A Message from Bill -

As the world continues to be devastated by its greatest enemy ever, we all seek to find solace in our lives. That something that will erase what is happening around us and take us to a place where we find peace and serenity.

A place to escape.

I like to think that the Poets Pub is such a place. Here we have always offered a safe place for Poets from all over the world. We have always presented an environment of non discrimination and encouragement. As we will always do so.

We are truly a global family here at the Pub and we have come together in this moment of crisis and opened our arms and hearts to our brothers and sisters from all over the world.

Through the magic of Poetry, we have an unique opportunity to express ourselves and to offer love and hope to those members of our family, now facing isolation and uncertainty.

With that in mind, I am asking every single member of the Pub to send in your message of hope, so that we can share it with all the members of our family. Write a poem or just a short message to offer strength and support to those members of our family who need it.

Let's spread the love and the message that the Poets Pub is a true global family and a family that loves and supports all members of its family.

As one of those people who is in isolation, I have found some peace and escape here on Wattpad and especially here at the Poets Pub.

My heart, my prayers and my love goes out to each and every one of my Pub family. Stay healthy and safe and remember ...

We're all in the Together.

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A Message from Myna –

HELLO!! All you amazing wordsmiths!! I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!

One of my personal goals for the Pub this year has been to be more organized.  To achieve said goal, I decided to choose a theme and poetry form to feature each month.  My thought was I could tie the theme and poetry form into the monthly contests, the Chatter, poetry prompts, and Poem-a-Week.  So far, for me anyway, it has been working well!  And I sincerely hope you all are enjoying my controlled chaos. 

However, I tell you all of this for two reasons.  First, this month's featured poetry form is "Found Poetry", a form I was not familiar with until it was brought to my attention by one of our newer Pub members and our 2019 Poet of the Year, Gadralneure .  He has graciously agreed to share his knowledge of found poetry with us this month.  As such, this month's 4-part Poetry Form article has been written by Gadralneure.  He has a collection of Found Poetry on his profile and will be referencing it though out the month.  If you are interested in checking it out, you can find it here:

The second reason I bring all of this up is, I will be consolidating all of these poetry articles and adding them to our "With Style: Poetry" collection.  I figured it would be easier to find them if they were all together in one place and if you would like to add to this particular collection you are more than welcome to do so. 

And now back to our regularly scheduled program!

First Men on the Moon
By J. Patrick Lewis

"The Eagle has landed!" —Apollo II Commander Neil A. Armstrong
"A magnificent desolation!" — Air Force Colonel Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.
July 20, 1969

That afternoon in mid-July,
Two pilgrims watched from distant space
The moon ballooning in the sky.
They rose to meet it face-to-face.

Their spidery spaceship, Eagle, dropped
Down gently on the lunar sand.
And when the module's engines stopped,
Rapt silence fell across the land.

The first man down the ladder, Neil,
Spoke words that we remember now—
"One small step..." It made us feel
As if we were there too, somehow.

When Neil planted the flag and Buzz
Collected lunar rocks and dust,
They hopped like kangaroos because
Of gravity. Or wanderlust?

A quarter million miles away,
One small blue planet watched in awe.
And no one who was there that day
Will soon forget the sight they saw.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem, any form, about the most important day in your personal history, to date. 

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APRIL CONTEST –

Our April 2020 contest is open for submissions!! This month's theme is history!! History, what an amazing source of inspiration!! We will be accepting April submissions until April 30th at midnight, MST.  Please check out this month's contest book for full details.

MARCH CONTEST –

Y'all were ROCKIN' IT for the month of March!!! We had almost 60 entries!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! However, that has made the judging a wee bit harder, so we won't be announcing a March winner until next weekend!! Sorry guys!!

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 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 Fourteen Prompt
Write a poem inspired by the invention of the television and/or its debut at the May 1939 New York World Fair.

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SOCIAL MEDIA –

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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.

