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Remembering
Sparrow
Member since December 15, 2014
Member, 2014 → 2019
Just A Moment
How could I feel emptiness
That life its self was passing by
Where are those feelings
I had promised myself.
This as I found out
Was in my own youth a fact
Then I turned inward
There I dwelt for an age.
Moulding all feelings
Learning from others
Not in love but just so
There in my pure dreams.
A shock of simplicity
Stole that quiet inside
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Turmoil in my thoughts
Made drunk my ways.
There was this vision
It would haunt my ways
There in gentleness
You shattered my days.
I quietly hid you
There deep inside
As the world had turned
I could not lie.
You have to remain
As part of my soul
I couldn’t let you go
So what to do now.
Still the mind
On evenings song
A lifetime is not that long
To meet I wonder.
Will you remember
How to show you to me
As I and you use to be
But in spirit to dwell.
We wont talk of God
As these days go
We will do our best
That others don’t know.
Ian T
Sparrow’s timeline
- September 2019
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15 Sun
- August 2019
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16 Fri
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14 WedPosted a poem
The Valley (Second Poem Ever) August Competition
""The Valley" "Where we played as children"" - February 2018
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15 ThuHighest posting month
February 2018 — 9 poems
- April 2017
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01 Sat
- March 2016
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31 ThuContest commendation
March 2016 - Acrostic - Prize -$25 USD Amazon.com Gift Certificate
with "Cold winds chill my breast (Acrostic comp)" (since unpublished).
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31 ThuFirst contest commendation
March 2016 - Acrostic - Prize -$25 USD Amazon.com Gift Certificate
with the poem "Cold winds chill my breast (Acrostic comp)" (since unpublished).
- December 2015
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15 TueAnniversary
One year of membership
- September 2015
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06 SunCritique milestone
1,000 critiques given
- January 2015
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15 ThuFirst publication
“Another’s Quiet Hell” "For Pt 3 of humour WorkShop" (since unpublished)
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15 ThuFirst critique offered
on "Muddled fairy tales "For Humour Workshop" " by @Ian.T
- December 2014
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15 MonJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 31 days later.
About Me
About Yenti
Ian T Howard Born in the village of Hawkeridge Wiltshire in March 1942 into a family of eight, memories of these early years can be dated to, June 6th 1944, I remember the sky filled with aircraft,. My Sister was born on the 22nd of June that year and made our family up to ten. Our family was Mother and Father four boys and four girls, so you can guess that we had a great time, though our style of life was limited to our income. I could read at a very early age of three, I think that this was the grounding for my imagination, and ability to write. My writing started more during my senior school years, with the entry of one of my bits, as I call them, into the school magazine, of Matravers School of Westbury Leigh Wiltshire. I joined the Royal Air Force at the age of 15, and started writing in an exercise book, this I still have, one of my poems in there is the Valley, made from early days of playing around the countryside, when a small hole in the ground became a canyon. . Over the years of writing and changes in life, having my own family grow up around me, and then the parting of the ways as some families do. Also the passing on of my parents, two sister's and two brother's, having their influence on my thoughts. Then remarrying into a loving state, that has Spiritual connections, my writing has evolved into a wide variety of works that reflect my interpretation of the things around, not only in a factual way, but sometimes with a deep philosophical outlook with a soul to each and everything. I have through the connection I have with the Spiritualism side of my present life, recorded a great number of talks with the Spirit world as they are related to me, most times through Anne my wife who is an International Medium. These talks with spirit are recorded from semi trance times, when there is a connection between the two worlds, mostly when the Spirit girl Sadie comes through to talk to us using the Mediums voice, there are other Spirits that come through but this will be clear as we carry on through the tapes day by day, I will leave you to be at peace with all things.
Location: UK, GBR
Wordsworth
and most I have read.
This month My pic is a modern painting of a Sparrow that I have decoupaged
The artist was not mentioned but many thanks to the one that made the original..
Recent Work
Just A Moment
Summer Love (July Contest)
"Primeal poetry stage Two"
Ode to a coat ( April Contest )
Love Rests
A Leaf, A Journey
Contest Wins
| Winning Submission | Contest | Contest Date |
|---|---|---|
| Cold winds chill my breast (Acrostic comp) | March 2016 - Acrostic - Prize -$25 USD Amazon.com Gift Certificate | – |
Workshops
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| Primal Poetry | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2019-06-17 | Concluded |
| Cellar Door | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2019-03-27 | Concluded |
| Implied Imagery SHOP Here we go ! | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2018-11-16 | Concluded |
| Renga 18 (Rain/Raindrops) | (syllabus) | Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2018-06-01 | Concluded |
| Basic and Essential Meter | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2018-04-12 | Concluded |
| UNFINISHED WORKS | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2018-03-28 | Concluded |
| Sunku: beyond rhyme and rhythm, search for new structures in short form | (syllabus) | Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2018-02-11 | Concluded |
| Poets of West Africa in English | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Concluded | |
| Collaborative Poetry for Beginners Renga 17 FEAR | (syllabus) | Wading Pool | Started 2017-07-20 | Concluded |
| Poets first poems | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2017-06-23 | Concluded |
| IMAGERY IN POETRY( ready to start?) | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2017-06-24 | Concluded |
| Bring In Autumn Renga 15 | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2016-09-14 | Concluded |
| Super Quickie Critique | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2016-09-11 | Concluded |
| Abstract words and abstract poetry | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2016-05-01 | Concluded |
| Bring in the Spring Eternal Renga | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2016-03-22 | Concluded |
| Collaborative Poetry Writing (Voices of Neopoet) | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2016-03-23 | Concluded |
| Asking any questions.Using your computer for poetry, to ininityand beyond. | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2015-11-10 | Concluded |
| Hiding emotions in metaphors | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-09-11 | Concluded |
| Storytelling in Verse (sempiternal): The Horror Story | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-07-01 | Concluded |
| TITLES here we go | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-04-24 | Concluded |
| Critique and Criticism | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-04-05 | Concluded |
| Meter Is Our Friend | (syllabus) | Wading Pool | Started 2015-03-03 | Concluded |
| Effective Contemporary Pastoral poetry [Let's start] | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-02-08 | Concluded |
| "Sonnets"...Let's Know More | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-01-22 | Concluded |
| Humor In Poetry | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2015-01-07 | Concluded |