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Poetry Soup Contest

Often I look at the contest and cringe
Maybe in a style that I have not binged.
Sometimes the topic is a banger
and my mind is caught on the hanger.
Sometimes I do not know which way is lit
If I look ideas for the contest to hit.
So if consider a contest once in a while
my writing ideas might just smile
But when I scratch my poetic brain and see
a little juice with creativity
it is likely I will find
words for my next inspirational masterpiece divine.

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Sotto Poet

Date: 6/10/2023 5:15:00 PM

The reading of this beautiful poem was quite enjoyable. Miranda your poem comes to a satisfying conclusion with a lyrical line that is upbeat and pleasant. There are usually a few contest that leave me wondering what the heck I'm doing!!

Miranda Hawley
Date: 6/10/2023 6:44:00 PM

I enter those contest in which I know how to do the style they want and the topic. That takes out more than half the contest. Other contest have a topic that I could write about and I get lost for words to say. That takes out half the remain contest, leaving precious few I can enter.

I Am Anaya

Date: 6/9/2023 11:41:00 AM

I can relate to that, Miranda! Sweetened with your style. I would like to note that recently I received an e-mail from soup tell us that no contest name, date, or contest title were poems go. In the notes area only. They maybe be deleted.

Miranda Hawley
Date: 6/10/2023 6:45:00 PM

Thank you!

Beata Agustin

Date: 6/5/2023 7:58:00 PM

Thanks for sharing this. Thanks likewise for my placement in your recently judged contest. God bless you.

Miranda Hawley
Date: 6/5/2023 8:21:00 PM

Thank you much!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/23/2023 3:04:00 PM

Very nice and positive way to be at the end of this cute poem, Miranda. There are always a few contests that really get me scratching my head!!

Miranda Hawley
Date: 5/24/2023 9:51:00 AM

There is one running I am working on because I have a little story about the topic. Well sort of.

Bill Baker

Date: 5/20/2023 3:25:00 PM

Sounds like making lemonaide out of lemons to me, Miranda. You do well to make your experiences poetic. Thanks for sharing, my friend. Bill

Miranda Hawley
Date: 5/21/2023 5:27:00 AM

Sometimes I do enter the contest I see. I am running my very first one right now. However sometimes there are styles of poetry that the contest require that I have never written in that style. At the end of the day though I write what I want and enter when I have a match for what is wanted.