Free Poetry ContestsWritten by Gary R. Hess
Free Poetry contests are a very common happening as of late. They are popping up all over web, most with slogans like “Win $20,000” or “You can be next winner.”Now don’t get it wrong… some of these are quite great and can be useful to someone who just wants to have their name in a book, but idea and how they go about this is a complete scheme. The ways winners are chosen have nothing to do with “best poem.” It is a complete scam. Sites like Poetry.com offer daily prizes as well, however they aren’t chosen truthfully. Well, to an extent. What they do, is select a certain number of poems randomly and then read them, and select best poem out of those. They probably don’t even do that… but you get point. They do not read ALL poems. They read a very select few. As far as we know, they select a random poem as winner and read it themselves and see if it totally doesn’t suck… and if it does they select another random one as winner. If you do not believe this article, try it out yourself. Create a poem which totally sucks. Something like: Poetry.com is full of them They offer money and choose a winner But winner is not them It is poetry.com They never read poems And never select a real winner This is all just a scam And this poem is bad
| | Poetry in a NutshellWritten by Gary R. Hess
Poetry is more than just rhyming and prose that is in meters and verse. It is an art form. It is something that can not be judged by its cover and can not be critisized to point where it just "sucks." Poetry is about expression. Poetry expresses way we feel on a certain subject through imagery and other senses. It helps us deal with our daily problems, be it good or bad.The emotion which is put within poem brings it life. A poem without emotion is not a poem at all but simply prose. Poetry is what makes us feel happy or sad, mad or gleeful, loving or broken hearted. Poetry is life on paper. It does not need to be of a certain subject or even rhyme. Poetry is poetry. It has its own mind. If it flows good if not... it needs work. The rules can be bent but not broken. Our life is our life and no one can tell us what we have been through but ourselves. We know best not some stranger reading our poems. Our poetry is our life, not what someone says.
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