May 2020

2020 Spring Contest Winners: Under 30: 3rd Place Winner

keeping up with the kardashians by Sophie App-Singer we got that blackgirlbutwhite calabasas okurrrr acrylic tips gleaming diamondlike under spotlight heatlamps lorde got postcode envy looking at us, & who wouldn’t we have it all & thats an understatement we steal who you are down to your skin & make it look easy goldleaf thinner

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Oregon Poetry Association Board Meeting of May 8, 2020

Meeting scheduled to begin at 7:00 pm. via Skype Present:  Bruce Parker (President, Historian), Diane Corson (Membership Co-Chair, Outreach Chair), Jennifer Rood (Vice-President), Carolyn Adams (Treasurer), Dave Mehler (Membership Co-chair), Dale Champlin (Newsletter and Verseweavers Editor), Dan Liberthson (Secretary), Susan Morse (Assistant Secretary, Fall Adult Poetry Contest Chair ) Not Present: Stella Guillory (Adult Contest

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2020 Spring Contest Winners: Traditional Form – Triolet: 1st Place Winner

When your Man’s a Drunk Joan Dobbie Life gets all twisted when your man’s a drunk That knot in your throat; that fist in your heart He’ll cling, cry and plead in his morning funk Life gets all twisted when your man’s a drunk You know you should leave him and all that junk But

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2020 Spring Contest Winners: Traditional Form – Triolet: 2nd Place Winner

O World David Hedges O world, you’re such a pretty place! More people should applaud your form, More should appreciate your face. O world, you’re such a pretty place— Your splendid attributes, your grace, Your constancy, beyond the norm. O world, you’re such a pretty place, More people should applaud your form. Poet’s Bio David

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2020 Spring Contest Winners: Traditional Form – Triolet: 3rd Place Winner

Mates Nita Countryman Seven mergansers drift in the calm— one swims to the side, apart. Black crowns bob on the trailing foam. Seven mergansers drift in the calm. Six birds move like swans in tandem, paired for a season in limerent heart. Seven mergansers drift in the calm. One swims to the side, apart. Poet’s

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2020 Spring Contest Winners: Traditional Form – Triolet: Honorable Mentions and Judge’s Comments

Judged by Marc Janssen 1st Honorable Mention: “Pale Ring” by Charles Castle 2nd Honorable Mention:” Here and Gone” by Jim Johnson 3rd Honorable Mention: “Leaf Ballet” by Emory D. Jones The triolet is a cousin to the rondeau, a French invention and one that was popular in the seventeenth century. The requirements to write a

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2020 Spring Contest Winners: Theme – Anticipation: 1st Place Winner

IN ATHENS WITH MARGUERITE Connie Soper As daylight faded and before evening breezes  gifted relief, we climbed rickety stairs to the roof.  I could say we were wicks on candles anticipating the match: spark to flame, the future  all around us no matter where we looked.  You might remember it differently; how we rose,  rung

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2020 Spring Contest Winners: Theme – Anticipation: 2nd Place Winner

Beethoven Never Saw an Ocean Colette Tennant But he felt its pulse in his wild, salty blood, so that’s the first thing he will do in heaven – follow the breeze to where sand starts, everything drifting down toward adagio swells, plagal cadence waves, gulls’ glissando, his coat tails unfurled by the aleatoric wind, the

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