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Neopoet Weekly 05/05/24 to 05/11/24 Winner!

This week the Neopoem is

Ways of loving by  Terumi Sakurai

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

About Contests

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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!

The stream (all workshops)

This is the stream - you can see all poems on Neopoet, live, as they are created.

 

Supernatural

Supernatural

inside my brain lest I refrain
lies a deep impulse to explode
the notion of love that comes from heaven above
I was given this gift as a child
with pad and pen & a need to pretend

hands, heart, face & smile
cause I knew all the while that in time I would shine
to feel the warmth on my face by the sun
the conquest at hand to have a bit of fun
although those many years would pass
I had every viable reason to grasp

The winner of the July contest is...

riotface97 with his poem of "Ivan the Terrible and His Son" canvas by Repin.
The poem is in free-verse and there is an audio on Sound Cloud.
soundcloud.com/neopoet/ivan-the-terrible-and-his-son-by-nick-rio

Laconic Pre-Sleep Scatterings

one day
that rooster
is going to awaken
an axe murderer

stumbling drunk
is easier than
suicide

the haunting song of a loon,
ending with a giggle

a singer's words
are useless
to a drummer

an anywhere
anytime hat
is a myth

a cuddly cat
doesn't care
that you are
macho

be cool
that four-eyed geek
might own you one day

his first word,
"mama"
as was his last

kids
now-a-days,
unwittingly Peter-panned

Resting

i started resting
i began to fail
am use to speed
why am i slow now
i rather masturbate myself to sleep and fuck my dreams
i hate snails for what they stand for
God is not teaching me patience.

Time frame portal

Cut and paste snippets lie crumpled on the floor
The remnants of our discarded time from before
What to immortalize in this time frame portal
A life of old while the new stays broken

A smile of bright with eyes that trust
A old ragged car that was full of rust
The picnic rug where the wine was spilt
A holiday where sandcastles were built

What to do with these scraps of paper
To keep and cherish many years later
When time has dusted it's veil of plaster
Over the wounds that'll eventually be forecast

Equity

my dream is for the world to be perfect
No violence, no criminals, no blacks, no whites, no Mexicans, no asians, no native Americans, no transgenders, no gays, no straights, no bi’s.
Just humans.

I wish that there would be no depression, no cancer, no insomnia, no thirst, no hunger, no suffering, no illnesses, no autism.
Just health.

I wish there was no religion, no obsesions, no sins, no violence, no death, no after life, no god.
Just peace.

SUMMER DREAMING

Wind's so cold it freezes breath
as it condenses on my old coat.
This front announces autumn's death
with days of warmth seeming remote.

Same wind is making snow flakes dance
as they whirl their way down to the ground.
One hits my eye, I look askance
tears blurring everything around.

Gloved hand wipes the tears away
and I adjust my wide brimmed hat
while I slowly, carefully make my way
pretending I'm a fox or a bobcat.

Abiding Hope

I stopped drifting
the moment she asked,

"are you ready to come home yet?

It had been thirty three years
since our separation

how could a man not respond to that!

Poem Timed

Your monocle swings in darkness,

a midnight paralytic. Your spreading veins

crack in kneaded winces of silence: recalling

you, or at least her round face in opal symmetry,

a braided moon. There is expanse

in this midnight ball and heuristic beauty;

A third you ciphers away for the slumping

ponds imagination can only torque; here!

Further back! I am glazing Dramamine

on your lips, you ask for motion sickness

and we are married in burning sheets

of microfilm, our mouths concordant

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