Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Mevoj PoemADay Challenges 2014

Jan2014
Mevoj is doing a PoemADay challenge writing about relationships and romance

If anyone would like to take the challenge with us, I will publish a small color book of their poetry for free and give them 4 free copies.  For more information, visit http://islandsforwriters.blogspot.com/2013/12/poem-day-free-publishing-offer-through.html

Deadline to enroll 01Jan2014


To enroll in the challenge, please email CelenaDiana at "oceanmoonspirit@gmail.com" and put in the subject line "Mevoj Challenge".  Just submit a letter of interest to CelenaDiana at Islands For Writers Publishing stating your intent to submit 31 completed poems for our January 2014 challenge.  This is not a contest.  It is a community project encouraging poets to have their original literature published.  I will send a confirmation letter with the final details.

Deadline to submit final manuscript 14Feb2014





Mar2014
Mevoj is doing a PoemADay challenge writing about character studies of one of or more people.
Deadline to submit final manuscript 15Apr2014



May2014
Mevoj is doing a PoemADay challenge writing about community, region, culture and city
Deadline to submit final manuscript 15Jun2014



Sunday, July 14, 2013

Current Open Submissions Listing

The following are open submissions available for complete manuscripts, poetry and prose for the month of July and August 2013
This list will be updated frequently.'

Orangelandia
deadline 31Aug2013
https://inlandiaaliteraryjourney.submittable.com/submit/20161

Shuf Poetry
deadline 15July2013
http://shufpoetry.com/submissions/

Able Muse Press
=complete manuscript
deadline 15July2013
http://www.ablemuse.com/submit

Trio House Press
=complete manuscript
deadline 31July2013
http://www.triohousepress.org/submissions.html

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Mevoj Writing Challenges for the PoemADay Challenge Oct2013

This is a running list of inspiration from the mind of CelenaDiana OceanMoonSpirit to help start a poem or short story or short memoiir to write daily.   This list will be updated regularly.
Also visit www.facebook.com/mevoj  
Which is a webpage on FaceBook dedicated to the post writing prompts for the public and discuss Mevoj writng group meetings.

Day 10
#642     What have you learned about yourself through one of your most powerful experieces with someone else?  Who was the other person?  What did the experience reveal about that person?  How old were you?  What year was it?  What city were you in?
Day 9
#1776  "walking through"
Day 8
#5     Describe a close friend in full detail utilizing every nuance they possess.  Descibe their special uniqueness and what makes them so individualistic
Day 7
#739     "recharge your batteries"
Day 6
#1941    "of the enslaver"
Day 5 
#1942     "God should be a source of inspiration"
Day 4
Writing prompt using the word "Theurgy".
Day 3
Write about the phobia "Ablutophobia"
Day 2
#1946     "be a source of"
Day 1
#1699     "life is..."

Saturday, April 27, 2013

NaPoWriMo Day 27

Day 27

Today's poetic offering is simply strange.

STRANGE

"Strange how I find myself upon your shore"
"On Your Shore" by Enya


Strange how I find myself at your door
fingers caught in mid-knock
anxiously biting my lower lip
Do I stay if you answer?
Do I leave before you do?
Strong wind pushes me forward
into the shelter of your porch
Waiting
Indecisive
Your dog does not bark in greeting
But it waits attentively at the door

Copyright Celena Diana Bumpus


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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

NaPoWriMo Day 16

Day 16

Today's poetic offering is a matter of questions without really wanting answers.  Because answers can be too finite.

CIRCULAR

Pervasive thoughts
Hidden agendas
This lost dream
Is there anything to salvage?
No comfort in silence
Same frustrations spoken
I know there's a solution
Afraid to let go
Prisoner of my own dependency
I don't dare ask "Why?"

Copyright Celena Diana Bumpus

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

daY TEn



...a un-love poem...

