Hello Everyone and Welcome to June!!!
Let's start this week's Chatter off by announcing the winners of our May contest winners! 
Please join me in congratulating:

~~~~~ 1st Place ~~~~~
@-Nynaeve

~~~~~ 2nd Place ~~~~~
@ElizabethAndersonJr

~~~~~ 3rd Place ~~~~~
@ifana8

~~~~~ Honorable Mentions ~~~~~
@Caffeine_Dreams
@SparksFly1204

Canis Major
by Robert Frost

The great Overdog
That heavenly beast
With a star in one eye
Gives a leap in the east.

He dances upright
All the way to the west
And never once drops
On his forefeet to rest.

I'm a poor underdog,
But to-night I will bark
With the great Overdog
That romps through the dark.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about finding an animal track in the woods.

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JUNE CONTEST –

Our June contest is open for submissions!!! We have gotten a bit "silly" with this month's contest! Let's take some time from the craziness of the world and just make each other laugh! We already have some fantastic submissions; I encourage all of you to go check them out and then send us your own poems.  Also, don't forget to invite your other friends and followers to join in the silliness!

POETS PUB 5TH ANNIVERSARY –

We would like to thank everyone that participated in our 5th Anniversary celebration!! YOU ALL MADE IT A HUGE SUCCESS!! We will continue to accept submissions for this collection through the end of the year, we would love to completely fill this book! I think we can do it!!

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

Musings 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

Reverie by Gadralneure

A Paintbucket of Words by nubivagant_words

To be a Poet by ElizabethAndersonJr

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 Twenty-Three Prompt
Write a poem about being an ant at a picnic.

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MAY CHALLENGE –

The May contest has officially come to a close. Head over to the contest book to check out the submissions.

Congratulations to @ifana8 for winning our May Short Story Challenge!

Be sure to check out the Write The Story book to read her winning! submission

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! So, stay tuned for our upcoming prompt for this month's challenge!

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 14:

The sudden appearance around CS startled Hillary. Despite the ropes around Hillary's ankles, that weren't exactly tight, they were still going to hurt her thought out the night. Behind her, she heard a familiar bark that belonged to Tiger. She felt a spark of hope when Tiger's paws drummed against the wood. If she noticed Raven's now broken note, she would have never let herself be brought to Devil's Moor. Bella went to go check on Josie at the hotel, knowing she was being locked up in her room. She took Josie from the hotel to the stables for some riding, just to get her outside for some fresh air. Josie and Bella both had fun together but Bella wondered how Brody was. After she returned Josie, she was going to go check up on Brody.

Thank you MysteriousDryad for another great update!!

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Our April contest is now closed.  We want to send out a huge thank you to everyone who participated and we will be announcing our winners soon.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a limerick about a court jester.

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This month we are going to be writing Limericks!! This is a fairly simple poem to write, but before we get into the particulars of how to write them let me give you a bit of history, on this "poetry of the common folk".

No one really knows who wrote the first Limerick but variants of this form of poetry can be traced back to fourteenth century English, and before that a similar form was found in and eleventh century French manuscript:

The lion is wondrous strong
And full of the wiles of wo;
And whether he pleye
Or take his preye
He cannot do but slo (slay)

Here you can see that this poem contains five lines and has a similar three-beat and two-beat measure, its rhyme scheme (abccb) is different from Limericks, but it is a clearly a precursor to the modern-day version of the Limerick.

Check back next week for more about Limericks!!

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Double Mega Poetry Challenge
In the comments below share why you started writing poetry.

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Here are the poems from last week's "Double Mega Poetry Challenge"

In the comments below write a four-line poem that starts with "Poetry is...".

Caffeine_Dreams

Poetry is...a key,
Freeing songbird caged.
Its song confined, now sings release,
Repurposed from depths within.

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NehpetsEnal

POET
For a moment, ask yourself what is poetry?
For many, maybe it is a form of self-expression.
For others, maybe it is a means of protest.
For some, maybe it is much more than four lines.

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lyttlejoe

Poetry is a production
from people's prognostications
pertaining to the
personal and profound       

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aMusedAndPoetic

Poetry is
The junction
Where soul and heart
Synthesize

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ImperfectPsychotic04

Poetry is an art of love,
An expression of emotions that touch,
The psyche and render it such,
A relish-rain from words above.

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most_bay

Poetry is a solace
A lover's favorite place
For souls searching for meaning
A touch of heavenly grace

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SupaJayV6

Poetry is HyperFriction
Poetry is static zap!
Poetry is moon's shadow
Poetry is sun's glamorous solar rays

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Schwethz

Poetry is the flow of words
That is Emotionally engraved
Deep within one's soul
More powerful than a mere sword!

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MysteriousDryad

Poetry is...
Unique,
written from the heart
and so much more

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A HUGE thank you to everyone who joined in!! These are fantastic poems!

We have come to the end of another Chatter, I know I am sad too...hehehehehe. I hope everyone has a fantastic week!! Remember to keep those pens and keyboards flying!!!

Cheers from you Mystres of Chatter
MystresMyna

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