Greetings and Welcome

Hello Pubbers!! Welcome to another Chatter and a new month!! This month we will be featuring free verse poetry and its connections to music.  So, come along and let's get this party started.

Blizzard
By William Carlos Williams

Snow:
years of anger following
hours that float idly down —
the blizzard
drifts its weight
deeper and deeper for three days
or sixty years, eh? Then
the sun! a clutter of
yellow and blue flakes —
Hairy looking trees stand out
in long alleys
over a wild solitude.
The man turns and there —
his solitary track stretched out
upon the world.

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Random Poetry Prompt – Write a free verse poem inspired by the photo below.

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MARCH CONTEST –

Our March 2020 contest is open for submissions!!  The March contest is going to have a free-flowing musical flair! You can find all the details in our contest book!! I hope all of you will join in!!!

FEBRUARY CONTEST –

Our February contest is now closed.  We want to thank everyone who participated, read and commented!! Our judges now have the daunting task of choosing our winners, wish them luck!  Check back here next week where our winners will be announced.

FOUNDER'S CHALLENGE –

Our Founder's challenge is now closed.  Thank you to everyone who participated, read and commented.  We truly appreciate your gift of time.  We will be announcing the winners here in the Chatter next week!!

POEM-A-WEEK –

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.

Featured Poem-of-the-Week!

Pschye's Lover
by -Nynaeve

Pschye' lover,
God of Desire;

Winged child-god,
Shooter of love darts;

Venus's son
Provoker of passion.

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

Nature Poems by Lexigreats

Narrow Feelings by SoulFarAway

Beautifully Mysterious by MysteriousDyrad

Genteel Reveries of an Outrié Poetess by MystresMyna

Rhyming Feelings by EmLover123

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 Nine Prompt – Write an original lullaby. 

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Please join me in congratulating @MystresMyna for her winning entry, Don't Eat the Mango Chutney for our February Short Story Challenge.

MARCH CHALLENGE –

Our March Challenge is open for submissions, this month our prompt is "A Fortune Cookie Comes True", of course you need to head on over and check out our contest book for the full details of this month's challenge.

If you haven't read any of our Write the Story entries yet, I would highly recommend that you take a moment to check them out!!  Then consider send us your entry as well!! If you know anyone that might be interested in this challenge, please, don't hesitate to pass on the information.

Every month I will be posting a new short story writing prompt along with several words to use in the story.  The stories will completely vary in genres.  Please check out our contest book for full details!

Come on by and support our participants, read, vote, comment and then consider sending in your own entry!!

Lyttlejoe's Busted Gulch Volume 13:

The morning after Jake's run in with the big horn sheep, he almost overslept, Josie got him up and going.  He spent the day making nails with Petra and taking care of the goats.  Jacob then found the time to head over to find Billy and have a talk about Rue.  Billy informed Jake that he and Rue had not been intimate, explaining that he had helped her with some things she is going through.  However, Billy gave Jake some other information that did not sit well with Jake.  Raven and Cole, on their way to Snarky Shoe, came across a bounty hunter named Late Fate, who wants a favor.  Bella spoke with Brody about what she had seen, Jake leaving Mary Sue's room.  Bella decided that it would be best to tell Rue about it.  Rue was of course upset.  However, Bella was able to let Rue know that Ronan had not been unfaithful.  Bella then headed over to talk to CG and asked her if some of her poems could be published in the Pillar.  CG agreed, saying it was a brilliant idea.  Brody and Bella had a double date with Anna and Bart aboard the Liberty Bell.  Buck worked really hard on a beautiful crib for the twins, delivering it personally with Petra at his side.  Myna was thrilled and gave them a basket of goodies as a thank you.  Buck and Petra stopped for a picnic lunch; they were enjoying themselves when a shot rang out.

If you want to find out what's next, head on over to The Storytellers Saloon and check out Lyttlejoe's Busted Gulch Volume 13!!  Don't forget to add it to your reading list, new chapters are posted daily!

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HELLO ALL!!! HAVE YOU STOPPED BY LATELY? HAVE YOU CHECKED OUT OUR FEBRUARY CONTEST?  The theme for February 2020 is, of course, Love.

We are looking for your little love stories. There is a 300-word limit to tell your story, but you can make as many submissions as you want. And let's see some originality. Love takes many forms and I know there are many stories floating around in those creative minds. So put these stories down and send them in.

We have 9 entries!!! Thank you!!!  Please stop by and show them your support and consider sending in an entry of your own!!

Made To Last – Ruechari

To Love Again – Ruechari

The Visit - lyttlejoe

To Back There – naomimrshl

Perpetual Love - Schwethz

two blue lines SoulFarAway

My Masterpiece - Ruechari

Reverie – lyttlejoe

My Book Lover - Ruechari

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Random Poetry Prompt –
Write a free verse poem inspired by a piece of famous artwork.

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Before we get into this month's poetry form I would like to bring to you one last kenning sent in by Schwethz for our Double Mega Poetry Challenge from last week.  Leave your guesses for the answer to this riddle down in the comments.

Who am I?
By Schwethz

Fair - strands
Day - Queen
Hairs - glory
Fragile - body
Love - token
Child - bearer
Colored - folds
Bee – catcher

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Our featured poetry form this month is free verse.  The origins of free verse poetry can be traced back to a late eight-teen hundreds (1880) French poetry movement called vers libre.  "In vers libre, the basic metrical unit is the phrase rather than a line of a fixed number of syllables, as was traditional in French versification since the Middle Ages. In vers libre, the lengths of lines may vary according to the sense of the poem, the complete sentence replaces the stanza as a unit of meaning, and rhyme is optional." [Source Encyclopaedia Britannica] However, authors such as Victor Hugo, Gustave Kahn and Jules Laforgue were experimenting with similar free verse forms before the vers libre movement.  As vers libre gained ground, some of the early English poets that were influenced by it were, T.E. Hulme, F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot.

Features of Free Verse

Free verse poems have no regular meter or rhythm.

They do not follow a proper rhyme scheme; these poems do not have any set rules.

This type of poem is based on normal pauses and natural rhythmical phrases, as compared to the artificial constraints of normal poetry.

The idea of free verse "to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome."

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Double Mega Poetry Challenge –
Down in the comments let us know what your favorite free verse poem is.

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Well my friends, that is it!! We made it through another week. I hope everyone has a safe and productive week ahead!! Remember to keep those pens and keyboards flying!!

Cheers from your Mystres of Chatter
MystresMyna