About the Challenge

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity" ~ William Wordsworth

A Poem A Day Challenge is a week-long (5 days) challenge that runs every third week of the month.

Participants receive writing prompts, daily, for which they write and submit a poem by 10 pm on the same day.

The best THREE (3) poems are selected and published the next morning.

TO PARTICIPATE: enter your email address here http://eepurl.com/eQCM6 and you will receive a daily prompt.

RULES OF THE CHALLENGE:

  • you have to sign up to receive the writing prompts
  • you have to write a new poem for the writing prompt and submitting by 10pm on the same day
  • you may not submit a poem you have already written before.

CHALLENGE PRIZE: From August we are offering a prize for the best overall poem. More info on the prize and how this is decided will follow.

QUARTERLY PRINT EDITION: Poems selected for the publication will be compiled for a quarterly print edition of A Poem A Day challenge. More info on this will follow.

submit here or here make sure to include the words:  APOEMADAY at the top of your submission


April: Freedom Week

When Common asks Assata Shakur 'what is freedom?' at the end of his tribute song, Song of Assata. Assata responds, "You're asking me about freedom? i know a whole lot more about what freedom isn't... coz i've never been free." She goes on to imagine what freedom could be.

It's Freedom Week in South Africa, that historical first vote for the oppressed Afrikan masses of South Africa happened eighteen years ago on 27 April. Now let's writer great poems, interrogate, question, image, dream about freedom.

peace

zamantungwa
editor, publisher

A Poem A Day Challenge, Every 3rd Week of the month

Poems

Showing category "But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that I was born" (Show all posts)

Elsewhere by Taidgh Lynch

Posted by Poetry Potion on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, In : But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that I was born 
He lifts boxes day in and out
packs them with Styrofoam
and sends them on their way.
He repeats this over and over and over.
 
He forms a long line, vastly assembled,
as if man is chained to man.  Above the
whir and hum of machines and conveyor
belts he whistles while he works never
looks at the clock for he discerns time
in his mind the seasons become white then
bright and blue. He doesn’t move, he stands
transfixed deftly working at the same swift pace.
He does not ask what goe...
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this is not my end by Simphiwe Golden Phukwane

Posted by Poetry Potion on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, In : But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that I was born 
Hear my shuttered soul 
through these broken eyes 
see stories painted on canvasses 
of history as they unfold 
yet the future is untold.

This cannot be my end.

Inaudible cherades of the present 
define how I understand my confusion.
Scenes of what could have been play slow in a fast-forward motion 
before me .

this will not be my end.

let your words 
caress my thoughts 
kiss my vision 
and lay with my dreams. 
Infect me with a cure 
for undisclosure of fear 
give me an antidote for 
apathy and indiffe...
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Sept Peace Week: Day 2 Writing Prompt

Posted by Poetry Potion on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, In : But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that I was born 
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Day 2 Writing Prompt

 20 September 2011
"But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that I was born,"
(from In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu)
the full poem is below...
 
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DEADLINE: 10PM, 20 SEP



In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu

Men say the world is full of fear and hate,
And all life's ripening harvest-fields await
The restless sic...
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