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  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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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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Pity not this Bradford

Fashioned from millstone grit
no soft, red brick here.
The mill towers
and countless spires
still shape the skyline.
Whilst all around
this steep sided city,
the moors and dry stone walls
play backdrop,
a wild, elemental border.

the blemish

.
I took a blood-red rose
and pressed it
between the pages of my heart
where it dried
paper thin
and brittle
leaving a black bruise
the colour of pain
.

silliest poet me

I have a small ...
dull and silly mind

cannot concentrate
beyond 14 lines
as I am partially blind!

that's why I love sonnets
I am lovedly
new for thee

no last three lines
are not a haiku

I hate counting syllables
silly one's
once did it

ABOUT CANDLES AND FLAMES

ABOUT CANDLES AND FLAMES
A flame that flickers in the night
endures the winds that would
extinguish its light.
but until the fire dies to itself
It is fire still up to the time
it burns no more.
we are candles lit that sear
the universe with our fire
week or strong
and as long as one cinder burns
the inimitable soul will continue to glow…

D U S T E R

vinyl seat
vanilla and cream
the miles streaming
Living the dream
across Alberta
the Prairies
ideal
gas and lodging
then was a steal
the giants of
commerce
all mountains
of glass
we were tiny
and humbled
in the tall of
the pass
Wind whipping
songs from
the vintage
cassettes
all giddy
excited most
taking bets
..
and there I
get interupted
by Bunni
yelling now
gotta go
something about
a sticker on her

The Rock God

The aged rocker struts his stuff
across the silver screen,
his voice a thin reminder
of what it once had been.
His fame, was legendary
a god of rock and roll
but the hedonistic lifestyle
has taken too much toll.
Oh why can’t you see yourself
as you really are,
a sad and tired old man
who was once a superstar.
The sycophants will tell you
that truly you’re still there,
but your voice has lost its power
and your head is bald and bare.
Perhaps there is a heaven
where aged rockers go

re-creation

Sol's spirit skips across the blue -
a nascent multispectrumed hue
that sparkles in the morning dew.
Life made anew, life made anew.

His rays spread out, so manyfold,
across an easel dawn has rolled,
the new day's works to be there scrolled
in threads of gold, in threads of gold.

O'er mounts of green the morning breaks
to desert that no water slakes
and elsewhere there'll be soft snowflakes
the world awakes, the world awakes.

Betrayal

Finally being real with me
Fully understanding why I would deal with grief
As if it's fuel hating all knowing the feeling's mutual
All I would do is build and destroy
Whatever you would feel, I'd avoid
Because to me it's unnecessary noise
Telling me that I need to change
Even when I'm given 2 cents I'm null if you vent
Airing out your pain is what cooled me down
As if others sorrow is what kept me sound
Hiding in silence, meticulous bound
To get close enough to have you love me

DIMPLE

curvature of the tell
like the tension
above the lip
the bow

a slate excited hue
rolls slow
mixing clouds like
mortar
stirring like the Ravens
in their ancient nest
atop the microwave
tower

the eyes drawn
like the new hand
tips of fingers
lingering on
patterned
hiding the faces
only the ripples
of the magic
show the
intuitive dance
of the game
of chance

..

Short Lived

With a quill I wrote verses
in lavish strokes of pink
somewhere along the line
I ran out of your ink
no other ink can ever script
those mystic duets
of a poem once begun
but without an end line...

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