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

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

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..."

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

Stange by Celena Diana Bumpus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://mevoj.blogspot.com/2013/05/napowrimo-day-27.htmll.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://mevoj.blogspot.com.

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


Circular by Celena Diana Bumpus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://mevoj.blogspot.com/2013/05/napowrimo-day-16.htmll.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://mevoj.blogspot.com.

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

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