Holistic Junction is excited to cordially invite you to our Poetry Challenge Forum! Each week, we will offer a new literary venture in which you may participate!

Our Current Poetry Challenge will begin on Sunday, June 20th, 2004. Winners will be announced following Saturday, June 26th, 2004.

All poetry challenges are sponsored each week beginning on Sunday, with entries being judged and announced following Saturday.

A Weekly "Blue Ribbon" Winner will be critiqued and chosen from all Poetry Challenge Entries. Winners will have honor of being displayed for ensuing week on our "Weekly Winner's Page.

Additionally, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place winners will receive HolisticJunction.com's premiere "Certificates of Honor; which you may download and print for personal and public display.

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To ENTER this weeks' Poetry Challenge, please submit your poetry through normal submission protocol. *In addition to your own, unique title, please label your submissions with word "Challenge," so as to be included in weekly judging.

*The Poetry Challenge THEME for Week Beginning June 20th is:

*** A SOLDIER'S HEART ***

Please have your entries submitted by 06:00pm EST on June 25th, 2004.

*Entries do NOT have to be titled with theme, however they must relate to it in some form or fashion.

I look forward to reviewing your Poetry Challenge submissions, as I am positive they will all be fantastic! Be sure to subscribe to Poetry Challenge Forum Thread so you will be automatically notified of new, weekly challenges!

Good Luck!

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We would like to extend our THANKS to every poet who entered our poetry challenge. Judging was very difficult as we had several, competitive entries that were very well written!

We wish to Congratulate our A FATHER'S LOVE Challenge WINNERS!

The next day as you stumble out of bed to clean teeth with little enthusiasm and to sit staring inanely at a pot of hot water (the coffee machine that you had forgotten to put coffee in yet again) these thoughts are still asleep. They are heaped and well obscured in other jumbled and nonsensical reasoning’s and justifications –Double Dutch without subtitles or translation.

In fact, as you opt for a cup-of tea (seeing as how coffee machine makes water) and you stub you toe on stool that was in way, absolutely no prose, ideas or means to move forward spring into mind. It can even be said that after switching on computer and after having shot down twenty spacecraft and been eaten up by a green alien sort of thingy, that not even a title or starting sentence seems worthy of being tapped into keyboard.

It can justifiably be said that whole day has been spent in totally useless fashion. Staring out of window at idyllic setting only makes lying on bed seem very attractive: walk to corner shop to clear head only brings anger over prices these shops charge and afternoon nap has now obliterated or obscured all that might have been dreamt up that morning - in short head remains an empty void and a bottomless pit with no foundation..

There are two major periods of fantastic prose assembly and justifiable award-winning script construction. Had results or product of these two periods of mind-boggling activity simply been recorded for posterity things would be very different. Even if they had been written on back of a cereal box, on toilet paper or even dictated into a tape recorder (right over your friend’s favorite tape) these reams of cohesive cognitive and collective convictions would have been beginning, middle and end of many an article, essay, poem, writing or story. They would have been justification, vindication and rationalization; crux, core, and essence; plot, storyline and scenario; speech to end all speeches, thesis to bring in top marks and book that would sell more than any Harry Potter novel ever has.