You're invited to a SYMPOSIA!
Expand your waist and expand your mind,
Study the stars while you're wined-and-dined,
A food and cosmic ambrosia!
Multiple telescopes - multiple cooks,
The best astronomers and cuisines,
Savory menus and astral scenes,
Deep-table banquets and deep-space looks!
What could go better with gourmet food,
Than gawking and talking of the stars -
Frying while eyeing features on Mars,
Stomach AND mind in a sated mood?
Forums on both with experts galore -
Physicists, chefs, and pundits to query,
Seasoning, reasoning, quantum theory,
Workshops on stargazing, glazing and more!
Get your seat now, and please don't be late!
You won't want to miss the cosmic food fun -
Of all the conventions, this is the one,
WhatEVER you love, on the sky ... or your plate!
Written and submitted on September 22, 2018
For the "Symposia" Poetry Contest
Julia Ward, Judge & Sponsor
Categories:
symposia, food, humorous, stars, universe,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Symposia
Return of yearly symposia with arrival of fall
The dates are announced already on net and print
Topic this time is racism that yet bears it's imprint
Distinguished delegates from varied strata of society have been given a call
Introspection is needed to bring equality in this world
Racism is a grave problem of modern times
Guests will be putting their views apart from age -old paradigm
Let's hope sprouting fresh thoughts on this intense topic unfurl
Securities are going to be tight only press and students allowed
Starting at mid-noon shall continue for hours late
Near the venue not a tiny bird can flap wings on the declared date
Do not forget the invitation cards remember we shall be scoured
19/09/2018
Categories:
symposia, change,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Nutrition symposia is on,
From fifth to eighth December twenty eighteen,
Morning eight to evening five fifteen,
At the top floor of hotel Sheraton.
Each day, there will be three sittings,
Two in the morning and one after lunch,
Post meetings, enjoy our distinct entertainment bunch,
Poetrysoup please! Join us with proceedings.
The topic of discussion is diseases of small intestine,
Interested scientists, doctors and researchers,
Enroll with latest abstracts, articles and papers,
At nb@nutrisymp.org, on or before October nine.
Categories:
symposia, care, dedication, food, health,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Call for "ROBOTIC SYMPOSIA"
Welcome!..Intelligent Machines.
Bytes of Chips.. Coded Cuisines.
Interface Deep Learned Colloquia
Pageant of Program-Parade track.
Sessions of Chess, Poems..Football
Network, Encrypt, Friends Firewall.
Awesome Algorithms..can you hack?
A Special Theme.. "Learn to Cry"..
Bluetooth the Heart and Brain.
To feel Love, Pleasure and Pain..
...................
HUMANS.. "Please Don't Apply "
13th September 2018
SYMPOSIA POETRY CONTEST
Sponsored by Julia Ward.
Categories:
symposia, computer, cry, deep, feelings,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Call for "ROBOTIC SYMPOSIA"
Welcome!..Intelligent Machines.
Bytes of Chips.. Coded Cuisines.
Interface Deep Learned Colloquia
Pageant of Program-Parade track.
Sessions of Chess, Poems..Football
Network, Encrypt, Friends Firewall.
Awesome Algorithms..can you hack?
A Special Theme.. "Learn to Cry"..
Bluetooth the Heart and Brain.
To feel Love, Pleasure and Pain..
...................
HUMANS.. "Please Don't Apply "
13th September 2018
SYMPOSIA POETRY CONTEST
Sponsored by Julia Ward.
Categories:
symposia, computer, cry, deep, feelings,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
I invite you all to a symposia, a series,
A bunch of events on uplifting the dreary
I encourage everyone to please convene
On how we might unravel the things between
What people do and what people say
And how their dismay is not on display
Through these seminars we will discover
How to help our sisters and brothers
Those who suffer silently in front of our faces
And desperately need a soothing oasis
Together we will learn how to assist
Those whose depression always persists
Categories:
symposia, anger, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The symposia on health
Will be on the weekend
Join us and bring a friend
Your body is your wealth
Addresses healthy food
Boiled water as example
Less fat, carbs than the apple
And no need to be chewed
With free t-shirt and ham
And some other offers
Please spread it to the others
Rest assured it's not a sham
SYMPOSIA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
September 01, 2018
Categories:
symposia, food, health,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
SYMPOSIA
Organizing three days' symposia,
focusing Tea-Manufacturing Trade.
Tea considered as a drink of first grade
to be served in the cafeteria.
First day scheduled for the Tea-Traders
Tea-Manufacturers booked for next day.
On third day Research Scholars will display.
Every day to enjoy by Tea-Tasters.
To you ‘Taste Tea’ invitation to send.
