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Welcome to National Poetry Month – No Foolin’

Annette Rochelle Aben's avatarAnnette Rochelle Aben

April is National Poetry Month

All month long, we are encouraged to write poetry, read poetry, share it, perform it and celebrate the lives of poets you may know or not know!

The Academy of American Poets has a website filled with ideas, scheduled events and resources for teachers to foster an enthusiasm for poetry!

If you know a poet, check out some of their books…Oh, if you are reading this, you DO know a poet.  My books can be found through my Author Central Page Nine of the twelve books I have available are strictly poetry books. And my most recent book, A Haiku Perspective 2018 is #1 Hot New Release in Japanese Poetry – Haiku on Amazon Kindle.

Thank  you to all who appreciate the work of poets. Thank you to all who celebrate life through the writing of poetry. Thank you to all who believe in the…

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Passed Masters

We pass by many things, day in, day out but how many of them do we really see?

Andrew Green's avatarAndrew Green's Poems

I passed a masterpiece today
I passed a few what can I say?
We did the Prado, Thyssen too.
How many pictures? Barely know.

Caught Picasso, Tintoretto
Saw a Goya, a Titian or two.
Others we passed, what can I say?
We missed a few. It’s how things go.

Visitation, crucifixion
Salvation now annunciation.
Here’s another; come this way.
We wander past them to and fro.

That’s a Monet, and there’s a Bosch.
We can look but must not touch.
This one’s Durer, that’s El Greco
Velasquez here, some Reubens too.

Now a room of gentry, royalty.
Carlos third; we know that nose.
On and on and on it goes.
All we tourists passing through.

There’s classic figures nude, unclothed,
Pictures of heaven only knows.
Round and round and round we go.
So many rooms we just pass through.

Masters painted, sought perfection
Showed technique and dedication.
But we can’t…

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I Challenge You To…

Esther Chilton is hosting a challenge in which she invites you to write about ballet. Below you can find the contributions of those who have contributed thus far, together with my limerick on the subject of ballet.

Ester also includes some amusing contributions from last weeks challenge, in which she invited readers to write about cheese. I enjoyed last week’s contributions and, in particular the prose piece, by Martin Strike. Being a huge consumer of cheese, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to contribute to last week’s challenge in the form of a limerick and Esther kindly reproduces my poem in the below post.

Kevin

Esther Chilton's avatarEsther Chilton

This week’s challenge is to write a story, limerick or poem on the subject of:

Ballet

Last week’s challenge was to write about cheese. You sent in some simply brilliant pieces. Here are a few:

Keith Channing wrote a thoroughly entertaining limerick:

I live in a land famed for cheese
With Rocqueforts and Cantals and Bries
To make them is lawful
Though some taste bloody awful
Just send me some strong Cheddar, please!

Peter Wellshad some fun:

Sometimes it makes me sneeze,

Don’t be unhinged,

No cause for alarm,

It’s an addiction and not a disease!

Visit Steve Walsky‘s blog for a ‘cheesy events’ piece!:

https://simplicitylane.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/cheesy-events-flash-fiction-humor/

D Avery send in some super limericks:

How can I ever make it up to you?
This cheese is green and you wanted blue
I can’t hope to console ya
With this Gorgonzola
If green cheese is something you do eschew.

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Market Of The Week

Esther Chilton's avatarEsther Chilton

Writing Magazine is holding a sonnet poetry competition. Fancy a go? Here are some details for you:

‘Sonnets have been around for over 800 years and are widely popular in English (Elizabethan, a la Shakespeare) or Italian (Petrarchan) form.

‘The challenge for this competition will be to find a fascinating, fresh subject that works perfectly within the form’.

Prizes:

1st: £100

2nd: £50

Both winning entries will appear in Writing Magazine.

Entry fee: £6 (£4 for subscribers)

Closing date: 15th May 2018

Entries can be 14-line sonnets in either the Italian or English form.

To find out more, visit the competition page.

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wonderful

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To My Dog Trigger, Who Lay On My Book

Trigger is my fourth guide dog, and I am pleased to report that he is still as bouncy as ever.

K Morris Poet's avatarK Morris - Poet

trigger-in-his-bed

You lay on my book.
Perhaps you mistook
It for a bone
And discovering your mistake, left it alone!

You creased it’s pages.
Oh the ages
I took
To write that book!

You lay on my book
But look
I have many more,
And ‘twas entirely my fault for
I should not have left it on the floor!

Dogs have such short lives
While the poet’s work survives
Long after master and friend
Have come to their end.
You lay on my book,
My faithful old mutt.

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