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there you are by  leoferaco

 

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

This week the Neopoem is

 

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.

Neopoet Weekly 03/24/24 to 03/30/24 Winner!

This week the Neopoem is

 

Agony by  David Grigorian

 

Congratulations to David Grigorian on his first contest win

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Green To Gold... [September Contest]

I feel it in my bones
I see it through my eyes
The change from summer tones
It's not a big surprise

The squirrel's tail is getting thicker
Leaves are changing color
The days go by much quicker
One blurs into another

Soon, cool nights will be upon us
The days begin with frost
We can depend upon this
Soon summer will be lost

But change is good, I'm sure
From summer green and bland
There is no better cure
Than September's hand

Waiting for the dog catcher.

I

A slick slurry, thick
with worried commuters

an oozing, slow moving spine
of the city

is rumbling to a start, at the
appointed time

somewhere among the seething throng,
heaving along the arterial roads, We

pass painted bollards, there to
remind the procession

Of some imagined sublime serenity
that lived for a while in a painted century

done in colonial colour to remind those who
dared to stand:

which corners were conquered first-
where those street names would hang

Where is God?

Where is God?
I always ask
and
in the same breath say
God is needed anyway
by 7.5 billion minus scientologists
we just needn't have to justify to any one
certainly not I to you
nor you to me
Let God exist
as he must hold the billions at all costs

Nothing is lost by you and me
if we don't interfere with the Almighty
where ever
WHO SOEVER
if ever, he be
why be shy of you and me
Ask God for me....

(will ye)

SHINING DEW ON AUTUMN LEAVES

Dew shines on morning autumn leaves
sending spears of colors all around.
Though not quite cold enough to freeze,
ere long frost flowers will abound.

A slight pause in the wet weeds
flushes a woodcock from its night's rest.
It flutters off to meet its needs
in this season I like best.

I look down on this well worn trail
and spot an old stone arrowhead
its quartz the purest white and pale
though marred a bit by the clay's red.

Battle

I grow cold and hard,
It's just the cruel touch of time,
The anger and the pain I feel,
Feeds the demons of my mind,

They shout and scream to be set free,
My rage I know just makes them stronger,
I smile and suppress the beast within,
I fear I can't carry on much longer,

As I fight,
The right and wrong begin to blur,
There is no line, no distinction,
It leaves me feeling so unsure,

I'm not a hero,
I have never claimed to be,
My heart may be cold,
But I do still feel empathy,

read it only if you can with passion ere!

The genuineness of life.... emerges only when one sees.... with open eyes --------the world is a cruel place.... for young innocent ones.
NOW WITH COM- --PASSION READ THIS PLEASE

Oncoming Autumn Leaves

Hurry the hell up. (Sept. Contest)

Sept Contest

Let’s first address the heat I feel each day.
A hundred four ain’t bad I gotta say.
It soaks the skin and all your linen too
and all this done in horses fresh green poo.

It’s humid past a man’s imagination.
Sometimes it rains as though to wash our sins
away into the gutter on to Hell.
The rains are hot and that is really swell.

And what about the length of my work day?
Some fourteen hours suck I gotta say.
The sun is far too bright, it needs a shield.
A pair of glasses I alone could wield.

Harvest(September's contest)

Ashes of last nights bonfire
now whisked away on the chilled air
the harvest moon reflects the fallen leaves, that snap and crunch
beneath my feet

Picking up a tumbled leaf,not quite gone it’s way
I cannot help but think of how it was
once unscathed and alive without a price
to pay

The season was kinder to it then
fresh and supple it did grow never a thought given
to the coming
snow

Yet there is a calmness in this night
as the cycle moves on and thoughts
take flight

STURMASQUE

Dangle the ego on its ribbon and leather
the heart wrapped in black weather
suxxess
and acess
snap tight
toggle the lights

X-rays and scars
titanium sealed
that limp
throws the angular
hip
Baby when I watch
you recede i know
the stars
above this tangled
wood with its steamy
ghost
and clots of river
Polaroids draped
on the machine

limp lidded eyes for
the camera
mouth ad lib
spies for the
drama

Infantile

Perceptual infantality
Mentality of added
Arrogance prideful in
Ignorance
Thinking more but
Knowing less
Doing more with
Soul suppressed
Getting farther in
Your skin
Seeking deeper
From within

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