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HELLO PUBBERS!!! WELCOME TO ANOTHER ISSUE OF THE PUB CHATTER!!
I hope you have a spectacular week!! It has been an exciting week here at the Pub!

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

THE BIGGEST COMPETITION EVER 2020.....

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

@Gadralneure with Young Kitty

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

@lyttlejoe with Little Big Boy

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

@Gwenda5 with The Playground Tree

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

@-Nynaeve with What is Courage?

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

@naomimrshl with Fanny

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

The Way Through The Woods
By Rudyard Kipling

THEY shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a path through the woods       
Before they planted the trees:
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods       
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ring'd pools       
Where the otter whistles his mate
(They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few),
You will hear the beat of a horse's feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods ...
But there is no road through the woods.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about visiting a museum.
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5TH ANNUAL BIGGEST COMPETITON EVER (BCE) –

Week three submissions were tremendous!!! Thank you all!!  The judges have been honored to read all your amazing poems and they will be hard at work this week making their decisions for week three, for week three is now closed, but week four is OPEN!!

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

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-Nine Prompt
Write a poem about your country.
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storytellers-saloon

Busted Gulch Vol. 14 Update:

Josie and Jhonny made it into the bilges and Josie made it to the engine room.  With the help of the Stoker secured Josie secured the engine room just before the ship grounded in the Salt marsh. With the help of the Kit Kats, Brody, Myna, Billy and 3 Gun were able to board the Steamboat and successfully secured it, recovering the crates of guns and arresting the men on board.  The Wraith inside of Rue, feeding on her sorrow and hatred begun to try and escape.  Jasper took her to the elders to have them help her.  The elders released the Wraith and Jasper captured it in a ring he had had made.  Both Rue and Jasper collapsed, and the elders watched over them not knowing if either would survive.  Denver and family made it abord the Liberty Belle and with a short-lived fire fight victoriously took the Belle back from the pirates.  They turned Roy and Ray over to the Sheriff and made sure all the wounded were taken care of.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem using at least four of the following words:
tender, lost, life, victory, universe, bent, water, pink
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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 tell us what kind
of music inspires you to write poetry.
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A Bird Came Down The Walk
By Emily Dickinson

A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.

And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.

He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,--
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.

Fall is upon us again and with it brings cooler weather and new opportunities for poetic inspiration.  I would like to encourage everyone to take a few moments and spend them with nature observing the natural poetry of our world.  Let it fill you up and inspire you!!

I hope everyone has the best week EVER and keep those pens and keyboards flying!!

Oh and one last reminder......

Cheers from you Mystres of Chatter
MystresMyna

P.S. – Children's Poetry Corner by BB

Write a poem about making an ice cream sundae.