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Early Spring Image Prompt contest Winner!

The winning poem of the

Early Spring Image Prompt contest is

 The Visitor by  Mary Beth Magee

Congratulations to Mary Beth Magee on such a fine poem.

Neopoet Weekly 03/17/24 to 03/23/24 Winner!

This week the Neopoem is

 

2:23am by zach

 

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Early Spring Image Prompt Contest Vote

Early Spring Image Contest Vote

 

Please read the two finalist poems below and click on the vote here link to vote on your favorite poem. Voting ends March 29th 2024.

 

 

The Visitor

By: Mary Beth Magee

You visit for a moment,

Accept a breath of hospitality,

Then dash away again.

You share your company briefly.

 

But in that time, oh,

The magic you bring.

From tiny eggs to instars

To gloriously patterned wing.

 

I watched you hatch and crawl,

Grow, shed and wriggle.

You change your dress. Your

New look makes me giggle.

 

You give me joy and delight

With your aerial ballet.

My royal friend, magician,

Harlequin at play,

 

Dear monarch, share your gift

Of grand, exuberant joy

With all. Give us eyes to

See, and feelings to employ.

 

You set an example

Of living in the moment.

Let us live so our days

Are likewise spent.

 

Dash on, my friend,

Your destiny calls.

Send your children my way

When the milkweed grows tall.

 

Spring Comes

By: Candlewitch

 

Fields of springy clover

beneath my barefoot toes,

dance-happy feet kick up

a delight everyone knows!

 

Green, green all around,

a heart full of joys untold

rolling over and over in

nature's paradise hold!

 

In gardens of my growing hopes

tulips, buttercups and crocus

flourish healthily blossoming,

as Spring comes into focus.

 

 

Vote Here

Neopoet Weekly 03/010/24 to 03/16/24 Winner!

This week the Neopoem is

Dancing In The Dark  by  William Lynn

Congratulations to William Lynn on such a fine poem.

Neopoet Weekly 03/03/24 to 03/09/24 Winner!

This week the Neopoem is

 

THE LAST RING by  Jokerface82

 

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The stream (all workshops)

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

 

D O R M I N T Z O R Y

wall curve
where light echoes
and sound fades

windows by thin windows

in the wind the cedars cry
there are miles of history
laying deep within the
clay banks embrace

lost to the bridges shadow
the birds dipping wing

there are more passions
tossed in petals
loosened come spring

but now the dark wing
of winter swings
its claws hungry for its
clasp
its treasure heart
it values most
for a queens want

Seeding of a Thought

In mind seeds a thought
dwelling in the sub conscious
till births a poem

De Rege: Canto IV

Once green of spring, now brown leaves lay,
once vibrant heart now cold and gray.
The seasons change, and I should’ve known
That the frosty storms and tempests blown
Shall kill the life of feeble flowers
While cold rain comes in sheets and showers,
While life goes on, it flows subdued
Streams undercurrent's sombre mood.
Just so, one wintry glance alone
From frigid king - man cold as stone -
Shall freeze the gentle heart, and then
‘’Invidia vincit amorem,”
The heart once free now lives enslaved

One bright summer's day, when the sun made one blink,
Fred-Belch came to visit his good mate, Fat-Freddy,
who, with his long tongue, which is sticky and pink,
was capturing flies. (Which I think is icky).

Fred-Belch, when he barks, excited and loudly
(which happens quite often when herding the sheep)
has a habit of burping (he does it so proudly)
that gained him the nickname he’d rather not keep.

Renga 12 "Winds of Life"

So' Westerly wind
bringing the warm rain to me
from across the waves
life is drawn up from the sea
Atlantic water so free.

The wind in my land
dances with summer's hot air
which cools when it rains
the heat can be intense
when the rainy days are gone

Once there was a wind
that passed by this home of mine
we were all threatened
the weather man feared to tell
the vast damage it would bring

Definitely Always Something

Never quite hip
never quite timeless
but
definitely always fearless

In rainbow ships
your chakras less
so
probably never tireless

Vibrations flip
in streams of stringless
chords
perhaps always hapless

Creation is definitely always something...

A stranger next door

I see you through the stained walls of my home,
Your window is open
And my heart is beating way too fast.
I can sit back and enjoy now that I'm all alone
My heart would be broken
But I don't care no more for it won't last.
John just left a few minutes ago-
And I gave him what I had.
I never told you how beautiful you are,
But you are amazing, my love,
Those are some nice tits you have.
Now I'm ready for the show,
Oh, and-
I love the tattoo on your back.

A legend That Comes True

A legend born, yet now it's real.
It ceased the human awful woes.
It grew to cure and always heal,
the doctors say it's 'ffect is true.
When raw and honest comes to you,
its magic touch would last a while.
'Twas born and grew a time ago,
a legend runs by the name of "Smile".

The Wake Up Call

Before I met Azrael
and knew of the
profound
dividing veil
my soul, innocent
slept indulged
believing only willows wept

Then a twinkle in unfledged eyes
that spoke of things to be
extinguished
unexpectedly

I’d thought we only died when we got old

Where, tell me
did his endless story go?
What other world is being set aglow

Bound By Vows

Your hated of me hurts
Burns the cavity above my heart
Why the disgust
Why the contempt
I did my best to be the best
For you and the kids
It never was enough
To gain your love.

Losing a first love
In a car crash with a train
Has to be devastating
But there's nothing
I can do to change the pain
Lingering in your heart.

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