Open Challenge to all P&Q Members and Clubs

"Inspired By" Challenge

This is a challenge in which participants write poems Inspired By the work of classic/well-known/famous poems or poets.

It is not a contest, but an opportunity to express your poetic love and talent and to reach new levels of greatness with and in your poetry. Represent yourself and/or the club to which you belong. I want the best of P&Q Poets to participate. The prize here is a sense of pride and accomplishment, but I hope and asks also that you fellow p&q members show your poems the accolades and acclaim they deserve, by voting and commenting them. When you've completed submit the poem as you normally would and post a link (the address) here. Also note in your poem as to what it is for (written for the Inspired By Challenge). I compiled a list to choose from or you can choose one not on the list. Please state the Poet and/or Poem that inspired the write. In addition. the poems have to be penned in a Specific Form (Please State the Form) and use some Common Poetry Elements. We are looking for poems to Flow Well, Be Properly Structure, Have Good Rhythm & Rhyme, and Proper Form Structure/Usage. Deadline for the poems August 31st. we want you to have enough time to do your best work. We would appreciate it if interested poets planning to participate in the challenge state there interest, so we may all get an idea how many wonderful poems we get to read.

Categories to choose from:

Love, romance
Friendship, family
Life, society
Nature, environment
Dark, fantasy
Special events
Sensual/Erotic
Inspirational

Here's a list of poets (choose from these or any other famous poets the inspire you, you enjoy);

Robert Frost
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lord Byron
William Wordsworth
Pablo Neruda
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Burns
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Blake
Sara Teasdale
John Donne
William Butler Yeats
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sappho

(The Forms)

Sonnet
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/005/507.shtml
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/sonnet.html

Triolet
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/003/322.shtml
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/triolet.html

Retourne
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/002/217.shtml
http://allpoetry.com/list/36670-Retourne

Ballad/Ballade
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/000/15.shtml
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/ballad.html

Kyrielle
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/001/159.shtml
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/kyrielle.html

Kyrielle Sonnet
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/kyriellesonnet.html

Terza Rima
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/003/310.shtml
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/terzarima.html

Pantoum
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/001/191.shtml
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/pantoum.html

Ode
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/001/186.shtml
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/ode.html

Quatern
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/002/202.shtml
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/quatern.html

Quatrain
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/quatrain.html

Invite the Amazing Poets you know to join.

Some Poem and Poets to help Inspire you;

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=140850

Okay i'll bite sweetie! but hmmm it's gonna take time since i don't do sonnets i do free verse most of the time i do rhyme but it's at it's best a 4/5 anyways i'll try to invite my club but it's up to them in the end! :)

What forms you comfortable with Ash. Now, I suggest you do an Ode, or find your favorite classic/famous poet or poem and write something similar to that.

Ode: (Ã...�d) 1. A lyric poem characterized by lofty feeling, elaborate form, and dignified or elevated style; a form of stately and elaborate lyrical verse. 2. A lyric poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style, varying length of line, and complexity of stanza forms. 3. A lyrical poem praising or glorifying a person, place, or thing.

I can do that lol :) and Emily Dickinson is my favorite poet of all time!!! i mean i just LOVE her poem called "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"

The let Emily Dickinson inspire you Ash.

*sighs softly* but the thing is i don't write dark poetry anymore... i mean i CAN but i can't it's emotional connection and although i LOVE dark poetry don't get me wrong i LOVE it i can't write it anymore i have to LIVE the moment in which i feel it sooo i need to have someone to date and then dump since i can't have any emotions now lol

EDIT: thanks for extending the deadline.

I hope the best poet or poet(s) win

Hehe, it's not a contest rather it's more like a showcasing of poems.

That for me is fun since i WANT to appreciate what i can and will do since i haven't done my part in poetry in a while so hope everyone can do the best that they can! :)

Thanks, you too try your best

Thanks! :) anyone else is welcome to have fun! :) poetry is for fun and release of emotions so this is gonna be fun!

Or you can just write what you can instead of dwelling on what you can't or dont anymore.

True Britt but i write with emotions so i can write dark again! :)

YAY THATS SO WONDERFUL

I'm up for the challenge! :) Will get me writing again....

Thanks Britt :) and hope everyone the best! :)

Funfunfun...wonderful fun.

Will ask my dear M&M's if they want to participate :)

As for now, oh what to write about..will have to choose something I can write emotionally as that seems to be my better work! :)

I'm up for it, as I am sure most of the members in Free Spirits are.

I've already completed my piece...

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=1220106

Here is my attempt:

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=1220164

Some Great Work Guys. Looking Forward To The Rest.

Some Poem and Poets to help Inspire you;

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=140850

A Syllable Counter;

http://www.syllablecount.com/default.aspx

Here's my Poetic Contribution;

http://www.best-love-poems.com/poems.php?id=1220236

Poem Inspired By George Gordon Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"

Done in Sonnet Form (English)

SUGGESTION: Nominate your favorite poems of the challenge for the weekly contest. I just nominated the two other finished challenge poems.

Another Contribution;

http://www.best-love-poems.com/poems.php?id=1220351

Inspired By the Works of History Great Love Poets (Byron, Keats, Shakespeare, Shelley ect.), in Celebration of Danielle, as part of the "Inspired By" Challenge.
Poem written in Sonnet Form