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Casting Our Magic

priming for takeoff, preparing for flight timing is touch and go, let's make it tight climbing the mountains and soaring the heights rhyming is sonorous, sounding just right cruising at altitude, floating on air choosing to wander without any care musing so merrily, flourishing flair fusing the forms in a fun-filled affair thriving, lush scenery, everywhere found striving serenely, selecting sweet sounds driving the engines, we're now homeward bound arriving back safely, wheels on the ground lasting enchantments are there for the tell contrasting oddities, things we know well blasting bright images, conjuring smells casting our magic with poetic spells ---------- THIRD PLACE WINNER for the "Magical Spell" Poetry Contest sponsored by Robert James Ligouri written 03/14/2022

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Robert James Liguori

Date: 3/17/2022 10:45:00 AM

A poem times two! Very magical too! Congrats on placement.

Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/17/2022 10:53:00 AM

Thanks for holding the contest, Robert - that was very enjoyable, and a good theme

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 3/17/2022 9:57:00 AM

Congratulations on your win. A creative/magic write. Love your line, "casting our magic with poetic spells." And we do. Have a great/blessed day writing away.......................

Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/17/2022 10:31:00 AM

thanks, paula - I love it when I read a poem and get transported elsewhere, even if for a few moments! Have a blessed day!

Natasha L Scragg

Date: 3/17/2022 8:11:00 AM

This is such a fluid reading. I love your frequent use of alliteration. It makes the words just roll off the tongue. Congrats on your win in this contest :-D

Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/17/2022 9:22:00 AM

Thanks, Natasha, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Margarita Lillico

Date: 3/17/2022 7:22:00 AM

Congrats! Your original take on any theme is what I find so fascinating! M.

Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/17/2022 7:32:00 AM

I'm told I was dropped on my head a few times at an early age :-). Thanks, fun to try to find a different perspective!

Christuraj Alex

Date: 3/17/2022 4:57:00 AM

A very beautiful magical rhyme. Beautifully written. Congratulations!

Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/17/2022 5:53:00 AM

Thank you, I really enjoyed this one!

L Milton Hankins

Date: 3/14/2022 8:39:00 AM

Fine writing, my friend. I enjoyed the flight. I found your dispensing with capitalization and punctuation novel. I can't seem to get away from it; but then, I have no reason to. Good stuff!

Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/17/2022 8:30:00 AM

a lot of the lines were just phrases rather than full sentences, which I think helps move you through it without pausing as much. I find alliteration helps me with pacing too

L Milton Hankins
Date: 3/14/2022 11:57:00 AM

It's a marvelous poem, Jeff. Make no apologies for your style, whatever it is you choose. I have a wide range I write within, I think. I enjoy diversity, differences. I'm slow to criticize how another person frames their creation. I just want to be able to read it and understand what the poet is saying. Sometimes, the poet is saying a lot with form and format alone, i.e. shape poems, diamante, etc.

Jeff Kyser
Date: 3/14/2022 8:45:00 AM

punctuation is a plague for me! I never know what to do, get all these elaborate uses of ;,: and then I had someone tell me to use it very sparingly and let the reader decide, and I'm like, what? thanks, this was just 3 stanzas, and I then I hoped it created a bit of a "spell" going on a flight to fancy, so I added the last stanza and entered it!