Paper Poetry August 2024 prompt

Poetry Olympics 🏅

Everyone’s a winner!

Carolyn Hastings
Paper Poetry
Published in
5 min readAug 1, 2024

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The Olympic rings set against a background of clouds and blue sky as well as motifs of various sportspeople in action. The words, ‘Poetry Olympics’ are superimpose in the centre of the image.
Image by G.C. from Pixabay — edited in PowerPoint by author

Welcome to our Poetry Olympics
Where your poems are on parade
Everyone’s a gold medal winner
Spotlighted on our homepage

Yay!
The Paris Olympics are in full swing — an Olympic extravaganza en parade. 🎆

A parade of the world’s best, most elite sporting talent.

But why stop at sport?

What about a parade of poetry? 😊

Paris can host the Summer Olympics for the world’s athletes — we here at Paper Poetry are going one better — we’re hosting the Poetry Olympics for poets from all over the globe. 🌏🌎🌍

And what makes it even more fun and exciting is everyone is eligible to participate, every participant is a winner and will have their poetry featured on our homepage! 🏆

But, oopsies, I’ve jumped the gun and run ahead of myself — first things first, there are some announcements to make. 🙏

Changes to Our Editorial Team

In case you missed it, Suntonu Bhadra announced recently that ‘due to personal reasons, our beloved editor and writer, Indubala Kachhawa

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Carolyn Hastings
Paper Poetry

Well-practiced speech pathologist now practicing to be a children’s book writer — emphasis on practicing.