Hyde Park Thursday Poets Rally Week 76: October 31-November 7, 2012

Greetings, Poets! 

 
Ocean Deep Thanks To Your Previous Support! And

Welcome to Thursday Poets Rally Week 76.

Thursday Poets’ Rally Week 76  (November 1 - 7, 2012)

Please read and answer the following questions before participating Poets Rally Week 76:

#1: Is your poem for Poets Rally week 76  written by yourself? Please say YES or NO.

#2: By linking your poetry in, you are automatically a participant, which implies that you allow Poets Rally officials, including Morton Monoca Evans,  Sarah Glenwool Bush, Riika Shawn Henry, Bristo Zach Jiu,  Chimnese, Aya Gugles Wilson, Mia, Leo, Jamie Dedes, Ladynimue, Uma, Kavita, Olivia, Riika, Blaga, and Victoria,  Constatin,  Raun or participants unlimited access to your blog posts during the week, and you will NOT complain about how often people have visited or commented for your work. Do you agree? Please give a clear YES or NO.

#3: To be counted as active poet next time, you must meet the requirements:

1): Return favors to those who have commented for you,

2): visit and comment for 18 poets that are NEW to you  from participants list. You have 7 days to make a minimum 18 comments, take your time! Are you going to fulfill requirements with your best knowledge? Please say YES or No.

#4: As a participant, you are representing Thursday Poets Rally, no personal biases, no negative comment, or email gossips are encouraged or tolerated. You are expected to follow the rules, focus on public commenting and encouragement, you do your own contribution, and respect decisions made by fellow poets or Poets Rally officials…Are you willing to work on building a positive, encouraging, and respectful poetry community by being modest, cool, and professional? YES or No, Please respond.

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Please answer all 4 questions, First time participants can simply scroll down to visit participants from this list to meet requirement……Let me  know after you are done… with this agreement, we are clear about our duty and complaints or potential issues are avoided…

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Happy Birthdays To November and December Babies...Cheers!

 

November 2, Tootsie:Blogs: http://tootsiespoetry.wordpress.com/

November 3, 1964, Eric Alder: http://haiku-koo-koo.blogspot.com/

November 15th, Dakshima, http://loveamongotherthings.wordpress.com/

November 23, Square Sunshine: http://square-sunshine.blogspot.com/

December 1, Anky0112:  http://makeachange1.wordpress.com/

Dec 7, Jstar: http://msjstar1275.blogspot.com/

December 8, scent of my heart:http://scentofmyheart.wordpress.com/

December 9,  http://recoveryourjoy.blogspot.com/

December 14, 2010, Ibok, http://lordemmanuel.wordpress.com/

December 10, Punam: http://punamjr.blogspot.com

December 19, 2010, Gpysy:http://gypsy-feet-travels.blogspot.com/

December 25, Timonthy Jacobshen Wood: http://shengshawnhillaryentertainment.blogspot.com/

December 28, Fiveloaf: fiveloaf.wordpress.com

December 29,  Victoria Ceretto-Slotto: http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com

December 29, 2010, Pat Cegan, http://www.patcegan.wordpress.com

The linkz will remain open for an entire week, take your time, do make at least 18 comments to your peers and LEAVE A COMMENT under this post to let us know after you are done.  ;)

One Quality Entry is preferred, Thanks You 4 The Attention!

Happy Halloween! Enjoy The Rally!

 

