WELCOME TO THE PUB-VERSE

Howdy, Howdy, Howdy!! How is everyone out there in the Pub-Verse?  We have had another fantastic week here at the Pub!! We have some new members, so WELCOME ONE AND ALL!!! We've had many wonderful submissions; we have finished the 5th week of our BCE!! AND....

We have the WINNERS for WEEK FOUR for you....

THE BIGGEST COMPETITION EVER 2020.....

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

@Gwenda5 with Adventurous Girls

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

@fender_bender2020 with Bottom of the 9th

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

@AwSprite with An Evening Of Magic

***** Honorable Mention *****

@aMusedAndPoetic with Down by the Creek

***** Honorable Mention *****

@lyttlejoe with Ben and Me

BRAVO AND CONGRATULATIONS to our winners and a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone that participated!!
Keep those SUPER-FANTASTIC poems coming!!

Bill and I would like to thank you for the great suggestions and discussion presented last week! We are always looking for new ways to make the Poets Pub exciting and entertaining!! We are always open for suggestion from all of you and hope that you will let us know if you ever have any ideas on how we can improve the Pub.

Theme in Yellow
By Carl Sandburg

I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o'-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem from a jack-o-lantern's perspective.
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5TH ANNUAL BIGGEST COMPETITON EVER (BCE) –

We can never thank you all enough, not only for the amazing poems you have been sharing with us but the wonderful support and kindness you have shone one another!! The Poets Pub is a place of inspiration and it is because of its members, because of YOU!!

We only have three weeks left in this year's BCE and we want to let you all know that WEEK EIGHT is going to be a reader's choice week.  All of you will be voting for the winner of week EIGHT.  We will give more information on how to vote at the end of the contest.

Week five of our BCE is now closed and we will be announcing the winners next week here in the Chatter, and week six is open for submissions.  You can find all of the particulars here in our contest book Poets Pub 2020 Biggest Competition Ever Vol. 2.

DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE CONTEST BOOK TO YOUR LIBRARY'S, SO YOU NEVER MISS A SUBMISSION!

This contest will run for eight (8) weeks, September 6th through October 31st.  For those of you who are new to the Pub this contest is open to all Pubbers.  Each week we will be posting a new prompt that will be open for submissions for only a week.  We will be announcing a winner for each week and then overall winners at the end of the contest.  We invite you all to join in and be sure to invite your friends to join the Pub and participate in the BCE as well.  Please remember to give us a shout-out to let your followers know you are participating.

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

Twenty-twenty's Poetic Bounty 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

Words of Yesterday by Mysterywriter_007

To be a Poet by ElizabethAndersonJr

A geek's musings... by KrishnaVashisht

Roses and Thorns By wambuinjau_

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 Forty-One Prompt
Write an acrostic poem using the word HALLOWEEN.
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Busted Gulch Vol. 14 Update:

Bishop DoRito was on his way coming back to BG and bought a mule named Muffin on the way. He believed that the Lord had given him a new path to follow with a whole life before him. Chuck, Roberts, Roy and Ray were transported to Carson City via steamboat, after making a deal with Denver. The rest of the criminals were split between Pitt and Law and taken to their respective counties where they would face trials. Once Bella was done with work, she went to Lovers Hill to witness the sunset, missing the small things like that and excitement. She wished everyone was safe and watched the paintings across the sky.

Thank you for another amazing update MysteriousDryad

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about your favorite Halloween memory.
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-flash-fiction-forum

October Contest –

With the start of October, we wanted to do a contest to match the Spooky Season! Since our first contest was a huge success, we are continuing the 4 prompts and the 100-word limit.

We have already had some FANTASTIC entries for our October Contest!! Week 1 submissions are CLOSED, and Week 2 is OPEN! Please don't send in any entries for the previous week.

For week two you are to write a vampire story! Check out our contest book for more details!

If you have not had a chance to stop by our new Flash Fiction Forum profile, we invite you to do so and follow us.  We have monthly contest and a fantastic group of authors to interact with.  As a matter of fact, our September contest is up and open for submissions.  The submissions, so far, have been outstanding!!! We encourage all of you to stop by follow us, read, vote, then send us a submission of your own.

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Double Mega Poetry Challenge
In the comments below
write a four-line ghost story.
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The Hag
Robert Herrick

The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne'r so foule be the weather.

A Thorn or a Burr
She takes for a Spurre:
With a lash of a Bramble she rides now,
Through Brakes and through Bryars,
O're Ditches, and Mires,
She followes the Spirit that guides now.

No Beast, for his food,
Dares now range the wood;
But husht in his laire he lies lurking:
While mischiefs, by these,
On Land and on Seas,
At noone of Night are working,

The storme will arise,
And trouble the skies;
This night, and more for the wonder,
The ghost from the Tomb
Affrighted shall come,
Cal'd out by the clap of the Thunder.

Okay guys and gals, it is time to get your Spook On!! Let us see your best Scary Poem!! I would like to challenge all of you to write your best scary poems and share them with us!! For those of you participating in the Poem-a-Week challenge you can always send in your spooky poems for the challenge.  We also have our Cornucopia Collection that is open to all Pub Members and all types of poems, please do not hesitate to share your creations with us!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe week!! And keep those pens and keyboards flying!!

Cheers from you Mystres of Chatter
MystresMyna

P.S. – Children's Poetry Corner by BB

Write a poem about being an animal in a zoo.