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SøułSurvivør Sep 2015
It was a very tough decision
but I think that it's important
to encourage the people on
site to help each other!


WINNER!

illegitimate no longer!


For the poem
Savory
Dedicated to The Sagest Persuader

I HAVE "LIT" THIS POEM TODAY!


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CONGRATULATIONS
to Amanda In Scarlett
for her DAILY POEM for 8/30/2015
The Gardener and the Seed
dedicated to Paul M Chafer

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THANKS TO

The Sagest Assuager
for the poem
The Fourth (incarnation)
dedicated to
illegitimate no longer

Winn for her poem
high road
dedicated to a poet who has
now left Hello Poetry :'(

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LOVEFEST CHALLENGE 2

I have another challenge!

Please read on the
site search engine
Lovefeat Contest by Soulsurvivor
for the rules

Put #lovefestcontest2 on tags

THANK YOU
and good luck!!!

♥ Catherine
Sorry I have not been able to
be on site for a while.
The lady who I'm writing a book
with has been quite ill.
I WILL BE READING TODAY!
SøułSurvivør Aug 2015
~~~^♡^~~~

RULES:
Create a write which blesses
another poet. One on one.
Select a poet who you have
never written about before.
An "unknown" as it were.
Someone new or someone
who's been hurt here.
They don't have to be
on site currently.

It can be any style or length.
NO SPAM PLEASE!
It must be a sincere writing
to bless them.


Simply put "#lovefest-contest"
under tags at the very bottom
of the screen where you have
written your poetry.

PRIZE!
On the third of September I will
review the entries under the
#lovefest-contest heading. THEY
MUST BE UNDER THIS HEADING.
The winning entry will SHINE!

I WILL LIGHT IT UP!


This means that it will automatically
TREND.

I'M PUTTING MY MONEY WHERE MY
MOUTH IS! All entries will be reposted by me on my site and
placed on 3 collections.

ANY QUESTIONS COMMENT
HERE OR CONTACT ME VIA
THE SITE MESSAGE SYSTEM


REMEMBER TO CHOOSE SOMEONE
WHO DOESN'T OFTEN GET WRITTEN
ABOUT. SOMEONE HURTING. OR
SOMEONE NEW.

*THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK!
And thanks to "illegitimate" for
posting about "The Sage Assuager"
Awesome poets both!
SøułSurvivør Aug 2015
~~<♡>~~

Here's a concept! Here's a race!
Let's put a SMILE upon a face!

Know a poet who is new?
Or one who's hurting just like you?

One who's bullied? One who's left?
They don't have to be HERE.
Perhaps bereft?

Move a finger and follow them
And write up a quick po-em

About their poetry and style
Make them happy! Make them smile!

Take a moment of your time.
I may make your poem shine!

Let them know HP's "the place"
PUT A SMILE UPON A FACE!!!

♥ Catherine
Just put ""#lovefest-contest"" under "tags". I can't make it shine if I don't know about it!

The contest results will be posted the morning of September 3rd.

Any questions contact me via the site message system.

LET'S HAVE A LOVEFEST SIT IN!
Robert Ronnow Aug 2015
1

At peace perhaps too much
a fine Spring rain
we seek news from the desert or capitol
of those who have dedicated their lives to losing their lives
      for us
adventurers, ancient honor, land runners
this campaign a must to advance one's career
a war president needs war

2

All you need to know is the names of things
chambers of commerce and large corporations
elements, products, decay fungi, egg masses
cultivars and their relation to wild grasses and the edge
uses of herbs, languages of mammals,
purposes of insects, placement of rocks
the names of everything by which we know our way

3

I've read about those remarkable souls who maintain
      self-control
among murderers and the unentertained multitude
who may have even spoken persuasively
at the right moment for speaking
and thus attracted a now unwanted immortality
there are only two ways you can tell
a bird of prey from a vision - humor and ritual

4

the Fedex gal
would be unlike taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes
over the counter perfume and spray paint hair
postman's shorts, black socks
a woman's legs are much like a man's
yet she too is beautiful, too beautiful, weekends
boating with her man

5

Suburbs, lawns, blankets
in a long, long nursery of babies
napping, old, blameworthy
and, I say this respectfully, blind
certain and uninterested
in motives more subtle than their immediate comfort
Who am I to complain?

6

Plants, poems: riches
our financial advisor doesn't count. Good and simple
a man as he is. Comes tousled
from early morning golf and puffy
from a late night fight or lovefest with his wife.
Inchworm
letting out its rope down an oak.

7

Late afternoon meeting
like the dry samara, achene or capsule surrounding a seed
how often have I tried to escape
my need, community, chamber of commerce
you cannot drive
the roads are theirs and the signs, perhaps
you can walk if you can name the plants and rocks and are
      willing to die

8

O happy family
there's some contentment in letting community and family
      decide
your place in it. Gatekeepers -
unconscious god, invisible hand, natural selection -
kind when refraining from violence
when not responding with force to the universe's effort
to extinguish us.
--title from lines by Gary Snyder

www.ronnowpoetry.com
SøułSurvivør Sep 2015
What was meant to be a good thing
and a unifying factor here at HP
has become a disaster for me
personally. And I guess I must
have hurt feelings which I
absolutely did not intend to do!

The outcome of the Lovefest Contest
received only one like. And that was
from illegitimate no more who won.
I therefore can only conclude that
folks are upset.

I want, therefore, to apologize to the
other contestants of the contest.
Amanda in Scarlet
The Sagest Assuager
Winn
I have sent messages to them
personally as well.

My reasons for choosing the poet
I did I felt to be right. I still do.
The entire reason for the contest
was to encourage young and
new writers. People who may hurt.
To give encouraging support.

But even a good thing can be
misconstrued. I sure didn't want to
"diss" anyone. Once again
I apologize.

I have hereby cancelled
Lovefest Contest 2

♥ Catherine
betterdays Aug 2014
here i am,
cold winter,
sunday morning...high.

my drugs.....
a predawn lovefest
lots of, little boy
giggling n' smiles
bannana berry pancakes,
made by my satisfied guy.
blucat purring at my feet.

and the sun,
lazily peeking in

god i love
the sunday morning high...
and no hangover neither....

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