1.	Average Poet	48.	Helen	95.	The Child In Him	142.	estimation
2.	Boots by Bush	49.	Googles	96.	You	143.	Major M. M. Wittmair
3.	Taylor	50.	Balances	97.	Silverfox Jolie	144.	Ihop Smith
4.	Becky Sain	51.	Indinan Rosemary Watson	98.	Make Your Choice!	145.	Endings
5.	Danny Earl Simmons	52.	Wander	99.	Face The Music	146.	me
6.	Miss Kitten	53.	unspeakable truth	100.	Thomas Lanier Williams	147.	Admission
7.	The Blue Witch	54.	Kim or Lisa	101.	Nataeven Fallin	148.	Air
8.	The Urge To Confess	55.	Dakshi	102.	Belva@MainelyMugUps	149.	The Ghost Man
9.	Daffodils	56.	J. M. Rogers	103.	Green Speck	150.	The Castaway
10.	Asim Kumar Paul	57.	dsnake1	104.	Robyn	151.	The Snail
11.	The Shengoat of Greywood	58.	Clark Williams	105.	Understanding Yanji	152.	Jack O Lantern Weather
12.	Hope	59.	Lexi Woods	106.	Justin Song Kong	153.	the ocean is history
13.	Michael Makowsky	60.	driving	107.	Torrents of Waters	154.	Sonnet
14.	Gigi Ann	61.	Rainer Maria Rilke	108.	The Shallow Pool	155.	Leaves Like Fish
15.	Bud	62.	my secret innuendo	109.	Shadiatique	156.	Lance Henson
16.	Sayantini	63.	Opal Putman	110.	Derek Walcott	157.	When Everything Goes Wrong
17.	Doctor Fell ~Shoeless Happy Halloween	64.	Wolf	111.	Tom Daddy Cat Business	158.	Tanka
18.	Little Boe Peep ~Shoeless	65.	Mish Foster	112.	I Am The Exile Then	159.	Jim Barnes
19.	Scattered Nonsense	66.	Poetryroad	113.	tigercity	160.	Poem for Jan
20.	Marjorie E. Tish	67.	River Otters	114.	Love from The Moon	161.	Eagles of Fire
21.	Raivenne	68.	Walter E. Dakin	115.	Untitled	162.	Once Again
22.	Sargent Slaughter	69.	Take me Home	116.	In New York city	163.	city
23.	Humpty Dumpty ~Shoeless	70.	The Way You-- (Robin Elizabeth, Write.It)	117.	When in A Jiff	164.	spam mail
24.	panda king	71.	Bing Yap (PinkLady)	118.	Sea Cane	165.	November Weather
25.	College Years	72.	anjum wasim dar	119.	Kenyon Hopkins	166.	Trees and Evening Sky
26.	imagination Rocks.	73.	Beking duck	120.	Reveille	167.	Tanka
27.	who would reject peacocks?	74.	Not I, Candy	121.	A Gift	168.	The Tickly Turtle
28.	Steven Marty Grant	75.	December Words	122.	Christopher Okigbo	169.	plainview
29.	Nancy Perazil Federle	76.	Sheridan Raun	123.	Tyric Woolnutt	170.	The well made shield
30.	Humpty's Scramble	77.	The Newbery Awards on Books	124.	The Red Raven	171.	Untitled by George
31.	SinA	78.	hallways	125.	into the green	172.	Dana Naone
32.	incarnate	79.	Let Red Lobster Go Green!	126.	bless the words	173.	The Present Tense
33.	Craig Watson	80.	Ameshalee	127.	poetry is an art	174.	Cynthia Ginger Piety
34.	Versebender	81.	Marcie Constantin	128.	Fried Dumplings	175.	Concert
35.	poetry train	82.	Rachel Schapiro	129.	Peanuts	176.	Eclipse
36.	Golf	83.	Jessica Alspach	130.	e girl	177.	Madeline Jackson
37.	FireandIce	84.	lily	131.	loneliness	178.	Grunion
38.	Halloween Lights On	85.	Cespin	132.	under the name of parents	179.	helpless
39.	not sure about friends	86.	Mega	133.	don't I know you?	180.	Wendy Rose on Motherhood
40.	Reflections	87.	Translation	134.	The Sun Will Rise	181.	N. Scott Momaday
41.	Jeanette Wilson	88.	smell the blood	135.	Seek The Sun!	182.	life, willow, and moon
42.	Desert Rose	89.	V-Fine	136.	Nature Speaks	183.	Virtual Living
43.	Gene	90.	Periscope	137.	Janet	184.	Tooth (Ya)
44.	Bethzea	91.	Meteorite	138.	wdc	185.	compliment
45.	kitchen haiku	92.	Malia Butterfly Jones	139.	love
46.	George Lincoln	93.	marit	140.	Rhythm
47.	Ihop Smith	94.	Nature	141.	Aging With Grace

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The Window To The World On Life of A Poet Week 25

Can you tell us about yourself?  Which country do you live in now? What’s your profession? be general, no need to specify your location...

I live in Australia with my husband and youngest daughter and I work in office administration. 

We’re happy that you have been part of Poets Rally as a participant, what has driven you to where you are in this particular community? 

