Scavenging dogs roam around by Morula Wa Kutukgolo

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

Scavenging dogs roam around by Morula Wa Kutukgolo

Posted by Poetry Potion on Friday, November 18, 2011 Under: Soweto Poets

Scavenging dogs
Roam around,
Fighting fiercely
Over abandoned children.
Abandoned children
By parents hoping someone
Will throw a brick at those dogs.
Parents ignoring to instill
In their chidren morals and values,
Wisdom and knowledge,
Love and laughter.
Parents ignoring to love their children
And allow them to laugh.
Ignoring to teach them what they know
And allow them to ask.
Scavenging dogs
Roam around in the world,
Looking for the type without
The basics for survival;
The type desparate to be loved,
The type unable to say no
When they need to say no.
Parents don't wait
With hope that someone
Will throw a brick at those dogs,
It might be too late when they do,
If they do,
Those dogs might bare fangs
And flick velvet tongues of scarlet.

Day 3 | 17 November 2011

In : Soweto Poets

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About the Challenge

April: Freedom Week

Poems

Scavenging dogs roam around by Morula Wa Kutukgolo