hyde park thursday poetry rally week 81: (Feb 25- March 11, 2015)

Greetings, Dear Poets who support and enjoy our rally:

Welcome to  Week 81, February 25 -March 11, 2015,  Everyone or every poet who blogs is welcome!

 

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Please read and answer the following questions before participating Poets Rally week 81:

#1: Is your poem for Poets Rally week 81 original? Please say YES or NO.

#2: Your entry shall be written for Thursday Poets Rally week 81, if you enter your piece to another online meme in the future or have done so previously, please let me know and mention it in your entry post. Please say YES or NO, thanks.

#3: By linking your poetry in, you are automatically a participant, which implies that you allow Poets Rally officials, and other Poets Rally officials 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.

#4: 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 12 to 18 poets from participants list. You have up to 14 days to make a minimum 12  comments, take your time! Are you going to fulfill requirements with your best knowledge? Please say YES or No.

#5: If you have answered YES to the FOUR questions above, now you are expected to keep your words. Once you fulfill your bi-weekly requirement, you are formally a participant. 

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 5 questions,  …Let us 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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The linkz will remain open for two entire weeks, take your time, do make at least 12- 18 comments to your peers and LEAVE A COMMENT under this post to let us know after you are done.  ;)

A sample poetry form post is here, that’s a way for you to write narrative poetry 

http://purpletreehouse.blogspot.com/2015/02/poetry-form-week-10-narrative-poetry.html

Share a random piece, and have fun reading!

1.	Marble Dots	39.	Lord Emmanuel	77.	viola lempert	115.	Memories, alas
2.	Nancy Beebe	40.	Lita V.	78.	RJ Clarken	116.	morning dew
3.	Free Verse Poetry: Narrative	41.	Amelia Googles	79.	let it go	117.	the voice
4.	crayfish	42.	WyomingDiva	80.	Bruce	118.	lucinda Goce Bristol Tamhane Sahakian
5.	Gerry Boyd	43.	Carolina Sebastian Walker Inhofe Martinez	81.	Snowplow	119.	kate neal ann hargis
6.	Alex Dissing	44.	House Haiku	82.	outside the box	120.	nickers inken
7.	slaRueb	45.	Bijaylaxmi Sarangi	83.	blue, happiness, and bamboo	121.	Skylar Whetstone Hayley Bollag Romney
8.	The Duff	46.	untitled	84.	white pebble	122.	David Raun
9.	A look at week 23 poetry rally	47.	Matt Jerry OffenSend Kivatinos Nusimow	85.	William Shakespear	123.	sasha jenna gust
10.	the dream dances	48.	Grace in Greece	86.	fear is the new normal	124.	Carolina Sebastian Walker Inhofe Martinez
11.	Sandy the hurricane	49.	all about you	87.	Spirit Writer (Tickly Turtle)	125.	Mary Reed
12.	BGE, Cisco, Aricent, Centurylink	50.	Christopher Okigbo	88.	Megha	126.	shen diao xia nu
13.	meredith	51.	Kerry Johnson	89.	Asim Kumar Paul	127.	anjum wasim dar
14.	mimi	52.	Stephan Peter Carl Victor Hudson	90.	Bamboo Haiku	128.	Rinzu Rajan
15.	moonlit night	53.	Harold Lucy	91.	happiness	129.	pat mather brown
16.	lawrence	54.	ok eagle	92.	Sheng Pallin Henry	130.	Baylee Zach Layton Flecher Pichette
17.	LaChoy	55.	cover my eyes	93.	Sheryl David Tanya Page Raun	131.	Storm Snyder Brothers
18.	Asim Kumar Paul	56.	underwood	94.	summer rain	132.	McCormick
19.	he and I	57.	make fire	95.	tifany moon	133.	Na Dream
20.	Lucinda Bristol	58.	samara	96.	Jennifaye (How to write a memo)	134.	now and then
21.	Joseph	59.	willow creek experiences	97.	Meena	135.	cherlyn
22.	Suyash Jha	60.	Girish	98.	Taylor Kong	136.	Monika
23.	the confession	61.	bleeding heart	99.	Catie Mead Williams Handcock Robinson	137.	disjointed rhymings
24.	SMG	62.	funny part of poetry	100.	Madeline Terry Camille Nat Brownback	138.	today i
25.	Meena	63.	week 36 poetry rally	101.	tall hat	139.	meredith schapiro
26.	Rajlakshmi	64.	Kodjo Deynoo	102.	Nancy Perry	140.	Dawn
27.	Persian Bard	65.	cadence	103.	before nose (for him)	141.	Self Satisfaction
28.	Asim Kumar Paul	66.	free verse (one)	104.	Herbert Rick Buffet Robert Levatich	142.	battles lost
29.	rel	67.	poetry that jingles	105.	Wojin Kimberly Eric Jack Schmidly	143.	in the end
30.	robin of mysecretinnuendo	68.	tongue twistered	106.	charlotte chambliss	144.	everyone is someone
31.	sláRueb	69.	emily christensen cohen	107.	weekend weakened	145.	root for your best
32.	A.B. Thomas	70.	bebiyazbecky	108.	Layne Gerald Wade Cutts Hansen	146.	Bijaylaxmi Sarangi
33.	Marcie Barack	71.	Spirit Writer (Tickly Turtle)	109.	Gerry Boyd	147.	On Mary Fallin
34.	Pink Shy Peruvian	72.	Spirit Writer (Tickly Turtle)	110.	Asim Kumar Paul	148.	Immigration
35.	Sarah Jobs	73.	Amrit Sinha	111.	Suzy - Reflections of my soul	149.	My Creed
36.	Patrick Gordon	74.	Prem Laszlo Shrock Riesbeck Ottino	112.	EdwinLeroy
37.	Leopard Humor	75.	haiku	113.	Yun Yi
38.	Boyle Fallin	76.	haiku and poetry	114.	Yun Yi

