[John Riley]

Thanks for this Ed. It's short and powerful.

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Thank you, Agent.

And John, I appreciate your comment very much.

Cally

[Cyn Neely]

Rage. Excellent

[Terese Coe]

Well done, Chrissie. Thwarting the syntax is a very effective indication of the way this kind of news "strangle[s] up [our] mind," to quote Dylan.

Hope you don't mind if I tag on here with the news that I have a poem at New Verse News today, called "America." https://newversenews.blogspot.com.au/

[Siham Karami]

Powerful, Calligraphy. How hard it is to address the unspeakable. How brave and how much we need this.

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[Cally Conan-Davies]

Thank you, Terese! I completely agree with your comment about syntax. "Thwarting syntax" is one of my favourite writing tools. It's a powerful way of pitching the mind out of well-worn tracks, as well as emulating the effect on the mind of such news, as you say.

And thanks (and congrats!), too, for your couplet. How bleak it is . . .

(An aside --- perhaps, as many Sphereans appear from time to time on New Verse News, we could have a dedicated thread on Acc Mem that we could all tag onto to give attention to any of our apearances there--something like the Good News thread at GT. It could be The Verse News thread.)

Cally

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Ahhh, Arrow, we crossed paths!!

Thank you, dear Arrow.

[Terese Coe]

Chrissie,

There's enough bleakness to go around, and around the world several times. Writing it does help to some extent, or at least it helps us face it in a sidelong way.

I am with you on your idea for a dedicated thread about published news poems. They're often fairly short, so we'll see what the mods have to say...

[Erik Olson]

Congratulations! Affecting and pertinent, well done!
Best,
Erik