What's love got to do with it? VALENTINE'S CONTEST!!

Hello! So with Valentine's Day just around the corner, I wanted to create a contest celebrating and cherishing each kind of love (special thanks to Maple for some inspiration/advice).

Now as Tina Turner sang, to some people love is "just a secondhand emotion". However, I believe love is an action, a choice. Love shares a story that touches every aspect of humanity and I want you to unravel that story.

Below are prompts that you can choose and in return I will pm you a photo to help inspire you.

Some of the prompts are literal description of the photo, some are the titles... but here's the thing: I want YOU to interpret the photo however your heart sees it. This isn't just going to be a contest about fairytales and "happily ever afters", I want your poems to have substance. Subjects may include: witnessing a birth, losing a loved one, finding love in an animal, the love of friendship, loving so hard despite the pain, etc. What's neat about some of the photos (from Flickr), is that a few of the photographers included info/ background about the piece. Feel free to use that or use your own imagination.

You can write from whatever perspective, but I want you to write me the story behind the photo. Don't TELL me, SHOW me. Let your emotions and heart/ soul truly shine in this piece.

You don't have to reserve the prompts. Please just pick one and pm me your choice, and I will send you the link to the photo. You may submit up to two poems each! Any questions, pm me at any time! Thanks and have a blast :D

DUE DATE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28th MIDNIGHT PnQ TIME

PROMPTS:

1. After what feels like a lifetime, I found you.

2. The unbreakable bond between two horses.

3. Let me purr on you.

4. Lean on me, puppy.

5. Held in fatherly arms of love.

6. A pinky promise between best friends.

7. Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend, dogs are.

8. Man's best friend, saved from loneliness.

9. Mother and daughter tiger.

10. "East never meets west."

11. Let me care for you, mother.

12. I will shelter you, sibling.

13. How the Himba children care.

14. Upon this bridge, these feet, this baby, cry.

15. A father with a buggy on the beach.

16. These last ten months I've cared for your sick bones.

17. A hug for the homeless.

18. A silhouetted proposal.

19. So she dances away (unrequited proposal)

20. Proposal in a cave.

21. The ghost of a love named Jeromy.

22. "I missed you while at school today."

23. Promise me you'll never give up.

24. Sunflowers, signs of our love, set aflame.

25. Sitting in the good times of Spain.

26. Let me play with my brothers.

27. Vagrants of Bangladesh.

28. A Soldier's love for wife and child.

29. Funeral for a fallen soldier.

30. Traveling with a prayer.

31. Why have you locked away my love?

32. Two generations embrace.

33. Little Red and Wolf, forbidden love.

34. Secrets of love wrapped in nature.

35. Let it be known, I'd die for you.

36. Fairytales and swords.

37. Two street performers.

38. A wedding of light.

39. Deer kisses.

40. The beauty of two hugging women.

Yay! Thanks. I like that it's due on February 28 which means I'll have some time to write something.

You are very welcome coffee Queen!

These prompts are wonderful! Love Tina Turner!!!

It's still going smell like White Shoulders and Magie Noir around here.

But seriously it looks like fun.

Thanks Guinea Pig - this looks super fun!

I never knew or realized what love truly entailed until my sons were born....should be an interesting contest

^ Would love to have you enter, Bob!

6 poems brewing (as Maple would say) and 2 already in! Made my morning seeing that!

I'm totally up for this!!!!

Great idea!

I'm in too!

You guys are blowing my mind! So many poets entering...

16 poems brewing now and 4 already in!

How's this coming?

Well 6 great poems now in!

You guys have about a week! :D

6 days left and still waiting on 12 poems!!

Let me know if anyone needs an extension or if this week is too busy to focus on getting poems in....

Hi all! Extending the deadline through the week of March 1st!

How is everyone coming along with their poems??

EDIT
8 poems in! Still waiting on a bunch. Going to send out friendly reminders...

Ready to read some poems on this. How is it coming?

Yeah, have the poems all been submitted?

Really getting excited about reading them!

Still waiting on 4 poets! Messaging them again otherwise I will post poems this weekend.

Thanks all for your patience :)

Can't wait to read all these poems!