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Premium Member Using AI in soup contests - Inspired by Unseeking Seeker’s and Tania's blogs
Your cheating ways, you've sunk so low, to win contests - that isn't right. You've used AI, few sponsors know Your cheating ways MY ideas form, it’s time to write, (Unlike AI, my brain is slow) When poem’s done, I feel delight! But AI wins, it's quite a blow It's unfair and I feel uptight We're NOT blind sheep, I want to show Your cheating...

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Categories: conflict, integrity, poetry,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Dining Etiquette
You've missed a bit, there on your chin. Thin reeds of river grass and fish— cheeks-deep in roe, mud-covered twin, you've missed a bit. Let's bumble on to spawning's pitch eat salmon-seasoned trout—with quince, furs drenched in entrails glazey drip... I can forgive your novel sin, big Grizz, I swear there is no hitch, just time enough, to feast with friends you've missed a...

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Categories: metaphor, nature,
Form: Roundel



Premium Member Dawn Wakes Nature
Dawn wakes nature; gold sun I see. In orange sky it rises bright with radiance enchanting me. Dawn wakes nature. Peeking down, sun shimmers its light. There is a river running free where birds are floating – a sweet sight. As if it heard King Sun’s decree, one bird, wings spread, prepares for flight to follow river to the sea. Dawn wakes nature. Image #1...

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Categories: sun,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Chum in the Water?
You came in loud like that was wise— just flung your muddy paws around, all growls and spit and cow-dumb eyes. You came in loud. This isn't turf. It’s neutral ground. Your claws too dull to even fight— the lie you told, that fish can drown. My instrument, sharpened to thrive, harvests now free range, as wolf-hound's alter ego preys on fish-full lives. You came...

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Categories: conflict, nature, word play,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Secret Words Zephyr
Written: June 22, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Joseph May Image #1 ...

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Categories: appreciation, beauty,
Form: Roundel



Premium Member The Depth and Breadth of Quiet
I told no one I'd seen the night— how tension breached a sunset start, how sea had swallowed all the light. I told no one the world is glass—a whale is art, this frame of sky its ancient right, it plays each game the same—by heart. The moment's pulse too wide to try resuscitation, CPR— now all that's left to gain, insight I told...

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Categories: analogy, environment, ocean,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member In Stars Above
In stars above our secrets hang— Our naked past unspoken of Veiled words that the talking drums bang In stars above Silent choirs delight our chain gang Even sun yolks; friendly folks shove And shout below, still mercies sang Contentment rests as a sweet dove On shoulders shattered so, they rang Minced bones jangling, but God does love In stars above...

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Categories: forgiveness, god, identity, nature,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member UNDER OCEAN
Under Ocean swimming creatures ! Running on clash and collision between all preys and predators Under Ocean. Wonder ! Beyond human vision : Ocean shows fantastic features. Real : No fantasy - fiction...

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Categories: ocean,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Tasty Morsels
Tasty morsels may swim by I’ll just duck down and check it out Instead, a big fish I do spy Tasty morsels. Although this looks like a brown trout Or maybe it is a walleye They’re far to big I have no doubt. I’ll take a breath and then retry If nothing’s there, I’ll go without I...

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Categories: fish,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Sunrise Greets Dawn
Pick One of Five 6-21-25 Image #1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sunrise Greets Dawn Sunrise greets dawn first lights arise To the beat of unfolding wings Masking misty azurine skies Sunrise greets dawn. Across still water swan chants sing Bathed in glories of the sunrise Rosy ballads for morning ring. Bands of silver steel run lengthwise Bridging midnight and dawn’s dayspring Pink aurora turns from moonrise Sunrise greets dawn. ...

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Categories: day, morning, music,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member When a need strikes
When a need strikes, mind not drawbacks Life kicks the game off hide and seek How brisk you are matters on tracks When a need strikes... Stop not, though the prospects are bleak Till you bring off, there's no relax! Finish it with a stubborn streak The course may be crooked with tacks Resolve and let your actions speak Be a winner in the...

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Categories: 6th grade, integrity, life,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member A Whale Quite Vast
Inspired by image #1 "Did you know Orcas can live 70 - 100 years." ...

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Categories: nature,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member formidable
formidable they seek you out predators with a one track mind forget trouble don't scream and shout formidable diverted from the daily grind they don't care what you are about just know that you are in a bind the nasties just have all the clout your death wish is now sealed and signed you've got no time left to bug...

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Categories: life,
Form: Roundel
What Makes Me Smile
What makes me smile? A touch, a glance, The quiet strength in someone's eyes, A blooming thought, a second chance— What makes me smile. A sunrise through the window tries To light the sheets in soft expanse, And hope returns in whispered sighs. Though pain may linger, still I dance In dreams where healing spirits rise, And every breath becomes romance— What makes me smile. ...

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Categories: smile,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Sea Trash Begone
Sea trash begone, as youth shall surge ...

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Categories: ocean, pollution,
Form: Roundel

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