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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

Day 2 Writing Prompt

Posted by Poetry Potion on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 In : March APADc

"The sun keeps writing, the wind erasing"

(Double Time, Anonymous)

focus on rhyme, alliteration, assonace and consonance. and use it in your own submissions

the full poem is below...

about the challenge > www.poetrypotion.com/a-poem-a-day-challenge

submit your poems > www.poetrypotion.com/a-poem-a-day-challenge-submissions

DEADLINE: 11:59M, 19 March

Double Time

by Anonymous

March is a jade, a fickle thing,

With the winder's wind and the sun of spring.

The sun writes, 'Come!' and t...

Ballad Of Silence by Sihle Ntuli

Posted by Poetry Potion on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 In : March APADc

Head spins on not so
Pressure plays on pressed buttons
Chorus of uncertainty left half unsung

String quartet violins intoxicate vocal cord to silence
Singing songs of the Undun
Under the chest heart sings of the red rose that gaps to the bridge
Petals dispersed and blown by winds
Slow sunset of sulking sorrows sit solemnly to sing silence
The calm before the sky gets violent
Lieing below heavens seeking truth
Humming to your self
With A ballad on your mind

© Sihle Ntuli

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Stoop to Conquer by King Midas

Posted by Poetry Potion on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 In : March APADc

I always believed in my ability
To soar in the midst of probability
I perceived beyond the ordinary
Impossibility was not in my dictionary
I trained harder every day
And never gave up any day
But i played second fiddle
And was nicknamed little feeble
For so long i was benched
But my zeal to play never quenched
I knew i was paying a price
That will some day earn me a prize
I vowed to never give up
Till i climb to the top
I prepared even more ahead of time
Awaiting my season to shine
Finally at...
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