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This week the Neopoem is

Ways of loving by  Terumi Sakurai

Let us congratulate Terumi Sakurai on their first win as a neopoet member.

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Poetry Month 2024 Imagine Winner!

The winning poem of the

Poetry Month 2024 Imagine is

 Backwards by  Carrie

Congratulations to Carrie on such a unique poem.

 

This week the Neopoem is

 

  My Heart, My Heaven by Izzi Reinier

 

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

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!

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War Is Not A Lady... Military Memories May Contest

Sharp like a knife
The edge of her tongue
Slices of hate fall from her lips
Butter won’t melt in her mouth

The ice of her heart refusing to thaw
In the heat of his passion
Sucking the breath from his life
Draining the strength of his soul

His heart sinks like a rock
There is no way out
Do or die
She wins...

My Place in the World

Petals have melted. At first,
they were blossoming clouds,
then wandering swirls,

completing the cycle,
they are now transparent,
glistening scales on the road.

On the sloping shoulders
the asphalt is black almost oily.
The rain is over.

River has blown up. It stands
in every crevice
reflecting the sky.

And in one of them is my face
on the background of
trembling branches

and emerald leaves.
Or maybe it is my hair entangled
with the late spring

Poetry Shoes

Poetry shoes,
kinda flashy, it's what I choose,
made in Guatamala,
by some poor seamster fella,
the colours of it's outer skin,
stir strange thoughts from deep with-in,
from the depths of my mind,
only to find,
they got me on the go,
as my words start to flow,
to new homes whoever will hear,
many pass by, my words may bring a tear,
or a smile from a memory past,
as good feelings get cast.
Well I just love my poetry shoes,
there se fine and they come in two's!

Reconciliation Begin With Recon

reconciliation begins with recon
the military observation
of a region
to locate an enemy
or ascertain
strategic features

because since practically
the beginning
there has been
a strategic divider
like Hitler
or Cover Girl magazine

a fork-tongued genius
with everything wrong
to say

reconciliation
however many people are involved
always has one more
with horns

who doesn’t want us
back together again

and who probably won’t go down
without a good fight

Sakiwara Hagutaro

From a violent toothache,
I was holding a swollen cheek,
As I dug near the jujube tree,
Wishing to plant some seeds.
Getting my genteel fingers muddied up,
I turned over the chilly ground.
O, I do remember this much,
That cold day, that evening,
In the fresh-dug hole, there was
A worm wiggling inside.
And that moment, behind the eaves down low,
The moon came up as if to slither up
Behind a woman's ear — and that's how
It came up, the moon.

New Moral Order:

Related fundamentalism
Hands off or no hands absurdism
Counterproductive savagism
The calling card of extremism

Voyeurism wrong, spying divine
Stealing tort, usurping in line
Assault misdeed, torture benign
Killing crime, massacre is fine

Governments that indoctrinate
Some states falsely incriminate
Other regimes invalidate
Occupiers exterminate

Full stop to state adventurism
Eschew unilateralism
Reject rogue nation nihilism
No neocolonialism

Darkness is Light

in the jungle of my mind
i write invisible thoughts
which no one likes to read.
only crickets sing them at night
serenading for me
one of my songs

"darkness is the light
when the world goes to sleep
in solitude listen to the breath
most precious to life.

in this world you came alone
you shall leave alone in time
darkness is the light
to walk alone in peace".

BEFORE THE DAWN

Before the dawn
Thinking of the world
Looking upto god
For a way forward
To be a man of my word
And build a world in my hood

on the road to PARADISE

Meet me on the road
as from Niagara
to Paradise I go

meet you in the tulips garden all know
on to the road of Ottawa
meet me next to the lovely
redish tulip flower

I am now on my way to Ottawa
come over with folks entire
meet me all
if you have the desire

read me kick me
or
whatever
Lovedly is
enroute to Ottawa
with a chauffeur driven
driver

hello all ...meet ...me come (pun) all
guys can enjoy a
waterfall
gals a great
Ball!!!

Graduating Class of 2015

High school games to destroy a self.
Did you lose and
did they win?
Did those words do more
than a wayward glance,
a misplaced laugh,
the harmless, innocent jests?
Doubt the hurt from view of the aftermath
don’t you know
it’s ok to say it was not.

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