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                      and read your poetry.       *
                        Enchanted verse by    *
                         verse fills me with*
                           inspirational joy
                            as I compose
                             a tiny poem.
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A BRIAN STRAND VISUAL Poetry Contest~First Place~
Sponsor Brian Strand


October 16, 2015
For the contest, Creative Layouts, ~First Place~
sponsor, Broken Wings
Form: Shape

Premium Member Smoke

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           l * a *  z *  i * l * y
                 
 from the dying embers
   of a b-u-r-n-t-out romance

      outdated emotions
           wrapped in 
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                              -gy

  Will a b~r~ee~z~e come
              to fan it
           back to life?

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Paul Callus ~ 24th Oct 2015
Contest: Creative Layouts
Sponsor: Broken Wings
Placed 1st
Form: Shape

Borne By Love

….. I
                                                .  am
                                                .    free
                                                .       to go
                                                .         where
                                                .            breezes
                                                .              take me,
                                                .               free to be
                                                .              at liberty,                                                                      								        .          my spirit 
                                                .       loosed
                                                .             on the waters
                                                .                  to be borne of
                                                .                       the power neath
                                                .                             my strong timber,
                                                .                               take me where’er
                                                .                               you will, until the
                                                .                             air of the mistral
                                                .                         is spent and the
                                                .                      clouds bid me
                                                .                   cease …
                					        .
                        your unfailing love has borne me aloft
                          but without you by my side, I am
               …………. at the mercy of the depths …………………

                                       
         by Bill Lindsay
	 October 14th 2015 
         
         For the contest, Creative Layouts, sponsor, Broken Wings
Form: Shape


Premium Member Blooming

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the
watchful eyes
of full moon
flickers  again, * 
an alchemy of cicada nights
humming a  mantra like a pastoral symphony
-- -as if in a twirl of primal energy ---  flock of 
herons,
band of cattle, and  grasses invite smokey dusk to 
recite
her fables  on morning dew and twilight passages
chant after chant

 * and the trees bloom of a thousand foliage
gracing the winds with such opulent swagger,
that the living—absent from babbling  language —
sigh after sigh
abandon its  own movements to drift on greenery
floating on anklet of sky hardly recognized , except 
for this
rare instance: the dignity  of darkness, the tiers of 
fragrance,

and caresses of nocturnal beings gathering  in  
warm
oneness of silence, reverent as it were,  upon
•	dew soaked in buoyant wonder..*

the mind forgets to speak: the  branches
 of a landscape pivot never knowing why
in solace, the breath marries  light
II   circle  II
after
II circle.  II

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Creative Layouts Contest

Sponsor: Broken Wings

8/11/2013

A Lament

Your cold lips,
Your frozen Figure...a sad emotion you expelled.
I touch your shape, trembling at the source.
Modeling away to my cheeks.
At sunrise we slept,
At midnight we loved.
The stars and the clouds draw us layouts of dreams,
an enchantment,
our elixir of love.
Hands slept in our grave, a singing hymn.
We drank each other's memories.
We danced until the moon was put to sleep.
Covered ourselves with petals of Rose, 
Bare to the despair, the sun presented.
Decaying, and never growing old.
We fulfill these lavender caresses everyday.
Immortals, will will always love.
We will always be together...
Lovers in time.
Vampires in a dream,
A reality to me coming true.
Form: Elegy

Premium Member The Merry-Go-Round

                                                     
                                                    
                                             Round and round on the merry-go-round,
                                                  Round and round I go.
                                                        See me on my stallion high,
                                                                 See now, I dip down low.

	    The music plays, it never stops,
	 It goes on all day and night.
       At times, there’s sadness in its tune;
     At times, it sounds so bright.

                                            Round and round and round and round	
                                                 With all those ups and downs.
                                                     The stallions marching in a line
                                                         With silly painted frowns.

     I see the others riding too—
	Content enough they seem.
	    Perhaps beneath the frozen smiles
	         Each like me could scream…
						
						                         
                                                      “Let me off! Please let me off!
						          I’m getting nowhere fast;
				                             There's so much I must see and do
					                           Before my time has passed!”


                                               But round and round and round it goes,
                                            And round and round again.
                                         Might as well enjoy the ride,
                                     For when it stops, what then?



                                                    Sandra M. Haight
            
                                                       ~2nd Place~
                                               Contest: Creative Layouts
                                                 Sponsor: Broken Wings
                                                    Judged: 10/25/2015
Form: Rhyme


Creative Layouts

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                                                   My Quaint Cottage
                                          The quaintness of my cottage
                                     Is idyllic in my sweet resting thoughts.
                                 My miniature garden rarely noticed by one
                         Is garlanded with fenced shrubs and flowery visions. 
                                           My orange clustered tree
                                           Showers      } {        its love 
                                           onto my       } {      cascade
                                           of verses    }    {     as I rest
                                           against      }       {   its sturdy 
                                           bark on  }             {a silent day
                      My green walled cottage is sewn intricately with ivy 
                                                     Leaving an 
                                                  Arched door 
                                              Open Fringed 
                                        With fresh roses
                                     Attracting the 
                                Honey suckles
                              Hanging in air                                          
                           Fluttering 
                       Their wings
           For ## but # one ## sip

           In ## my ##### garden

           Of # b# l #o # o # m # s


FIRST
Balveen Cheema
October 24, 2015
Judged 
Contest: Creative Layouts
Sponsor: Broken Wings
Form: Concrete

Go Cubs

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      written by Dan Cwiak

      written: 10/15/15      updadted: 10/22/15

      for:  Creative Layouts Contest, Sponsor: Broken Wings
© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Shape

Premium Member 'shaping Our Nation'

                              Our 
                                  India -     
                           An abode
                         Of rich culture
                            and tradition.
                                                Shaped by our ancestors -                                                                            
                               the moulds of our past
                          Inspired by Freedom Fighters
                     martyred wishing for a free Nation
                             Led by leaders initiating missions to change the world,
                             India is progressing.. Reaching out towards her goal
                       Of being              the country
                             she was always meant to be -
                       A haven of
                       Harmony and
                        Peace.
                        *
                        Jai
                       Hind
                        
                                            




Written by Sneha RV
Posted on 23/10/2015

For Broken Wings's 'Creative Layouts' Contest
Form used - Shape


The shape of the map of India:

http://www.universallanguagessolution.com/uploads/2/8/6/2/28626567/514811_orig.jpg?1401503482


'Jai Hind' is a salutation, slogan and battle cry most commonly used in India in speeches and communications referring to patriotism towards India (Also known as Hind). It translates to "Hail India"/"Victory to India" or "Long live India".
© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Shape

Premium Member Astute Sales

A study of girls who are cute
These photo layouts are a hoot 
Sports Illustrated
For profits created
Issues saluting a swimsuit
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Poetic Love -Creative Layout

We have never met across the oceans blue
I know that I am the one you write about
Your romantic words are sheer perfection  
I drink in every syllable
My heart  s    k          p       s            a        beat

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How can I tell you            
I’m
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In love with you


I can no longer control my emotions;
If you could look at my heart you would see it is 
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Just word from you and I will be by your side….

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE HAPPILY MARRIED AND THEY ARE WRITTEN ABOUT YOUR WIFE!


I simply don’t understand …


Jan Allison
10~24~15

For the contest Creative Layouts
Sponsor Broken Wings

Dear Anna: For Contest

Dear Anna,

I
       Left you in order to save you from me.
Didn’t
       I warn you that I was poisonous? 
Want
        Doesn’t overpower your need for a better life.
To
        Be with you would only hurt you more.
Leave
         You a chance to heal your own scars.
You
         Deserve better than the broken parts of me.
Behind
         Leave me in the dust and move on.
Anna.

