Peacetime Songs or EuthanasiasI wanted a war-time melody for the aching ears of all the people who silently protest the military efforts of our time; a song to soothe, a flood of words in which to drown our battered hopes, for their mercy. So I conjured in my rib-caged eye the images of war,Peacetime Songs or Euthanasias by ~chapaV
the open minds of fallen soldiers, spilling New York and Los Angeles, Moscow and Baghdad onto the streets of anywhere; their mouthing wounds elevating cries into the city stench of gunpowder blackened buildings; the look on their eyes when the true meaning of damage and collateral crashes into their fleshy souls, begging in curses, wailing arms at them for a redraw of the cards: You
February       This month's featured piece is a superb prosetry piece by ~chapaV    "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning." ~Maya Angelou |
I wanted to remind everyone that this list is up here! Hopefully those who are participating in NaPoWriMo this year will find this list helpful. You also might enjoy an archive I've begun compiling of visual art pieces with great titles and songs/music videos that I've found useful for writing: [link] 
But that's not all!
You may only submit one poem per week.
You do not need to post any questions for critique or a link to a critique of anyone else's poem. However, you must mention this project in your artists comments and the topic off of which you have based your poem. Pieces that do not have this will be declined.
Over the course of the month of April, I will be keeping track of the poems written for each topic. At the beginning of May, I will post a master list of all of the submitted pieces and everyone who has participated in a news article.
In case you need some inspiration, or want to know more about how it works, feel free to pop on over to my 100 Poem Project Journal. And don't forget, if a topic doesn't make ANY SENSE to you, just google search it. Some of these topics are actually scientific terms, or famous people, or song titles. And if it's a song, going and listening to it on youtube might help you out a LOT.THE LIST| More Journal Entries |
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Voices from Saginaw, MI: 1952-1974 Dad would ask so many questions I hated interpretingVoices from Saginaw, MI: 1952-1974 by `Nestalgica
for him hands stuck on refrain it wasn’t that my parents were deaf
but that other parents could hear I found that strange we had to move
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don't get tired of elephants yetI've had my crippling moments.don't get tired of elephants yet by ~Solaces
They'd either start in my stomach
with an ache like broken glass
or stab me right in the catharsis,
somewhere near my heart or breath
or maybe my left foot.
I wouldn't know how it feels
to hurt to walk, but I imagine
with a destination like farther,
it's no pilgrimage.
So take the burden off your back.
Life is not a sandstorm
and your lungs are only a mirage
if you expect to see your breath
every time you breathe.
So take a breath
back, just one step
and listen with your smoke signals.
Help is on the way.
I just can't promise
it knows much about this lifetime.
It's the same way I could never promise
elephan
| "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Please be aware that this is a poetry-only community. This group is dedicated to the creation of excellent poetry and our growth as artists. In an attempt to avoid groups with lots of deviants and lots of submissions that nobody reads, I have developed these rules:  JOINING Press the "Join" button!In the space for comments, please write "I read and understood the rules." If you do not have any poetry in your gallery, please clarify that you will be submitting poetry to the group. SUBMITTING DO NOT submit to the "Featured" folder. This folder is reserved for monthly featured pieces - this means your work MAY end up in there anyway  You may only submit one poem per week, so MAKE IT COUNT! In the artist's comments, on each piece you submit, you must link to a recent (within 1 week) critique of someone else's poem. this does NOT have to be an official critique. For more help, see this: [link]In the artist's comments, on each piece you submit, you must post at least two questions to direct critique. If you need help, you might find this useful: [link]Please note that submission rules are different for the "Critique, Please!" folder. See below.Rules for submitting to the 100 Poem Topics are also different, but fairly easy: you must list the poem topic you used for the piece in the artist's comments. For more information, and a list of the topics, please check out the blog: [link](Please be aware, a critique does NOT have to be one of the official, premium members-only options. It is simply a critical comment on someone else's piece. For assistance, be sure to check out the "Critique Tutorials" collection.) CRITIQUE, PLEASE! Please only submit works-in-progress to the "Critique, Please" folder. Submissions to this folder must have at least 2 questions to direct critique, but do NOT need to include a link to critique of someone else's poem. FAVORITESSuggestions for group favorites must be submitted by group members, but do not have to have been written by them.Suggestions for group favorites must be of excellent quality and preferably a finalized work.The main favorites category is for poetry ONLY. We do, however, recognize non-poetic masterpieces in the Prose Favorites and the Non-Literature Favorites folders. Make sure you suggest your favorite to the correct folder!Other than that, HAVE FUN!  |
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