POETS UNITED: DAILY DOSE OF POETRY AND PROSE #102

The best verse and prose poetry submitted to our public
and subscribers promotion channels on
2nd ~ 7th July 2018

This edition was written with the assistance of Hive account@hash-tag, a physicist, teacher and writer from India. He shared a wealth of reactions to the poems, then the two of us pored over the poems, making our selections independently. The result is a merger of our efforts and choices.

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After reading the winning entries, you can find the remaining poems and prose submitted to our subscribers promotion channel.

3rd place “I” by Hive account@moeknows

Angela Yuriko Smith, Pixabay (CC0)

A cleverly-written tribute to a special someone. It is a shape poem – my initial guess was a sort of anchor, going by the general gist of the verses. The poet reveals his intention in a comment below the poem. Head over there and support with a comment and a vote, if you can.

"To ground me
When I shouldn’t take flight"

2nd place "Genji Monogatari" by Hive account@zaimrofiqi

Kiri-e by Masayuki Miyata (1926-1997)

This subject is just too beautiful and Rofiqi is quite clear about what he wants to convey in his notes: “Genji is the protagonist of Murasaki Shikibu’s important Heian-era Japanese novel The Tale of Genji. The story describes him as a superbly handsome man and a genius.”

"with the marble face
drain me, squeeze me
‘till new buds grow
perfuming our bodies."

1st place "Waiting Room" by Hive account@acousticsteveo

Image on Pixabay (CC0)

Stephen Martin transports us once again, by short verses into a scene so darkly comedic, we may emerge as the characters in a new Faulkner novel. What exactly were these lines all about and is the image a clue? We’re left guessing, as …

we poke it with sticks
.. only to watch moths fly out.

Congratulations and thanks to the writers for writing

this entertaining and thought-provoking poetry. Do any of these sing to you?

There were also these wonderful poems submitted to the PoetsUnited discord server.

Two more poems by Stephen Martin, Simon Says, “Pick up your Laundry”, and Water Way, a haiku published with a glorious photograph of Camps bay and a cloud-covered Twelve Apostles.

Hive account@hash-tag moves us here with sad verses about the important subjects, depression and suicide in a poem entitled, Yes, I’m my own Enemy.

Hive account@vegaron’s poem, A Leaf on the Pond is a simple, cute and smooth poem in which the poet has described the situation of a leaf after a frog jump into a pond. It is fondly reminiscent and perhaps a deliberately so, of the classic Frog and Pond Haiku. We are left wondering and waiting in the audible silence, as a character in the poem floats on the bank. No need to be left there though, because the writer has another character for you in the verses of A Little Beetle in a Huge World. Thanks Hive account@vegaron, that plank of wood drifting, and always supporting our steemit community.