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Poems by Carol Mays

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10/04/2024253 Haiku
12/18/2022473 Haiku
12/18/2022428 Haiku
12/18/2022614 Haiku
12/17/2022720 Haiku
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12/17/2022428 Haiku
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12/17/2022395 Haiku
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11/12/2022461 Haiku
10/25/2022261 Haiku
10/24/2022740 Haiku
11/30/2020647 Haiku
07/24/2020467 Haiku
11/06/2019426 Free verse
11/06/2019464 Free verse
11/06/2019355 Free verse
11/06/2019330 Free verse
11/06/2019453 Free verse
11/06/2019333 Free verse
11/06/2019889 Free verse
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11/06/2019343 Free verse
11/27/2018405 Free verse
11/27/2018599 Free verse
12/13/2017921 Free verse
12/13/2017706 Free verse
12/12/2017650 Free verse
12/12/2017925 Free verse
12/12/20171814 Rhyme
12/12/2017493 Free verse
12/12/2017996 Free verse
12/12/2017503 Free verse
12/12/2017653 Free verse
12/11/2017628 Free verse
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12/10/2017602 Rhyme
12/10/2017828 Free verse
12/10/2017627 Free verse
02/02/20152917 Blank verse
01/31/20151136 Free verse
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01/31/20151661 Blank verse
01/30/20151593 Free verse
01/30/20151479 Blank verse
01/30/20151157 Free verse
01/29/20151761 Rhyme
01/29/20151148 Free verse
01/29/20151280 Blank verse
01/28/20151381 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: Reflection on the Important Things