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Hello, I'm a real beginner at this, but I hoped to get my chances and enter a contest, yet I can't find any posted on this subject. I thought I would share my writing with you guys, can you give me your opinion?

Rhapsody To Forest Spirit

The day has passed and sun has stepped
To cradle of the deep dark sky of night
White fox, a rabbit and a bear
The lights emerge from forest life.

The passing cold of winter breeze
The hands of goddess rustling the leaves
Yet the one last smile of faded light
Was lost inside, but hear, - who speaks?

No, it's not the trees which lean and day and night,
And not the rivers which stopped their trail
The ghost of woman stands before
But no one dares to stare the eyes of war.

She had no name, and sang the songs,
Of fallen wolves and days of laws,
Rejoicing, and remembering the times
Of girl she was, moments, when they had lives.

Yet snow which covers land in white
Can make it all seem as a dream of lies
But tears of maiden won't be fought for nothing
The warriors shall someday rise, and have their vengeance
And sun shall rise, and birds shall sing
The Forest, again, will take the shape of judge and wing
Emitted from the deepest darkest fantasies
Will finally recover times of glory, freedom
There's no more sadness, hunger, war
There are only those who smile, and laugh
Be greeted, friend, the time has come
The Order Was Established and we all
Again reunite for a long journey home...

Sometimes there are poetry contests.

For some reason I'm not quite aware of, I really dislike poetry.

We even had a poetry tournament.

It is a mix. Sometimes there is, sometimes not.

but you cannot enter the tournament in the midst?

The tournament happened last March/April. It was the first time a 'Poetry Tournament' was held at this site. Hopefully it was successful enough to consider doing again. It would be fun to see it become an annual event.

(Cool poem by the way! Thanks for letting us read it.)

Your poem is interesting. The lack of articles is a little odd in places. I'm not sure about the final four lines. I think they work against the mood of the rest of the poem.

I too am looking forward to the return of the poetry tournament :)

There are no restrictions to stop you entering poetry in any text contest (aside from word count perhaps ;))

Your poem reminded me of Narnia :)