Thanks to The Galway Review for publishing two of my poems. They are more song lyrics than poems, so I’m not sure how well they work on paper (or the screen to be more exact). Other versions of the poems have appeared on this blog, but I think they may have finally settled down, although….
Check them out here.
Taking part in Open Link over at dverse.
Taking part in Open Link Weekend over at Desperate Poets
Stopdraggingthepanda 
JIM I just left a detailed comment but it isn’t showing up. Let me know if it doesn’t get to you and I’ll re-write it.
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Thanks Lisa , no I’m not seeing your detailed comment. Did you post it here or on the Galway Review site?
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Oh right, it is at the Galway Review site! Thanks for clearing up my fuzzy mind 🙂
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Hi Lisa
Just checked out The Galway Review site and can’t find your comment there. Would love to read it, so you could always post it here if you get a chance. Always glad to get your input, much appreciated, JIM
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That’s the pits. Maybe they just haven’t approved it yet? I’ll try to remember what I said.
You do an excellent job of world building in each one. Your description of the tourists is spot on. Our local “leaders” are trying to turn our berg into a tourist destination and a year or so designated boundaries downtown where you can walk around with drinks. Too bad so many of those plastic cups have to be used because a bottle might fall (or vendors lose their 10c deposit.) It is funny how little desperate people need to keep hope alive (I see the waitress as that little.)
On the second one I wonder if you’ve seen the HULU series, “Dopesick”? I just started watching it, where it shows how methodical the oxy makers were in developing, marketing, addicting, and hiding facts until “hillbilly heroin” couldn’t be ignored anymore.
Congratulations on getting them published. Would love to hear them set to music.
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Hi Lisa
Thanks for following up, I always appreciate your comments and insights, I will look out for “Dopesick”! All the best , JIM
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You’re welcome, and I always appreciate reading your poetry. It’s well worth a watch.
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You are so observant. That in-between is hard, not to mention any kind of quitting. (K)
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Thanks for reading, Kerfe, much appreciated!
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Congratulations on your poems in the Galway Review. There is a bitterness to them that captures the way so many people pass their days with a desperate sadness underlying every action.
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Thanks Suzanne! Much appreciated!
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Congratulations!! Enjoyed reading them, but would love to listen to them …especially the second one! The tone and mood hit perfectly.
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Thanks Rajani, much appreciated!
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Love, love the lyrics / poetry! I would enjoy singing your lyrics! Feeling sad this morning knowing Jimmy Buffett is no longer with us … he would have enjoyed your post!
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Thanks Helen!
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Wonderful poems, Jim, and kudos on their publication. In the first poem I love the lines advising, if one is going to take a fall, to try to do it with grace. In the second, I love the birds, and the powerful message about OxyContin: sometimes the thing that brings you comfort is the thing that does you in. Well done.
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Thanks Sherry!
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Love them both… it is a world that I’m thankful for not be part of.
This one sounds so wise
the time
to start quittin
is right before
you begin
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Thanks Bjorn!
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I gotta tell ya, I love these. Especially Savannah. It reads like a ballad. Just needs to be set to music. Great lyricss! Makes me think of Tom Waits. And congrats on th publications.
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Thanks Yvonne, much appreciated!
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