Suitable-for-Publishing Poetry Contest. Prewrites welcome. The subject may be anything EXCEPT woe-is-me type of depressing topics. Hint: Robert Frost is my favorite poet.
This is my first contest. I want quality poems. Prewrites are fine AND you may submit a second poem, if you please. I have a STRONG preference for iambic meter and rhyme. If you use formal meter, please state the style you’re shooting for (i.e. iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, trochaic pentameter, etc.) in your author’s notes. However, free or blank verse can also be very pleasing if well done. Clever use of poetic devices will be essential to make your free or blank verse stand out.
This is my first contest. I want quality poems. Prewrites are fine AND you may submit a second poem, if you please. I have a STRONG preference for iambic meter and rhyme. If you use formal meter, please state the style you’re shooting for (i.e. iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, trochaic pentameter, etc.) in your author’s notes. However, free or blank verse can also be very pleasing if well done. Clever use of poetic devices will be essential to make your free or blank verse stand out.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 30
- Rewards: Gold: 500
- Final notes: There were several poems in the finalist list. I like them all but had to choose a single winner.
Thanks everybody.
Contest Winners
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I wandered lonely in the crowd
That thronged the streets of Notting Hill• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
The light shines in the nigh of new moon. Dark wet shapes appear stoic beneath the depressed sky.by mattzaluski 10 lines, 3 comments, on May 24 4:03 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Entries [36]
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Entire pages have been written on the elegance of love / Above the multiple portrayals stands its' most highest sense / Hence the springboaby 2lullabyhaven 20 lines, 31 comments, on Jun 4 6:54 PM 2007. In Contest, Inspirational, Love, Thoughts• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Shall we dance to the tune of everything
Pain and sorrow mixed into a rival fling.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
O DEATH! HOLD BACKby drhemantvinze 28 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 16 7:02 AM 2006. In Society• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I am wine and rust,
a whisper of silk on stone.by ShadesOfGray 30 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 19 11:38 AM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
From pink to purple From blue to gold• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Where the ocean sweeps to me. . . / It comes, fully extends, ‘n reaches me, / Thus leaving no path save to recede within itsby pheonix tears 42 lines, 4 comments, on May 4 11:37 PM 2007. In Thoughts• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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And it began as a new face should,
no full seasons, drops of tears or smiles,• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Solid steel rises cutting a sharp silhouette,by artis 31 lines, on May 24 1:05 AM• Viewed by judge.
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You are simple.
I am complex.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Tired of bloodshed and battle
Rape and riot,killing and carnage• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Mark and Ann got married early in their life
They were both eighteen when Mark asked Ann to be his wifeby judmc 28 lines, 47 comments, on May 23 5:16 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
The future troubles the prophet's face
From chin to forehead• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Dirty dusty roads that stretch for miles, winding through acres of dense pine.by Kathryn Bowden 35 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 4 10:25 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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did you taste
the air?by rustynite 43 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 21 11:41 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Every breathe is as though amoungst the living• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Asleep are my thoughts
to the sight awaken• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Tears upon us as we first awake
Our induction a crying ache• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
I travel in silence and see the day
people around me with contacts of gay• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Memory lingering, like that of long lost friends,
seen in the faces of strangers passing by.
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Somewhere passed where I hear sounds is where I'll safely land.
Before I blow through the trees I'll see the breeze in the wind.by bluecadhands 34 lines, 14 comments, on Apr 9 7:50 PM. In Personal, Thoughts, Life, Sad, Pain, Hope, My own style, Lost in thought, Escape• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Feet stuck
to polished wood~• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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A truth? A version of reality
Ever-contorting and transforming• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
~I am My Own Woman~I've be• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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flying through the air, she's dancing again
her hair wraps around her flushed face as her feet move back and forth,by dreamweaver08 33 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 31 2:05 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
I just couldn't say, 'I'm sorry, I'm wrong'
I could only think of the words to our song.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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So you're saying ...
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Where did it say that?
Nope. Just that I prefer meter and rhyme. Once again, IF you use formal meter, just point out that fact in your author's notes.
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I do not quite understand the purpose of this competition. Are you planning some publication? If so, please could you give more information about the practical details. Or doyou mean that this is a competition for poems that have already been published?
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Sorry if contest title is misleading
Nope, no publication. I'm looking for poems that you believe are of highest quality. ONLY.
The title is intended to dissuade people from posting less-than-topnotch material. I've done all I can to solicit only the best AP has to offer.
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Thank you very much indeed for the silver, much appreciated,
Floorboards.
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