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April 2024 Contest Winners

Congratulations to our April 2024 contest winners!

Spring Fling  was won by Carrie with the poem Spring Fling

04/24 I Was An April Fool was won by Geezer with the poem Fooled Again...

04/24 Waiting In Line was won by  Mary Beth Magee  with the poem The Last Time

04/24 Are We There Yet?  Was won by Rula with the poem We're Almost There For It

04/24 My Favorite Cookie was won by Leslie with the poem After school treat!

Poetry Month 2024 Imagine Contest Vote

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Backwards

By: Carrie

G
All the things that I wanna write
C
Have been written
G
All the songs that I wanna sing
D
Have been sung,
G
All the things that I wanna say
C
Have been said before
D A Em G
All the things that I wanna do have been done.

G
I wanna fly a kite
A
At night instead of day,
C
I wanna drive a big old truck
D
The opposite way
G
I wanna laugh when I’m sad,
C
And cry when I’m happy and gay
D A
I wanna do what no one’s done
G
Any other day.

G
I wanna wear all my clothes
A
Wear em all inside out,

C
I wanna be real quiet,
D
When everybody else wants to shout
G
I wanna see the stars
C
When everybody else sees the sun
D
I want my day to end
C G
When everybody else’s has begun.

C D
Wouldn’t it be weird, wouldn’t it be funny and strange
A
If everyone thought like this,
G
Slightly deranged.

 

 

Lost Love

By: Alex Tanner

Should I recall those blissful times
When we like climbing flowers entwined;
Our blossoms scented evenings air
As Love and Lust forsook our cares.

Your laugh was soft and gentle,
A butterflies wings in spring,
Dancing on the sunbeams
Enough to make me sing.

Eyes so bright they sparkled
Diamonds on moonlit snow;
Flashing hither and thither
To make my pulse race so.

We held each other gentle
Yet tight so not to break,
Though deep, our love could never last,
Different paths our lives would take.

For fleeting months we tarried,
Each time we met we knew
This may be the last time
For lovers hours are few.

If I love ten thousand women
Tis you I will recall;
You gave yourself so willing,
For your passion I did fall.

On black nights as the wind howls,
As I lie in a bed so cold,
Your soft voice echoes 'cross the years
To warm my lonely soul.

                                                                                                                                         

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 Whistle Stop Grove by Izzi Reinier

 

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Dance Class

abstinence and cruel practice
old dancers have no feet
living beliefs
in this house of rabies
a house of lies
lies that tell the truth
taught through the agony of disillusionment

the planets move
we do their dance
fire points
angles in motion

when they square
we are constrained
when opposed
swords cross
when trine
we are graced
always the dance of the other

the world whorls
strikes like lightening
breaking the nose of every beautiful thing

Deaf poet now

The whole truth

THERE REALLY is no imagery in this
as far as I can share my experience

When I went before a Medical Board
the ear specialist was wonder struck
He spoke and even as the distance widened
I replied before he ended
fed up incredibly
he said loudly
what did I say this time

Nothing Sir
you were perhaps rubbing something with some thing
blast me
he said
you are a wonder
how could you know I was massaging
the rear of a paper with pencil

Annarcheyes Replies

“Let it go. Let it out.
Let it all unravel.
Let it free and it can be
A path on which to travel.”
Michael Leunig.

Annarcheyes adores Leunig,
The world’s best visual poet
But he can’t see
The pain that she
needs to cause,
her sacrificial suckling pig

Annarcheyes enacts a plan
For thethe grisly demise of a man
Whose crimes , like Fortunato’s,
Need not be named
Yet the vengeance and pain
Need to be fully explained

Types

some poems are like haute cuisine

delicately designed
from rich
and exotic ingredients
melded into an esoteric melange
of sumptuous delight
(savor slowly, with wine)

some poems are a mechanical nightmare

clunky and bumpy
clattering wrecks
contraptions
clogged with extraneous
bells and whistles
and strapped to an off-kilter frame

some poems are like popsicles

Hope

Stems tremble.
Leaves wave in the wind.
White belated flowers gleam.

Shallow sun-puddles sway.
Tawny lace
of worn down shadows swings.

Oaks throw the last words.
Air shimmers and rings.

On the background
of the dark lilac cloud
geese draw angular
silvery shapes – the outline
of their backs and wings shine.

Leaves and needles swirl,
fly and fall,
catch the last sun,
rustle the last nothings,
swirl, fly and fall.

So Sang The Jester Crown

Purity
The dead are painless and in pure spirit
they float, crucified, on tall matches;
cubby whispers and punctured IV bags.
Their faces suspend as orphan moons,
necroptic jackals howl at the pass

of their King Snail baring jester crowns,

jeweled lesions bare in the smile
of a stray puppet body bound
to barbed, straw crosses.

By Your Side

I sit by your side and memories swirl
The sweet and the tart
Those more precious than a pearl

I pace back and forth and start to despair
The light leaves your eyes
See how dull and lank is your hair?

I wake up at night softly weeping
No, I’m not your cousin, your dear aunt or uncle
Gone now are your days of running and leaping

I stand next to you gently reminding
It’s me, your first born, don’t you know your own daughter?
I talk to myself more than you, I am finding

QUEEN FOR A DAY, 1958

she was
queen for a day
brought to you
by
the Red Cross
and Freezone
to lift off
those painful foot corns
and lets not forget the good folks at
HEET
for those aching back muscles
strong
yet doesn't burn
and comes with a handy dandy applicator

she could have anything she wanted
all she had to do
was ask for it on
TV
after becoming the winning contestant
for a life more tragic then all the others

High And Mighty

jostling for position
elbows bear the brunt
I have a primal need
to always be in front

It soothes my precious ego
when I can see ahead and
pretend a sense of prescience
to those that think I've led

but,

once upon a hunch
(which proved to be amiss) I
lured my flock of lemmings
off a mother fucking cliff

laughing stock [Limerick - November fun]

Is America getting weak
painting a picture bleak
a few thousand immigrants
become an irritant
making the POTUS shriek?

he feels fear is the key
for making them flee
calling it an invasion
a false accusation
his base cheers in glee

pointing finger at immigrants
they're terrorists he grunts
but the two who committed crime
not long ago but in recent time
are home grown and blunt

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