Contest Description
What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of 'The 12 Days of Christmas'. This will use your Holiday Choice of 'Christmas', 'Hanukkah', or use the holiday title 'Yuletide', your choice. Please add a description in your title of where your 12-day Holiday is heralding from as well. Make it your own! I made one that I entitled 'The 12 Days of Yuletide in the Desert Southwest' if you'd like to see how I did mine as an example, though I'm quite confident that others can do better than I did.
I am looking for truly unique (possibly funny) submissions. I'd like this contest to be educational, sharing flora. fauna, traditions, etc. from your region, hopefully using some of the proper names if possible. For example, instead of simply using 'quail', I used 'Gambel's Quail' in my example. Help us to learn more about what you experience in your neck of the woods. Keep this so clean that a school in your vicinity could use it with their pupils :)
Please use the original Christmas Carol as your form, trying to stick as close to the syllabication of the original song as possible.
Good luck and have fun!
Prizes
First Prize, Glory
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
Several Honorable Mentions
Preparing Your Entry
Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts.
English Language
Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.
A Note to Poetry Contestants
You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests.