Howdy to all you Magnificent Pubbers!! It is our sincere and heartfelt hope that you and yours are safe and well!! I would like to apologize up front, this week's Chatter is a bit on the thin side, it was a crazy week, but we have some fun prompts, announcements and the winners of our March contest!!

It took our judges a bit of time to come up with the winners for our March contest, but after much deliberation we are thrilled to announce our winners!! Please help us in Congratulating them!!

********** 1st Place **********

@naomimrshl

********** 2nd Place **********

@aMusedAndPoetic

********** 3rd Place **********

@_Imperfect_Writing

***** Honorable Mentions *****

@MichaelTyger

@ThomasAinslie

The River's Tale
By Rudyard Kipling

TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told:-

"I walk my beat before London Town,
Five hours up and seven down.
Up I go till I end my run
At Tide-end-town, which is Teddington.
Down I come with the mud in my hands
And plaster it over the Maplin Sands.
But I'd have you know that these waters of mine
Were once a branch of the River Rhine,
When hundreds of miles to the East I went
And England was joined to the Continent.

"I remember the bat-winged lizard-birds,
The Age of Ice and the mammoth herds,
And the giant tigers that stalked them down
Through Regent's Park into Camden Town.
And I remember like yesterday
The earliest Cockney who came my way,
When he pushed through the forest that lined the Strand,
With paint on his face and a club in his hand.
He was death to feather and fin and fur.
He trapped my beavers at Westminster.
He netted my salmon, he hunted my deer,
He killed my heron off Lambeth Pier.
He fought his neighbour with axes and swords,
Flint or bronze, at my upper fords,
While down at Greenwich, for slaves and tin,
The tall Phoenician ships stole in,
And North Sea war-boats, painted and gay,
Flashed like dragon-flies, Erith way;
And Norseman and Negro and Gaul and Greek
Drank with the Britons in Barking Creek,
And life was gay, and the world was new,
And I was a mile across at Kew!
But the Roman came with a heavy hand,
And bridged and roaded and ruled the land,
And the Roman left and the Danes blew in -
And that's where your history-books begin!"

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a found poetry poem using a page out of a local newspaper.
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APRIL CONTEST –

The week 3-4 prompt is up and open for submissions.  If you missed week 1-2, no worries, it is still open for submissions as well.  This month's theme is history!! We will be accepting April submissions until April 30th at midnight, MST.  Please check out this month's contest book for full details.

POEM-A-WEEK –

As an encouragement to all of our members that have joined in on the Poem-a-Week challenge I would like to invite all our Pub members to stop by and check out our Poem-A-Week challenge book, read some of the poems and leave a comment for those participating.

To participate in the challenge, all you need to do is create a book on your own profile or use one of your existing books, then let us know what book it is and start writing.  You can also send in your poems to include in our collection here.  Please PM us if you take on the challenge so we can add your name to the participants list and send you a link for the participant sticker.

2020 Poem-a-Week Participants

Poems & Writings inspired by Webster's Dictionary by aMusedAndPoetic

Sillage by -Nynaeve

Weekly Whimsy by Anneshiningstar

Poem A Week - 2020 by most_bay

Concours by Schwethz

The Quantum Journal by MichaelTyger

Poetry Beans by undoubtedlymine

Pieces of Me by ShaunAllan

Pastel Paean by ImperfectPsychotic04

Narrow Feelings by SoulFarAway

Beautifully Mysterious by MysteriousDyrad

Genteel Reveries of an Outrié Poetess by MystresMyna

Rhyming Feelings by EmLover123

THAT SCHEME IN OUR MINDS by user42439792 (Mina)

That Orange Energy by gemkawiraa

Void of Morsels by AbhayDavid

Ragtag Poetry by NAGAdventures

Please stop by and check out their books, show them some Poets Pub love!

IF I MISSED ANYONE PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LIST!

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Poem-a-Week Prompt
Week Fifteen Prompt
Write a poem inspired by something in history that happened on the day you were born.
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MARCH CHALLENGE –

The March contest has officially come to a close. Please check back soon with the winner of this month's contest! Head over to the contest book to check out the submissions.

If you haven't read any of the Write The Story submissions, I highly recommend you take a moment to check them out! Maybe even join in as well. If you know anyone who would be interested in this challenge, then send them on over to the Saloon.

