Contest Description
What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of .............Our own personal youth (grammar school age) 1st thru 8th grade (It doesn't have to be about school, it just about life from the ages of approx. 5-13) be creative and different. Read my poem Johnson's Field as a loose example of what I'm looking for. Take the road less taken!
Free Verse only
New Poems only
20 lines max ( if you're 21 or 22 okay but no more)
Left Justified
No special fonts or italics
Remember, show, don't tell--"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things (or feelings) but their inward significance" Aristotle
Prizes
Honor
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.