Green Tea, Milk Tea, Raw Tea or Lemon Tea
Black Tea, Ginger Tea you will sip in spree.
Every day you will be present, my friend.
08/28/18
'SYMPOSIA' contest by Julia Ward
Categories:
symposia, appreciation, friend,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A cornucopia of symposia
hoping to make the future rosier
banging a gavel to unravel
multiple knots of itinerant thoughts
billing and queueing a crisis slow brewing
the same old charade a grand masquerade
where everyone graces the room with two faces
theater heads one alive and one dead
solving the problem of how fast can we rob’em
scatter the cash in an off shore locked cache
hoorah for symposia, no doubts all supposia
a game of three shells all whistles and bells
just keep moving the pea so no one can see
we’ll never be rid of this schemed pyramid
John G. Lawless
©8/23/2018
Categories:
symposia, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Imagine a brilliantly intensely inner-connected symposia
Of beliefs that humans with nature and other species can be one,
Envision flying people taught by robins and wrens, for amazing bits of fun.
Join me Sunday at 9, off exit 2 off Highway 8, I do proposia.
If you would rather learn to build dams, bring a snorkel, and wear a swimming suit.
The beavers taught six to dam last year, from ages eighteen to eighty-two.
Come sign up for at least six of our classes, assure a terrific time for you.
We will have so much fun in the forest, this may become your most favorite hoot.
If you want to bring a companion, a spouse, an onlooker, or a really good friend,
Or just come alone, in your tennis shoes, with heart and mind open creatively wide,
Come to the shelter house and sign up for all events you think you can truthfully abide.
The day will be filled with joyous communion, and a communal campfire at the end.
ENCLOSED RHYME Name: SYMPOSIA Sponsor: Julia Ward
Date: 8/28/2018 Poetry Contest
Categories:
symposia, animal, appreciation, leadership, nature,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Come poets all to our Symposia
to meet and share with others and debate
about an art to which you can relate
and learn about advanced criteria,
For turning thought into great imagery
with writing tools of rhythm, meter, rhyme
or where free verse or syllables are prime,
here at our wordsmith-skills menagerie!
Please come to share in the euphoria
as you present your own poetic voice
reciting one fine poem of your choice!
Come poets all to our Symposia.
Sandra M. Haight
~3rd Place~
Contest: What Your Poem Needs Now, Is Love, Sweet Love
Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner
Judged: 10/09/2018
Categories:
symposia, poetry, spoken word,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
JOIN OUR LATE SUMMER GRAND SYMPOSIA
Audacious and inspiring smart topics
Discussions on depression and conflicts
Uplifting and supportive trek to health
JOY OF SPEAKER’S STRENGTH AND BOLD RESOLVE
Increasing verve & proof you’re not defective
Will stretch your mind and change your perspective
A spiritual journey to change your life
EXPECT GREAT HIGHS AS LOWS DISAPPEAR
Dissipating doubts & increasing pride
Come out! Don’t hide! Release your better side.
Our speaker guarantees you’ll breathe freer
8/25/2018
Categories:
symposia, conflict, depression, inspirational,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
SYMPOSIA
There will be upcoming international symposia
on the emerging technology of efficient fastener.
This is my idea and I am acting as the convener,
kept the topic open, not restricted only to zipper.
This is personal invitation from me to you to come
as you will surely find the deliberations interesting
for there will be eminent delegates demonstrating
new techniques of binding as the recent invention.
You will benefit to learn skill of tying by taking part
for a fascinating session will be organized in the end
on the ways how the chattering lips can be fastened
if your spouse cannot keep the prattling mouth shut.
August 25, 2018
(I hope the end words of the outer
lines of each stanza are similar in sound)
Categories:
symposia, humorous, satire, spoken word,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
You are invited to our Symposia on civil discourse--
The keynote lecture is titled 'Look before you leap'
during which you'll have to put your device to sleep--
Note that the presenter is by both sides of the aisle endorsed
After lunch will be a session on self-restraint--
Overcoming temptations to text or to tweet
no matter if done in a manner discrete--
With tips ranging from cutting edge to quaint
Wrapping things up will be a talk on listening with respect--
Featuring "If I understand you correctly then,..."
or "If you will permit me to make a suggestion,..."
~ And that's a preview of what from our Symposia to expect!
Categories:
symposia, philosophy, society,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
My symposia welcomes you
On Texans' incessant bragging
Examples are far from lagging
As we examine this strange trait
We look at the geography
As seen through the egos extant
Then explain this absurd new slant
That the state contains the North Pole
A new perspective will arise
In debunking this local lore
An education is in store
From this brilliant New Yorkers mind
8-23-18
For Julia Ward's Symposia contest
Categories:
symposia, humorous,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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