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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Sometimes things move so
fast they seem to have arrived
before they were launched.
My father, loathing
early computers, preferred
counting in his head.
His head was crowded
with numbers. He had worn them
in terrible times
and rarely lost count.
https://nitter.poast.org/george_szirtes/status/1977498801146302655#m
Published: October 12, 2025 22:17
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Sometimes things move so
fast they seem to have arrived
before they were launched.
My father, loathing
early computers, preferred
counting in his head.
His head was crowded
with numbers. He had worn them
in terrible times
and rarely…
FOR LK
In this translation
you will look in vain for a
full-stop, Stops are there,
but hard to find. Keep
searching. Oh look, there is one!
He must have taken
breath. Time can stand still
for the blink of a whale's eye.
Then the whale goes down,
spouting as it dives.
https://nitter.poast.org/george_szirtes/status/1976404848636723440#m
Published: October 9, 2025 21:50
FOR LK
In this translation
you will look in vain for a
full-stop, Stops are there,
but hard to find. Keep
searching. Oh look, there is one!
He must have taken
breath. Time can stand still
for the blink of a whale's eye.
Then the whale goes down,
…
VETERAN
Coming up this Sunday! Join the "veteran sonneteer". The veteran performs well over the first eight lines but tends to tire in the next six and by the time he reaches the final couplet he is dead on his iambic feet.
https://nitter.poast.org/george_szirtes/status/1973335372680798371#m
Published: October 1, 2025 10:33
VETERAN
Coming up this Sunday! Join the "veteran sonneteer". The veteran performs well over the first eight lines but tends to tire in the next six and by the time he reaches the final couplet he is dead on his iambic feet.
AUTUMNAL
Now the rains have come
and days cool and shorten, time
curls around itself
like a soaked cat. But
now and then the sun will out
to ease the path down.
Autumn is our time.
All that late fruit - pears, apples -
and dead leaves piling
in rust-red gutters.
https://nitter.poast.org/george_szirtes/status/1968069608038076634#m
Published: September 16, 2025 21:48
AUTUMNAL
Now the rains have come
and days cool and shorten, time
curls around itself
like a soaked cat. But
now and then the sun will out
to ease the path down.
Autumn is our time.
All that late fruit - pears, apples -
and dead leaves piling
in…
RT by @george_szirtes: At some point, y’all have gotta ask why we have had every cultural war revving up in this country; race, religion, and gender, but we never talk about the class war. Those conversations get shut down quickly. Those conversations are never prime time debates in mainstream media.
https://nitter.poast.org/The_Acumen/status/1967611329017155798#m
Published: September 15, 2025 15:27
At some point, y’all have gotta ask why we have had every cultural war revving up in this country; race, religion, and gender, but we never talk about the class war. Those conversations get shut down quickly. Those conversations are never prime time…
RT by @george_szirtes: From me to the government of New Zealand - bring back art history. Please retweet if you agree. Especially if you’re in New Zealand!
https://nitter.poast.org/JANUSZCZAK/status/1967591970030882970#m
Published: September 15, 2025 14:10
From me to the government of New Zealand - bring back art history. Please retweet if you agree. Especially if you’re in New Zealand!
RT by @george_szirtes: Glad to have a couple of poems in this new mag with the likes of Carole Bromley, George Szirtes, Marjorie Lotfi, Sean OBrien and Victoria Chang among many more.
https://nitter.poast.org/ianduhig/status/1961076165432525312#m
Published: August 28, 2025 14:39
Glad to have a couple of poems in this new mag with the likes of Carole Bromley, George Szirtes, Marjorie Lotfi, Sean OBrien and Victoria Chang among many more.
The long days shrinking
into autumn. Leaves yellow
and curl, their hands dry
and papery. Who writes
on such paper? What do they
want to say? Silence
eludes them. Tongues of rain
will soak them to a fine pulp,
chattering winds will
talk late into night.
https://nitter.poast.org/george_szirtes/status/1960843968092201179#m
Published: August 27, 2025 23:16
The long days shrinking
into autumn. Leaves yellow
and curl, their hands dry
and papery. Who writes
on such paper? What do they
want to say? Silence
eludes them. Tongues of rain
will soak them to a fine pulp,
chattering winds will
talk late into night.
Here dying flowers
are gathered and put into
elegant vases
where their elegance
becomes poetry. The lives
of flowers is short
but singing is long.
It is their drooping that holds
the longest note. Air
sighs in them like love.
https://nitter.poast.org/george_szirtes/status/1952134874283839518#m
Published: August 3, 2025 22:29
Here dying flowers
are gathered and put into
elegant vases
where their elegance
becomes poetry. The lives
of flowers is short
but singing is long.
It is their drooping that holds
the longest note. Air
sighs in them like love.
How quickly the doors
of the past close behind you.
Are they firmly shut?
Do you have a key
to come and go with? Is there
no way to slip through
the window? You can see
the shadows of furniture
and figures moving
like ghosts to the door.
https://nitter.poast.org/george_szirtes/status/1951046784715043117#m
Published: July 31, 2025 22:26
How quickly the doors
of the past close behind you.
Are they firmly shut?
Do you have a key
to come and go with? Is there
no way to slip through
the window? You can see
the shadows of furniture
and figures moving
like ghosts to the door.
RT by @george_szirtes: An #Otwituary for musical satirist of the 50s-60s #TomLehrer
There’s comedy and parody and levity and melody,
Alacrity, sagacity and mockery and repartee,
There’s plenty of absurdists and they come at ten-a-penny.
There may be one as sharp as him but I can’t think of any.
https://nitter.poast.org/Azjackson/status/1949562113611145553#m
Published: July 27, 2025 20:06
An #Otwituary for musical satirist of the 50s-60s #TomLehrer
There’s comedy and parody and levity and melody,
Alacrity, sagacity and mockery and repartee,
There’s plenty of absurdists and they come at ten-a-penny.
There may be one as sharp as him but I…
The skylights were closed
against the downpour that drenched
the garden. Branches
dripped into more rain,
drains tumbled with bright water.
And it was welcome
but for the sheer noise
of it. Where would time go next?
What might drown out there
among the dark trees?
https://nitter.poast.org/george_szirtes/status/1946338605577773542#m
Published: July 18, 2025 22:37
The skylights were closed
against the downpour that drenched
the garden. Branches
dripped into more rain,
drains tumbled with bright water.
And it was welcome
but for the sheer noise
of it. Where would time go next?
What might drown out there
among the…