3rd Annual Parade of Poetry Contest

This year's theme is Cats.
Grand Prize Winners will be awarded journals and matching ink pens. 2nd and 3rd Place Winners will receive other special prizes.
We have extended the deadline for submissions! Please submit your cat poem and entry form by Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
As long as it's about a kitten, or kittens, a cat or cats you may submit any kind of poetry form you prefer .

We will have three winners in each age Group that receives submissions:

K-2nd Grade  3rd-5th Grade  Intermediate School High School Adult
 

Winners will be announced at 10:30 am, Saturday, May 31st at the Library.

Poetry contest Entry Form

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   We are looking for more Poetry Links and we will feature a Poem of the Month which will be taken from a published poetry collection featured in our library. Please feel free to submit your suggestions, poetry or poetry links, in plain text, for submission to :  librarydirector@sbcglobal.net or Poetry Place c/o Alvarado Public Library, 210 N. Baugh St. Alvarado, TX 76009

        A Miracle for Kevin

        His face so expressive,
        His eyes so bright
        He just can't be missing
        It just isn't right!

        Three days now they say
        Since the last time they saw
        The small boy with no shoes
        Who was just "oh so tall."

        You cannot imagine the number who came
        In sunshine they looked, and even the rain
        Family, friends, and strangers came, too
        Search teams and sheriffs doing all they could do.

       In churches they prayed, all over the land
        Then two in a helicopter tried once again.
        It was a miracle; you would soon hear them say.

       The precious little boy found alive that day…
        One cannot help but be thankful and proud
        To live in Johnson county, and see such a crowd
        They did not give up; they did not go away,
        And due to their love, a little boy they helped save.

         By Vivian Simpson

                September 25, 2006       

 

       

 



 

      Plum blossoms, pink and white,
Your perfume sweet a halo casts
     Around the moon to-night.
                                  BUSON

From: Haiku Seasons of Japanese Poetry -edited by Johanna Brownell

 


  Arts - Literature - Poetry - Poetry in Translation - ... Italian poetry of the second half of the 20th Century in English translation. Translated by Daniela Goiseffi.

 British Poetry  Electronic library offers scholarly editions of poetry produced between 1780 and 1910, including works by Thomas Hardy and Tennyson. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

  CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse Carnegie Mellon University offers up a large collection of poems by well-known writers. Also includes essays and links to related sites. http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/poetry

  Electronic Poetry Center  Contains indexes to sites for poets, magazines, events and performances. With online libraries and author directories.  http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc

 Jean-Michel Maulpoix and Co, French Poetry Today  French Poetry, the autobiography of a thirst. Interviews about French poetry. Questions about poetry. http://www.maulpoix.net/indexa.html

 LibrarySpot.com Poetry links.  http://www.libraryspot.com/poetry.htm

 Poetry.Com Organization encouraging contemporary poets sponsored by the National Library of Poetry. Awards 250 total prizes to new and unpublished poets.  http://www.poetry.com/

  Poetry - A Click and Drag Diversion   Click-and-drag web version of those Magnetic Poetry kits. http://www.prominence.com/java/poetry

 Poetry and Music of the War Between the States  Compare songs and poetry from the Confederacy and the Union. Includes a history of the famous bugle call Taps. http://www.erols.com/kfraser

 Poetry Archives at eMule.com  Wax poetic at the sight of this extensive archive of classical poetry of over 100 poets. Read a random poem, or search for a specific piece.  http://www.emule.com/poetry

 Poetry Daily Offers a daily poem along with biographical information about the poet. Includes a collection of previous days' poems, bookstore, and news. http://www.poems.com/ 

 Representative Poetry Online  Search this database of over 2,000 English poems by about 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the 20th century.  http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html

 A Sampling of French Surrealist Poetry by Desnos, Eluard, Reverdy and Soupault in English translation by Amy Levin and Johannes Beilharz.  http://www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de/surrealism/surrealism.html

 Spanish poetry All pages in English unless stated otherwise http://www.kaapeli.fi/~nihil/babel/spain.htm

Twentieth-century Poetry in English This is a metapage comprising Internet resources on the twentieth-century poetry in English, which may contain glimpses of truth in whatever form. http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm

 

 Williamsholler, Where Love and Romance always lives ... http://www.williamsholler.com/main/

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