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Prize Poetry

• History of Pongo Prize
• Trapped
  • Ruin and Effort
  • Another Child With Nothing
  • I'm Still Breathing
• Lessons of Courage and Fear
  • Nightmare
  • Sometimes I Feel Like
  • Trapped Inside
• Strength
  • Letter After a Time
  • Captured in Hiding
  • Lessons of Courage and Fear
• Watching Her
  • Memory
  • My Best Friend Is in Love
  • Addiction
• What It Really Is
  • Just Imagine
  • Scarred
  • Romantic Rain
• Addicted
  • The Sick Boy
  • Emotions Lost in a Musician's Fingertips
  • Thanks to Mom

The Pongo Poetry Prize

Pongo is proud to present the winners of the Pongo Poetry Prize! This prize is presented quarterly to a poem by a youth that is submitted on the Pongo web site. The prize winner also receives a $50 award.

Pongo Prize - April 2011

Winner
Lessons of Courage and Fear
(A young woman's poem about courage and fear after sexual abuse)

Honorable Mentions
Nightmare
Sometimes I Feel
Trapped Inside

Pongo Prize - January 2011

Winner
Strength
(A young woman's poem that shows how the ocean waves of emotion that threaten to overwhelm us can also be our strength)

Honorable Mentions
Letter After a Time
Captured in Hiding
Lessons of Courage and Fear

Pongo Prize - October 2010

Winner
Watching Her
(A young woman's poem about watching her mother struggle with addiction)

Honorable Mentions
Memory
My Best Friend Is in Love
Addiction

Pongo Prize - July 2010

Winner
What It Really Is 
(A young woman's poems to a guy who treats her badly.)

Honorable Mentions
Just Imagine
Scarred
Romantic Rain

Pongo Prize - April 2010

Winner
Addicted
(A young woman's poem about sex and the deep need for love.)

Honorable Mentions
The Sick Boy
Emotions Lost in a Musician's Fingertips
Thanks to Mom