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This week's featured poem is from our April 2019 Monthly Contest – After the Morning Prayer.  This poem was penned by our 2018 Pubber of the Year most_bay .  This is a poem filled with grace and devotion, that flows as beautifully as a gentle stream.

After The Morning Prayer
By most_bay

It's just that peace you feel
After the morning prayer

The dawn still crisp and clear
Sparrows chattering
Their wings fluttering
Cockerels preaching far and near

It's just that peace you feel
After the morning prayer

Azan awakes the dormant hope
Worn lungs spawn a deep breath
Bringing us back from death
Reviving the strength to cope

It's just that peace you feel
After the morning prayer

Sojourners back from sleep
Stumbling around the streets
Dancing to the journey's beats
Sowing what they shall reap

It's just that peace you feel
After the morning prayer

New day, new man, new page
Waiting to be filled with living
Possibilities and forgiving
For which we set the stage

It's just that peace you feel
After the morning prayer

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about emotion using a flood and drought as a metaphor.
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MAY 2021 – POETS PUB 6TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION:

As we close out our 6th Anniversary Celebration, we just want to send out a very sincere THANK YOU!!  There is no Poets Pub without all of you.  It is because of all of you that we are starting in on our 7th year of existence and we are eternally grateful for all your support and participation in the Poets Pub. 

Taking this last month to look back through many of our older collections, of which we have 146, the amount of utterly amazing poems is just mind blowing!! The creativity, imagination, and emotion contained in the poetry posted here, at the Pub, is truly an international and universal treasure.  I encourage everyone to take some time to read through some of our older collections, you will be inspired!!

Thank you all again, for joining us in this month's celebrations!! We look forward to many more years here at the Pub!  Cheers to all of you!!

2021 SUMMER POETRY CHALLENGES:

As mentioned last week, we have decided to do something different for the Summer.  As such THERE WILL BE NO MONTHLY CONTESTS FOR, JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST.  We have prepared two HUGE challenges for you!! And here is how it will all work:

1. You will need to create a book on your profile to post your poems in and YOU MUST send us the link to it. (Send the link to us by Direct Message.)
2. Start writing poems! You have from June 1st to August 31st to write 100 poems.
3. Poems must be a minimum of 8 lines.
4. You CAN USE the Achievement Hunter Poems in the 100 poem challenge if you want.
5. Poets will be awarded 50 points for completing the 100 poem challenge.
6. An extra 2 points will be awarded for every poem over 100 poems.
7. If any Poet can fill a 200-poem collection, they will get a bonus of 100 points.

1. There will be a total of 81 Achievements and all poems written for this challenge MUST be submitted to the Poets Pub in a Direct Message and will be posted here.
2. We will be posting 27 Achievements per month. However, you can join in at any time. And you can do them in any order you would like.
3. Each achievement will be worth points (between 1-10 points) and the points are noted on each achievement. Once you have submitted your poem and we have determined that it fulfills the requirements of the challenge you will be awarded the points for that achievement.
4. We will be keeping a list of participants and their total points, which will be published in the Chatter each week.
5. You CAN USE the Achievement Hunter Poems in the 100 poem challenge if you want.
6. Submissions: When you submit your poem, YOU MUST INCLUDE THE NUMBER FOR THE POEM YOU ARE SUBMITTING! That is the only way we will be able to award you the correct number of points.
7. Poets MUST respond to ALL COMMENTS made on their Poems. (When responding to comments please try to remember to tag the person who made the comment so that they will know you responded.)

Winners will be determined by the number of points each poet earns.

We will have a participation sticker for each participant.
We will have a 100 Poem Challenge completion sticker.

The top 5 points winners will receive:

A Winner's Sticker
A Shout Out from the Pub
A Printable Achievement Hunter Certificate and/or 100 Poem Challenge Certificate
They will also have an automatic entry in our Poet of the Year Competition.

POEM A WEEK CHALLENGE:

The purpose of this challenge is to simply encourage writing, taking the time, at least once a week, to get a poem from your brain on to paper.  If you would like to participate, the "how to" is below.

We now have our 2021 participant's sticker!! It is hosted on Imgur.  If you are a Poem-a-Week participant I can send you a DM with the link or if you would prefer to have it sent to you directly by email send me a DM and I will get it to you.

HERE IS HOW IT WILL WORK:

1. Anyone that would like to join in needs to use and existing book or create a new book on their profile to post their poems in.

2. Send us a PM with a link to the book you will be using and let us know that you have joined the challenge.

3. We will post the cover of your book in the Chatter as well as here to let others know that you are participating.

4. Send us copies of your poems at least once a month, to post here in this collection.

5. Check the Pub Chatter 7th Edition each week for prompts for the challenge.  The prompts given in the Chatter are only suggestions, you can always write any kind of poem that you like for this challenge.

2021 Poem-a-Week Participants

A Paintbucket of Words by nubivagant_words

Genteel Reveries of an Outrié Poetess by MystresMyna

Petals of a Rose by Alkymarz

A New Leaf by most_bay

Five Drops of Ink by je2suisChris

Woven Threads by enchanting_figments

My One Last Gasp by BillTemple1957

Even As We Speak by MichaelTyger

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-Two Prompt
Write a poem based on your favorite novel.
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We are not doing a competition for May but may pick up the challenges again come the summer months.

Busted Gulch Vol. 15 Update:

Ron and Gyn had a bit of dizzying conversation as to whether or not Jhonny and Josie had eloped and whether or not 3Gun and CG had eloped....  Mayor Order, having been kidnapped by Uno Zabba, tried to find out what Uno's end game was.  Lorne found out that they are holding him in the back part of the library and that Uno wants Lorne to resign as Mayor and appoint Uno as the new mayor.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about a day at the library.
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For this week's poetic history, we revisit our 2019 Biggest Competition Ever Vol. 1.  These poems are taken from Week 1 of the contest and are beautiful examples of haiku chains, enjoy!!

Dance
By @ShaunAllan

When brief blows the wind
Leaves, living though hanging still
Dance to whispered songs

When calm hangs the air
Fallen leaves await the breeze
To lift them anew

As it is in life
We're carried by winds of Fate
Longing for the tune

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In Fall
By @ImperfectPsychotic04

In fall did I see,
intensely hued fronds of,
yellow, red and green.

Lay fallen on earth,
in a somber embrace serene,
heart's solemn beat,

How could they seem so,
alive with a bustling gleam,
dead, nature's beam.

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Journey
By @crazyp01

A flower bud blooms
Spreading happiness around
A new cradle rocks.

A sparrow's feet hop
Grabbing straw before sundown
A young life living.

The wind knocks the door
Calling mourners to the ground
A coffin buried.

I wish I had better words to use to tell everyone "Thank You", I just feel like it is never enough.  However, I will again from the bottom of my heart say THANK YOU.  The kindness and joy that is freely shared here at the Pub is beyond inspirational, it is heavenly.  Never discount what a kind word can do, you never know what someone is going through and that kind word that only took you a few moments to pen, could be the encouragement to get someone through an awful moment in life. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful week, filled with joy and love!!
Remember to... 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 summer plans.