We only received two entries for this month's contest by @lyttlejoe with "A Fortune Cookie Comes True" and @MysteriousDryad with "Fortune Cookie Comes True" Let's aim to get even more stories in next month!

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 to join in as well!!

Lyttlejoe's Busted Gulch Volume 13:

Once Alister finished his work, he looked for Broken Ben to ask about the song that's been popular with the miners. He missed Busted Gulch dearly, the mere thought of it gave him a heartache.

Denver's gang kept covering ground to catch up with Shadow and Brett and then Petra. Their original destination, Tent City, changed when Shadow and Brett started heading north to Crusted County's border. Dull Silver went looking for Drama Drummer in The Pit but ends up making baskets. While he was making baskets, he got scolded by a small boy. Two men came to town on a mission to bring the Craven family down. They were able to kidnap Josie and Jujube, Rue and Jacob went to the waterfall in hopes to get her back. Hillary and Tiger both were racing, and they eventually arrived at The Pit. Hillary didn't find her father there, but Tiger started dancing around and soon everyone else joined in.

If you want to find out what happens next, head over to the Saloon and check it out for yourself! New chapters are posted daily, so don't forget to add it to your reading list!

Storytellers Saloon Update brought to you by MysteriousDryad

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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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New and Ongoing Works -

I am inviting all members of the Poets Pub to become part of an unique collection.

We're all in this Together is a song lyric I have started and I am inviting everyone to pop over to my site @BillTemple1957 and add your very own verse (or two or three) to this collection. My goal is to fill a collection with 200 verses which will surely make it the longest song ever written.

In this moment in the world's history, we surely have to all come together, because for the first time ever ...

"We ARE all in this Together."

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about something that happened in the world on the day you were born.

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Found Poetry Pt 1 - By Gadralneure

Found poetry is created by using existing written sources; letters, newspaper articles, diaries, transcripts, interviews, advertisements, etc.

The poet selects these sources and edits them into a poem by gleaning phrases and providing a structure and punctuation to produce a work that conveys a deeper meaning hidden within the text. The completed piece is like a literary collage. Words, sentences, and paragraphs can be dropped to shape the poem and punctuations may be added, however no words are added, the poem is constructed from the actual text only. The resulting poem may be almost verbatim to the original document or a hundred words out of several thousand.

The source document can be from any time period, from very old to very recent. I prefer older sources, when letter writing was an art form in itself and the language was a bit archaic and Byzantine, but found poetry is limitless in its sources. It can be created from anything; Twitter feed, E-Mail, Trump campaign speeches. It is only limited by the poet's imagination.

These poems provide an insight into the human condition. The results can be humorous, sad, insightful, ironic, or even profound.

The following is an example of a found poem gleaned from a letter written to Charles Darwin. The original correspondence was 4 pages long.

Butterflies & Silverfish
By Gadralneure

A found poem (Letter from W.D. Fox to Charles Darwin, May 8th, 1874)

Butterflies and moths,
preserved in a book,
the great desire of his heart.
But alas!
The poor butterflies
lose a sad deal,
luster and beauty.

I have outlived almost all.
I have remembrances about me,
old-age encreeping upon me,
I had looked for its approval,
but it comes in leaps.
Does it not seem strange
how old we get?
Seems but a few years
since we were lads,
young and foolish.

How such a mind
could care for silverfish.
Do you remember Brachemis Crepitans
and our delight in finding it?
I have never seen it since,
until I saw death.
Those were the days I rejoice.

(note: this and other examples of Found Poetry may be found in my ongoing collection at https://my.w.tt/6GH5d3Maz4)

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Double Mega Poetry Challenge

Write a 4 line Found Poetry poem, using only this week's Chatter.  Drop it in the comments below.  Remember to check back throughout the week to see what everyone else has written. 

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Here we are at the end of another Chatter!! Where does the time go?  I hope everyone is staying safe and well.  Remember to keep those pens and keyboards flying!!

Cheers from your Mystres of Chatter
MystresMyna

P.S.

For those who have kids at home because of the lock downs, I found this and thought it could be fun!