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Ok folks, the month is slipping away and we need some more entries for the January contest. Check out the contest parameters and start letting the ink flow......stan

This is fantastic, I cried at the beauty, power and pain of it.
18 minutes well spent. Please watch it and tell me what you think. Have tissues handy.
r https://youtu.be/sn6LicbvMrE

Neopoet is a site which is predominately run by members. Thus it is your own best interests to vote in the AC election so that you will have a say in how the site is run on a day to day basis...............scribbler

https://penandthepad.com/punctuate-poem-8270701.html

It's fucking terrifying, folks. Imagine living in New York and seeing burning ash from forest fires falling on Broadway. Difficult to breathe for the elderly in the middle of the city. People are dying miles from the fires.

Most of us are not in direct physical threat of being burnt, it is our air that is being burnt.

Open to all members
Start/end date: Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Objectives:
Welcoming in the new year or ushering out the old

Contest description:
Since it is a new year let's write about either the beginning of the new year or the end of the old. Must be in quatrains but doesn't have any other restriction other than length. Please keep poem under 9 quatrains

Well here we are at the start of a new year and the end of the old one. So.....SURPRIZE! we're gonna write about one of the two lol. Click on "CONTEST" tab to see the rules and get that ink flowing. Don't forget to put "January contest" next to title and to hit "contest " at bottom of page.........stan

Please join me in congratulating Geezer for winning the December contest. Below is his poem:

What A Trip!... [December Contest]

I was jack of all trades, master of few
but I worked real hard most times
I've had three wives, three boys too
Had some accidents, that rang my chimes

My body's wrecked from habits now
I loved cigarettes and weed
I've survived, I don't know how
Always running at full speed

As there are only six poets so far entering the December competition..
Can I claim second place, it is getting cold here and a cruise would warm me ups..
Not sure how many members we have that are active at this moment.
But I hate winning even second without any competition..
So please for the next week can we have some poems put on site to make me work harder.
If not I shall have to go back to writing greeting cards.
All of you have a great new year filled with many poetic dreams..
Yours, Ian T Howard and family..