Poetry Contest - Contests for Writers - Happy Dead Trees

Poetry Contest

Poets of any age are welcome to submit their poems for this bragging rights only contest. If the quantity and quality of entries is sufficiently high we intend to offer cash prizes in this category during the 2010/2011 contest. Throughout the year notable poems will be featured prominently on the Happy Dead Trees website.

We've added some classic poems — for you enjoyment and edification, not to intimidate you — while we await your submissions.

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- Author's Age -13 or under14 to 1818 or older - Submission Date -May 2009June 2009July 2009August 2009September 2009October 2009November 2009December 2009January 2010February 2010March 2010April 2010May 2010June 2010July 2010August 2010September 2010October 2010November 2010December 2010

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Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson

Written by: Betsy

 

Author Name	Robert Louis Stevenson
Author's Country	Scotland
Author's Town	Edinburgh
Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die,  And I laid me down with a will.

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I hear it was Charged against Me by Walt Whitman

Written by: Betsy

 

Author Name	Walt Whitman
Author's Country	United States
Author's Town	Brooklyn
I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions; But really I am neither for nor against institutions; (What indeed have I in common with them?—Or what with the destruction of them?)

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