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[excerpts from prior renditions of CPT]  Harketh Ye! This thread again arises  on voices of soaring shame to trumpet verses putrid for authors to dodge their blame, to shriek for all who post here from the megaphone a crappy cry!  To once again itself proclaim –  A thread too tough to die! - - - - -...

MSPF -- Crappy Poem Thread Come one, come all,  to yous who receive this clarion call– time to get your poetry bowels moving lean into your versificated grooving; it be, yes it be – it be behooving upon your fat ace, to embrace the face of celebration - of a summer magic in this lavatorial place. F...

. [Gates open Wednesday, July 31st -- boards will be unlocked at that time]       Main Gate and Information Booth Welcome  – The Tangled Branch is again proud to host the historic, addictive, and uninhibited Mid-Summer Poetry Fest -- cold beer, lemonade and cider, soft or hard as you will - whatever...

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.   Poet Laureate of the MidSummer Poetry Fest Everyone is eligible.  All you do is post on this thread the best damn poem you’ve ever written.  Limit of two entries per writer.  Write a new one, retrieve an old one – it doesn’t matter – published or unpublished, this one calls for your very best. A...

.   Love & Death  These are the two most over-plowed fields of poetic subject matter.  Especially by newbies, hacks, romantics, goths, and doom and gloomers. And now us.  :)   Have at it – find your own original take.   You don’t need to swallow the whole enchilada in one bite.  You can leave a litt...

.      Four & Twenty Throw open the shutters, roll in the grass, double the whiskey in your coffee, raise your hands to the wind!  This is the thread to load up with every thought you have or may generate, deep into the warm blackness surrounding the festival fires.   No inhibitions – make the verse...

. Mid-Summer Magic Showcase   We zero in on the subject of the magic of summer.  Post here, fearless writers, poems that you have written touching on the themes –  summer love, summer enchantment, the supernatural, fairies, summer lust, and whatever may be imagined as some magic of summertime. If t...

.    Poetry Decathlon Write ten poems -- one each of the following listed poems completes the decathlon.   If at the close of the Fest you have posted poems from five of the categories, then you have completed the pentathlon.  If you have posted seven, then you have completed  the heptathlon.   The ...

.   Summers Future – Poems of Presentiment / Expectancy  This thread also calls for new poems, written anew for this occasion – for this thread.   Write a poem inspired by thoughts of summer future – what do you foresee, where does summer magic lead you?  What are the anticipations.  Again,  20 - 20...