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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

Vote for this month’s image prompt contest winner

Voting ends May 6th 2024.

Vote at the end of this newsletter.

 

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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Don't Be A Coward

Sometimes life will slam you.
One day it will pass
Don't be a coward
Don't hide in a corner
and sit on your ass.

It's not how hard you can hit
It's how hard you can get hit
When life tries to slam you
Don't take any shit.

Stand up be a man
Show life you can slam back
You know that you can.

Don't be a coward
Listen to me
Show life who you are
and then you'll be free

Please O Poet Don’t Die ......>> Classic second

Please O Poet Don’t Die

If you do all that
lovemaking
whilst you two
are alive
see the comments would exceed
a beehive

you love her so much
never let her die
she will cry
ere you die

so live together
and see
who goes first
you or she
and
maybe if your love is so intense

you may both in a helicopter fly sky high
and drop dead holding hands
both will together enter
those unknown lands
as lovers alive

all will welcome

Deeper Then Monet

Deeper Then Monet

Burning Bridges

Burning Bridges

Have you ever been
sitting in your car
waiting for the train to pass.
You can't go over and can't go under it
Your ass is wet with sweat.

alphabetadeltacharley

Mike One..Key niner..Over..

damned daylight
backscatter be damned

classic one :Remember just one thing

Remember just one thing

Should you forget
every moment of my life
I sacrificed for you,
the scooter rides
the car drives
the walks to the club
the mall and back

your security
every moment to moment
was always upper most in my mind
as always was and will be

but remember this
should you feel the age
the deafness
the disgust and frustration
deeply sunk

Bard

Bard

Devotion of self-sacrifice,

And the humble artist's

fervent beauty,

Tumble upon the canvas.

Like the Shaman's Spirit Wheel

Of eternal fire and ice,

Speaks of the forming of the world,

The creator's ardent hands

Shape wet clay

On the potter's wheel,

This natural simplicity

Shapes this poet's pen

TESTORS

Digging cigarettes from the tin
(taste like ashes...taste like this)
Memory of chewing Pez
from Mickey Mouses one Eared Head
Legs of hers propped long and proud
Painting nails with the scale Paint
Hemi orange like Tangerines
around the player Hard Rock screams
an eight trax mix Loud and Obscene
(In the bottle vibing max..the glory gold of
tasty Jack!)
Chevy jacked
Balogna Slicks
Blew out the air
through country sticks
A tail drumming in the wind
a bauble dog doing his tricks

modernise your selves it's 2017

change is the essence of life
12 million years ago
we were tadpoles
and as sun warmed the earth
moon showed the night path

man multiplied at gradually increasing speed
then as you say glacial
I say we were like Alps and Everest static

coz guys loved it then
the glaciers gradually melted
two thousand years only
religion lay cemented

then came Pope the 13th
he administered wisdom in many
since then we have had electricity
and all its manifestations

Turnabout

ransom; unpaid

love is a bitch

I stifled my true reaction;
just shrugged

I'm on my own now
don't know what's gonna happen
at this point, I don't really care

all I do know is
...she's gonna be so pissed!

$10,000 for a two-bit whore?!
whoever they are, they can
keep her, dump her, sell her,
or just walk away,
as long as they don't send her back.

I've been saving up for that power skiff for too long!

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