Poetry Digest - Fourteenth Edition

Poetry Digest - Fourteenth Edition

Welcome back to the Freewrite Poetry Digest brought to you by @wandrnrose7. We are happy to receive so many beautiful poems recommended in the Freewrite Poetry - Recommend a Favorite Poem - Win SBI - Week 2 initiative by @mariannewest!

Please continue to share your freewrite poetry with the #freewritepoetrydigest or #feewritepoetry tags. Check in regularly for our next Freewrite Poetry Digest and Friday Recommend a Favorite Poem contests. Check back at @freewritehouse often for updates and new contests!

Here are some of our favorite poetry selections.

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@whatisnew shares a savory poem prompted by food to the table by @wordymouth.

This poem is a reminder of the fruits of our labors and how rewarding it is to have your own vegetable garden. It was the exact same way I felt when I had my garden many years ago and he made me miss it more than I already do. An enjoyable poem!

@kimberlylane brings our attention to a poem prompted by wildflowers by @tezmel.
Broken Shero.

I would like to nominate @tezmel for Broken Shero.
There are many who claim to be poets and just as many ways in which to write poetry. The way in which @tezmel writes hooks me at a deep level and agrees with the way in which I prefer to arrange words and play with meanings—for example she takes rainbows and stars with their positive connotations and tears them in two! And scatters them! Shows clouds as suffocating rather than lifting! She lets the reader know she’s poised and proud and strong enough to carry on, but also her underlying feelings of disappointment, hurt and rage are clear and the impossibly unfair sentiment I share, if only I was as good as a man, packs a solid punch.

@wonderwop and @iamjadeline recommended for our poetic reading a poem by @whatisnew

@whatisnew beautifully creates this poem to talk about the mockingbird. I marvel at the way she rhymes the sentences. It would take me hours to come out with such a piece. Now I know mockingbird can mimic the sound of car alarm to scare off the robbers. This bird not just sings well, but protects well. Great piece.

@wonderwop shares his thoughts on this poem:

This week, my featured poem is from @whatisnew. My kitty cat 🐈 wrote about the official bird for the great State of Texas 🇨🇱, the mockingbird. There just happens to be a mockingbird that sings to me everyday, as I make my way to my car. He's camped outside my front door, so if I get too close to his nest, he comes dive-bombing at me until I go away. Great poem kitty cat 🐈.

A lovely poetry recommendation prompted by wildflowers for @iamjadeline by @kaerpediem

Swirling in our proudly owned chaos
Escape is coveting another’s joy
Step back and you will see there is also loss
For life teases, threatens and plays coy

@iamjadeline looks at both sides
Thoughts and feelings of two kinds
Human and Wildflowers, desires unwind
If only they could read each other’s mind

They can’t read each other’s minds but you can right here at Chasm Between Wildflowers and Human

A poem recommended by @wandrnrose7 by @bennettalia
prompted by wildflowers.
This poem by our friend @bennettitalia captured my attention with the strong visuals like:

Vanquishing his antagonists
With grapevines

Twined through pure white sails

And tall masts

Carefully
Like lovers' fingers

Wet
Slick
Purple
Sweet tasting bloodstains

The poet uses concise, strong language to pull us effortlessly into his self-described "stream of consciousness" poem relying on the tactile senses, visuals and draws us into the deep emotions driven by this vision.

I chose this poem because it pulls us through the musings of a child, then dips into the emotive experience of adults and leaving us with a taste of beauty at the poem's end.

And a lovely poem by our Spanish freewriter @claret

This short poem addresses the body image portrayed by the media that women everywhere struggle to attain. Her poem encourages us to cultivate the beauty within.

Google Translate:

Porcelain skin,

Strawberry lips, perfect hair, slim body ...

oh! very thin.

Something happens to you.

Cultivate your beauty, take care of your size by closing your mouth, closing your stomach.

You hurt your body not giving it food with the only intention of being a COPY more of that magazine image.

Is it really worthwhile to see yourself "well" if that means drying out on the inside?

Spanish freewriter @milrosas usingparachute
takes us through the struggle of grief in loss with her poem Paracaidas, English translation imbeded.

I hope you enjoyed these poems. If the poem is past payout, please find a recent post to share a vote and comment to support these lovely poets!

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