Day: August 8, 2020

June Poetry Prompts

~ thereluctantpoet

notnotnerdygirl

Hello everyone!

I feel like I haven’t talked in ages, but trust me there is a lot of planned content.
Once I’m a little bit more organised in general, that will be coming your way. In the meantime, it’s poems.

So, poems.

You might have noticed there are quite a lot of them at the minute, and I’m trying to keep that going. This month, instead of following someone else’s prompts, I have written my own.

Please, feel free to use them, tag me if you like, or however you wish. I’m hoping to get through these, and then maybe do some for each month with 30 days. That means we’ll maybe have to change things up for July and August.

All of that is a bit away anyway.

I’ll post the prompt photo on my Instagram so you can screenshot it, take it, have it hold it – all…

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How Long Has It Been?

~ thereluctantpoet

Source of Inspiration


How long has it been
since your feet stood on
rich soil, unpolluted by man?
How long has it been since
you drank crystal clear water,
pure and sweet, bubbling past
rocks in a mountain stream?

How long has it been since you
ate nourishing food free of
toxic additives, fresh from
the garden? Or breathed unpolluted
air, walked your neighborhood streets
safely at night, slept with doors
unlocked, gave thanks to our Creator
for this beautiful Earth?

It has been too long, for some, never.
It is not too late to reclaim
our lives and our Earth from
those who plunder and kill. The
power of our loving intent
joined together with the Light
can redeem our heritage.

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Can You Hear Me?

~ thereluctantpoet

Source of Inspiration

Can my voice be heard,
one tiny voice midst the roar?
Can your voice be heard,
one tiny voice midst the roar?
Stand by me; let’s join voices,
and call our brothers and sisters
to stand with us, too, for many
small voices together can be
heard above the roar.

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Each of us can make a difference, individually and together. Start now!

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FEELING

~ thereluctantpoet

Word of the Day Challenge

The Word of the Day is Feeling

Write a Poem, story or anecdote, inspired by this word.

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Published – Megha Sood!

~ thereluctantpoet

Congratulations Megha!! So happy for you!!!

Go Dog Go Café

Hello Everyone!

Please join me in congratulating Megha Sood on another fabulous month of published work. Megha is kind enough to share this list with us as they are a wonderful resource should you decide you want to submit your own work.

CONGRATULATIONS Megha!

Following is Megha’s list of print publications/news/events for the month of July 2020.

1. American Writers Review by San Fedele Press
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/poetry-featured-in-the-anthology-art-in-the-time-of-covid-19-by-american-writers-review-1-in-amazons-new-poetry-releases/

2. Australian Haiku Poetry Society
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/07/27/haiku-shortlisted-in-the-australian-haiku-society-anthology-the-awakened-one/

3. SONKU Collective, Temple University, Philadelphia
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/poetry-published-in-the-sonku-literary-collective-vol-ii-2020-family-legacies-temple-university-philadelphia/

4. Free Verse Revolution
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/poetry-published-on-the-free-verse-revolution-monthly-theme-galaxies/

5. CNF and Poetry Published in The Lumiere Review #BlackLivesMatter
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/poetry-and-cnf-published-in-the-lumiere-review-blacklivesmatter-feature/

6. Spillwords Press, NYC
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/poetry-published-at-ny-based-press-spillwords-aberration/

7. Poetry Published in the Inwood Indiana Issue “Fallow” Anthology
https://inwoodindiana.com/

8. Poetry accepted for the ” The Medusa Project” Anthology by MookyChick, UK
https://www.mookychick.co.uk/lit-community/call-for-submissions-international-womens-day-2020.php

9. The Poet Magazine ” On the Road” Anthology
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/07/16/poetry-published-in-the-uk-based-the-poet-magazine-on-the-road/

10. NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/certificate-and-prize-ribbon-for-the-state-level-nami-dara-axelrod-mental-health-poetry-contest-2020/

11. Local Gem Press Chapbook Challenge, Long…

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Sometime we must steal and loan kisses…

~ thereluctantpoet

johncoyote

 Sometime we must steal and loan kisses
Beautiful lady arrived at the Austin’s tavern at twelve trying to escape the Texas Summer heat. Once she wanted everything and more,now she need the Long Islands ice teas.
She was a beauty and the men knew, she wanted the Jazz songs and the silence.
Every Friday night, I followed her into the Jazz club and I watched her beautiful face.
I could see her hazel eyes that had turned grey and the hardness in the movement of her face. She shared fake smiles with the bar keep and she loved the silence.
I wrote a poem for her.
                       “Sleeping beauty
Pretty things can break easily,
some broken things cannot be fixed.
Beautiful face don’t mean hopeful heart.
Sometime Sleeping Beauty,
don’t want to be awaken.
Wise men know,
when the woman…

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Eugi’s Weekly Prompt “August” August 3, 2020 

~ thereluctantpoet

Keep it alive

Eugenia is the host of Eugi’s Causerie

Eugi’s Weekly Prompt “August” August 3, 2020

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To spend this last month of summer, August

In your august company, I willfeel honored

Summer is ending for another year leaving me with

Memories to treasure moments to cherish

Till another year, another summer arrives

I will spend my days reliving these wonderful memories

~*~

#Keepitalive

#EugisCauserie

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