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 Whistle Stop Grove by Izzi Reinier

 

Let us congratulate Izzi Reinier on his first contest win as a neopoet member.

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Poetic Creations by Mark

 

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there you are by  leoferaco

 

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Neopoet Weekly 03/31/24 to 04/06/24 Winner!

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Enchantress.by Alex Tanner

 

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March 2024 Contest Winners!

Congratulations to our contest Winners 

 

Mother Nature  contest  was won by Lavender with the poem To My Monarch and Her Milkweed

03/24 New Member Contest was won by lostLA with the poem insights of a orphan

03/24 I Was Bullied was won by Candlewitch with the poem Ramming Speed!

03/24: What My Best Friend Gave Me was won by  Mark with the poem What My Best Friend Gave Me

03/24 Looking At The Stars was won by Alaethia D with the poem Dear Heart, One More Time

03/24 My Favorite Pet was won by  Alex Tanner withy the poem My Pal Jet.

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Good Eggs

Good eggs
Sometimes have a colorful painted shell

But mostly they are
Just white
Or brown
Or yellow
Or red

They are a rooster
And a hen's
Hardy DNA

And they come a variety of ways

Sometimes BOILED
By life’s temperatures
They become solid
And reliable

(Like a student with challenging
studies or a foreman in charge
of his ornery crew)

Her Gaze

Her gaze is fixed
on a thing of love
and I may admire
unobserved
her lovely face

may see it radiate
a soft glow of light!

And all those things
which I may neither
touch or know
broils within me...
Spirit distilled by soul

and at last
my love knows words,
both silent and whole.

Amor Fati

Death, come not cheaply. Neither in blue coma 

or wrinkled hints of somatization; spin in a noir 

parapet of black hats, squeeze me with Mitchum’s

preacher hand, thick and meaty, let each

sound be a music box’s last gold pluck. Death, 

come not cheaply, wind up as a music box, 

fall as its last symphony. Come in a black hat, 

tattooed and preachy or stay home and

make a strange color of me, as Martha and Mary’s 

pale brother waiting in his Father’s light

house for instructions, olive green eyes,

On Feminism

In an age of automobiles
we don't need
stallions to pull us
anymore
but we do need
horsepower

we don't have to
row with our arms
but engine powered boats
still need captains

a him or her
to call the shots
take the controls
go down with the ship

there will always
be the same
enemies

and not all men
have been enemies
to women

and not all women
by taking control
have been doing it
to spite men

Fiftieth Anniversary Mommy

Fiftieth Anniversary Mommy

So kind of you all
hope more will love it
like you do

MY MOM ALSO SMILES AT YOU

this year she would have been in heaven
or where ever
for total complete 50 years
mid year!! !

May she still be in waiting
for a son like me
who still loves her
so muchly.....
and
perhaps in a year or two
may be in her arms soonly- - -

Okay

Hopefully......
where ever she may still be- - -

I am quite sure
she will still be eagerly waiting

Immortal Martyr

I was captivated
by those tearful eyes
soon they consumed me
to become mine

they were brimming with pride and sorrow
of a war widow for her knight
returning home as a martyr

with a solemn tribute disguised in her tears
she laid him to rest in the cockles of her heart

I can always rely on you to let me down

Grabbing on to something new,
Flying away,
Just me and you.
They couldn't catch us,
We were never meant to be caught,
Flying forever faster,
than the speed of a passing thought.
Opening page one in the book of our lives,
holding hands hoping that our love will forever thrive.

Dark Rose

a rose bud
denuded of its fragrance
with petals plucked
by greedy fingers
turning
aroma into stigma
her chastity
stolen by a beast

Behold old is gold:

When being young is all the rage
Nation has reached historic stage
By electing eminent sage
Leader ninety two years of age

Age is sometimes a positive
Youth is not always elixir
With wisdom accumulative
For Prime Minister Mahathir

A Poem's A Kiss From The Universe

a poem's a kiss from the universe
though sometimes as bitter as bile
the chance to charge headlong into life's mess
or to get away for awhile
an ode to something enduring as the sun
or as fleeting as a flower
a way to capture a season of one's life
or maybe just an hour
a poem's a doorway or sometimes a wall
that feels way too tall to climb
words that contain a million mysteries
or elucidating rhyme
something that helps to translate love
for ourselves and for each other

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