The Contest invites you to let yourself be free and create an original poem. No matter who you are, where you come from, or where you're going every human has an innate desire to be heard. “Speak Your Truth” is just the place, humanity based, in deed a safe space.

The goal is to be as creative as possible. For inspiration we have listed a few themes/ topics. Submit your work for a chance to win cool prizes,  international publication, and a chance to be a Lyrikal Storm/PGCSW (Prince Georges County Spoken Word Team) representative at Brave New Voices 2015. 


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Contest ends midnight November 7, 2014!

Sample Themes:

  • Alienation – The effects of, the loneliness of, to cure it.
  • Ambition – getting what you want, stunted by, thwarted.
  • Betrayal – the pain of, in love and friendship.
  • Coming of age  – loss of innocence.
  • Courage – courage to deal with conflict, lack of, developing, conquering with.
  • Deception  – how to deceive, results of.
  • Discovery – what does it take to discover new places, inner meaning, strength, even treasure.
  • Escape – from life, routine, prison, family pressures.
  • Death – how to escape, what happens after, consequences of.
  • Fear – driven by, dealing with, conquering.
  • Freedom – loss of, gaining, handling, fight for.
  • Good versus evil – survival of one despite the other, triumph of one over the other.
  • Isolation – physical and emotional.
  • Jealousy – trouble caused by, denial of, driven by.
  • Justice – the fight for, injustice, truth versus justice.
  • Loss – of life, innocence, love, friends, to avoid.
  • Loneliness – no man is an island, or hell is other people.
  • Love – love fades, is blind, can overcome all obstacles, can
  • Lust – for power, for sex.
  • Power – the search for, the loss of, what we are willing to exchange for.
  • Prejudice – racism, bigotry, snobbery, dealing with.
  • Security – the loss of, the finding of the need for, how we act when security is shattered.
  • Spirituality and God – the struggle to find faith, live without faith etc.
  • Survival – man versus nature