Dabble in Poetry? Your Chance to Let Your Virtual Ink Flow!

Written by C. Bailey-Lloyd / Lady Camelot


Fellow Poets

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 announcedrepparttar following Saturday, June 26th, 2004.

All poetry challenges are sponsored each week beginning on Sunday, with entries being judged and announcedrepparttar 128961 following Saturday.

A Weekly "Blue Ribbon" Winner will be critiqued and chosen from all Poetry Challenge Entries. Winners will haverepparttar 128962 honor of being displayed forrepparttar 128963 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 withrepparttar 128964 word "Challenge," so as to be included inrepparttar 128965 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 withrepparttar 128966 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 torepparttar 128967 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!

Our BLUE RIBBON WINNER was: Greg Doyle's "The Dad He Never Had" To View "The Dad He Never Had," click here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1744

The Writing Club

Written by Ieuan Dolby


Typically when falling asleep in bed at night great thoughts enterrepparttar mind, long stringed and meaningful sentences trip over each other to receive attention atrepparttar 128960 front ofrepparttar 128961 brain alongside allrepparttar 128962 brilliant findings, results, meanings that speak volumes and hard hitting phrases that are justrepparttar 128963 ticket to openrepparttar 128964 door to success. The last thought inrepparttar 128965 brain before sleep overrides this brilliant future work is, “must use that tomorrow”.

The next day as you stumble out of bed to cleanrepparttar 128966 teeth with little enthusiasm and to sit staring inanely at a pot of hot water (the coffee machine that you had forgotten to putrepparttar 128967 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 howrepparttar 128968 coffee machine makesrepparttar 128969 water) and you stub you toe onrepparttar 128970 stool that was inrepparttar 128971 way, absolutely no prose, ideas or means to move forward spring intorepparttar 128972 mind. It can even be said that after switching onrepparttar 128973 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 intorepparttar 128974 keyboard.

It can justifiably be said thatrepparttar 128975 whole day has been spent in totally useless fashion. Staring out ofrepparttar 128976 window atrepparttar 128977 idyllic setting only makes lying onrepparttar 128978 bed seem very attractive:repparttar 128979 walk torepparttar 128980 corner shop to clearrepparttar 128981 head only brings anger overrepparttar 128982 prices these shops charge andrepparttar 128983 afternoon nap has now obliterated or obscured all that might have been dreamt up that morning - in shortrepparttar 128984 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. Hadrepparttar 128985 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 onrepparttar 128986 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 beenrepparttar 128987 beginning,repparttar 128988 middle andrepparttar 128989 end of many an article, essay, poem, writing or story. They would have beenrepparttar 128990 justification,repparttar 128991 vindication andrepparttar 128992 rationalization;repparttar 128993 crux,repparttar 128994 core, andrepparttar 128995 essence;repparttar 128996 plot,repparttar 128997 storyline andrepparttar 128998 scenario;repparttar 128999 speech to end all speeches,repparttar 129000 thesis to bring inrepparttar 129001 top marks andrepparttar 129002 book that would sell more than any Harry Potter novel ever has.

Strangely enoughrepparttar 129003 mind-boggling prose that springs out during these two periods in most writers’ lives is not often etched or embedded onto some scrap of paper or recorded for eternity on a Dictaphone – results that have been usedrepparttar 129004 next day that is. Inrepparttar 129005 first situationrepparttar 129006 thinker and brilliant script writer has unfortunately fallen asleep beforerepparttar 129007 thoughts ofrepparttar 129008 night could be transferred from brain to paper. And inrepparttar 129009 second caserepparttar 129010 new author and Nobel Lauriat is blind drunk, so blind drunk and out of his tree that writing or talking is not really a feasible possibility – even though it seems like a good idea atrepparttar 129011 time.

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