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the window to the world at poets rally week 80 on life of a poet interview (30): Roslyn Ross

Can you tell us about yourself?I am an Australian and have been writing poetry since I was a child. I have a deep interest in the esoteric, as well as health, mind/body, mythology, psychology and spirituality. I also study Astrology and Homeopathy.

Which country do you live in now? What’s your profession? be general, no need to specify your location...I currently live in Malawi, in Africa. I am a poet,  writer, editor, journalist.

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? Poetry communities are stimulating and supportive.

How long have you been blogging? Do you think being part of a poetry community contributes to your creative writing?I have been blogging for about seven years. Yes, communities contribute.

Why poetry? Do you write fiction too?I have written five novels, one book of non-fiction based on four years in Angola during the civil war and am working on a fifth novel and two ancestry books.

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

http://margoroby.com/

I don't have time for too much more. I like both because there are interesting prompts and interesting people.

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

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 don't. If I am satisfied it is what it is - others use good and bad.
No, I never rewrite and basically just tweak. The poems write themselves.

Do you think music and poetry are related? Why?Everything is related.

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

What’s your other hobbies besides writing? Do you have pets? Give us a picture if you own a pet.Cooking, reading, painting ... and no pets in Africa.

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

Thanks in advance.

http://roslynrosssmallstones.blogspot.com/

https://rosross.wordpress.com/author/rosross/

 flags

Flags in sullen colors blew bruises on the day,

the memories fell dead, hope's balloon had lost its way,

and grief did fish those waters, the specter rising high,

a shroud upon the moment, to flush the waters dry.

Chromosomes did mutter in glue of life bestowed,

the mountain of eternity where God like liquid flowed,

as falling from the heights, that tragedy of life,

where years like raging pirates, waged in brutal strife.

The buffalo had gathered, saplings bowed their heads,

wildflowers lay like words, waiting to be read,

no famine in this birthing, the chorus wild and free,

as nature spoke in beauteous pun, laughing gleefully.

Love did wander widely, like deer on endless plain,

while Fates did dance through mindless minutes made,

in whirlwind of remembering, that clawing at the edge,

the streetlamp lit so fitfully; the past was surely dead.

The scales of now had settled into rocking space,

fossil held, the minute turned to stone, no grace,

oceans swallowed passion, the flesh of Eros cold;

decades drowned the days; youth had now grown old.

shapes

The day carries its own load,
forgotten moments, buried,
repressed, denied, dismissed;
like packages tied neatly and

then packed carefully into
a space, which can be then
covered over, as if it had
never been, and yet, it was

and still is, and remains in
its own dark truth, despite
the fact that it cannot be
easily seen, unless time is

taken to uncover, unwrap,
release, and make real and
raw, that which was once
consigned to the grave of

painful, non-being, as if
in the removing from the
now, it could be taken out
of existence, and cut from

the cloth of being, which
remained; but of course,
the shape was always seen
and as the edges frayed,


even then, its form could
not be denied, caste eternal
in those marks which called
forever true and always

known, even though, the
eye and mind could discern
no fixed shape - still, it
lives and surely grieves.

referring to week 80 hyde park poetry palace shape poetry or participants talent show (30): Thingy

when it comes to shape poetry, it is hard to find many quality ones although many of us indeed write
beautifully,

here I find Thingy's poem is very profound in its own way:

referring to week 80, inspiration of the week (31): two poems by Nefarious X

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Physics of Pain

"Hold my head,we'll trampoline
finally through the roof
on to somewhere near and far in time"- Pixies



"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed"
It just changes, like people change,
like minds change.

