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The Bookhabit Poetry Competition is happening!

The Bookhabit Poetry competition is now under way. Each week 50 poems are judged to go through to the next round. Do not wait until the closing date to submit your poems.

Briefly …
The Bookhabit Poetry Competition is free to enter. There is a written section and a performance section with audio or video formats. The overall winner will receive US$1000. There are 3 rounds:

Round 1 - Each week 50 poems are judged winners in each section and are chosen to go through to Round 2 over a period of 6 weeks (22 September – 2 November 2008).
Round 2 - 50 finalists in each section are chosen by registered Bookhabit users to go through to Round 3 (2 weeks)
Round 3 – Judging Panel selects overall winner, as well as 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd in each section. Bookhabit users can also vote for their favourite presenter of the performance section.

See below for this week's entries. To enter click here or on 'enter' on the orange ribbon above.

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Week 1 Week 2

Written Poems

1) Discovering women
2) Maka Uli / Black Rock
3) 'The Orator & The Listener'
4) Almost Poetry
5) The New Beat
6) Of Horologists and Jazzologists
7) Drops of Dew.
8) Still Garden
9) St Aubin Sur Mer
10) Dear Friends
11) 'Connect with Cottesloe'
12) The tortoise
13) On the street where you live
14) Flirting Danger
15) Ninety
16) Love Couplet
17) paint
18) Hello
19) Facebook Haiku II
20) Haiku of a Cheese Sandwich
21) My Dream
22) Poetry Stew
23) LIFE
24) dreams of flight
25) Members Only
26) The Nation of Sheep
27) Another day colder
28) Unhappy Trails
29) Insomnia
30) Petite Mort
31) poem 39
32) Poem 50
33) Poem 1
34) Deprived soul
35) The End
36) Lost Paraclete
37) Prairie Girl
38) The Man from Vulgaria
39) Let’s Share
40) 2 Hearts linked as One
41) Gentle Age
42) Just the Two of Us
43) Shifter
44) Small Pirates
45) Angel
46) Stress
47) GROW FINGERS.
48) REMEMBER.
49) Cookie Cutter People
50) Creation
51) Punctuation Lover
52) Reflection of inner torment
53) A close shave
54) Facebook Haiku
55) Bird
56) Sun
57) Grandparents
58) Just Go, Please?
59) Salvation
60) Birds of Paradise
61) I was mad at you
62) Love
63) Real Pain
64) Turn of summer
65) HOW TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL BEER ALCOHOLIC
66) Poem 48
67) Mystery Lady
68) Hold On
69) Broken Spirit
70) Dear Life
71) Light of Hope
72) Four angles on an appendage
73) The Cruise Liner
74) Mukah
75) Tic Toc
76) for Laurian
77) Wheatfields in the wind
78) How does it feel?
79) Hoi Polloi:Kick it Up a Notch
80) Vengeance
81) Sleepless Nights
82) Crocodile Smile
83) Give or Take
84) Good-Bye Sonny
85) Lil Jack Jorner
86) Inadequacy
87) Island King
88) Who Will Care
89) Mother
90) Home
91) Pretty Vacant
92) Poem 15
93) PLEASE LEND ME A PEN
94) Just Breeve
95) Shadow
96) BIRDS OF A FEATHER
97) out-of-body theory
98) My new pussy

Audio/Video Poems

1) ADD TV
2) I May be Little, But Don't I Count?
3) You Are A Maze
4) Default Option On The Fracas
5) The minotaur as troubadour
6) The Sunbrella