Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition 2016
This year we’re really feeling the love. After a short hiatus, we decided to bring back our popular Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition for Valentine’s Day 2016.
To enter, all you need to do is channel your inner poet and send us a Valentine’s poem written entirely by you before 12pm on Friday 12th February 2016.
Whether you write something heartfelt and romantic or lean more towards humour and wit, we would love to read your entry.
The winning poet will receive a £100 gift voucher to spend across our collection of Valentine’s tree gifts, rose gifts and other living gifts at Tree2mydoor.
You can find full details on our Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition page.
To help inspire you, here are a few favourite entries from previous years.
2013 Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition Winner
The Food of Love
The world is my fish finger; meat balls the spice of life,
Laura Newbould-Jones
Certainly food for thought, soon becoming your wife.
Love is my vitamin, my fruit and my veg,
Snuggies are my coco-pops; cuddles my potato wedge.
Life is like a banquet, on which to feast and gorge,
The food of love is plenty, and in this relationship we forge.
Trusting like a Sunday roast,
As comfy as hot buttered toast.
Happiness like strawberries and cream,
Lemon meringue... we’re living the dream.
If long life is the key,
Then I want my milk to be UHT.
Add zest like lemon and twist like lime,
There our ingredients, it will last over-thyme.
Like roasting chestnuts by the open fire,
Like hot soup on a winter’s day,
Sweet and fluffy like a bar of Milky Way.
Preheat the oven... turn up the heat,
Let’s cook up a relationship that’s good enough to eat.
Read more about Laura’s winning entry in our Valentine’s poetry competition winner story.
2010 Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition Entry
Passion Killer
Don’t wear that old nylon nightie
It’s really not turning me on
When you turn around in bed
The sparks hit me head
And bingo my passion is goneWear the one I bought you last valentines
The one with the ribbons and ties
Oh, please wear the one that I bought you
It might help my passion to riseWell you can’t blame a bloke for complaining
Michael Deparis
I put up with curlers and sock
But I must draw the line
Because I’m not feeling fine
Laying next to a nightie that shocks.
2007 Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition Entry
Tree of Love
Our love is like a sapling
It starts so weak and small
But with tender care and watering
It shoots up through the soilThrough night and day the sapling grows
and now we are a tree
not only that what we have achieved
our saplings now add up to threeSeasons come and seasons go
Kim Holgate, Norfolk
but still we stand here strong
Healthy roots that's what we have
That and the manure we are standing on!
Even if you do not win first prize, there is still plenty to smile about. Fifty runners-up will receive a 50% refund on their Valentine’s purchases.
Explore our collection of Valentine’s Day rose gifts and Valentine’s Day gifts to find something meaningful for someone special.
If you need a little more inspiration, we will also be sharing a Valentine’s gift guide closer to the big day with some of our favourite living gift ideas.