Carol Mays

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10/04/2024267 Haiku
12/18/2022484 Haiku
12/18/2022446 Haiku
12/18/2022630 Haiku
12/17/2022738 Haiku
12/17/2022386 Haiku
12/17/2022441 Haiku
12/17/2022525 Haiku
12/17/2022550 Haiku
12/17/2022357 Haiku
12/17/2022511 Haiku
12/17/2022409 Haiku
12/17/2022428 Haiku
11/12/2022473 Haiku
10/25/2022273 Haiku
10/24/2022752 Haiku
11/30/2020663 Haiku
07/24/2020483 Haiku
11/06/2019434 Free verse
11/06/2019469 Free verse
11/06/2019380 Free verse
11/06/2019343 Free verse
11/06/2019475 Free verse
11/06/2019345 Free verse
11/06/2019902 Free verse
11/06/2019487 Free verse
11/06/2019353 Free verse
11/27/2018414 Free verse
11/27/2018608 Free verse
12/13/2017932 Free verse
12/13/2017717 Free verse
12/12/2017686 Free verse
12/12/2017936 Free verse
12/12/20171827 Rhyme
12/12/2017502 Free verse
12/12/20171010 Free verse
12/12/2017512 Free verse
12/12/2017667 Free verse
12/11/2017636 Free verse
12/11/2017626 Free verse
12/11/2017731 Free verse
12/10/2017611 Rhyme
12/10/2017858 Free verse
12/10/2017646 Free verse
02/02/20152952 Blank verse
01/31/20151147 Free verse
01/31/20151569 Free verse
01/31/20151410 Free verse
01/31/20151587 Free verse
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01/31/20151215 Free verse
01/31/20151670 Blank verse
01/30/20151606 Free verse
01/30/20151491 Blank verse
01/30/20151170 Free verse
01/29/20151785 Rhyme
01/29/20151159 Free verse
01/29/20151295 Blank verse
01/28/20151394 Free verse
01/28/20151321 Free verse
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01/28/20151571 Free verse
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01/28/20151515 Blank verse

Biography

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!

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