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20 20 EDIT

hindsight

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Form: Footle

Premium Member OPENING DAY - edit for contest

The anxious crowd
Gathers
Slowly anticipating
The grand opening

A bud trembles
Dew drops shiver
A late sun
Unlocks the stage door

A gentle hum builds
Slowly
Petal fingers open
To unheard applause

A chatter of sparrows
A distant hoot
The muffled cooing
Of doves

Stage right
Crimson capes
Opening
To nature’s suitors


Premium Member John Donne with typo edit

John Donne, English poet innovator and scholar
finished life wearing a clerical collar.
Most famous for sermons and love poetry, 
a wife and twelve children also had he.
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Tommy Turkey - typo edit

Tommy Turkey revealed that last year
Farmer Joe made old friends disappear.
To the new birds he said,
“Heed my words or be dead
should that farmer with axe reappear.”

The new birds thought his tale was a fable.
Tommy cried, “Run as fast as you’re able.”
To the corn field he fled
while his dumb friends instead
ended up on a Thanksgiving table.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Would You Love Me If I Weren't a Poet? - Spelling Edit

I tried to read a favorite poem of mine for you.
Your eyes glazed over.
You could have been a lizard on a rock
sunning yourself, entirely unaware
that I felt as though I were there in front of you
reciting my words of such beauty
that an angel could have been
singing them while playing on a harp.
You may have even fallen quite to sleep.
Not once did you look up or glance at me.
You told me later, in fact, you had no use for poetry.

Another time I tried to read a poem to you.
It was a poem meticulously crafted just for you.
I could tell you liked it, for you were its centerpiece.
You pricked up your ears a little bit.
You thanked me, but no sweet words
of great appreciate did you return.
I am a stranger in your world of pure practicality.
Your love for me is steadfast and real; however,
asking if you’d love me if I were not a poet
is like asking a mother if she’d love her baby
if it were not merely there cooing in her lap.


Premium Member Anathema Woman

Her independence deferred
          History wipe, silenced in denial 
          Component of family unit secure
          Current form stands as emblem
          Entirety kindly quiet unheard
  

          Cleansed of horror occured
          Corpses buried won't stand trial
          Heinous parade she could endure 
          Hosts pretense without problem
          Outline dent, identity blurred


          Safe matriarch role preferred
          Sedating sandarac sent via smile
          Dizzying aphrodisiac calamine cure
          Disarming smooth cabochon gem
          Exhibits traits 1950's referred

    
          Dissolved scrag, unburdened
          Drama curtains pull closing titles
          Screenplay prosperity props are pure
          Scripted mid century holds them
          Outcast character murdered



          
           Eleventh of New Year Era
Form: Rhyme

Edit Edit Edit

Start with the first line -
no,
start at the first word;
the human brain is not equipped
to produce brilliant ‘first words.’
Consider ditching it
and its associated adjectives,
trust me there will be adjectives,
if not controlled
they will breed like rabbits.

Imagine you only have
$5 of original things to say,
be economical, for if you overspend
the poem may go bankrupt before the end.

Run it through a spell check – twice.
Send it out upon the internet
with a light heart.

Some poets will already know 
what will happen next –


          crickets.

Premium Member Footles On Folks Less Seemly- Spelling Edit

Student Procrastinator

Grammar
Crammer

Multiple Casino Guy

Scrambler
Gambler

Casino Loser

Lamer 
Gamer

A Playboy’s Malady

Fun guy
Fungi

Slasher in Prison

Knifer
Lifer

April 27, 2021
Form: Footle

Edit Free Styling Verse Slamming

Denver wheeling

Spinning,
Thinning

Itching,
Scratching

Black box shouting,
Pause recording

Stop stalling

Part 2

I want Air Force 1,
Fuelled and ready to go

At my command

Draped in invisible camouflaged
blue shadowed by red arrows

Part 3

I wish to see the falling angel
for myself

Viewed from 1st class champagne 
in hand washing caviar and truffles
down

In questionable company

Part 4

Knock , Knock
What's the dark secret you
are keeping well hid behind 
Black door with golden number 4

Part 5

Or more to the point
What's the actual cost

Per say in human lives
Or bribes to the contrary

Part 6-6-6

Taxation donated sponsored 
Death becomes
charity / clarity
The devil's in the detail

Part 7

Why there is no,
Part 7
Can't you see

As at the stroke of 8 the white flag
was clearly raised and so to 
with it the towel thrown in

It's all over bar the shouting 

Extra , extra nothing left to do but
read and write and crow all about it

Service an agenda and ramp up
the recriminations

Renegade master,
Power to the people

When We Would Complete Edit

When We Would Complete Edit

after we read it
we would complete the edit
give proper credit

Jim Horn

8 to go to complete
8,000 poems.
Form: Haiku

Please Edit My Story

Please edit my story he whispered 
It's the story of an orphan child 
Who lost his way home in the noon 
On the lonely road left alone 
A mile away from home he walked 
His story to be edited 

Edit his story and tell him that 
Tomorrow is a good day to behold 
To remember his home alive 
And rewrite his history of the home 
Away from home he had lost 

Edit my story that I had survived 
Away from the home I resurfaced 
That life was a mystery and a conquest 
In many ways it writes our stories 
But Please edit my story 
And I will retell my history
Form: Elegy

Premium Member Our Dumb Chums - Spelling Edit

While we humans are living in fear,
those sweet cats and the dogs we hold dear
get added attention
since we’re in detention.
Pets are thrilled that Corona is here!

Our societies came to a crawl,
but the creatures are having a ball.
Gators saunter to stores.
Monkeys, goats, and wild boars
running free aren’t so dumb after all!

April 23, 2020 for  Janice Canerdy's Limerick Contest
(I think my fingers hit the wrong keys first time around!)
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Attribute Two My Knew Poet Tree Book Edit Tor

Attribute two my poet tree book edit tor

I no that the write punk chew asian, speeling and grammer are sew impotent when righting poet tree, don’t chew think sew two? Sow four my book eye will bee making shore aye ewes my smell chequer. 

This is attribute to the wonderful lady who is going tubby the edit tor of my poet tree book. Eye don’t think shell have any issues after reeding this tribute as my werk is prefect!

Seriously, I will stress I am NOT leaving Poetry Soup, I have a lifetime PM and I intend to use it until I can no longer pick up my pencil. I am just taking some much needed time out to focus on getting my poems into a book. It has been my intention to do this since I left work in 2016 and now the time is right for me to put my plan into action.


I will be dropping back from time to time to read some of the amazing poets here and to make the odd comment

Jan 

1st April 2019 (despite the date its not an April fool's joke)
Form: Verse

Premium Member Red Line

ideas silence
creators denied free thought
speech control power
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Edit Me

Here they are to edit me
   I don't care, can't they see
     I'll say what I want, I'm free
       You can ask me, Maybe even plea
         I won't agree
       It's me, not we
      I'll charge like General Lee
     Make you take a knee
    You will pay the fee
   If you don't let me be
 You should probably flee
Form: Monorhyme

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