“Net Seas”
 

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“Between you and me,” the fish begins gasping
“This here used to be a spot swimming with talent,”
The glint in his nacreous pearls fades from the eyes
into stygian blackness at the changing of tides.
“New waves would arrive, but old schools wouldn’t adapt,”
The grey he now glides through hid its colourful past.
A lusciously lavish lime-green grows festered with fauna
as young whippersnappers seek less treacherous waters.
The septic old stalwarts are stuck in their ways
full of selfish importance and reluctant to change.
They love to inflate their worth to excess in verbatim
too stubborn to make way for the next generation.
Those set in their ways want to keep what they have
- with the rest relegated to feed off their scraps.
The green-gilled that gather can’t afford to be different
so they eat up the chance of each morsel they’re given.
There’s a war of attrition bubbling already amidst them
as it’s poor eco-system brings the threat of extinction.
The real enemy isn’t sharing space in the pond
- but in letting its visitors stagnate for too long.
When the greyfish are gone, I’ll carry this place on my back
despite my aging accomplishments or the weight of the task.
But it takes a collaborative effort for our scene to survive
and we must sustain what we have to help us keep it alive.
I’m breathing new life into it, whether as big as some think
or a meaningless fry, but either way - I’m still just a fish.
You sink or you swim, the size of the pond our sort inhibit
is insignificant, it’s little fish that make all the difference.

Actually fire as fuck and really really real

Stay fishing

Ya this is dope. Short verses that say a lot with less words are refreshing.

respect

thanks for peeping

Dragon Claws
 

I won't break this down. I have read literally hundreds of your verses, I knew exactly what I was about to read before I read it, I knew where you were going to go with the allegory by the title alone, and I still loved every word of it.

You're the GOAT and if anyone has a solid argument that you're not I would really like to see it. I've been reading your work for the best part of 2 decades, in my early days, before I figured out how I wanted to write, I basically just bit your style.

I think I've figured out what makes you so great and why you win relentlessly. It's oddly also why I consider Roald Dahl the greatest writer of all time. You have an incredible ability to engage with even the most casual of readers. You are accessible to absolutely everyone. Your writing is open and honest, it doesn't keep any secrets.

Add to that your remarkable technical ability and you have a winning formula that never fails.

You're the GOAT.

I respect it. I taught you everything I knew at the time in the hope you would carry this on when my time was up.

I just sort of never ended up retiring. I may never will. I love this too much.

I still write but it lacks something. I think I just don't have that fire and determination to be the best and I have too much respect for this thing of ours to post something if I feel like I could have done better.

I love this too and as long as this site is here I will always read verses, and if I feel compelled to I will post my thoughts. I come here every day and I read a lot.

I'll post when I write something I feel is good enough. I have too much respect for this to post something second rate.

This was pretty sick, love the imagery you bring to a piece.
Once you hit that groove you never really let up and beast.
I know everytime your name pops up round here it's dope.
Kind of "Old Man & The Sea" type shit I'm catching with the flow.
Overall dope shit.

A lusciously lavish lime-green grows festered with fauna
as young whippersnappers seek less treacherous waters.
The septic old stalwarts are stuck in their ways
full of selfish importance and reluctant to change.

^^ got a chuckle out of me, keep it up.

I began copying and pasting quotes that I liked from this verse as I was reading through it the first time but I stopped because frankly I was quoting every single line. This was an impressive work, Lars, which is unsurprising given what you’ve shown in the time I knew you (and I knew you for a much shorter time than most).

You were always technically efficient in your writing, but more importantly you usually had something to say. Typically a writer will excel at one or the other but you’re one of the few that was always great at both.

Glad to see you’re still around and writing quality work