Three Featured Poets and a Daily Poem #NaPoWriMo

On April 7th I hosted a poetry slam on Facebook to celebrate my book release and National Poetry Month. As part of that slam, three lucky poets were chosen for a feaure on this blog. Here are those talented poets and their delightful poems. Enjoy...




Baby Shoes
For you, Lily, who never wore shoes
on your two tiny blue feet
For you, Noah, whose only shoeswere supple, lamb-leatherwithout any scuffsFor you, Carl, who lost your red shoein a New York subway,along with the rest of you.
May you wear shoes of gold in Heaven

© Susan Budig 2015
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Colors of Happiness
Real
women
in pinkwith
notpaintedpaper
faces
busy
shopping
for theirlittle piecesof happinessin redcolorfuldressesmakingbrightn’ sunnyhappiness
of my
drearylongbusy days…

© copyright Daniel Shivas April 7, 2015

Image Credit: By Brian Snelson from Hockley, Essex, England (Flower Hmong women) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)], via Wikimedia Commons

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COLORS

I was in life’s colors conceived and made,
And born to bright and singing shades
Of reds and greens and blues and allThe colors human eyes could even see.
And as I grew, they grew with me...
Brightly expanding into my world to showUs all there was no point in choosing oneWhen all of them were there for all to see.
I became adult, a man grown and filled with
Self-certainty and knowledge that these Colors always with us were and would ever beBringing with them her love and my joy in it.
Our children were in colors conceived and made
And born to bright and singing primary shadesThat made up our lives and gave usJoy in each and all and ever one another
Life’s joyous colors carried us into forever
Until the colors began to fade in abrupt silenceAll we’d done and made began to lose the lusterOf the joy from when the colors first were new
The children left and birthed their own,
Their own colors to make and see, and their ownLives to lead and follow. But from our lives the
Colors faded surely as the last leaves of autumn.
And like the single-color white of winter, the
Death of color in our life came suddenly, no alarm
Sounded, no warning spoken, just the rapid fadeOf all life’s colors to the inexorable white of death.

© 2015 R C Larlham – All Rights Reserved to Author
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And now for my daily poem.Today is Day 11 of National Poetry Month and here is my offering:
A Smile Away From Tears
One smileOne frozen smileOne plastered smilepainted in lipstick
One falseOne fakeOne maskAwayOne smile away
From breaking downFrom letting goFrom showing allthe painthe misery
One frozen, plastered, smiling, painted mask away
From tears

© A. F. Stewart 2015 All Rights Reserved