Limerick, haiku, doggerel - it's all poetry to us but could be a winning opportunity for you. We have three tickets to give away to Survive & Thrive 2012 - one for the facebook poet, one for the poet who masters the tweet, and for those not on social media, one for The Big Idea community.

1. Write a poem on the Survive & Thrive theme 'we need to talk about the future'.

Limerick, haiku, doggerel - it's all poetry to us but could be a winning opportunity for you. We have three tickets to give away to Survive & Thrive 2012 - one for the facebook poet, one for the poet who masters the tweet, and for those not on social media, one for The Big Idea community.

1. Write a poem on the Survive & Thrive theme 'we need to talk about the future'.

2. Post it on Facebook, Twitter or The Big Idea before 12pm Sunday 24 June.

• To appear on The Big Idea use the comment box below.
• If you're using Facebook it must go on our Survive & Thrive page.
• To appear in Twitter use #STpoet. Your poem must be 132 characters or less.

They'll appear in either of the feeds below and you could be Survive & Thrive's inaugural poet laureate.

#STPoet

Some poetry formats - for those of you not used to writing poems:

1. Limerick - the standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth usually rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables.
2. Haiku - the typical length of haiku appearing in the main English-language journals is 10–14 syllables. Use of three lines of up to 17 syllables
3. Doggerel - light verse which is humorous and comic by nature.
4. Couplet - traditionally couplets rhyme, but not all do

So sharpen that quill.