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@treehugger1995 I am happily (and gainfully) employed as a professional software engineer, and I'm not looking for composition to be anything more than a side hobby, as long as I enjoy it and have time for it. :toothygrin: That said, I definitely do understand the importance of competitions and deadlines as ways to improve compositional ability. I've entered several "write & record a song in one week on the following topic" types of contests in the past, and I think the competition section on these forums is a big part of why I signed up. Wait a second... did I misinterpret the challenge? I'm usually very instrumental too, and I was taking "incorporate this poem (or part of it) in the music in any way you like" to include merely using descriptive/programmatic music to interpret the poem -- like how Vivaldi pictures bird songs, babbling brooks, and dog barks in Spring, or how Beethoven pictures raindrops and thunder in the Pastoral Symphony. That's more how I was writing this. Was I interpreting it too loosely? Do the actual words -- either spoken or sung -- have to appear? I guess I could still include a voiceover, but that seems a little tacky. Hmmm... :hmmm: What about like in Carnival of the Animal, where Nash's poems are sometimes read preceding the performance? (Not that my poetry reading is much worth listening too...) See, now I'm all worried that I'm writing the wrong thing. EDIT: I think the phrase "If you decide to use voices" in the description contributed to my thinking that an instrumental-only entry would be OK... But now I see that I missed the phrase "use it as a set poem".