The Queer Vocal Voices Unofficial Spring Poetry Challenge
What Does Spring Look Like to You?
Spring is here!
Welcome to the Queer Vocal Voices unofficial spring poetry challenge. We want to know what spring looks like where you live. The sights, the smells, the sounds…tell us all about it- in poetry form.
Your poem can be any format, style, and size (Using Vocal’s minimum word counts). Paint a picture for us using words.
You can submit your poems in the Poets community or the Pride community. (There is no word count minimum in the Pride community).
Once published, share the links to your poem in the comments of this piece.
Judging will be anonymous, and readers will choose the winners. First place will receive a five-dollar tip and a feature in the Facebook group Queer Vocal Voices. Second place will receive a three-dollar tip and a feature in the group. Third place will be a two-dollar tip and a feature in our group. You do not have to be a member of Queer Vocal Voices to enter and to win.
Each entry will be shared in a thread in our group as well.
The deadline is midnight (eastern time) on Friday, May 31st. Judging will take place the following week.
We can’t wait to read your entries!
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About the Creator
J. Delaney-Howe
Bipolar poet. Father. Grandfather. Husband. Gay man. I write poetry, prose, some fiction and a good bit about family. Thank you for stopping by.
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Comments (25)
Rediscovering you; Congrats on Top Story!
Just noticed thi shas more comments than hearts though I suppose people can just give one heart but may leave several comments due to entries
Just featuring this in VSS Community Adventure for a bit of extra traction
Congratulations on Top Story! 🏳️🌈 🥳
Fantastic writing.
Congratulations 🎉
Great top story! Well done!
Here's my last day entry. Congrats on the TS. https://vocal.media/poets/spring-planting-styv0svl
Great challenge, and congratulations on Top Story! I didn't have time to write a new one, and I think this is about the only old one that qualifies: https://vocal.media/poets/harbingers
Beautiful challenge! Awesome top story!
Amazing! What a delightful opportunity to celebrate the beauty of spring through poetry. Let's embrace the vibrancy of the season and capture its essence with our words. And congratulations on your top story🎉🎉🎉
Congrats!!!
Congratulations 🎉
A season of new beginnings https://vocal.media/poets/a-season-of-new-beginnings?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=
Summer love https://vocal.media/poets/the-place-peace-is-perfect
A haiku! https://vocal.media/poets/on-a-tuesday-in-may
And this is a new one https://vocal.media/poets/spring-pride
I have written some spring poems , I will try and create another but here is a recent one https://vocal.media/poets/the-song-of-jack-in-the-green
It’s maybe a little dark…. But it’s honest…. https://vocal.media/poets/spring-in-hell
Ta daaaa I finally came up with something haha https://vocal.media/poets/a-changing-landscape
Great challenge! Here is my entry: https://vocal.media/poets/spring-in-louisiana
Currently in the tail end of Autumn in Australia - so mine is about the longing for Spring. https://vocal.media/poets/the-spring-tears-of-demeter
In Australia, Spring looks like Autumn/Fall…
Spring looks like the sunlight dancing upon Your garden, whether it's growing indoors or outdoors, smelling like the pollen from the surrounding trees as You clean out the gutters, as the sound of birds chirping and bugs buzzing fills the air, and feels like the occasional mosquito bite that You didn't know existed two days ago.
Spring smells like open ice and thawing poop xD