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Charlie's Poem Your Voice Contest ~ 3/10/26

Read Me and Hear My Voice -JU


My voice is heard through a pen
Feelings spill time and again
Sorrow, laughter ~ verse and rhyme
Lines written in paradigm

When my pregnant thoughts are born
Ink is blood pricked by a thorn
Sonnets, Limericks beguile
Imagery behooves my style

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Sara Kendrick

March 20, 2026 at 5:08 PM

Creative winning work in Charles' contest. Way to go. Congratulations to you. Sara K

Charles Messina

March 19, 2026 at 3:17 AM

So well done, Lin. Where was my mind? After reading this again...I should have placed this one higher. Sorry...anyway, thanks for entering my contest and Congratulations on your placement! Charlie

Lin Lane

March 19, 2026 at 5:44 AM

Charlie, this is the second time you’ve expressed making a mistake in placing one of my poems in your contest. I’m not sure if I’ll give you an opportunity to do it again. But I do appreciate you admitting your bad judgement.

Linda Alice Fowler

March 18, 2026 at 11:14 AM

Hi Lin. Cathartic words and clever rhyming. Congratulations! :)

Lin Lane

March 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM

Thank you very much, Alice.

Frederic Parker

March 17, 2026 at 8:48 AM

Yes Lin both of us placed at the kiddy table which is fine I have eyes and can see I have a brain and understand, people have their favorites...

Lin Lane

March 19, 2026 at 5:27 AM

Dear Frederic, Messina just left this comment to me about nu jujue. So well done, Lin. Where was my mind? After reading this again...I should have placed this one higher. Sorry...anyway, thanks for entering my contest and Congratulations on your placement! Charlie

Lin Lane

March 17, 2026 at 9:19 AM

And the reason you and I write is not to please others. ;-)

John Lawless

March 11, 2026 at 3:23 PM

a melodic metaphor of madness unleashed on the naked page by a pen wielding Knight...well, anyway, this is WICKED AWESOME...or so a Bostonian told me...beautifully done

Lin Lane

March 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM

My desire to write is a sort of madness. Each naked page invites me to fill it with thoughts. ‘Wicked awesome’ There’s no better compliment. Thanks a lot, John.

Daniel Henry Rodgers

March 11, 2026 at 11:22 AM

Dear Lin, I am stuck on your visceral image of your "ink is blood pricked by a thorn." It moves your lovely writing away from being a simple hobby and turns it into a biological necessity, as the "pregnant thoughts" you carry are actually painful until they are finally released onto the page. Amen! There’s a beauty! Blessings, Daniel

Lin Lane

March 11, 2026 at 12:42 PM

Dear Daniel, there have been many times when my tears have fallen and blurred the ink on my poetry. Cathartic it is when I feel as if my ink bleeds from some part of me, but that leaching doesn’t remove the pain for long. You’re right about writings from the heart. They could never be just a hobby. Far too emotional and must be captured..: over and over time and time again. You see the depth of that vulnerable place