Dear Readers,
I am very pleased to announce that we will be producing a May edition of the Virtual Poetorium this month (to be posted on the Poetorium website on the evening of the 31st) with Kevin King, a very talented novelist and poet from New Hampshire (author of the novel All the Stars Came Out That Night and the collection of poetry Ursprache) as our featured poet. Once again like I have done in previous months, I am going to once again open up May’s Virtual Poetorium for anyone who would like to participate and extend an invitation to all my fellow bloggers and faithful readers (or just anyone just happening to be reading this) to be a part of our unique online poetry gathering in print.
To be part of our virtual open mic this month, please send us one to three of your own original poems or stories (under 2000 words altogether please) either in a Word document file or pasted in the body of an email along with your name, any opening remarks you care to make, and where your poem has appeared if it was previously published to poetorium@mail.com by Friday, May 27th. Also if you like, you can send us a photo of yourself to be posted above your poem, but that is totally optional.
We will also need contributions to this month’s Poetorium Group poem. This month, the group poem will tentatively be titled “May Is the Month”. To participate, please send us one to eight lines with the first line starting with either the phrase “May is the month of…”, “May is the month for…”, or “May is the month to…”. All contributions (which will remain anonymous unless otherwise requested) will be compiled and included in this month’s Virtual Poetorium Group Poem. Once again, the deadline for submissions is the night of Friday, May 27th.
If you have any questions about submitting to the virtual open mic, the group Poetorium poem, or anything else about the Virtual Poetorium itself, please leave them in the comments of this post, and I will try to answer them right away.
Thank you so very much for reading, folks! As always, I really appreciate everyone’s continued support of this blog, and hope to hear from you soon with your contributions to this month’s edition of the Virtual Poetorium!
Paul's Poetry Playground 
Hi Paul here is my contribution for the group poem
May is the Month
May is
the month
to take nature by the hand
dancing into silent space
wearing blossom as a gown
and hawthorn
as your
crown
https://poetisatinta.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/may-is/
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Thank you so much for contributing to this month’s Virtual Poetorium group poem, Poetisatinta! I really appreciate it!😊😊😊
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Shared this on Twitter. I’m so busy this month but will see if I can send something in. Thanks. Friend. All the best. xoxo
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It would be wonderful if you can, Selma! Thanks so much.
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Hey, Paul, my friend. It’s TheDay and I Did find the time to do it. Sent mine in. Hope you received it. Check in spam but my contribution to your loveliness poetorium went out fine. Yay. All the best. Looking forward to see it happen. Yay. Blessings, friend.
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Hi Selma,
Thank you so much, I did receive your wonderful contributions to this month’s Virtual Poetorium including your two poems and your variations of “May is the Month” for the group poem. I sent a reply, but it sounds like you might not have received it?
Thanks again,
Paul
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Oh, Paul. Forgive. I failed to notice. Thanks so much. Soooo much.
Yes. By all means, do what you said. Sounds great to me.
And yes you “May” 😉 add my address to the list. Thank you so much. XoXo blessings!
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You are very welcome, Selma! And thank you once again for participating in the Virtual Poetorium!
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