Welcome to another week here in the Pub Universe!
BILL AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS
FOR MAKING THIS MONTH'S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SO SUCCESSFUL!!
CHEERS!!! HERE IS TO ANOTHER WONDERFUL YEAR AT THE POETS PUB!!
FEATURED POEM
Hug O' War
By Shel Silverstein
I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins
PUB-VERSE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Poets Pub
POETS PUB 4TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION –
This week we will be winding down our 4th Anniversary Celebrations. This has been a great 4th Anniversary celebration and we want to thank everyone who has joined in!! Of course, the Poets Pub would be nothing without all of you!! Bill and I are so proud of all of you and what we have accomplished so far here at the Pub. We are so grateful for the love and friendship that you all so us and one another. In a world of chaos, the Poets Pub truly is a safe haven for all. Please join us in this last week and let us know where you would like to see the Pub go from here. We give you this final challenge; Write a poem about the future of the Poets Pub.
JUNE CONTEST – Our June contest will be open for submissions on June 1st, so get those pens and keyboards warmed up!!!
POEM A WEEK –
Let us know if you are going to take on the Poem a Week/Day Challenge. All you need to do is create a book on your own profile for the challenge, let us know what book it is and then start writing. You can also send in your poems to include in our collection here. Please PM us if you take on the challenge so we can add your name to the participants list.
Busted Gulch Update - Lyttlejoe's Busted Gulch Volume 10 –
CG was enjoying her evening at the Grand Opening with 3Gun...or was she? Rue and Ronan shared an intimate moment on the dance floor...is there a budding romance there? It seems some of the girls from the River Boat where picking men's pockets, they were caught, and the money returned...but will they be allowed to remain on the boat? Ronan admitted to Rue that he had rigged one of the games she played against Denver, Rue was none to happy, but just as the two of them shared another intimate moment...Strop interrupted. Strop informed Rue that both he and Ronan were married and in the process of buying a homestead just out of town. Rue slapped Ronan, he fell to the floor, and when he got back up he could not hear. CG and 3Gun stayed until they were alone in the casino, CG took full advantage of the moment and finally told 3Gun how she felt...that she loved him...will he reciprocate? To find the answers to these questions and more...
Head on over to The Storytellers Saloon and check out Lyttlejoe's Busted Gulch Volume 11!! Don't forget to add it to your reading list, new chapters are posted daily!
Busted Gulch Volume 11 is on its way!!
Busted Gulch is booming but in a good way. Business is good, the town is prospering but can this good feeling last or will 3Gun get caught up in his past. What will Myna's and Lorne's baby be when born, a little cowboy or cowgirl the town is torn.
Will Ronan's hearing repair, will he fix things with Rue, does he even dare? CG has gone and declared her love, but what will Sheriff say when push comes to shove. What of the Riverboat and Denver's whole crew? Is the family here to stay or will they shove off too?
Chechi has found her on a quest. Will she make it back I'm sure she'll try her best. Petra and Buck have any luck dodging Denver's muscle? Can Brody and Annie make amends or will they continue to tussle?
All of this an so much more do we have in store. Save to your library today. What are you waiting for?
flash-fiction-forum
(FFF)
MAY CONTEST –
Under the Sea - For May 2019 we are going to get a little wet. We have four different pictures from under the sea for you to write about. Of course, this challenge is open to all members of the Pub-Verse as well.
The FFF is also looking for a bright, energetic and inspirational individual to work with Bill, at the FFF, to make it a premier site here on Wattpad. If you are that person, drop a message to Bill or Myna and let them know. All we are asking for is a couple hours a week to help make the FFF grow.
MAY CONTEST –
Know Thy India – With regret, we inform you that the May Challenge is now cancelled due to lack of entries. We were a bit disappointed, and instead of prolonging this challenge, we have decided to cancel it altogether.
Our De Novo Collection will still be open, so you can send in your poems for that collection.
LOOKING FOR HELP! – We are also looking for anyone who would like to help with this site. You would be responsible for checking messages, posting poems, helping to set up contests, etc. If you are interested, please PM Bill or Myna or the Pub.
De Novo India is a comeback collection and will feature poems about the New India as we all know. Let's celebrate the youth and highlight issues pertinent to the Indian community.
OLD/NEW/CONTINUING WORKS
My Midnight Muse by @hrxshxkxsh
'My Midnight Muse' is a collection of poems that are split into three parts, each representing a phase that we all go through personally in our life:
The Craving ( The desperate longing to love or to be loved)
The Addiction ( The obsession with co dependence)
The Recovery ( The realization that it isn't worth all the pain)
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The poems from each part were written when I was personally going through that phase.
I hope you can find at least some part of yourself in these pages.
If you would like to share any of your old/new/continuing works on your personal profile, please send us a private message and we will include it here.
PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you would like to share any personal announcements, birthday, anniversary, Wattpad anniversary, new books published or anything else, please do not hesitate to send us a Private Message and we will get it in here.
WORLD POETS
Argentina
The Art Of Poetry
By Jorge Luis Borges
To gaze at a river made of time and water
And remember Time is another river.
To know we stray like a river
and our faces vanish like water.
To feel that waking is another dream
that dreams of not dreaming and that the death
we fear in our bones is the death
that every night we call a dream.
To see in every day and year a symbol
of all the days of man and his years,
and convert the outrage of the years
into a music, a sound, and a symbol.
To see in death a dream, in the sunset
a golden sadness--such is poetry,
humble and immortal, poetry,
returning, like dawn and the sunset.
Sometimes at evening there's a face
that sees us from the deeps of a mirror.
Art must be that sort of mirror,
disclosing to each of us his face.
They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders,
wept with love on seeing Ithaca,
humble and green. Art is that Ithaca,
a green eternity, not wonders.
Art is endless like a river flowing,
passing, yet remaining, a mirror to the same
inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same
and yet another, like the river flowing.
POETRY PROMPTS
Prompt #1 – Write a poem about the future of the Poets Pub, where do you see it 5 or 10 years from now.
Prompt #2 – Write a poem about your favorite Poets Pub contest.
Prompt #3 – Write a Poets Pub motto, that would hang on the wall behind the bar.
To all of our African poets we want to wish you a Happy African Unity Day!
To all of our American poets we want to wish you a Happy Memorial Day!
I hope everyone has a wonderful week, stay safe and be productive! Remember to keep those pens and keyboards flying!!
Cheers from your Mystres of Chatter
MystresMyna