RESULTS: Royal Roads Springtastic Poetry contest
The results are in! Congratulations to Master of Arts in Justice Studies student Trevor Williams for submitting the winning poem, Season’s Blend. Trevor will receive our RRU writer's pack.
Winning poem
Season's Blend
By Trevor Williams
Have you ever considered the courage of snow?
Opening itself up to the potential of glowing spring tendrils of sunlight
Vulnerability to thaw, to feel illumination’s shifting promise cascading
To marvel at their wisdom as season’s blend
A potential from the snow; an invitation to surrender, to transform
To remember…
To remember that snow is teacher
Nature’s curriculum:
A beckoning to become — metamorphosis
From one state to another
To melt the granite skepticism within
Frozen despair, cynicism suspended from another brutish winter
Renewed into water and flow, with warmth and possibility
“Who will I become? River or rain? Sweat or ocean?
There is potential generativity in this change…”
Harnessing the shifting state of snow to face the fearful frigid angst of today
Let’s melt into habitat’s hope
Announcing our first annual Royal Roads Springtastic Poetry contest.
March 21 marks World Poetry Day, a global celebration honoring one of humanity's most cherished forms of cultural and linguistic expression. Poetry is a window into new worlds, so let’s see yours!
How the contest works
The contest is open to everyone – students, staff, faculty, associate faculty, alumni, contractors and friends of Royal Roads.
The challenge?
Write one poem no longer than 21 lines long in the style of your choosing, using at least five of these words:
- Cedar
- Courage
- Bloom
- Marvel
- Rain
- Shine
- Change
- Curriculum
- Habitat
- Cascade
Send us your poem by Tuesday, March 19 at noon.
Our judges, resident poets Ali Blythe and Erin Limacher, will read poems without knowing who wrote them and will select a winner based on imagery and creative use of the words.
A winner will be announced on World Poetry Day, Thursday, March 21 and will receive an RRU writer’s prize pack, available for pick up on campus, including a hoodie, ball cap, notebooks and more!
May the verse be with you!