Sunday, June 1, 2014

Poetry Pantry #204


Greetings, Poets!


Glad to see each of you here this week for Poetry Pantry.  It is always enjoyable for me to get to know you through your poetry; and I hope you feel the same.  Admittedly, I personally appreciate those with whom there is a feeling of reciprocity, which makes for a feeling of community.  I think we ALL tend to visit (after a while) people with whom we reciprocate.

This week there is a picture I found in Wikimedia Commons.  (I am looking for photos for Sunday.  If you have any, FIRST email me and tell me what you have.)

Be sure to visit Poets United tomorrow to see what Sherry Blue Sky  has planned to share.  Will it be a featured poet?  A featured blog?  Or a featured poem?

Glad to see the turnout  for  Mid-Week Motif Wednesday continues to be good.  We hope to see you this coming week for another challenging prompt by Susan Chast!

And on Friday, remember to see who Rosemary Nissen-Wade is featuring on her "I Wish I Had Written This" or "The Living Dead."

I issue an invitation here to those of you who participate in Poetry Pantry.  If YOU have special photos that you would like me to feature some week, let me know what kind of photos you have.  There are participants here from many different cities, many different countries.  I think it is great fun to see different areas featured. I am especially interested in scenic views of your area or an area you have visited.  Send inquiries first to dixibear@aol.com letting me know what you have.  I am interested in city or country views - in your home area or places you have traveled.

Anyway, with no further adieu, this is one of my favorite spaces to post poetry each week.  I hope you look forward to it too.  An older one or a new one, it's your choice.

Link your ONE poem.   Then leave a comment below. Then visit other poets.  And I will too.  (If I miss your poem, visit me, and I will visit you... I am like anyone else, appreciating reciprocity.) We ALL like comments, so if you link please DO spend time visiting others.  That is part of the fun as well.  We really like it if you link back to Poets United too, so we spread the Poetry Pantry word in the blogosphere.

Come back a few times on Sunday and Monday to see what's new.  Visit some strangers, and they will become new friends!  Making new friends and reading new poetry, what more could one want?

Also, don't forget to visit Poets United other days of the week.  For example, every Wednesday (after the new year) Susan Chast posts a new "Mid-Week Motif" prompt.  Hope you will join us there as well!  Sherry Blue Sky does a feature (it varies) on Monday, and Rosemary Nissen-Wade does "I Wish I'd Written This" every Friday!

If you are on Facebook, look for us there as well. Join our site.  It is one more way to stay in touch!

And now...here is the procedure, for those who are new here:  Each Sunday we start a new post with a New Mr. Linky for you. This is so that you can post a link to a poem in your blog. The link will close Monday at 12:00 p.m. (CDT), but you can still visit the links of those who have posted them.


34 comments:

  1. Good morning, poets. Have a great Sunday wherever you may be!

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  2. Ah, it's a lovely rainy winter day here. I hope it's lovely where all you beautiful poets are! Have a wonderful day :)

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  3. Happy sunday everyone...
    Looking forward to read your poems....

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    1. Thanks for being such a regular here, Locomente!

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  4. I look forward to reading your poems today. Have a good Sunday, everyone.

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  5. I'm new here, but am assuming that we can link to poems on our blog that were written previously and not necessarily specifically for Poetry Pantry. Looking forward to reading the other poems that are linked here :-)

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    1. yes, that is pretty much it...smiles.

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    2. Sure, CC....feel free to link any poem you wish; but nice if you link back to Poetry Pantry as well. Welcome.

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  6. Good morning, and a happy Sunday whether it is June for you or what I would call January for the southern hemisphere.
    That didn't come out quite right, did it :-)

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    1. Good morning and happy Sunday to you too, jo-hanna!

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  7. Beautiful spring morning here ~ Happy Sunday everyone ~

    Grace

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    1. Ah, Grace, we have a beautiful spring morning here as well.

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  8. good morning...
    moving a bit slow after a late night last night at the college world series
    but i will be around...

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  9. Well, I am caught up on comments for now. I will be back later to visit more who have shared....

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  10. Good morning everyone... catch you in the pantry
    ZQ

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    1. Good morning, ZQ. Nice to see you, as always, in the Sunday pantry.

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  11. Grateful for this day, Mary, and for Poets United!

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  12. a greeting from Maya Angelou to all us poets.

    Oh, Maya: "Listen to your inner voice in quietude and maybe you can hear the voice of God"

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  13. Once again I return to Poetry Pantry with a poem I wrote last year. It is not autobio because I don't have a rich gf (I wish!) but I just wrote it inspired by a friend i had in the past who loved to frequent "those" department stores at the mall. no offense to anyone who does this, it was all for fun.. God bless you all members of Poets United! :)

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    1. I will be making my way to your poem shortly, James. Always good to read your writing.

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    2. thanks Mary, I just saw this. Love you's!!!

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  14. Late to the party, on the west coast where it is just an hour past Coffee! Maya Angelou is featured on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday and I am distracted by the wonder of her.....I will make my way through the Pantry, though, never fear! Looking forward to it!

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    1. Greetings, Sherry. I know you will make your way through the pantry, Sherry. You are amazing.

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  15. Hello everyone! Happy Sunday! Came back to Pantry after a long break. Feels so good...!!

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  16. I always enjoy your photos and remarks, Mary, though have not participated much for a while. I'm linking to one I wrote fairly recently, which didn't get a lot of exposure at the time.

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  17. hi,

    got a bit late to post....hope you people will like my poem, this poem is meant for my mom

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    1. Hi Surabhi....if you visit others, they will probably visit you. Welcome.

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