Poetry Contests... To Bring Out the Poet in You

Poetry is a beautiful art form that has been successful in getting the appreciation of the world as a whole. Those who can?t enjoy the beauty of a poem can be described as someone who can?t appreciate true beauty. Love poems substantiate this statement. They are the masterpieces of many poets and there are poets who continue to consider their love poems as their best works."

Article Body: "Poems can influence people of all ages because of the incomparable beauty that it holds. Poets are a class of people who are loved and remembered by people through the ages. Love poetry is the best example that supports this statement. Love poetry is more than poems of love. The influence and impact is much more.

Love poetry is a class of poetry that handles love as the theme of the poem. Poets can take their own experiences in love or they can be mere imaginations of love. Whatever it may be, love poems will be appreciated always. This is because each and every human being in this world is in search of true love. Anything that can speak about love will gather their attention. Love poetry is so powerful that, it can help the people to understand love and teach them to love others.

This public acceptance of love poetry has provoked many organizations and web sites to concentrate their interest on love poems. They realized that love poets need more attention and encouragement if they are to be uplifted. With this as the prime aim, web sites conduct online poetry contests.

PoetryCraze.com is one of such web sites that offer contests for love poets on a regular basis. The participants need not pay any fee towards the registration of their name for poetry contest. This is intended to give the necessary chances of growth to the future love poets.

Prizes are given to the winners of the contest. The exposure that they get through these contests is not negligible. In fact their names and poems will be displayed in the site. What else is required for an aspiring poet of the new generation?

The selection of the best poet is done on the basis of the vote. Visitors of the web site are requested to vote for the poet whom they feel is worthy of being rewarded. So there is no partial treatment for any in the web site. The prize is delivered to the one who is elected by the panel of experienced people as the winner. So it is the talent that is praised and appreciated here.

Poetry contests never demand anything from the writers expect sincerity to their work which they are obliged to do. The work should be unique and purely written by the person who claims to be the writer. The rules set and displayed in the site are to be strictly followed.

Selection criteria are set and the participants are supposed to go through the site and understand the terms and conditions. This is meant to avoid confusions and complaints that may arise in future. No particular consideration will be given to any. The individual is judged only on the basis of the talent.

These poetry contests are conducted by the fond lovers of poems. There is no profit oriented work behind this web site. The challenging world is giving a chance to the skilled and talented people. This is surely a blessing to the people who are born with inborn talents.

Roshni is the owner of PoetryCraze.com, the best poetry contest website on the internet.

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5 Funny Love Poems
Funny Love Poems

When most people think of love poems, they think of serious and soulful expressions of passion. Long sonnets by Shakespeare or romantic poems by Browning and Lord Byron are the norm for love poetry. However, funny love poems can be good for a laugh. They may not be romantic, but they do give your friends something to enjoy.

Some of the best funny love poems are limericks. Limericks started in Ireland and follow a standard form of five lines and a rhyme scheme of aabba. Here are a few limericks written by anonymous authors:

There once was an old man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time
When asked "Why a third?"
He replied, "One's absurd!
And bigamy, Sir, is a crime."

There was a young fellow named Hammer
Whose had an unfortunate stammer
"The b-bane of my life"
Said he, "Is m-m-my wife
D-d-d-d-d-d-damn ‘er!"

She made friends with a young undertaker;
Her last boyfriend had forsaken her.
But she started to curse
When he turned up in a hearse.
She said next time I’ll date a baker!

There was a young lady named Constance,
From boys she wouldn’t stand any nonsense.
If her partners grew deft
She would lead with her left;
The results would not weigh on her conscience.

My sweetheart and I are just wed.
Already I wish I were dead.
Two weeks she’s been spending.
It was time never ending.
We are thousands of pounds in the red!

Limericks are fairly easy to write if you can rhyme well, so you might try writing a limerick yourself that includes the name of your friend or loved one. This is a good way to make a funny love poem that is personalized.

You can find more information about funny poems at:
www.love-poems-quotes.info/funny-love-poems.html

Art Hill is an internet poet who operates an independant poetry publishing company.

Poetic Love versus Commercial Love
Am I the last romantic? This is a very tough question for me! I remember the times when love seemed more pure and diaphanous. A boy saw a girl, he liked her, she smiled shamefaced at him, giving him hope. Desire was fed by hope, and time was the perfect cook for a romantic love recipe. It all continued with peaceful thoughts at night, while looking at the stars and making wishes, sweet love wishes! Days were passing, the boy can’t get his thoughts back on the track, charmed by his beautiful princess. Another glimpse, a few days after, would keep the fire burning, until the boy can’t take it anymore, and moves to the next step:a romantic poem and roses, maybe even chocolate candy. Beautiful! I’m not going to exaggerate this, by inserting a balcony in this act.. But let’s admit it, those were the good old days of love and poetry.

Today, everything seems so empty and meaningless. The media is always showing us more and more violence and sex, pushing love away from our lives, replacing it only with desire. Now women are more and more interested of the bank account and limousine the boy drives, and probably would take poetry and candy as an offence or as unimportant; they would very much rather an expensive perfume or necklace. The boy, on the other hand, doesn’t have that shiver anymore in his voice, he’s a stable person that shouldn’t let loose his lack of confidence. He’s driving his luxury car, dressed up after the latest fashions, perfumed and everything, with sunglasses to give himself a superior attitude. He goes to her home, gives a horn and then takes his partner to the most expensive places to impress her. And he probably succeeds in most of the times. Very beautiful, some may say.

Well, I am very sorry, but I am one of the fellows who won’t give into this „new era love”. I stick with the poetic love that used to be once upon a time, the incurable romantic. You may contradict me if you wish, everybody’s free to have an opinion, but I remain the last mohican stuck to the idea that love and poetry come together as a blessing, and shouldn’t be torn apart.

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Who Wrote the Best Love Poem?
Who Wrote the Best Love Poem?

Love poems have long been a way for men and women to express their feelings for one another in a unique and romantic way. They range from structured, formal works such as those by William Shakespeare to free verse works by modern greats such as e.e. cummings. But of all the love poems ever written, who wrote the best love poem ever?

Of course this question may have a different answer depending on who you ask. But for the sake of argument, let’s say that the poet who created the poem that is most often quoted and most recognizable is the one who wrote the best love poem of all time. If these are the criteria, then the poem How Do I Love Thee? by the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning would win hands down.

Browning wrote this poem to her husband. She and Robert Browning, also a poet, wrote countless love letters to one another over the period of several years. Today, these love letters and the poems that accompany them are treasured parts of American literature. Here is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s finest and most recognizable work:

How Do I Love Thee?

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

When people think of love poems, they usually think of this one, especially of the first line. It has inspired many other poems in its time and is a great source of imitation. As the best love poem ever written, it has all the elements of a great work: elegant structure, classic rhyme scheme, and beautiful imagery.

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Art Hill is an internet poet who operates an independant poetry publishing company.