My poem Broken Cable has been shortlisted for Ink, Sweat and Tears Poem of the month for March 2017! Public voting is at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7V5XFKP
Voting will close at 9pm on Thursday 13th April. The shortlist is at http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?cat=72
I’m going to be cheeky and ask that you vote for my poem. Here it is once more:
Broken cable
In the middle of the bright Atlantic
Floating on the swell between island volcanoes
Looking past reflective surface tension
To silvered gas bubbles beneath catching the light
And across the issuing rift
A long snake of data cable
Broken sheared twisted.
As the gas breaks the surface
We hear voices
Blogs bubbling to the top
Instructions to buy or sell
A thousand tiny voices
Sparkling in the sunshine
Several parrot fish swim by
Next day when snorkelling
I fancy I hear fish blogging
Copyright © 2017 Kim Whysall-Hammond
The Cheesesellers Wife 
Have just voted for you.
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Thanks Kim!
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I voted for you just now.
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Thank you Leonard. I trust your recent trip to London was a good one?
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You’re welcome and good luck. And yes, it will now be an annual trip for me.
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I’m a Londoner in exile—50 miles to the west of the world best city, enjoying the ‘simple life’ of the UK’s silicon valley! :)
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I understand exile all too well.
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I love this part … the way it sounds:
“across the issuing rift
A long snake of data cable
Broken sheared twisted”
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Thank you Shawna. As a telecommunications specialist I was horrified when I saw that poor cable lying there and so I tried to capture the wrongness of it.
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Good poem
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Good poem
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Thank you
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