Part ' A ' Of August 2017's Showcase....[ Poems #1-#12; I Have Used ' Copying And Pasting' To Take These Twelve Poems Out Of The Very Long Showcase] Poem by Bri Edwards

My original introductory poem*** to August's ‘original' showcase:


Ladies and gentlemen, and perhaps some ‘poets' who are neither,
my new 'poem-link-method' has given …..‘poor-old-Bri' a breather.
No one's objected yet to newness. Could it be no one is looking? ?
It could be the truth, but, ‘no matter', a new showcase I'm cooking!

If you don't know how this works, just ask or look at last month's.
If you don't help me or ask questions, at least let me hear NO grunts!
Not so many poets will I use in August, but maybe, of poems, more.
I may lean heavily on ‘my favorites', but 'who the Hell's' keeping score?

There may be a few ‘new poets', at least ones who are new to ‘old Bri'.
And I'll give more than one title from some poets. Yes! I'm quite sly.
As always I also solicit offerings, to be sent in messages; send them to Bri.
But, please, proofread and send a CORRECT link or title, or at LEAST TRY ….
to do it! ! !

The poems need not be new. There are NO restrictions on topic or length.….[[IF I only give the poems' links]]****.
And ….if I don't use one from you, perhaps it's ‘cause you ‘had-not-the-strength' ….
to type, type, type me a note offering me poems. You need NOT be title-specific;
you may just say 'Please take one or two'. If you participate that'd be terrific!

(July 14 2017)
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Bri Edwards aka Brian Edward Whitaker (for real!)

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***It is now AUGUST 7th. Some of my introductory poem, written several weeks ago, is NO LONGER TRUE! And only ONE poet [besides me, Bri, of course], Bharati Nayak, 'submitted' a poem to me for my use. All the rest I 'borrowed'.

My originally-submitted August showcase somehow got huge gaps of blank space between some of the poems. Besides, the darn thing was ‘TOO Long' for me and at least oneother reader to navigate conveniently, especially when I was still adding poems to
what I had already submitted.


So I made Part C (poems #25-#34) and now I am working on making Parts A (this part) , and B, and D.

When all four (4) parts are submitted as separate 'poems' in my list of PH poems, I plan to DELETE the original LONGGG and ‘gap-toothed' [‘gap-poemed' actually] showcase.

If there are questions, please look for the answers in Part C BEFORE you ask me. Thanks.

bri :) :)

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****VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: To form the complete link to open a poem's page, PUT www FOLLOWED BY.poem FOLLOWED BY hunter. into the screen's address line, FOLLOWED BY com, FOLLOWED BY the partial link I have supplied for each poem. LEAVE NO SPACES between the FIVE parts of the 'complete link' and don't leave out any of these: '.' '/' '-'.

If I type a 'complete' link or web address into this or any other poem for PH, Poem Hunter will not let me submit the poem. I did it again (ooops!) while trying to submit this one! ! ! !

Hey! PH is rejecting my submission AGAIN, saying it contains some not allowed 'characters'! ! ! I managed to put the instructions into July's showcase without as much trouble! ! ! Let me try again.: (

Ok, damn it! ! ! Go to any poet's poem on PH and look on the page's address line to see the link for the page/poem. Now, see that my 'partial links' all start with the / symbol. Follow the example you see to use the partial links I have supplied.
If THIS poem does not get submitted NOW, I may have to eat some ice cream and.............screammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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The POETS and POEMS, partial links, and in most cases the texts of the poems, #1-#12:

1 - Bharati Nayak (submitted)

partial link: /a-love-song-49/

text:

A Love Song


Dear
I love you
But ÝOU' is not you
YOU'' is that beauty
Which fills me with light
ÝOU'is that hand
Which picks out the thorns
From my feet.
ÝOU'is that presence
Which is ever present
In my happiness and darkness
Dear
On my cloudy sky
YOU is the color
Which makes the rainbow
And YOU appears
As the North star
In a directionless weather.


