WELCOME TO THE PUB-VERSE

HOWDY, HOWDY, HOWDY!!! How are all you AMAZING PUBBERS? We find ourselves at the beginning of a new week, and I am here to bring you all the latest news and updates from the Pub-Verse!!

We are going to start the week off right, by ANNOUNCING our WINNERS for WEEK ONE of....

THE BIGGEST COMPETITION EVER 2020.....

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

@-Nynaeve with Song of the Seasons

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

@aMusedAndPoetic with Peter's Cow

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

@naomimrshl with Belle Boyd Had a Gun

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

@Gwenda5 with There was a wicked curse

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

@ManWhoReads with Harry and his two good friends

BRAVO AND CONGRATULATIONS to our winners and a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone that participated!!

Sudden Light
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before,—
How long ago I may not know:
But just when at that swallow's soar
Your neck turn'd so,
Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?
And shall not thus time's eddying flight
Still with our lives our love restore
In death's despite,
And day and night yield one delight once more?

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about your favorite time of day.
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5TH ANNUAL BIGGEST COMPETITON EVER (BCE) –

Week two is now close and I have to tell you the submissions were...AWESOME!! Y'all are making it really, really, really hard on our judges!! And that is just the way they like it!!! We will be announcing the winners for week two, here in the Chatter next week.  Week three is now open for submissions, head on over to our contest book for full details. OH! AND DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE CONTEST BOOK TO YOUR LIBRARY'S, SO YOU NEVER MISS A SUBMISSION!

I must also apologize, last week I said I would put the link for the Participation Sticker in the comments and I forgot to do it.  I sent out an announcement with the link as well as putting it in the comments of the contest book on the first page.  If you would like one of the stickers you can also just message us and we will send you the link or email it to you directly.

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

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 Thirty-Eight Prompt
Write a poem about anything you like.
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Busted Gulch Vol. 14 Update:

Bella explained the situation to Jacob, and he insisted on going after her. She tried to convince him otherwise, but it was all for naught. Jacob thanked her for everything and gave Bella a kiss on the cheek. Once they were done talking, he urged his horse and went to the river. Josie helped Jhonny blocked the doors on the ship with stray barrels before Denver started his attack. Once that finished, they were going to try to rescue the crew. But there was a bilge hatch, sealed with tar and sacking. Josie was able to break the hatch but right before, Jhonny told her to hold her breath because the pungent smells were terrible. 

Thank you MysteriousDryad for another great update!!

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about kindness.
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-flash-fiction-forum

Our first contest (in our new home) has, so far, been a HUGE SUCCESS!! We want to send out a HUGE THANK YOU, to everyone that has joined in with a submission, read, commented and liked the stories.

  For our September contest, we bring you four (4) different prompts! Plus, a fan base selected winner based on the total of votes and reads a submission receives.

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 4-line poem
about your favorite author.
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The Aim Was Song
By Robert Frost

Before man came to blow it right
     The wind once blew itself untaught,
And did its loudest day and night
     In any rough place where it caught.

Man came to tell it what was wrong:
     It hadn't found the place to blow;
It blew too hard—the aim was song.
     And listen—how it ought to go!

He took a little in his mouth,
     And held it long enough for north
To be converted into south,
     And then by measure blew it forth.

By measure. It was word and note,
     The wind the wind had meant to be—
A little through the lips and throat.
     The aim was song—the wind could see.

I would like to leave you with a challenge for this week. I challenge you to choose to perform at least one act of random kindness every day.  We never know what those around us are going through and a single moment of kindness can change someone forever and each and everyone of us has the power to spread kindness freely and generously.  The world needs some light, let's choose to be that light!!

I hope everyone has the best week EVER 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 using all the parts of speech, choose words from the chart below.