Sitting at the top of the staircase
I imagine my life without you
What life would have been had we never crossed paths.
I wonder if my dreams would be different.
Would my prayers include you even though I wouldn't know
who you are?
I am curious if you would look for a girl with green eyes
and long hair, thick lips and thighs or if the girl you would find
would be very different.
Would she be tall and slender?
Athletic?
I imagine quiet afternoons with no children
and my fingers tapping on the faded letters of my keyboard
writing things that I don't think.
Experiences that I never had unable to press out of my fingertips
existing in a world without you.
And without the things that have molded my poetry into
this.
Standing on soapboxes with scratchy microphones in
darkened rooms
Reciting poetry with too many lines
As if you never even existed

© Ginger Galloway 2013

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Day eiGHT and NiNe

Having so much fun with the PAD for April.... Here are my poems for the 8th and the 9th. My prompts come from NaPoWriMo and Poetic Asides... see more on my author page at GingerMGalloway.webs.com

DAY eight


She didn't know what she had done
When she walked into the room
She thought they would just have fun
Outside at half past noon
but that was when the bell had rung
another would ring real soon
They thought there would be time to play
They'd just have to wait another day.
© Ginger Galloway 2013

EASY PEASY....

It's time for bed I told the kids
As the time hit eight o' clock
Pee and brush and close the lids
In the hamper, put dirty socks
But sleeping's not what they did
Playing with toys and blocks
With paddle I dared them make a peep
And soon they all were fast asleep!
© Ginger Galloway 2013


Day Nine

the hunt

His eyes were wide
One up
One down
Around, around
Backwards
Hand over fist he moved
Stop!
Eyes rotating
Back and forth
Steady but not quite stealth
Quiet but not quite hidden
Smacking lips
Somewhere near the middle of the 
food chain
The hunter and
The hunted
The call pierces the sky
talons bared
just as the sticky tongue
smacks into the body
of the winged insect
wrapping around and
lifted from the bough
The diner
becomes
the meal.

© Ginger Galloway 2013

NaPoWriMo Day 9

Day 9
Today's offering to the poetry gods is a comparison and perhaps a contrast in two inherent different and yet eerily the similar parts within you.

MIND AND HEART

My mind is whirling like my old, dust choked "wind machine".
Sucking air from everywhere.

Similar to the freeway when you drive too fast with the windows down at night.
I need to feel like I am going somewhere fast.

Moving.
Even when I'm lying alone in bed at night.

My heart is like a rough draft of a poem or a song.
Incomplete and balled in your hands.

A crumpled sphere of craving, confusion and impetuosity.
The trash people wearing orange suits pick up in the landscaping next to the freeway.

Copyright Celena Diana Bumpus


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Sunday, April 7, 2013

dAy Six



A Valediction Poem...

There was no kiss
no hug
no wave
The inevitable had become
obvious
Slow steps
short
hesitant
History imbedded in footprints
No lazy glances
forelorn
Deep breaths 
Was it a heart attack
or heart ache
They were the same
Pain caught between
screams and wails
Silence choking
There would be 
lingering regrets
There was no kiss
good bye

© Ginger Galloway 2013

Friday, April 5, 2013

DaY FiVe


From NaPoWriMo: A cinquain is a poem that employs stanzas with five lines. Each line has a certain number of accented or stressed syllables, and a certain number of overall syllables per line. So the syllable count is 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 ad the stress count is 1, 2, 3, 4, 1. I don't understand how you get the stress count as each one that reads the poem may stress different words, but...maybe that's just me...