I suspect she has decided to keep moving.
"An Object in motion will stay in motion."
While I stay here waiting.
Unsure who has left and who I expect to return.

"The greater the mass of the object being accelerated,
 the greater the amount of force needed"
But you don't have to force him to go.
Just starve the poor bastard.
He will grow smaller and smaller.
As you grow further and further away.

Beams of light poured out of me uncontrollably.
I call it love.
I busted  my heart wide open.
I "broke it" myself.

I've never wanted to be alive,
so badly before.

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
What I know is coming next, will be pain so perfect and complete,
it will not matter who has left, or if they return.

All that matters is who has remained, remains.

Monday, December 15, 2014

Lovely Riah

(B Side)

" 'I'm just a boy with a new haircut'
And that's a pretty nice haircut"- Pavement



Zahra cuts my hair and tells me about Morocco.
I make her laugh.  So she tells me about the
time an elderly stylist cut off some guy’s eyebrows. She makes me laugh.
She teases my hair as she cuts it.
Making sure it’s just right. She says she loves Elvis.
Shes says who wouldn't.
She turns off the clippers so we can talk.
By the time she is done, she is proud of her work.
I ask for her card but realize I've taken out my phone.

I add a little something extra to her tip.
She unleashes me onto an unsuspecting world.

I feel fucken cool.I look fucken cool.
So far one person agrees.

referring week 80, the most invaluable poet (14): Of Dark Wings by Wine and Words

 

I came home full of hope...

that stuff  that dreams create,
gauzy remnants of realism
as if all baggage were on the carousel
and the plane had left the terminal
lighter.

But the black butterfly was flitting about my door

relentlessly battering its night wings against my dark wood
and neither of us seemed to know where the light was anymore.
My delicacies were abraded
from the desire to be infused with brightness...
and the work. The WORK required to be so.
I begged that insect to fly far away,
with no return flight.

I am not of that darkness

anymore.

Posted by Wine and Words

July 29, 2014

http://quietcommotion.blogspot.com/2014/07/of-dark-wings.html

hyde park thursday poets rally week 80 the perfect poet award

hello, this week, we give the following poets the highest praise for their talents and diligence in

writing and sharing poetry at our poetry palace or somewhere else.

cheers!

enjoy and come to our poetry rally next week...

Wojin Kimberly Eric Jack Schmidly 

Marissa Biden Sergey Christina Murphy 

paulo guimaraes

Few Miles 

Rod E. Kok

Sarah Thomas Jobs Eleanor Bush 

Pamela Ken Connie Bona Drummond 

 Part And Parcel Of Life 

Comfort  

Wander 

Carolina Sebastian Walker Inhofe Martinez  

Cindy Gary Murray Tomblin Bullock 

 totomai 

Audrey Howitt Poetry, Alive and Well 

Celebrating a Year  

Chris G.  

Shawn L. Bird

Herbert Rick Buffet Robert Levatich 

Nancy Beebe Goolsby Tramel Perry 

JESSE Novels

Poetry On A Roll 

Belva Rae Staples 

Amelia Googles Sharon-Stein Wilson 

Sheila Todd Julio Hallelujah Monduwan 

..Kodjo Deynoo Poetry (K.D.P) An Impressionist Poet 

Jeanne Elena Owen-Mihaltses Henneberry 
 Loredana Donovan 

Sherry Blue Sky

A.B. Thomas

R.K. Garon

projectwords11

mbwilliams

Sumana Roy

Suyash_J

Fire and Ice

Mouse Droppings.

Alissa Meredith Jill Osborn Schapiro 

Skylar Whetstone Hayley Bollag Romney

GRÅSKY

spirit8writer

Helen Michelle Alan-Menino Obama 

Benji Barratt Clark Twohill Sullivan

Maniparna Sengupta Majumder

Write.It   

joanna the tenth muse

Poetry R Us at Moscow, Russia

Flypaper Poetry

geezer girl 

Chelsea Leming Joseph Bernice Halligan

poetsandall

Mimi Brad Sheng Pallin Henry

Pat-Mather Brown Gordon-ceton

Fodder4Thought

Amrit Sinha  

Chèvrefeuille  

OCDbloggerGirl  

Asim Kumar Paul

 Sara McNulty

wiserskydiver  

marit 

mud  

thor smith

Quiet Commotion  

Bijaylaxmi Sarangi

Nefarious X  

SMG  

kez  

Mindsinger  

Sherrie Theriault

La Magia  

	Alex Dissing
	Meena  The Poetry Wagon...  Bruce   Neni
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simple place the award image on your blog, and nominate another poets for week 81...Happy New Year!