I buy a train fare.
	Leave it all behind,
Love, pain, fears, smiles
	This heartbreak.
It hurts, but I do it.
	City after city…
                 But at the same time…
                                     I feel euphoric…. 
                                            Why does leaving you and San Francisco…
                                  Give me a renewed sense of…
                           Freedom….
Anna. 
               I’m
       This
                           So
                    Is
                                         Sorry.
                             Goodbye.

Paige Posadziejewski 
10/24/2015
Contest: Creative Layouts
Sponsor: Broken Wings

Are You Skew-Whiff

Are You Skew-Whiff?

				Are you feeling rather skew-whiff?
Awkwardly placed and standing?
		upside-down
		back to front
		inside      out
		topsy - turvy
							Are your senses damp and unresponsive,
					Beckoning confusion and despair? 
	Does your heart pound even when there’s nothing exciting there?

   Forlorn, sorrowful, despondent, 
			     You patronise your grief, 
	      						Focus on your problem, 
		To attain some relief; 
You keep flitting to your pleasures, 
	Lack, for contemplation, a quiet place, 
				Force your troubles into the backroom, 
		You’re not to dignify your face. 
								Tomorrow is for thinking, 
	    Will exist to accommodate, 
			The glumness and the wretchedness, 
         That seems to obliqueness and gloom proliferate. 	

Rhoda Monihan 


13th October 2015


For the contest Creative Layouts, sponsor Broken Wings
Form: Concrete

Premium Member It's Autumn

Fall is getting prompt for its chilly main part.
Spread each leaf until the forest floor is strewn.
Joined by bright leaves waving to the summer's past.
Differing old layouts, and not a trice too soon!

Spread each leaf until the forest floor is strewn.
And the heron shriek out above the clear blue air
Differing old layouts, and not a trice too soon!
While the white clouds emerge to shout "beware!"

And the heron shriek out above the clear blue air
The swollen creek has no time to fade away.
While the white clouds emerge to shout "beware!"
The Fall charm waits for our parent's offer lay.

The swollen creek has no time to fade away.
A woodpecker beats on a tree searching food.
The Fall charm waits for our parent's offer lay.
Mixed together, they make for a timing, good.

A woodpecker beats on a tree searching food.
A parade of old thoughts walks within new sense.
Mixed together, they make for a timing, good.
And nothing is lost when the mood is intense!

A woodpecker beats on a tree searching food.
A parade of old thoughts walks within new sense.
Mixed together, they make for a timing, good.
And nothing is lost when the mood is intense!

A parade of old thoughts walks within new sense.
My heart is racing as I latch on to beat.
And nothing is lost when the mood is intense!
The kernel of Autumn's singing is so sweet.

My heart is racing as I latch on to beat.
Joined by bright leaves waving to the summer's past.
The kernel of Autumn's singing is so sweet.
Fall is getting prompt for its chilly main part.


Written: September 02, 2022

Autumn Pantoum Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Pantoum

Premium Member ''I Love To Verse''

Poetry has always been part of me, I write of my life,
      I was never one to shy away from challenges;
Trying many different forms in my rambling poetic journey,
            But for me, verse is the one I love the most.

Verse is so versatile and one can do a myriad of layouts,
      Almost any poem can be interweaved in verse;
I have written verses about butterflies and of dreams,
            Of nature, where verses can rhyme or maybe not.

Verses can be free and or even have internal rhymes,
      They can have metaphors and similes or alliteration;
I can paint a picture with my words in verse for you,
          My poems will take you to sadness or the past.

Verse can be written with beautiful words that inspire,
      Or sensual words of love or they can be just fun;
I can pen almost anything in verse, it is so very versatile,
          So if you are in need of a wonderful form to use,
                                                   just give verse a whirl.

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October 26, 2015

Poetry/Verse/"I love to verse"
Copyright Protected, ID 15-721-475-0
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.

For the contest, What Is Your Favorite Form
Sponsor, Nayda Ivette Negron

First Place
Form: Verse

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