Every month there will be a new contest posted along with a couple words to use in your story. The stories will completely vary in genres. Check out the contest book for more details!

Come on by and support your fellow Pubbers by reading, voting, and commenting, and then consider joining in as well!!

Lyttlejoe's Busted Gulch Volume 13:

Jacob made it his personal mission to get Josie back. With the help of Rue and Jujube, they got her back without fail. Leaving Josie in Rue and Jujube's care, Jacob made chase with the leader of the duo. He was able to get information off him about the person after Brandy before Jacob killed him in his tracks. Following that, Jacob headed to Big Pool in quite a rush.

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For the month of April, we are all gonna play the fool. We are asking everyone to send in your fav funny little story, poem, anecdote, sayings, jokes .... anything at all, that will give a laugh, a chuckle, or even a smile.

April is April's Foolishness month at the FFF and with respect to what is happening in the world, we feel we could all use a laugh. So, pop over to the FFF and become part of the April Foolishness.

You can send in something new every day. Come on Pubbers. Pop over to your sister/brother/undisclosed site and share a laugh with everyone.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Go online and find a restaurant menu and use it to write a found poetry poem.
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Found Poetry Pt 2- By Gadralneure

As I mentioned in my last article on Found Poetry, the sources used to create the poetry are numerous.

As to choosing the source documents for found poetry, each person has their own process. For me, what I do in some cases is to select a person in history that I am particularly interested in, say Darwin, or Newton, or Patton, and then I google to find Archives of their letters that are online. You'd be surprised how much is available. You can also Google to see major newspapers Coverage of important events, like a sinking of the Titanic, the invasion of Normandy, man landing on the moon, etc. etc.

Trial transcripts are also available online for important and famous trials throughout history. So basically, all the sources are at your fingertips in this modern technological era,

But it is not only the sources which are diverse, but the types of poetry that can be created as well.

By using careful editing, the choice of which sentences to use, which words to omit, which punctuation to add, numerous poetic forms are available to the poet. Done properly you can create not only free verse, but rhymed poetry, and poetic forms such as haiku, Sanrio, Kennings, acrostic and many others.

Obviously not all original documents can be used to create the more complicated forms, since your choice of words, phrases, and sentences is limited in shorter sources. Creating the more complex forms generally requires longer original texts such as longer letters, speeches, trial transcripts, and historical accounts.

Below is an example of a haiku created from a front-page story in a national newspaper.

Eruption, a haiku chain
Found poem (Front page, Chicago Daily News, May 9th, 1902)

Covered with ashes,
fire and smoke from volcanoes,
enveloped in dust.

Enveloped in dust,
impenetrable darkness,
not a soul was seen.

Not a soul was sewn
and no news had been received,
total destruction.

(The article used was about the eruption of Mt. Pelee in Martinique, resulting in over 30,000 deaths)

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Double Mega Poetry Challenge
In the comments below, suggest a document or two that you think would be good to use for found poetry.  Be as specific as possible.
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Last week's Double Mega Poetry Challenge was to write a 4-line found poetry poem using the Pub Chatter as your source document.  Here are the resulting poems:

By Schwethz

The world
Find Solace,
Peace and serenity;
A place to escape

By NehpetsEnal

Devastation's the birth of creation
In its midst, we found something different
We sought inspiration, in old endeavours to reach new places
Let it be known, we are all in this together

By Gadralneure

Inspired whimsy gave him a heartache,
I recommend we play the fool,
We could all use a laugh,
Humorous, sad, or profound,

By most_bay

We all seek to find solace,
Erase what is happening around.
Take us to a place where we find peace,
A place to escape...

This!!! This right here is what I LOVE most about writing and in particular, poetry.  We have four amazing poems written from the same document and each of them is special and unique!!! Human beings are such wondrous creatures.  I am overjoyed each week reading the poetry that comes into the Pub.  I wish I had an infinite amount of time, to comment on every poem and let each of you know individually how creative, unique and precious you all are.  Your words are gifts to the world!! Never!! Never forget that!!

In closing this week, we want to wish you a Happy Easter and Passover, for those who celebrate it!! Although we are living in a crazy time, it is but a moment in our collective history and we will not only survive, we will rise up and thrive!! There is ALWAYS hope!!

I wish you love, joy and blessings beyond measure!!
Cheers from your Mystres of Chatter
MystresMyna