Contest Description
What to Submit? The sad news is that every year there are children left alone on a bus. This should not even be a thing ever, or anywhere, but here we are. In the state of Indiana between the years of 2009 and 2018 a total of 221 students have been left on the bus unattended. 2018 was the worst year with 32 times a child in Indiana has been left alone on a bus.
Now that you have the bad news my contest will address this sad fact. Imagine you are a dispatcher and you are instucting your bus drivers, bus monitors and support staff to make sure they do a complete job SEARCHING their bus for any student so they don't make the big mistake of leaving a child unattended on their bus. After all sometimes children crawl under the seats or perhaps lay down on the floor of the bus.
Here are the rules:
- 6 lines or less
- Clear and catchy verbage about doing an excellent job with the search
- New poem or older poem works
- Any title any style
1 original, poem on the theme of .............
Any form is acceptable.
Prizes
First Prize, Glory
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
Twelve 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.