IMMOBILE

You can't
Because I said
So what are you gonna
Do something or don't do something
You can't

© Ginger Galloway 2013


NaPoWriMo Day 4

Rough and rugged.  Unedited and raw.  It comes with an enigmatic smile.
CelenaDiana
 


NaPoWriMo Day 4


POISED

I pull my new black stillettos
from my tossed blue duffle
in the other room
slip them onto my bare feet
then walk into the main room
there is a metal stool
in the center of the room
light flanks me
from all sides

Leaning forward over the stool
I arch
my back a bowed curve
long legs stretched
left knee slightly bent
bracing my right arm
against the cool metal
of the seat
I peer over my right shoulder
hair falling
in a dark auburn wave
over my left eye

Smiling enigmatically
I stand silent for a moment

Still silent
I take my right hand
twist my arm above my shoulder
touch the spot
between my shoulder blades
tilt my chin upwards
only my profile in view now
hair held in the bend of my elbow
delicate chin
high cheekbone
tiny ears
curved forehead
short lashes
small nose
full lips
same enigmatic smile
poised

After several moments
I laugh
kick off my high heels
pick up my camera
and gesture to the chair
See how easy it is?
I say to my wide eyed friend

©2013 Celena Diana Bumpus

Composed in silence



For a complete listing of my poems for the month of April 2013 entitled:
UNDER MY SCARF, BENEATH MY HAIR AND BEHIND MY GLASSES
(because who knows what mysteries lie there):
A COLLECTION
which will be updated daily.  Simply click on the titles to discover the poem and more.



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Thursday, April 4, 2013

daY FoUr


Given the title; write the poem. Hmmm...


Jaundiced Outlook

Knives and daggars.
I never understood how one could swing them at themself.
But you do this.
Cutting your face and hands.
The world around you is full of life and beauty.
Yet you rip the branches off trees and stomp through flower beds.
Who gave you the right to steal away and destroy?
Flinging words at people and things and nothing.
Filling up space.
Until you can't see and no one else can either.
The cloud you have erected
Dredging misery as you throw
Knives and daggars.

© Ginger Galloway 2013

DAY thReE

Today's challenge is to write a Shanty poem...a rhyming poem, sung by sailors as they work on a ship.



The ship does not sail
or float on the sea
The life I live here under
Locked in it's place
determined to be
The life I live here under
Simply the same
day after day
The life I live here under
Afraid to go it is
easy to stay 
In the life I live here under
The earth and the soil
under my feet
The life I live here under
A land lover's life 
is better for me
The life I live here under!

©Ginger Galloway 2013

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

daY TWo



DAY TWO --- A "lie" poem

You said that you would but you lie
You said that you wouldn't but you lie
You said that you did but you lie
You said that you don't but you lie
You said that we could but you lie
You promised me but you lie
You said it with your mouth but you lie
You lie You lie You lie!
So this is gonna have to be good bye
I lie.

Copyright Ginger Galloway 2013

DAy oNe


(Using the first line of another poem..."Kidnap Poem" by Nikki Giovanni)

Ever been kidnapped
Right out of your own mind?
Taken from what you think you know
Into something that is so unfamiliar
That you forget who you are?
And you find yourself thinking
Somebody else's thoughts?
Ever been kidnapped
And tried to go back to that place
That was familiar to you?
Comfortable to you?
Fighting the kidnapper with all that you have
Just to find that there is no one there?
No one holding you captive?
Have you ever been
kidnapped?
Copyright Ginger M. Galloway 2013

Monday, April 1, 2013

NaPoWriMo

We are taking up the National Poetry Writing Month challenge.  www.napowrimo.net.
Yea Ha!!!!

Friday, March 1, 2013

Call for Submiss Seagull/Flight/Ocean Issue Mevoj due 01May2013

Call for Submiss Seagull/Flight/Ocean Issue Mevoj due 01May2013

Call for Submissions
Mevoj
Special Anthology
Featuring seagulls, ocean, water, freedom, beach, flight Theme:
Poetry, Spoken Word, Letters, Short Memoirs, Creative Non-Fiction, Interviews, Art, Photography, Drawings, Comics, Cartoons, Multi Media, Audio files, Videos
Deadline 01May2013




Submission Rules and Regulations

Thank you for visiting the Islands For Writers website at www.islandsforwriters.blogspot.com. And the Expressionist's Oasis website at www.expressionistsoasis.blogspot.com. If you are interested in submitting to one of the upcoming anthologies, please follow the proceeding guidelines for the forthcoming issue.
Please email your submissions to mevoj.seagulls@gmail.com
We look forward to your submissions.
Islands For Writers and Mevoj Staff


