Wanderer Thoughts kicks off its first Poetry Competition with a prize of 1,000 Entrecredits to the winner.  This contest is based on writing a poem based on a subject or theme provided by the site’s owner.  This week’s theme is “ICE”.

If you love writing poetry, why not give your hand at writing a simple poem based on this weeks theme and submit it to Wanderer Thoughts.  You could win 1,000 Entrecredits just like that.

-Dragon Blogger

As a bonus, Wanderer Thoughts is giving 250 EC’s to anyone who hosts this contest logo on their site.

I have decided to spawn a second blog devoted completely to my Poetry, Short Stories and other Literature.  I have hundreds of pieces written over the years and after being inspired by BeforeIamFamous and DragonFly Poems, I have decided to start my own blog with a similar theme.
If you have ever enjoyed poetry, I actually have been published twice and one of my poems recorded on audio cassette years back and narrated.

Here is one of my previously published poems reprinted from Wanderer Thoughts

• Being a Father

Setting up hopes and thinking up dreams
Holding his baby the proud father beams
Such a tiny creation the world still ahead
For now only changings and keeping baby fed
Will I be a good father will I teach baby right?
I wonder so much it costs me sleep at night

A few years pass the real trial begins
Teaching toddler right so he will commit no sins
Envisioning a future and hoping child will excel
The answers to my questions only time will tell
Reliving my childhood while playing with child
I bicycle my boy to the park the weather is mild

Children make mistakes acting their age
Calm, I am not always sometimes I do rage
Discipline is tough for any way hurts me too
When my child is bad what can I do?
As once baby turns ten I am proud to say
I have done more right than wrong up till this day

My child is smart and does well in school
He reads books a lot his mind is a tool
I encourage and praise but am also a critic
Trying to push without being too harsh is the trick
Sometimes I fail and can hurt his feelings
But my success helps him strive for his dreams

As the years pass in his teens is my son
His studies start slipping his focus is fun
I try as I may he has a will of his own
Punishment is futile soon he will be grown
But alas a new thread has come from the seam
Moving a way, my boy is putting distance between

I can only listen and give support when he is in a bind
My attentions are focused elsewhere but I still bear in mind
His future lied elsewhere but he has found success
He found his life partner in this world that’s a mess
I visit his wedding wishing I could do more
He seems happier now and success is coming for sure

It looks like I have done a good job as a dad
Though the distance between us sometimes leaves me sad

• What do you think of my Poem?

-Dragon Blogger

I didn’t know until today that Dragonfly Poems had submitted my Guest Blog post with 3 poems to the WOOF Contest for September 19th.  Well I just found out today from about 6 blogs that my Poems were selected as one of the top 5 picks for the week of September 19th.

How cool is that that one of my Guest Posts about poetry on a friend’s blog actually won a contest.  I was happy to submit my poem to Dragonfly Poems, and I will be doing more Guest Blog posts there in the future.

Here is a reprint of WOOF Top Pics

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

Non-Fiction

Matthew R. Usner - “Natural Selection By Beer Glass” - A rather horrifying anecdote from one of the first jobs I ever had.

Matt Gamble - “Cool World” - A review of the Ralph Bakshi film Cool World, a film that somehow manages to do everything wrong, yet still results in a truly terrible movie.

Fiction

Penelope Anne - “The Divide” - When love is lost, how do you cope?

Poetry

dragon blogger - “Love of a Lifetime, In a Moment, Ancient Song” - There are three love poems from a guest blogger.

Brought to you by PlotDog Press with the Serial Suspense “Intervention“

My first Guest Blog post was sent to Dragonfly Poems who did me the honor of actually posting it.  I had sent them three poems from one of my unpublished poetry books (which will never get published).  I have always loved poetry, and visit Dragonfly Poems as the content is very nice, the quality of poems are refreshing and you can even buy poems and have custom poems written just for you.

So go head over to there and check out my Guest Post, read my poems and let me know what you think.

Thank you Dragonfly Poems

-Dragon Blogger