Magnet Fishing

Magnet fishing a new activity

Lift something to sell in the car boot sales

From the many waterways of North Wales;

Cable once used for electricity,

Old tools or coins or anything pretty,

Discarded cans of Wrexham Lager Ales,

Those twisted metal hooks for lifting bales

And every kind of curiosity.

But a young lady from Bala went wrong

Causing the army a dangerous task,

When hauling out an unexploded bomb

She thought looked like an attractive hip flask;

So you magnet anglers a warning take

And mind what you fish out of river or lake!

© David Subacchi

'Magnet' fishing hobby hooks WW2 bomb on canal

David Subacchi lives in Wales (UK) where he was born of Italian roots. He studied at the University of Liverpool and has 4 published collections of his English Language poetry: First Cut (2012), Hiding in Shadows (2014), Not Really a Stranger (2016) and A Terrible Beauty (2016) as well as a collection in Welsh: Eglwys Yng Nghremona (2016).

views from an off worlder

it felt strange to awaken

to an artificial voice

after years

of chemically induced sleep

unable to grasp one thought

tightly enough

instead

permitting free-form

until something clicked

meliorism

trapped

strapped

without

ever looking back

trained but pained

our sacrifice

heralded a new dawn

to live in perpetuity

within

the archeology of knowledge

now we has become I

pilot

pioneer

pinioned

for research recidivism restitution

one dog barked at nothing

10,000 others also strayed

into etheric

fields

where dreams

are made of bones

© Shaun Parrin

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Shaun Parrin had been writing, over many years, and been published in different genres, although he is not a professional writer outside his day job. He has previously been published in Poetry24 and continues to try this genre.