We are currently accepting submissions for the following anthology:
Theme:
seagulls, ocean, water, freedom, beach, flight
We are looking for poetry, spoken word, letters, short memoirs, creative non-fiction, and interviews. We would like a diverse collection of interesting personal narratives. We welcome you to surprise us, engage us, dazzle us, enlighten us, and educate us. We hope you will consider participating in this call for submissions as both fun, nostalgic and containing very good memories. We encourage writers and artists to share the positive aspects of seagulls, ocean, water, freedom, beach, flight within their poetry, spoken word, letters, short memoirs, creative non-fiction and interviews.
We are also looking for seagulls, ocean, water, freedom, beach, flight themed art, photography, audio files, and videos for both our print and online anthologies.
All submissions will be considered for both the written anthology and online anthology. The best submissions will be featured in both.
The submission due date is 01May2013.


Submissions Rules and Regulations:
  1. Deadline for the Winter edition of the Mevoj Anthology is 01May2013.
  2. Name, address & phone number of the submitter must appear on the of the work submitted.
  3. Any pen name must be included within submission.
  4. Include in the Subject line of the email: the type of work submitted: Poetry, Spoken Word, Short Memoir, Creative Non-Fiction, Interviews. Only one email per submission. All cover letters, bios, and submissions must be submitted as separate attachments.
  5. For Short Memoir, Creative Non-Fiction and Interviews: Only one fiction or non-fiction work will be accepted and sent in an attachment. The maximum word count is 2000 words and not to exceed 10 pages in length.
  6. For Poetry and Spoken Word: Only one to five poems will be accepted. Each poem may have no more than 40 lines and the maximum length of all five submissions must be less than 10 pages in length. The poems may be sent in one email but each poem must be a as separate attachment.
  7. For Art: Include in the Subject line of the email: the type of work submitted: Art, Drawing, Comic, Cartoon, Photography. The file must be in .jpeg format and sent as attachments.
  8. For Audio and Video files: Include in the Subject line of the email: the type of work submitted: Audio, Video. The files must be in .mp3 and/or .mp4 format and sent as attachments. The maximum duration must not exceed 5 minutes for poems or son
  9. Please include a cover letter and a bio of 500 words or less and some interesting facts about yourself. You may include your website and/or email address. (If your submission is accepted, we will request a full color author photo for the anthology).
  10. Written work may be no more than 10 pagesin length.
  11. Written submissions must be in black, 12 point, Times New Roman font with 1’’ margins.
  12. The author's last name, submission title, and page number must appear in the header. For poetry (ie: Jones, 4 poems: “Birds”, “ocean”, “beach”, and “flight”; 1) For all other written submissions (ie: Jones, “Freedom Interview”, 1)
  13. All written submissions must be in .doc or .docx format.
  14. All artwork is limited to 3 entries per person.
  15. Art and photography submissions must be in .jpeg format with at least 300 dpi or of a high-resolution nature.
  16. Poetry must be limited to 40 lines.
  17. We will not accept submissions which contain excessive profanity or descriptions of body parts.
  18. All work must be original and unpublished.
  19. Submissions are open to all who wish to submit their work for potential publication in the Mevoj Anthology.
  20. Islands For Writers and Mevoj reserves the right to refuse publication of any works submitted, for only the finest submissions will be accepted for publication as chosen by the staff of the Mevoj Anthology.
  21. The Mevoj Anthology is a literary and art magazine published quarterly, with special editions of that anthology published throughout the year. The content is generated by artists and authors who chose to contribute. The magazine is published by joint Mevoj and Islands For Writers Publishing Houses.
  22. Opinions and ideas expressed in the Mevoj Anthology are those of the artists and authors. The Mevoj Anthologies and their contents do not necessarily reflect the views of Mevoj or Islands For Writers Publishing Houses.
  23. All rights revert solely to the artists and authors upon publication.

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