Creative Writing Workshop Bulletin Board by CAMP Administrator

"Always Marry an April Girl" by Ogden Nash

ninathompson6 — 2025-09-21 05:53:47 UTC

Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
April soft in flowered languor,
April cold with sudden anger,
Ever changing, ever true --
I love April, I love you.

"Alone with Everybody" Charles Bukowski

ninathompson6 — 2025-09-21 05:55:08 UTC

the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.

there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.

nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else
fills.

"Poetry" Pablo Neruda

ninathompson6 — 2025-09-21 05:59:29 UTC

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

My Poetic Side

ninathompson6 — 2025-09-21 06:05:37 UTC

https://mypoeticside.com/blog

Welcome to a big poet rabbit hole! Here there are a lot of blogs about contests and access to a lot a lot of famous poems.

It also showcases some international poets and big names in the history of poetry.

I leave the link here for you to explore whenever, and take the opportunity to recommend my personal favorites; Charles Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Roald Dahl, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, etc...

Enjoy!

CWW Handouts

campincph — 2025-09-24 04:33:21 UTC