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Let Your Inner Child be Heard (PW's Now accepted)

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What does your inner child say to you? Is he or she happy or sad? Content? Disappointed? Do you even stop and listen? Well, now is the time to! Take a little time for yourself and get to know your inner child. Hear what he or she has to say and write it in the most poetic way you can.

 

This is different from "self-talk" or what you say to yourself on a daily basis - those messages you feed yourself.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Inner child is a concept used in popular psychology and Analytical psychology to denote the childlike aspect of a person's psyche, especially when viewed as an independent entity. Frequently, the term is used to address subjective childhood experiences and the remaining effects of one's childhood. The Inner Child also refers to all of the emotional memory and experiences stored in the brain from earliest memory.

 

I expect a wide array of pieces from you, since you're all different and have experienced different childhoods.

 

 

 

Rules:
1. Be nice and courteous to me and the auther poets.
2. Try to comment on at least one other work. Poets love to get feedback. Admit it. You know you do!
3. Do not molest your Caps key.
4. No prose or dirty pretty or chat talk
5. Limit profanity.
6. Mark adult appropriately in the title!!
7. Credit any photos in your author notes.
8. DO NOT enter your work in any other contest until this one is judged.
9. Any genre, any form welcome, 'cept see #4
10. Good spelling and grammar is a must!
11. Have fun.

 

 

 

 

Prewrites NOW ACCEPTED!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on February 27
  • Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 4 people
  • Final notes:
    This was a fun contest to hold, and I really like the wide array of entries that came in. Gold (Inner Child Weeping) was exactly what I was looking for. BRAVO. The other winners were also what I was looking for. Casting silver was easy. Bronze was difficult. Hard to come to my final decision. I hope you all had a great time. See you in my next contest! Kim

Contest Winners

  1. I Hope You Dance
    She still believes in fairytale endings
    She still sees the good in mankind
    by seasonsoflove 36 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 26 5:42 PM. In love, lost self, personal, life
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. My North Pole
    There is a Christmas tree in my head,
    with a toy shop run by dysfunctional elves
    by penman 42 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 13 10:49 PM. In Other
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. Contempt
    Photographs of your image
    conjure your presence,
    by Justified Inc. 17 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 25 2:16 AM. In Pain, Abuse, Hope
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  4. Child Behind A Window
    Sometimes, I feel just like
    by Rakerman1 60 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 13 6:24 PM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  5. The Language Of The Trees
    Do you think a tree has memories? If so, what might they be?
    Beneath their spreading limbs do they recall things done by me?
    by londiscarpenter 47 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 17 5:58 PM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  6. Silence
    Speak gently child,
    for who knows what hand
    by couldbeworse 12 lines, 15 comments, on Feb 26 7:35 AM. In contest, abuse, pain, sad, personal, life
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  7. I am a child
    When overcast depression surrounds my mind,
    I find no pleasure at all anywhere,
    by Freelance writer 32 lines, 30 comments, on Feb 4 3:18 AM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

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  • angelli803
    February 13
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    i love to listen to my inner child!


  • Bosiarbooger gold member
    February 14
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    If you weren't so cute, smart, sweet and adorable I would be glad you were my sister, and another thing writing for you is becoming a full time job. love ya sweetie, Boog


  • Unbreakable3
    February 17
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    I am a child so I call my inner child my outer child... i have an inner adult kinda... it talks to me!! I like what it says its the one that give sme advise... it sound sliek my best friends voice too... But i think everyoen even children have an inner child!!!! ine is just liek 6 or 7 not 12 casue i am 12.... <_<

    Blessings...

    -Unbreakable....<3


  • JinSays gold member
    February 17
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    Two questions, can we reserve, and can we use our own images?


  • Dezzy26
    February 19
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    Iam new to this thing... just started writting last month... found out that I love poetry... weird how things jsut come to you in life. It is so healing... this is the perfect type of contest for me as that is were iam at in my life right now. Aknowleging my inner child and working through my own hurts. I have a question... I didnt want the backround I have for my poem Blindness, I have tried to change it for the contest but its not letting me. Any suggestions... its not speaking what I want it to with the backround!


    • Paloszoo gold member
      February 19
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      Have you tried to edit your poem and choose the link that says "edit background"?

      • Dezzy26
        February 19
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        I got it all figured out thank you... i was messing the text color up so it wasn't letting me change it! Thank you though!


  • SabaSophiya
    February 19
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    Great idea for a contest!! All the best!!!


  • penman gold member
    February 27
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    Thank you for the silver. Congratulations to all the winners.

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