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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!

The stream (all workshops)

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All hallows Eve

All Hallows Eve

Waxing Gibbous moon is bright
on this cool October night
making shadows in the trees
with the help of autumn’s breeze

strolling down a country lane
passing harvests on the wane
pumpkins huddled in a field
wait their turn to be revealed

VIGNETTES edit

VIGNETTES

The last years I spent with you
seem a thousand light years away.
I see you still in small vignettes
that strike with a sudden melancholy:
a desperate, deep longing to replay
those days that Time has betrayed.
I don't see myself as I did before;
something of me went with you
and to this world lost I came.

Forever a Knight

The taxi seem to float
gently above licorice streets,
shimmering with last morns
rain still wet on the lips

The signs seemed forboding
declaring a destination,
almost attained and almost
enough to turn heads awry
leading into a long goodnight

Anticipation rode
anxiety to gnaw an aside,
though outside all was still
a Michelangelic statue
in a blink and a stare

In a thousand seconds
fear turned a coward
into a brave night,
the unknown awaited
but so would regret

I often dream by Loved for ALL

I often dream

of being a poet
on daily stream
but they remove the essence
from my poetic cream
say hold one only
not anymore
no one knows how many read you
for sure

the guys up there can't afford the fare
but Loved you may continue
to dream of some day
one day
of becoming a poet

only hope the stalwarts gleam
at your pages whilst you dream
and in your dream
don't ever scream

Nebraska

An eternity of corn,
Years and miles of that golden grain wave
In a monotonous dance of sun worship.
A stationary ballet
Performed by phalanxes of aspiring cattle feed
Celebrates their hostage audience.
A brief intermission is ushered in by an errant tree
Or a wayward rodent
Unaware that they have stumbled onto the stage.
The hypnotizing dance resumes,
Instantaneously numbing the mind and blurring vision.
The heartbeat of the nation is reflected in the
Rhythmic undulations of its heartland.

“the Irish melodies”

trees, the serene stature, now dressed in copper;
shadowy wights against the sphere of grey.
as then, bathed in rain-drenched cobblestone tapis,
with red, corrugated roofs resting on pure white walls
and gutters leaking the raindrops to a rain-soaked earth
while lightning cloak the afternoon a galactic lustre

PLASTIC

What has become of the undone

flickering screen
models of seeking
the night slinking in
the portion held open
below on the street
the footsteps of the
creepers beat

once you were a soft
survivor beneath your
blanket like a broken
doll...speaking in
shattered worlds in
the dead of sleep
sitting straight up
for a voyage of words
then back lost in
the depth of your breaths

QUARRY OF TIME

With stars still in the clear black sky
I ascended to my old deer stand
then in silence watched the night pass by
as daylight detailed a scene once bland.

The sun revealed a hard frost world,
late November....maybe 'ninety five.
My condensed breath rose and curled.
A great morning to be alive.

And I watched bare trees slowly unfreeze
where Little River and Buckhorn Creek wed
while cold sunlight supplied a false warmth tease
and a fox squirrel left its snug night bed.

happee three jay!

happee three jay!

I went and came
Joe... Jess and Jayne
all have one thing common
all are humane
and
all have a relativity too
the common letter J

don't feel jay
Ian
we all love you too
many dawns we have also seen
young bard still you call me
i love it
so do continue
and
may be some day
you will know
ere you go
who was Loved too
may god bless you
KIDS OF GOD!
All so nice to me

STARTLING REMAINDERS

decimals like bullet holes
the luxurious capers
we smiled like mad jackals
and fucked like minks
on the beaten leatherette
couch....
Eating cheesies and snorting
the crushed pills
our souls hovered like helicopters
taking tourists up about the city
the water the color of the
gutter wash
the light glittering off it like mad
fire......a poet friend would drop
in sleeping in a body bag
my only way out of Nam...
and save a few bullet wounds
of ghastly puckered scars

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