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words from "the white witch's heart" :

moon,spine,stars,hand,none,far,hear,circles,dead,wonder

dead body and clammy hands

found it in the woods when i was ten and

i asked grandma why vultures with their oil-slick feathers

flew in circles above it.

grandma said they were looking for her heart

and she gripped my hand tighter.

grandma was a stickler for the rules

straightened my spine with a yardstick

and made sure i swallowed all the stars i drank up

for my cosmic medication.

watched me as i looked in wonder at the moon

and tried to touch the nebulae with my muddied fingers.

she told me that the things you hear aren’t always the truest thing

and that if i wanted to go far, start running.

when i found the body, i heard the notes of life

strung out like grandma’s pasta

fade away,

5,4,3,2

none.

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spring cleaning for the soul

sing, my soul that restless tune of youth that only youths can sing -- for though my skin be smooth and fair, you, my soul, are crumbling. the dusty refuse of so many stars that ride in circles across the skies has settled upon your heart, my soul, a ghostly cavity of lies. - (entry for YARN's Random Word Challenge; words from "the white witch's heart": restless, tune, skin, crumbling, dusty, stars, circles, heart, ghostly, cavity)

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YARN staffer Lauren has provided great inspirational poetry for our #NPMRWC14 contest:

Staffer Lauren here, with another #NPMRWC14 example entry, one way to enter our Random Word Contest is by uploading a picture to YARN's Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr! Now we KNOW you can create something miles better, so get involved! The contest closes this SUNDAY! All the info you need (including what you could win!) is here: http://yareview.net/2014/03/random-word-contest/

Underlined words are taken from "the white witch’s heart" by Shirley Kuo:http://yareview.net/.../the-white-witchs-heart-spelling.../

Have you entered yet?

You have 3 DAYS LEFT!

Good luck!

~ Lourdes

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dead tattooed trees

our sadness is scribbled across our palms, we take turns reading the future. lines like minefields and graveyards-- memories buried in war-torn skin.

we burn timeworn photographs-- fresh ash coating the air, our breath a blank page. we dig out the pain with a pen.

our tongues are ribbons-- wrapped around bubblegum words. we chomp and chew our thoughts until poetry pops into an endless mess.

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somniloquy

stars dribbling lost stories across superstitious skies-- we study the wrinkles in yawning constellations. c r a c k s in our life where secrets are smoked into midnight air-- our innocent teeth ache as we silently taste these glass words.

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Mayonnaise, olive oil, beer, pickle juice Become a veritable feast for our hair, Chapped by the afternoon heat. An unacknowledged preview Of the future wrinkles. Etchings of our sun worshipping past We would bemoan in ten, twenty, thirty years. In the uniform of terra cotta soldiers - (And the same shade of earthy brown) - We sunbathe in the garden Head tipped back in the basement bathroom, Washing the mixture into the drain, It shimmies through the pipes below the house. And standing guard by the leaky pipe, The dog will lap up the diluted solution Wag his way upstairs And assault us with kisses.

Ambrosio for Dry Hair ~ Rachel Troy

Need inspiration for our National Poetry Month poetry contest (#NPMRWC14)?

YARN staffer Rachel wrote this poem using:

Words from “I Could Drown You” (http://yareview.net/2013/04/i-could-drown-you/): pickle, chapped, afternoon, wrinkles, garden, basement, bathroom,drain, pipes, leaky

Have you submitted yet?

The winner:

will receive an editors’ bundle composed of our Fiction Editor Diana Renn’s upcoming YA mystery “Latitude Zero,” our Editor Kerri Majors’s writing memoir “This Is Not a Writing Manual,” and John Corey Whaley’s “Noggin“! Plus s/he’ll be given the opportunity to have MORE of his/her fiction/nonfiction/poetry published on YARN!

YOU HAVE 5 DAYS LEFT!

Good luck.

~ Lourdes

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6 DAYS LEFT! - #NPMRWC14

Enter our National Poetry Month Contest - #NPMRWC14 - before it's too late!

YOU HAVE ONLY 6 DAYS LEFT!

Here are the rules and guidelines:

Pick one of the following poems for each poem you write and choose ten words excluding articles like “the” and conjunctions like “and” to appear in your poem/s. (All the words must appear so choose carefully.) Please note which poem you pick in your submission and highlight in bold the words you chose or list them after your poem/s. Choose from: old photo albums by Mo Fowler; Perfect You by Nisha Sharma; I Could Drown You by Cameron MacDonald; the white witch’s heart by Shirley Kuo

Share your poem/s on our Facebook wall, @ us on Twitter with a link to your submission, or post your poem on Tumblr by @ing our page in your submission, or post your poem/s in the Comments section below. All entries must be tagged #NPMRWC14, and be sure to include your name and contact info!!!

Your poem/s can be videos, photography – from handwritten to magnetic poetry - GIFS, typography, and so much more. The creative frontier is endless, so blow us away. Each participant can submit up to three poems.

Submissions will be open from April 1st and will close on April 20th 5pm EST.

We will compile all the entries and have our guest judge, the mastermind himself, John Corey Whaley – author of the Printz and Morris award-winning novel “Where Things Come Back” and the forthcoming “Noggin” out April 8 - choose a winner.

The winner will receive an editors’ bundle composed of our Fiction Editor Diana Renn’s upcoming YA mystery “Latitude Zero,” our Editor Kerri Majors’s writing memoir “This Is Not a Writing Manual,” and John Corey Whaley’s “Noggin“! Plus s/he’ll be given the opportunity to have MORE of his/her fiction/nonfiction/poetry published on YARN!