Contest Description
What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of .............
YOUR FIRST POEM ON POETRY SOUP
1) Enter your very first poem from Poetry Soup
2) After the poem tell me if you are just starting with PS, why you like or dislike this first poem, and/or how you think you have grown, or how you think PS may help you with time. NO negative comments.
3) With number 2 above, anything within this thought process. Please only a few lines.
4) I hope you enter and enjoy.
Any form is acceptable.
Prizes:
GLORY and GRATITUDE for allowing me to read and judge your precious jewels. Please grant me mercy in the judging. Every judge has their way of judging. Sometimes my heartstrings are plucked, sometimes a lovely poem breeze catches my attention, sometimes the intellectual, etc.. I in turn give all judges mercy. Thank you, most kindly, my dear fellow Soupers!
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.