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Poetry Contest: Holiday Spirit

The holiday season approaches—the most wonderful time of the year—and everybuggy is getting into the holiday spirit. Even Ugly has decorated his nest with the lights and ornaments he stole from Ladybug. For his month’s contest, everybuggy would love to read your best poem of 24 lines or less filled with the holiday spirit.

Will you feel inspired to write about Thanksgiving or Christmas? Hanukkah or Kwanza? Or perhaps some other holiday that’s less well known in America? Will you reflect on your favorite holiday tradition, on special moments with family and friends, or perhaps on the beautiful fall and winter scenery? Will your verse be meditative and thoughtful, or happy and funny? Perhaps your poem will be set in a faraway place, or in another time altogether.

However the holiday spirit inspires you, everybuggy will be prancing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh and stringing lights over the Cricket Country mailbox as they wait for Santa to drop down the chimney with your best holiday spirit poem. Ho ho ho!

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    1. Your contest entry must be your very own original work. Ideas and words should not be copied.
    2. If you're 14 years old or younger, your entry must be signed by your parent or guardian, saying it is your own original work, that no help was given, and granting Cricket permission to publish prizewinning entries in the September 2013 issue or on our Web site. If you're older than 14, you must sign your own work, verifying that it is original.
    3. Be sure to include your name, age, and full address on your entry.
    4. Only one entry per person, please.
    5. If you want your work returned, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for each entry.
    6. Incomplete entries cannot be considered. Your entry will be incomplete if you forget to include your age or a signature verifying that your work is original.
    7. Your entry must be received by March 25, 2014.
    8. Send entries to:
      Cricket League
      P.O. Box 300
      Peru, IL 61354