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Poems by Carol Mays

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10/04/2024248 Haiku
12/18/2022467 Haiku
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12/18/2022611 Haiku
12/17/2022718 Haiku
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11/12/2022458 Haiku
10/25/2022258 Haiku
10/24/2022736 Haiku
11/30/2020635 Haiku
07/24/2020463 Haiku
11/06/2019424 Free verse
11/06/2019460 Free verse
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11/06/2019328 Free verse
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11/27/2018403 Free verse
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12/13/2017917 Free verse
12/13/2017704 Free verse
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12/12/20171812 Rhyme
12/12/2017491 Free verse
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12/10/2017600 Rhyme
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02/02/20152911 Blank verse
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01/30/20151589 Free verse
01/30/20151474 Blank verse
01/30/20151153 Free verse
01/29/20151752 Rhyme
01/29/20151145 Free verse
01/29/20151277 Blank verse
01/28/20151377 Free verse
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Greetings, Everyone! 

As you can see from my commitment to lifetime membership in Poetry Soup, poetry is very important to me, as a vehicle for sharing deep, subtle, and usually beautiful images. Society as a whole is so desperately in need of this influence, and yet poets have such a hard time being noticed, in the midst of the rat race and the glut of less-than-inspirational books on the market. Poetry Soup seems to be doing a great job in supporting us in our vision and work.

I have been writing poetry for about fifty years. I started out by doing stream-of-consciousness stuff, and over the years, have developed a system for refining my poems, so that they end up in crystallized form, usually with a specific meter that seems to arise from the poem itself. I often work on a poem for several years, until I get a consistent feeling that it's as good as it's going to get. The final step is sometimes to put freshness back into the poem.

My purpose in writing is to give full expression to a feeling or idea in a particular context, with the hope that the poem will assist readers in accessing these same feelings or ideas in themselves.

I have written and co-authored a number of books, including Poems of Peace and Renewal, A Collection of Uplifting PoemsMystical Poems by Three Contemporary New England Writers, and Halloween Enchantment; Haunting Poems and Stories. Most of these books include work by classical poets, i.e., Wordsworth, Longfellow, Dickinson, Poe. 

In 2020, Suzanne Delaney (another Souper) and I published a book together, titled Poems of Nature, Enchantment, and Mystery. As the title suggests, this is an enchanting, uplifting book, and it is available on Amazon both in paperback and as an ebook.

I have also created a DVD (Poems of Enchantment), which consists of beautiful multimedia presentations of 19 poems, some classical, some written by me. These multimedia presentations have also been uploaded to YouTube, and you can find links to some of them on my Poetry Soup poetry page. Check out the magical Wynken, Blynken, and Nod production on my YouTube channel, Idyllic Productions.

Of course I love it when people read my poems, and I welcome comments. I enjoy reading poems by other writers, also, and I'm always thrilled when I find an inspiring, well-written poem--it's like going on a treasure hunt.

Happy reading and writing!


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry