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Neopoet Weekly 06/16/24 to 06/22/24 Winner!

This week’s winner is Kristen H with the following poem

 

To Unlove You

Submitted by Kristen H.

I'm learning how
To unlove you

It hurts worse than loving you,
Knowing you don't love me back.

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Summer Image Prompt Challenge Winner!

The winning poem of the Summer Image Prompt Challenge is

 

 

Abandoned

Submitted by Mary Beth Magee

She bobbed there in the gentle swell,
The little boat I knew so well.
The sail wrapped tight along the boom
Gave me a feeling of dark doom.
I saw no anchor chain hung down
To stop her, lest she run aground.
No one sat in her empty bow.
No hand controlled her keel just now.
A gentle breeze set her to rock.
How did she get loose from the dock?
As the breeze caused her to turn,
I spotted paint along her stern.
Rough letters where my name had been -
The words now looked like "Mortal Sin."
What had he done in dark of night?
Was he convicted by dawn's light?
Then in the reeds beside the dock…
What I saw gave me quite a shock.
A body, face down, on the lake,
Could it be him, for heaven's sake?
Please, no, I prayed and backed away.
What pushed him so, I cannot say.
I didn't dream that he would dare.
I only know I lost him there.

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Neopoet Weekly 06/09/24 to 06/15/24 Winner!

 

This week’s winner is Lavender with the following poem

 

Winning Poem

Magic

Submitted by Lavender

A falling star settled on my rose,
a diamond dipped in velvet clothes.
I dared not touch the pure gift
sent from heaven, so swift,
but let it rest there
in such sweet air
and comply
to my
wish.

 

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Neopoet Weelky 06/02/24 to 06/08/24 Winner!

 

This week’s contest winner is hippiemoon with following poem:

Archeology

By: hippiemoon

Years from now,
We will be dead and buried.
Your laugh nothing more than
A whisper in the wind,
A breeze carrying off dandelion wishes.

Our headstones will rest together,
Aging together, as we did in life.
Tears from our loved ones will mix with rain
And our memory will fade with the engravings.

And years from now,
We’re forgotten by everyone but the Earth.
They will dig our bodies up
And find our bones entwined in each other’s arms.

 

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Congratulations to Shelby Pryor for winning this week’s contest

 

Something New

Rain rushes from the skies
Mixing with a single tear
The wind cuts through
Like every doubt, every fear

Lightning shatters my peace
Like the pieces of my mind
A distant thunderclap mocks
Of the girl I was and left behind

A tornado rages in my head
Demolishing my peace and joy
I plaster on a smile for you,
But it's just a tactic I employ

The fear paralyzes my heart
Yet I'm so tired of being afraid
It is time to get up and fight
Before my resolve starts to fade

My fingers curl around my sword
I lift it high, I've got my armor on
I bring it down with all my strength
Until the shattered pieces are gone

There is no fixing the girl I was
No use in buying time with glue
The only solution is to shatter her
And forge with fire Something New

 

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Hike Coup:

Up the steep incline
Trudging a trail serpentine
View from peak divine

In the Glimmer

In the glimmer of light, that shines through
the East Texas pines, close to dusk,
I stand still aware of a whisper from an opening
that is allowing the light to shine through.
Who are you, I ask, while a million
electric needles pierce my arms.
“I am the light that is the last warm ray
on the first day of summer, sole proprietor of the sun
and holder of humankind’s destiny.
Don’t you know that just like this flickering fading light,
In a minute, it will be over and you will have
no memory of the darkness closing in.

9/11 O SUN

The distance tells me
the life of all is now ebbing
to seed afresh more somewhere else
in the distant horizon
East or may be West

the source of life warms our hearts and hearths too
come my loved one again will you
as the mirage of life now clears up
you alone are
our fire
our love
our master
since ages now 'tis clear

you alone are ours O sunny dear
far from the wilderness of human mind
why did you so far from us resign

Divine Dispensation?

A publicized fear
A few can be nuclear
Is patently clear

O dad where are you..,Now

When dads go away young
they leave behind memories
so fresh
these never ever age
as dad it appears is here still

but who can fight
against an unknown
unseen gods will

We alone have to severe grief
and our left over time kill

I wonder if dad knows or ever will
he must be ether by now
waiting my merger...
O dad
where will we meet
do indicate an RV
and tell me
how I will recognise thee

O heaven believe me
Dad did love me
Only

sitty Lair

air rolls...a basement of books
a bank of public computers
plastic chairs..but comfortable

From my dented heel kicked
fire door to the street
seems a mile

the first half kilometer
tells me the mood of the city
regardless of bleaching scalding
sun..moody weeping weather
or the cold artifact of crisp
freeze yer balls day

headphones on
kit bag slung over shoulder
no money for coffee
kraft dinner rice and oatmeal
left...
tea
television

CARIS

CARIS

I never knew a sadness so deep
than saying good-bye.
I never felt my soul so empty
to think I would lose those dear
to me before my own parting.
I mourn the days before their
coming and fear that worst of
sorrows and desolation…

Money Trial:

Through Capitalism
Swayed by Materialism
Lost Idealism

Flaws

How are the flaws as important as the beauty marks?
We seek perfection only to find the real value is in sharing the flaws,
learning to walk in the light of those scars that add depth to the soul,
inculcating the compassion necessary to grow as human beings.
Without flaws, there is no depth to the soul.
Perfection is our puny attempt to emulate the divine,
a feat that is never achievable and destined to break our spirit.
So share the flaws that allow the bonds of friendship and love,
infuse the compassion and integrate the knowledge

two dwell post meridian

under the shade
of the parkland trees
the grass fades
in its dark embrace
the birds go about
unknowing
filling the air with
their song

concrete crack
asphalt track
my wheels turn
chain click
air through hair
and headstrong

reverie rivers
of the script voice
soothing
pleasing
angels of mercy
touching
letter by letter

In a dream
we meet
keeping
alight the flame
we need

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