YOU is not the Red -Rose, but
The red of the Rose
YOU is not the Rose
But the thorns that
Guards the Rose.

Dear
YOU is the song of the song-bird
Blue of the Blue-sky, and
Green of the Green-leaves
It does not matter
Where thatÝOU' lives
For I feel ÝOU
As the oxygen filled air
Circulating me
And YOU will stay here
As a shaft of light
And the last piece of my breath.

Topics: life, love, spiritual

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2 - Bri Edwards (submitted)

title: A Father's Toast At His Gay Son's Wedding Reception..... [same-Sex Marriage; Humour/Humor; Johnny Cash Song/Sheldon Silverstein Poem; Short]

partial link: /poem/a-father-s-toast-at-his-gay-son-s-wedding-r eception-same-sex-marriage-humour-humor-johnny-ca sh-song-sheldon-silverstein-poem-short/

Topic: humor

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Bri's Note on poem: This seems to be the poem I have in my list which is MOST 'clicked on', BUT which rarely, if ever, has a comment left. That is ok, but I hope some will at least read and enjoy it. I think I put it into a previous showcase.

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3 - Khairul Ahsan (borrowed)

partial link: /poem/pink-fingers/

text:

Pink Fingers


I can set out on a world tour
On foot, holding your fingers,
Your beautiful, pink fingers.

I can spend years in meditation
Like a sage, if you let me clench
Your pink fingers in my fist.

I can embark on a parachute jump
From the top of the Mt. Everest,
If I have with me, your pink fingers.




I can write a poem every morning,
Only if every night I go to sleep
Holding one or more of your fingers


(Dhaka
04 September 2014
(Copyright reserved)

Topic: love
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4 - Annette Aitken (borrowed)

partial link: /poem/hugs-20/

text:

(((((((Hugs)))))) ....

Hugs

Here's a hug from me to you
to make you smile when feeling blue
to make you happy when your sad
to let you know life's ain't all bad
hugs are sometimes all we need
so here's a hug I share with thee
to all my friends and strangers to
I can be doing with a hug....

Can't you?

(((((((((((((hug)))))))))))) ;)

Topic: comforting

Bri's note: As with some other fine poems on PH, here there
are 'typos', but nothing TOO serious, AND I'm not changing them!

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5 - Kim Barney (borrowed, as it was once before)

title: River Ran Red

partial link: /poem/river-ran-red/

Topic: war

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6 - Tom Billsborough (borrowed)

partial link: /poem/snake-31/

text:

Snake

Hardly a sound in your world,
Only the repetitious 'S'.
In your coiled strength,
Your sliding motion and your suddenness,
The pure silk of your pink mouth,
The sloughing of a whole skin,
And that sparkling newness
As you stretch, easy in your new length,
Cool and supple as a stream's dance.
I hear no hiss as your tongue's black tips
Like a shivering nerve detect that strange warmth,
Nor hiss of triumph as you swallow whole your prey.
Hardly a sound in your world,
Only the echoing 'S'
In your bold stare belying
The true shyness of a snake
As you watch me from a safe distance.
The 'S' contains your whole being
Which makes you more complete than me,
As I have no sound's shape.

Topic: snake

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7 - Akhtar Jawad (borrowed)

partial link: /poem/to-a-muslim-assalam-to-a-hindu-ram-ram/

text:

To A Muslim Assalam To A Hindu Ram Ram

I want to die at the place of my birth,
No soil is better than that soil on this earth,
Colors of that soil have a rainbow in it,
Any other soil for me is misfit,
Smell of that soil inspires my soul,
Everything of that soil suits me as a whole.
But I know I can't go there,
It's almost same I live now where,
The culture of this soil is alike and same,
Whom should I name and whom I blame,
For the walls we built for the wars we fought,
Were short sightedness and narrow minded thought,
These are the questions to be answered in future,
Nobody could divide our ancient culture,
Music of Khusro and message of Nizam,
To a Muslim Assalam to a Hindu Ram Ram.
Akhtar Jawad

