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 |   Valentine's Day celebration: penguins, pebbles & personification in free verse style. |
 Thank You for the WDC Quill Awards Nomination for Best Contest! The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Contest celebrates Valentine's Day!  I give you this  (pebble), personification and a penguin. You add the and alliteration.yay! go love!  RULES THEME: To celebrate Valentines Day ... Penguin poem theme: ▼ a poem up to 20 lines/100 words, or less poem is free verse props are pebbles or krill (up to 2 poems allowed per participant) alliteration (to lend sound to poem, goes well with long/short structured sounds, assonance, mild rhyming) personify to identify with penguin (narration connects to heart, you decide how) I will not disqualify entries for any reason. I will be able to spot quality, effort. SPECIFIC RULES: CONTEST runs month of February. When clock tips into March, no further entries accepted. CONTEST accepts two poems per Writing.Com member. CONTEST accepts either BITEM or ENTRY format Old and new creations are welcome, provided they adhere to SPECIFIC RULES of this month’s CONTEST. I’m more receptive to entries inspired by prompts. You can edit your entry anytime during the CONTEST period.![Merit Badge in Red Wheelbarrow Poetry
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Congratulations on your new merit badge! Thank you for supporting the Writing.Com community with your inspirations, participation and activities. We sincerely appreciate it! -SMs](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Red_Wheelbarrow_Poetry-2231099_8.gif)  Prizes: Best Poem: ~ Grand Prize: Red Wheelbarrow Group Merit Badge and red ribbon ~ 2nd place: red ribbon ~ if more than 10 entries, 3rd receives an appropriate merit badge SUGGESTIONS For Participants TIPS for this Free Verse Poem(s) Research this penguin. I'll not offer further links in hopes you'll each find raw/unique info that inspires your approach. After inserting theme(s), write whatever flows to mind. Then, edit out tired words, pare down to key words/elements that give life. Hopefully, simple. AIM Hopefully, we can share and discuss reactions and experiences as poets with takeaways and desire to foster free verse through these challenges. Contest/forum seeks to inspire new poetry with these prompts, help each other, sponsored by "Wheelbarrow Poetry Group (Be A Member)"  . Membership open, not currently a requirement to participate…email to JOIN at 𝓑rian K Compton 🏹 ❤️   .The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Project opened in 2022 with renewed vision. A host of prompts and information to help writers craft their prose, free verse style, is available. Constantly editing a book of articles, prompts, lessons and more for members to consume and/or try. Owner/Operator and Judge: 𝓑rian K Compton 🏹 ❤️  100 percent of Donations are used to reward participants. DONORS ▼  As this is a returning contest…Special Thanks to Brandiwyn🎶  for her gifts and support! Thanks to Blueyez ~ Unplugged til March  and TyKam is back with WDC Family  for their donations! Extra special thanks to MDuci who was a very generous reviewer and supporter in the early days. She gave me the will to start a contest and pay forward my gratitude. |
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February Contest is open!
