Contest Description
Please ensure you carefully read the contest details before submitting your entry. Thank you.
1/ Kindly keep the title unchanged.
2/ Select one of the following topics for the contest:
3/ Subjects are derived from renowned quotations.
4/ Select any form.
5/ Submission requires a minimum of 12 lines or a maximum of 50 lines.
Looking for vibrant imagery, metaphors, and other poetic devices of your choice. Please feel free to structure your poem in the way you like, but ensure that you follow the form.
Title 1/ Appreciation
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. (William James).
Title 2/ Anger
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
(William Arthur Ward)
Title 3/ Air
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Title 4/ Angelic
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger ( Rumi)
Good Luck, Enjoy