Sacred Poetry Contest (Win an edition of handmade books of your poetry)

Sacred Poetry Contest

 

  

I would like to invite you to submit up to 5 poems of mystical theme by email to tanyaetorres@gmail.com to win an edition of 10 handmade books designed especially for you by me, artist Tanya Torres (visit www.tanyatorres.com to view my work and books). When you submit your poetry you allow your work to be published in L.I.F.E. (Life, Interiority, Faith, Eternity. You may view the electronic version at http://lifeartandletters.blogspot.com/), a free publication I create every week as a way to bring art and poetry to my community here in East Harlem, NYC. It is printed in photocopy and is very humble, but made with great love.  Poems need not be religious or follow any particular path, only the way of love and kindness.

 

I hope that YOU get inspired to write a poem and that you pass this on to a friend. ACEPTO POEMAS EN ESPAÑOL (and ANY other language as long as you send me a translation!) All work submitted remains the property of the writer and I only ask that you allow me to publish it in L.I.F.E. Deadline: December 20, 2009 (My birthday!) 

 

Here goes a simple poetry exercise to help you get inspired! Answer these questions, each answer is a verse of the poem:

1. Close your eyes, what do you see? (Begin with something concrete that represents an idea that is important for you) Yellow flowers grow enveloped in a veil of grey,

2. Use your senses to describe it. (Colors, smells, textures, sounds, taste) echoes of the wishes of love, surround with perfume their brief and immense breath,

3. How does it make you feel. Use a metaphor. They grow in me, as if my earth had given fruit,

4. What does it remind you of, where does it take you? I will not ask, whether their petals fall or stay, I know they will be gone, they are like any other, you or me.

5. Write a conclusion that makes the reader think about the ideas you are expressing or a question for the reader to answer.  But will their beauty revive their yellow hope among the gray? 

 

City Garden 

 

Yellow flowers

grow enveloped

in a veil of grey.

Echoes of the wishes of love of passersby,

they surround with perfume,

their brief and immense breath.

 

They grow in me,

as if my earth had given fruit.

I will not ask,

whether their petals 

fall or stay.

 

I know they will be gone,

they are like any other,

you or me.

But will their beauty

revive their yellow hope

among the gray? 

 

6. Keep it short, write more only if you need to. To get inspired you might also want to visit http://www.Poetry-Chaikhana.com, a website containing sacred poetry of all traditions and path.