Contest Description
What to Submit? Choose a topic sentence then write a poem based on the topic sentence you have choosen. Here are the rules. Nothing longer than 16 lines!
1. Title the poem with any title you want to use.
2. Write the topic sentence perhaps directly under your title. If I don't see the topic sentence you choose I am not choosing your poem as a winner.
3. Short and easy to read are the rules here, therefore: Nothing longer than 16 lines. (This is the max length.) However nothing shorter than 4 lines. Easy to read means don't use complicated words that make me want to grab a dictionary to understand.
4. Here are the topic sentences to choose from: Choose one and only one of these four options!
- Choose wisely your what guards your heart; for we are products of our environment.
- What we really need to learn as humans is to take responsibilty for ourselves.
- I'm okay, you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
- There are many "cures" for depression, some of them are drugs from a pharmasist, and others are creations by a loving God.
5. I am making this a preimir poem because I plan to be extra picky on what ones I am choosing as winners.
1 original, poem on the theme of .............
Any form is acceptable.
Prizes
First Prize, Glory
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
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.