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If you enter this contest, you may enter any
other contests in the series 100 for which you are eligible.
Open to All Winkling members and their invitees.
Entrants outside of Winklings by
Winkling member invitation only -
invitee name must be placed in author's notes.
Form Poetry from Haiku to Rictameter, etc.
[Minimum of 16 lines so do a suite for senryu, etc.]
Prompt:
"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name."
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" (5.1.7-12), Theseus to his companions ....
Maximum Two Entries Allowed per poet.
Write for an anthology called "Yellow Moon".
The prompt suggests something imaginative.
Up to two poems.
Quality of entry should be at a level fit for an anthology publication.
THE RULES:
1. Proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation are required and WILL matter.
2. Please, no sticky caps
3. No cutting, suicide, or self-mutilation
4. No erotica, tastefully sensual is ok as long as it fits the subject matter
5. Step out of the box and learn
6. If you use an image, please credit accordingly
7. Please left align - unless your poem specifically calls for a different format
8. It's ALL about the poetry
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If you enter this contest, you may enter any
other contests in the series 100 for which you are eligible.
Open to All Winkling members and their invitees.
Entrants outside of Winklings by
Winkling member invitation only -
invitee name must be placed in author's notes.
Form Poetry from Haiku to Rictameter, etc.
[Minimum of 16 lines so do a suite for senryu, etc.]
Prompt:
"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name."
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" (5.1.7-12), Theseus to his companions ....
Maximum Two Entries Allowed per poet.
Write for an anthology called "Yellow Moon".
The prompt suggests something imaginative.
Up to two poems.
Quality of entry should be at a level fit for an anthology publication.
THE RULES:
1. Proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation are required and WILL matter.
2. Please, no sticky caps
3. No cutting, suicide, or self-mutilation
4. No erotica, tastefully sensual is ok as long as it fits the subject matter
5. Step out of the box and learn
6. If you use an image, please credit accordingly
7. Please left align - unless your poem specifically calls for a different format
8. It's ALL about the poetry
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 4, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 2000, Silver: 1000, Bronze: 500, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: Wonderful wonderful entries to this contest.
Those of you who have not read the three haiku/senryu entries, owe it to yourselves to read them.
They are beautifully executed and presented with skill and expertise.
Thank you all for your wonderful entries. A pleasure to have read such fine vesrse. You are all winners with Winklings.
Contest Winners
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Bronze trophy winner
Honorable mention
Entries [4]
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Just reading
and viewing the page is an experience. Good luck with this fine contest. Frans -
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Thank you
kind friend.
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Thank you for the
HMs for both entries.
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