OK folks only one more day to enter the contest as the 29th is deadline so get those entries in asap......stan

Hi folks
For July we're going to have a bit of a quickie contest. Let your ink flow freely as the only rules for this contest is to limit your poem to a maximum of 16 lines. Any subject. Any form. (please remember to put (July contest) next to title and to hit the contest tab. So have at it!........stan

Let's all congratulate Greg on winning the June contest. Here's his winning poem..........stan

Elizabeth, I'm Sorry (JUNE CONTEST)
Submitted by gregwa8 on Sun, 2018-06-24 01:49
my tongue is tied now
as it was then
around yours
in the library parking lot
my first French kiss
a language that I didn’t speak then
and still can’t

It has come to my attention that some people are having problems posting their poems to the contest. For a stop gap measure please post your poem to stream without hitting the contest tab but rather by being sure to put (June Contest) right next to title. This should allow posting if not please contact me via Private Message asap...........stan PS I have extended entry deadline until June 30 in order to give folks time to post who have had this problem

The June contest has now been posted. It's a challenge to write a type poem called an "Epistle" which is a poem written like a letter. Free verse or structured. Check the contest tab for more info, sharpen up your pencil and have fun.........stan

I owe a big thank you as well as recognition to Geezer for taking over contests and to weirdelf for assuming the unfinished works workshop during my surgery and recovery. So thank you and know your work in my behalf will not be forgotten........Stan Holliday (scribbler)

Off today to get old knee cut out and new one put in. Hopefully be back in a week or two at most........stan

As Robert rode down his birch trees
far in his northern Yankee land
climbing, then bending them with ease
their stance no longer straight and bland

Upon a time and place so far away
I have done so, too, with pine saplings
on a hot and sunny summer day
beneath shade enhanced by sol's dapplings

Sometimes not riding them to ground
just far enough to reach another
thus propelling self all around
from one pine to its nearest brother

I come on line here
and there awaits
anticipation.

I know it isn't to come
yet I still wait for
at least an echo

Alas I wait in vain
for those smooth flowing lines
from that transplanted yankee
but I Stiil wait

*It will be a while before I come to full realization of Lonnie no longer dropping by here....or anywhere

I know I'm the contest director but there is an idea I've been playing around with on contests with which I'd like to gain opinions and input from everybody.
Up until now contests have only been open to poems written specifically for the given contest. But i suspect there have been times when a contest has been posted and somebody(s) have thought "Man. I have a poem I wrote a while back that would fit this contest perfectly!" So here are some questions :
Should all contests be open to pre-written poem?