tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986897330104944392011-11-27T19:29:43.508-05:00Poetry Contests | Online Poetry Competition | Cash Prizes for Poetry | Winning Poems Critiqued |Daily Quotes | Best Online Writing SitesPoetscontestcornernoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498689733010494439.post-68958299821248139752010-04-04T16:45:00.008-04:002010-04-04T17:06:43.221-04:00

I have happened upon this blogsite. No ads, no busy and obnoxious distractions. Just an original thought per day with beautiful photography against a black background by one of the most eloquent prose writers I have come across. He is not published anywhere, as the author has no self-indulgent dreams of fame. It is solely the need to write, the need to see something and express it through art,

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Poets Digitise Towards Deeper UnderstandingAward-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball have never met. In fact they live on different continents. But that hasn't stopped them from collaborating on a series of poetry chapbooks designed to replace trite greeting cards with real sentiment. With their 'celebration series', the two have developed a new concept for inexpensive

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As does any craft, there are tools used in creating poetry, and a poem’s value is not only in what it says, but how it is said by use of specific tools of the craft. One would not carve the details in a marble bust using a jackhammer. Nor would one expect to obtain the finite details of Monet using a 4” exterior paint brush.Free verse is not poetry without form or rules. It is not written as an

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