What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of .............Spring
Only Free Verse is acceptable BUT, heed my muse and Mr. Frost's inspirations.
These are the types of thoughts I'm looking for, don't be simple unless your simplicity is complex.
Spring Pools (by Robert Frost)
These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
the total sky almost without defect
and like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
will, like the flowers beside them, soon be gone,
and yet, not out by any brook or river,
but up by the roots to bring dark foliage on.
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
to darken nature and be summer woods -
let them think twice before they lose their powers
to blot out and drink up and sweep away
these flowery waters and these watery flowers
from snow that melted only yesterday.
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(This is the true mind of a poet, one that sees, as Cyndi MacMillan once wrote, more in the setting sun than a sunset.)
(Here is very thoughtful simplicity) Quintesential Frost)
A Patch of Snow
There's a patch of old snow in a corner
that I should have guessed
was a blow-away paper the rain
had brought to rest.
It is speckled with grime as if
small print overspread it.
The news of a day I've forgotten -
if I ever read it.
RULES
Free Verse (sprinkled rhyme is okay)
8 - 20 lines approx.
Don't be ordinary
Please do not center your poem and no special fonts.
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.