Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · Dec 19 A quick write for #poemsabout #money: greed destroyed our communities in the first clearances, now the same greed takes our houses for trophies and holiday homes! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Off to the school church service and will check in with others later! #poems #poetry
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The progression of shortening lines splendidly matches the content. Really captures an essential aspect of the solstice.
Beautiful, sad, and very real.
This makes me so sad 💔 But it is important to think/write/talk about and your poem is beautiful and elegant, I love the solemn and poignant ending — a formerly living & breathing community reduced to just “a postcard”.
Andy, vivid use of images! It has such a melancholy rhythm down to the ending line. Well done!❤️
I like how the area, the idea, the poem--all reduced to "a postcard."
Nicely written. It's an amazing piece, but if you don't mind me asking, what does the title mean or translate to? Thanks for sharing this one!
For me this carries a solemn sense of emptiness, but also transfiguration as winter bites.
Love the narrowing of the structure echoing the reduction of community to a piece of card 👏