Week 72, Poet of the week goes to the extremely talented +Poet Desh for his poem, The Sky Looked At Me and his continuous support of the POETS community and our wonderful members.
Poet Desh has crafted a marvelous poem that explores the spiritual aspect of humanity and of finding one's self. Superbly done Poet Desh this is a true slice of poetry.
The Sky Looked At Me...
Frustrated with the search which led nowhere,
I closed all the doors around me,
But the routine affairs kept on knocking,
And the insistant air of worldly attractions
Tried to steal in through minute cracks.
Frustrated, I started to skin myself,
Like a peacock sheds all its feathers
To understand the meaning of such burden.
Suddenly, I don't know how, the inner door
Started to open, and the light within made
My skin once again as it was at my birth,
And the sky looked at me with motherly eyes.
© Poet Desh
https://plus.google.com/+PoetDesh/posts/58J2gz5LGVk
And next up is our special mentions that go out this week to:
(for amazing poetry and/ or great support within the community)
+Cheryl Williams
+Lucky Triana
+Mari Felices
+Marilyn Ward
Thank you and well done guys!
Many thanks to all our amazing members for another fantastic week of poetry, likes, reads, comments and shares and prompt writes. It is you guys and gals that make this community amazing!
Criteria for Poet of the Week Selection:
1. The poet has not been PoW recently.
2. The poet has written a great and original poem.
3. The poet spends some time reading and commenting to encourage and support other members.
4. Mastery of the the language in which the poet writes is also important, although we should make some allowances in terms of spelling/grammar for people using English as a second language.
POETS the Original can now be found and liked on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/poetstheoriginal/notifications/
If you have a poetry book you would like us to promote on this Poet of the Week post for one week, please post the details together with the sales point link (e.g. Amazon) in the Members' Publications category, thank you.
POETS now has two weekly poetry PROMPTS.
#POETSPHOTOPROMPTS ~ Every Sunday
#POETSLINEPROMPTS ~ Every Wednesday.
Everyone is welcome to participate and write a poem inspired by the prompt photo or line.
Please will all prompt participants download and use the image provided by the current week's prompt moderator, and state that the photo is used with permission of that person.
A poster will be provided for each new line prompt. Please use the poster with your poem. You will find these in the respective categories: POETS PHOTO PROMPTS OR POETS LINE PROMPTS.
Please also use hashtag #POETSPHOTOPROMPTS OR #POETSLINEPROMPTS and do invite at least one or two others to take part too. Everyone is welcome to take part, with or without an invitation.
Please send any queries to our prompt coordinators:
POETS PHOTO PROMPTS - +James polamz King
POETS LINE PROMPTS - +karen hayward
Note that the prompts are not contests, they are intended to inspire poetic writing and fun.
Give POETS FEEDBACK
If you would like to tell us what you think about POETS, either positive or negative - give us praise, or tell us what we could do better, please use our online feedback form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeInbdeUzmuJTpXihf3XtLbq2uiNR__29u7KQHI00E3ksCKVA/viewform
Poet Desh has crafted a marvelous poem that explores the spiritual aspect of humanity and of finding one's self. Superbly done Poet Desh this is a true slice of poetry.
The Sky Looked At Me...
Frustrated with the search which led nowhere,
I closed all the doors around me,
But the routine affairs kept on knocking,
And the insistant air of worldly attractions
Tried to steal in through minute cracks.
Frustrated, I started to skin myself,
Like a peacock sheds all its feathers
To understand the meaning of such burden.
Suddenly, I don't know how, the inner door
Started to open, and the light within made
My skin once again as it was at my birth,
And the sky looked at me with motherly eyes.
© Poet Desh
https://plus.google.com/+PoetDesh/posts/58J2gz5LGVk
And next up is our special mentions that go out this week to:
(for amazing poetry and/ or great support within the community)
+Cheryl Williams
+Lucky Triana
+Mari Felices
+Marilyn Ward
Thank you and well done guys!
Many thanks to all our amazing members for another fantastic week of poetry, likes, reads, comments and shares and prompt writes. It is you guys and gals that make this community amazing!
Criteria for Poet of the Week Selection:
1. The poet has not been PoW recently.
2. The poet has written a great and original poem.
3. The poet spends some time reading and commenting to encourage and support other members.
4. Mastery of the the language in which the poet writes is also important, although we should make some allowances in terms of spelling/grammar for people using English as a second language.
POETS the Original can now be found and liked on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/poetstheoriginal/notifications/
If you have a poetry book you would like us to promote on this Poet of the Week post for one week, please post the details together with the sales point link (e.g. Amazon) in the Members' Publications category, thank you.
POETS now has two weekly poetry PROMPTS.
#POETSPHOTOPROMPTS ~ Every Sunday
#POETSLINEPROMPTS ~ Every Wednesday.
Everyone is welcome to participate and write a poem inspired by the prompt photo or line.
Please will all prompt participants download and use the image provided by the current week's prompt moderator, and state that the photo is used with permission of that person.
A poster will be provided for each new line prompt. Please use the poster with your poem. You will find these in the respective categories: POETS PHOTO PROMPTS OR POETS LINE PROMPTS.
Please also use hashtag #POETSPHOTOPROMPTS OR #POETSLINEPROMPTS and do invite at least one or two others to take part too. Everyone is welcome to take part, with or without an invitation.
Please send any queries to our prompt coordinators:
POETS PHOTO PROMPTS - +James polamz King
POETS LINE PROMPTS - +karen hayward
Note that the prompts are not contests, they are intended to inspire poetic writing and fun.
Give POETS FEEDBACK
If you would like to tell us what you think about POETS, either positive or negative - give us praise, or tell us what we could do better, please use our online feedback form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeInbdeUzmuJTpXihf3XtLbq2uiNR__29u7KQHI00E3ksCKVA/viewform
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