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The Poetry Challenge!

Welcome, wonderful poets of the CB! With Bluebirds Regular Poetry thread, and Booksy's Poetry Contest, I was just thinking how much I like to click on those threads and just read through everyone's poetry that I haven't seen yet. But sometimes there is no new poetry to read, which is depressing. Thus The Poetry Challenge was born.

I'm sure you're all dying to know what this Poetry Challenge is. Hang in there a second, I'm getting to that. The basic idea of this is that we exercise our poem writing muscles, practice, improve, and at the end we have a beautiful Poetry Gallery to scroll through. It's a bit of a game, a bit of a prompt, and a bit of a competition all in one.

The rules are simple. We will write as much poetry as we can in the course of one week, and post it here. One poem a day for a week, although you can do more if you feel inspired. I will start by posting a theme, a prompt, or a technique, or any combination of those, and the rest of you will have to write a poem that corresponds with those things each day of the week. Then we can all vote for the most inspiring poem, and that person will become the next 'announcer'. The fun part is, the announcer can play too! Feel free to illustrate your poems and post those, too! 

GUIDLINES:

No voting for yourself.  

Please don't choose a category just because it's one you'd like (although don't choose a category you don't like either).

You can drop out at any time.

Be kind and respectful (obviously).

The categories must be pretty wide ranged since so many poems will be written from them.

Have fun!

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To start off the first round, the theme is.............

SUMMER!

Whether you write about the beach, the pool, or the hot sun, summer is here and in full fling!

The optional prompt is: Warlike Arts (This is completely random. Jeopardy is on the Tv and I saw those two words and typed them down on the spot).

Nugget says gven. Given? I've given the gift of this wonderful Poetry Challenge to the world.