Topic: patriotism

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8 - Paul (aka Andy) Brookes (borrowed)

partial link: /poem/new-years-early-morning-walk/

text:

New Years Early Morning Walk

lichen clothed
stone walls straddle
rolling humpbacks
hills green on green

melancholy cloud-scape
lingers moist in
grey misted valley folds
of stone and slate

dried whispering grasses
dulled damped down
recalcitrant dawn
refuses to spark into light

chilled droplets fall ice on skin
gritstone monsters rear
their voice's stolen
from the cackling brook.

New Year has started
on a dreary damp day
glimmers of sun give hope
as the bright dawn burst forth.


Topic: miscellaneous

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9 - Lora Colon (borrowed)

partial link: /poem/god-s-plan-for-me-2/

text:

God's Plan For Me

I've been watching this woman on Earth,
She's convinced that I'm cruel and mean,
Her nights are spent in wretched discontent,
But I'm so confused..... should I intervene?

She fumbles through her day, as if blind,
Like she needs someone to lead her,
I stroke her hair, and then I say 'There, there, '
What do I do next? I'm no mind reader!

She asked for love, so I sent someone,
And she smiled..... so in need was she,
He wasn't that great, but now it's too late,
Is she expecting an apology?

She keeps saying I made a mistake,
She may start rumors about me,
I haven't a clue, just what should I do?
Let me ponder what my next move will be

I thought I had this under control,
Human behavior is so bizarre,
Poor passionate thing, though I clipped her wing
She continues to fly.... but not far

She's praying again, but it's Sunday,
Gather 'round, Angels, let's brainstorm,
I'll do my best, but it's my day of rest,
So what can we do to make her conform?

Her prayers are constant and quite fervent,
Oh, who cares.... I have too much to do!
I think I'll just say, in my divine way,
'Quit crying, many suffer worse than you!

Topics: love and life

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10 - Colleen Courtney (borrowed)

title: Love Without Sex

partial link: /poem/love-without-sex-2/


Topic: love

Bri's note: Well, golly gee! This is another 'love'-topic poem! ! !

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11 - Simone Inez Harriman (borrowed)

partial link: /poem/pipi-pearls/

text:

Pipi Pearls

Pipi's don't grow pearls
I know that
They're a poor man's feast
Ocean wading with empty pockets
My feet feel for them
Digging this way and that
Evicting seaward drifters
My heart feels for them
Little indigenous inhabitants
Colonising my flax Pipi basket
Soon to be
Fritters to fatten
My urban prince
Simone Inez Harriman

Topics: food, happiness, poverty

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12 - Jessica Hastings (borrowed)

partial link: /poem/the-girl-i-used-to-be/

text: [it's a bit long, but i want this read. bri :) ]


The Girl I Used To Be

The girl who used to look
in every mirror, window, glass...
to find a reflection of herself
to see if she still looked good
while laughing with her friends

The girl who used to stare
at guys
hoping one of them would notice her
while laughing with her friends

The girl who used to party
was seen
as the most perfect girl
while laughing with her friends

The girl who used to do this
can't look in any mirror anymore
she is afraid of the reflection
she is afraid to burst in tears in public
while walking alone

The girl who used to do this
doesn't look at boys anymore
because you can see the sadness in her lovely eyes
boys don't like sad girls
that's something you should know

The girl who used to do this
lost all her friends
she made herself believe that she is better off without them
but now she discovers her own lie

The girl who used to feel alive
is now dead inside
faking happiness
for over a year

The girl who used to be the best
now pretends like she's the best
Because she feels like the worst
did you know she was depressed?

Topic: none listed; it was before 'Topic' was required by PH, I believe

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Please visit Part C which is ready for viewing and, eventually, Parts B and D.

BRI EDWARDS

:) :)

Bri ;)