SPOTLIGHT

Amidst this growing fear of these uncertain days, the pandemic has truly tested us in incomprehensible ways. Never had we given a thought to our breath like we do today. Breath is all the difference between living or getting by every day.

Poetry can truly be healing and therapeutic for writers as well as readers who find solace when nothing is going their way.

Poetry Planet under our founder Tess Ritumalta is proud to provide a platform for all aspiring poets to find their voice. The Poetry Planet team consisting of judging, organizing online poetry challenges, and distributing certificates for excellence and winnings poems to help aspiring poets gain confidence in publishing their work.

Poetry Planet unites poets from all across the globe in their love for poetry and continues to be the builder of dreams since 2016 by being a catalyst for turning budding poets in becoming published authors.

Spotlight, the winning anthology is the compilation of all the winning poems from the various poetry contests like Word challenge or monthly picture prompt challenge where the poets are given a word or picture as a prompt, Daily poetry challenge where poets write poems inspired by a picture or word or phrase given as the prompt. Similarly, there is a song challenge where the poets write poetry inspired by a given song or the Ekphrastic poetry form challenge where poets are to give a vivid detail in the form of a poem with the given a famous painting or any other work of art.

All the winning poems are published in the winning anthology book to showcase their talent and inspire aspiring writers to ink their thoughts

and build their confidence.

Poetry Planet has proudly created several published authors who have found their freedom through poetry and given voice to so many aspiring poets who hadn't tapped their own potential in becoming successful authors until Poetry Planet paved the way. More power to Poetry Planet for building dreams and changing lives every day.

May we continue to believe in the power of words to help us get through our days. May our spirit continue to fight the darkness looming over us through the words we ink every day. May we never forget to seek the spotlight within our tales. Tales of sheer resilience. Poetry is the mirror of the human spirit. Long live Poetry for unraveling time and again we can heal through verses if we just let in the pain.

It's true as Robin Williams once said

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world "

Tanushi Singh

Published Writer/Administrator