Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Poet of the week

Poet of the week, May 23 2018

This week we want to pause and celebrate all those that took part in the #POETSCOLLABS for some of you it was a first time collaborating and others it was a chance to play, Bubbly and myself absolutely loved getting the chance to share our page with so many of you. Collaborating is such a great way to expand your knowledge and grow your confidence and not to mention a great way to be interactive within the community. We would love to see you guys collaborating together!!

I know I still have some more collabs to do this week as I split my group...we will celebrate you guys next week :)

So, in no particular order
Poets of the week this week are....

+Saroja BS
+Nadia Fortuna
+gutter punk
+Marilyn Ward
+Nasreen Malik
+Sotir Georgievski
+Rasma Raisters
+Duane Phillips
+Laughing waters
+Loc Thiese
+Michael Montoya
+Narian OneMansJourney
+Toni TW
+Kaleidoscope s
+Ronnie Nissan
+Harold Clapsaddle
+Wendy - Empathic Tigress
+Phil Hall
+Shenelle Seve
+David Palmer
+Ellen Waters
+John Duffy
+Jasmine

Well done guys and gals!!

Shout-out time!!

Shout out time! This is to allow us to pause and pay respect to those poets taking poetry outside of the box, driving creativity into new arenas, and equally, those poets that stand proud within the poetic roots that have created the very foundations we write from today.

Micro-fiction

Shout-out this week to the brilliantly talented +sunita hussain and her wonderful piece of work and +Michelina Di Martino who blessed us with some very creative dialogue writing!

Famous Poets

Thank you +Christin Breman and +Paul Stump for sharing with us snippets of famous poems, it is when others share that we are able to expand our own knowledge :)

Publication

Lovely to see+ +Sourav Biswas project moving along nicely, do take a moment to click through to his profile and check out whats been keeping him busy :)

Original music/ art/ photography

Shout out goes to +Michael Dodd with some superb lyrics this week and the talented +Edward Means well done guys

Spoken word

A busy week in the spoken word category, shout out to Mr +Ulf Wolf :) +Charlie Ricketts-Johnson and +AB Poetry well done guys a great week of creativity

Sonnet

Always lovely to see work in the sonnet category, shout out this week goes to +Elusive Me and +Mark Bryan well done guys lovely to see this art form being kept alive :)

haiku

You guys are always busy in the haiku category! Shout out this week goes to the talented +Bukusai Ashagawa +Wendy - Empathic Tigress +Nicholas Klacsanzky +MUSTANG CHARLIE +Tony Adah +Maria Elvira Fernandes Correia +Eva Limbach +Michelina Di Martino +Phil R. +Sotir Georgievski


Thank you everyone for your wonderful contributions throughout the week :)

From the POETS team, well done everyone, another amazing week of creativity spilling across keyboards, through screens and out into the big wide wilderness of life

Criteria for Poet of the Week Selection

1. The poet has not been poet of the week 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.

A huge welcome to all our new members this week, from the POETS team

Prompts
Monday - #poetsphotoprompts
Wednesday - #poetslineprompts
Saturday and Sunday - #POETSFLASHBACKWEEKEND

These are not contests, they are simply a way to expand your inspiration, interaction and to have some poetic fun.


Happy writing all

Karen, Bubbly, Jennifer Kathir and the POETS team.
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