Soul Shine. Poetry From Picture Challenge.

All poets we invite you to enter our
"Soul Shine" Spring Poetry From Picture Challenge.
This is one for this forum.
This challenge is open to all poets.

What does the picture show? How can you show movement,
music, soul, shine, emotion, personality and african dancing you may have seen at a tap show or night clubs, either back in the day or present day.

We want entries that unravel the view of the picture,
and creatively weave the meaning or the words, "Soul" and "Shine" in the poem.

What does the picture below inspire you to write?
What do the picture show you or unviel.
Let the photo lure you in and tap into your creative mind.
Poem can be hip-happening, down to earth, musical, what ever you prefer that relates to the photo in some way or free just like the people in the photo.

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April/May 2005 Poetry From Pic Challenge.
Use the picture below as your muse,
while giving meaning to one or both of the subjects
in the piece:

1. Soul. 2. Shine.

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There is one entry per author only,
Please put the following in before your poem,
in the same thread.
Entry must be no more than 50 lines.
(That is about the same amount of
lines you see in this post.)
Please post your entry as a reply to this thread.
Deadline: May 25, 2005

Author Name:
Poem Title:
Date:
Contest Challenge Name:
Shadow Lounge Spring Poetry
From Picture Challenge 2005.

Winning entries, will featured on our blog, noted at our board and be published in the Write Now Poets Publishing book of collected poems by various authors to be released in June/July 2005.
This is a great way to get published.
Good luck and have fun writing your poem.

1st Week Of April. Selected Read

Soft-Shoe By Roadpan


Sunset Maiden, plant a kiss,
Flocculent, in middle of chest
To tap a bit of soft-shoe and gently rattle
Ivory from bone, warmth from marrow;

Tomorrow shall envy today’s slow horizon.
The moon will plume itself
In a wide, white gaze and utter
Not a single breath of fog to conceal this.

When eyes behold morning’s first yawn,
The world will share in the making of
A new heart opened vast through hues
Copious but indiscernible in the pulse:

Iris of Iris rises to meet pale reflection—
Madness turns myth turns flesh—of honesty
Where day finds love most tolerant
As it trysts night’s newfound momentum.

Welkin hearkens with each pastel buss,
Rousing dusk to ensphere the pilose floor
So dance purdures every era and wrought age
Till lips trail raspberry to ravage the sky.

1st Week Of April. Selected Read.

Red Tape By Poeticpiers

Dilapidation and decay
are in control of grim back streets
and things grow worse each passing day.
A history of past defeats
have overruled all efforts made
by anyone who chose to try
their enthusiasm fades,
Bureaucracy the reason why
The regulations seem designed
to hamper all development
Officials seem to seek and find
a way to block all good intent.

Planning departments cannot plan
but interfere with those who can.

April/May Featured Poetry From Pic Challenge

All poets we invite you to enter our
Spring Poetry From Picture Challenge
and also our challenge celebrating mothers day.
This challenge is open to all poets.

What emotion, feeling or memory do the picture below stir,
does it remind you of a moment of holding your baby
or someone elses baby while they fall asleep,
a preciouse moment of your motherhood or your mother holding one of your sisters
or brothers?

Think of the two subjects "motherhood" and "dreams"
when studying the picture.
We want entries that unravel the story of the picture,
Poems should be up-lifting, no depressing or dark poems please.

What does the picture below inspire you to write?
What do the pictures show you or unviel.
Let the photo lure you in and tap into your creative mind and emotions.

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April/May 2005 Poetry From Pic Challenge.
Use The Picture Below As Your Muse
while giving meaning to one or both of the subjects
in the piece:
1. Motherhood 2. Dreams.

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There is one entry per author only,
Please put the following in before your poem,
in the same thread.
Entry must be no more than 50 lines.
Please post your entry as a reply to this thread.
Deadline: May 15, 2005.

Author Name:
Poem Title:
Date:
Contest Challenge Name:
Zone Of Plenty. Spring Poetry
From Picture Challenge 2005.

Winning entries, will featured on our blog, noted at our board and be published in the Write Now Poets Publishing book of collected poems by various authors to be released in June/July 2005.
This is a great way to get published.
Good luck and have fun writing your poem.