 Reading poems posted here by the many talented poets is always inspiring and drives me to write. It's a down to earth community without any pretenses. It is also very supportive and encouraging and I appreciate this aspect of it.

How long have you been blogging? Do you think being part of a poetry community contributes to your creative writing?

I've been blogging for about three years now and enjoy it very much. Being part of a community contributes greatly to writing. It inspires and stimulates my own creativity. To be a good poet, one must read poetry and this is a great way to do it, plus you get to meet other poets. I have found comments on my poems to be very encouraging. It's always so nice to receive a positive comment and this spurs me on, especially when I'm feeling talentless. 

Why poetry? Do you write fiction too?

I just write poetry. I had a go a flash fiction but then went back to poetry. I like using different forms and devices to get my message across. It's challenging and I like that. 

Please share 3 to 5 blog links you enjoy reading most, give 1 or 2 sentences to tell why you love their creative process.

There's so much talent out there but I think these would have to be my favourite because of their honesty and talent:

http://dnobrienpoetry.wordpress.com/

http://journeyintopoetry.wordpress.com/

http://themslvh.wordpress.com/

http://raindancepoetry.wordpress.com/

How do you know when a poem is done? your own experiences need to be shared here...

It's hard to know when a poem is done. It never is really but I'm happy if I can get my message across clearly. 

How do you decide when a poem is "good"? Do you redo your own poems after they’re posted? it could be poem someone else written...

I do a lot of rewriting. My draft is always lame and it's easy to discard but I push myself to improve on it, using different words (the thesaurus is my friend) and techniques until I'm happy with it. That doesn't mean that I don't change it once I've posted it. Posting a poem on the Internet seems to add the pressure I need to improve on it.

Do you think music and poetry are related? Why?

Sometimes I listen to classical music. It's supposed to stimulate creativity but I don't know it that really works well with me. 

What issues are closed to your heart? Women’s rights, child abuses, etc.…name one…

Children, animals and nature are close to my heart. I love nature and I write a lot about it because I think we don't appreciate it as much as we should today. We're all too busy. We need to take the time to stop and sit under a tree and just breathe it all in. I also like to write to make people more aware of issues like the children of Cambodia for instance. 

 What’s your other hobbies besides writing? Do you have pets?  

I have two dogs, a toy poodle and a fox terrier who are my constant companions. I like scrapbooking and quilting but they don't get any attention any more. My first passion is poetry and that's what I focus on. I haven't had much time to write this year but hopefully that will change next year. 

Please list your blog links below, share 1 or 2 poems that represents best of your poetry talent…

My blog: http://normamartiri.wordpress.com/

Two of my favorite poems are:

Jacaranda

September blooms of purple hues,
adorn the city street.
And in bright splendor praises Spring,
where limbs and feathers meet.

Amid soft purple hues I lay,
to rest my weary head.
In fantasies drifting away,
Upon a sprinkled spread.

Copyright © 2011 Norma Martiri

Cambodian Flower

Falling petals brush her face,
Fantasies fill time and space.
Mae’s soft kisses touch her cheeks,
A kind whisper softly speaks.
Desperation tugs and bays,
Darkness fills the longest days.
Sweaty faces, frenzied hands,
Sunny beaches, waves and sands.
Dirty kisses lick her neck,
Torture keeps rebels in check.
  Favoriteball games played with friends,
Heavy breathing, soon it ends.
Lotuses float overhead,
How she wishes she were dead.

Copyright © 2011 Norma Martiri

Participants Talent Show Week 25:

google.com, from dancing freak...

Dancingfreak is a lovely poetess who is a strong supporter to poets rally, we value her talent and hope that you read and welcome her back to us....keep it up...

http://harshikaram.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/a-rainbow-thursday-poets-rally-week-28/

The colorful rainbow shining in the sky,

Seven lovely colors combined.

Forming the first arc of rainbow, a clue ,

It’s violet – A divine color so true.

The second is unique and rare in a way,

It’s  Indigo – nearly everyone’s fav.

A smooth color, so beautiful and nice

It’s  Blue –  the sea it symbolize.

It’s a part of the scenery  everywhere ,

It’s  Green – the nature’s lair.

It’s so indescribable , related to so many things,

It’s Yellow – the sun behind the sea sinks.

It stands out no matter what the crowd,

It’s  Orange – the day is out.

The final arc making the scene,

It’s  Red in  -  so light in color , beautiful and serene.