What Makes Me Smile Winners
...Hello
I have emailed each winner and have not received email replies except from 11 of you. Please reply via email as soup mail deletes after six months. Also it is already a challenge matching poet...
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emailed, poets,
Form: I do not know?
Half-life of old friends
...Mom writes polemics, when a cause grasps her heart
She's a good soul and wants to do her part
A journal took one, so she emailed it to friends
Then found that old age had brought many to their end...
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emailed, death, death of a
Form: Lyric
Waiting for Waiting’s End
...The chancy countdown clock of my mortality
is ticking toward some unknown preset alarm.
I’m aware of every taciturn tick tock
in unrecoverable moments spent waiting
for something to happen…
and ...
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Categories:
emailed, courage, death, faith, mystery,
Form: Free verse
I Emailed you a Tinkerbell Giftcard
...I emailed you a Tinkerbell gift card, she told me.
Great! I have to look at email.
Not easy.
there are 438, 348, 112 unread emails in my in-box.
I use the search, but cannot find it.
I call her ...
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Categories:
emailed, computer,
Form: Light Verse
Unique Father
...Maybe we went fishing
Under the country sky
Then maybe we went camping
Counting stars and fireflies
In the city maybe we played pool
Restored a car, played chess, bowled
Maybe we went to the...
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Categories:
emailed, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Attitude with latitude
...Attitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested...
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Categories:
emailed, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
a letter
...I got a text from one of my professors yesterday saying, ‘Please stop by my office at 6 pm tomorrow.’ It didn’t say why. This was the first day after November recess, had I missed something? That nig...
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Categories:
emailed, appreciation, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
First Counselor Meeting
...the head of the counselors resigned the second day of school.
We are congregating for our first meeting without a leader.
They give us a room without chairs or tables.
We were instructed to bring ...
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Categories:
emailed, school,
Form: Narrative
The Key
...Last December, I had my birthday celebration,
It was so much fun that I forgot to use my walking cane,
At the end, all the leftover food must be dumped,
Even cake and sweets must be parted with pa...
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Categories:
emailed, missing,
Form: Free verse
Witch Sal Tryal
...Sal Tryal is an unusual witch
And not the kind that eat kids.
She leads a quiet and simple life
Wants no bother or any type strife.
The deep forest is her piece of heaven
In a place called No...
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Categories:
emailed, magic,
Form: Rhyme
No Soup For You
...Jerry and friends, whose humor never failed,
Ended nine years on air by being jailed.
Left viewers feeling blue
Without "No soup for you!"
Most fans were angry. Their protests emailed.
A...
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Categories:
emailed, humor,
Form: Limerick
Snookered
...When ‘He’ decides to destroy one and all
I’ll spend my last day in this old snooker hall
My cue in one hand and a beer in the other
I’ll play my last game with my dad and my brother
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Categories:
emailed, earth, fate, moon, space,
Form: Rhyme
Virtual Library Workshop
...West Side Poetry Writing Workshop
Thursday, May 27
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Add to Calendar
Virtual
This event will be held virtually on Zoom.
Share your poetry with amateur and seasoned poets alike...
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Categories:
emailed, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Many Men I Have Met Cannot Live Alone
...I realized this one day, and others also concur
Men have a difficult time living alone, but women love it.
When a man’s spouse runs away or dies,
He seems to replace her in seconds, a week at the ...
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Categories:
emailed, men,
Form: Prose Poetry
Good News Came My Way Today February 21 2021 Courtesy Late Father
...Good news came my way today February 21, 2021 courtesy late father
Papa - purportedly named
after paternal grandmother
Sadie, her mom's Yiddish name
Basia Brana (or Brandla),
she took two B le...
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Categories:
emailed, absence, appreciation, celebration, dad,
Form: Rhyme
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