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This will be my 51st AP contest so please help me celebrate by writing a quatrain, rhymed or unrhymed about one of three prompts: - anniversaries (it will be my first AP anniversary on September 28th) - anby judyjudyjudy 450 points, ends September 16, 3 entries In Contest
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We are coming up to the 7th anniversary of 911 on September 11th. I don't suppose anyone really needs reminding but I thought I would hold a contest on a "Give Peace a Chance" theme. Positive thoughts only please but mind y
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Here's another word bank, made up of two lists -- nouns and verbs. Please pick 5 of each for a 50 word piece. Some of the nouns may be "verbed" and vice versa. So if you need to use one of them in the other role, please fe
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Have fun with this word bank. Here are 26 words and I would like to use 15 of them in a write of 20 lines or less. WORD BANK apple braggadocio comfortable daisy emolient fussy give
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A while back, I ran a contest about rites of passage. Here's another, which you will probably think is more complicated in its requirements. First, here are two prompts; I may add more later on if I can think of some that sby judyjudyjudy 1150 points, ended September 2, 3 entries
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we all scream for ice cream. Does it matter what kind? Haagen Dacz Ben and Jerry Baskin Robbins ice cream and cake at a birthday party soft ice cream from the truck Eskimo pie ice cream sandwby judyjudyjudy 300 points, ended August 8, 10 entries In Contest
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Write me a piece about a summer wedding or a wedding at any season or Write about any other serious occasion: a wedding, a wake, a funeral, bar mitzvah, christening, birthday party, engagement party. Hope that gives you enoby judyjudyjudy 400 points, ended July 26, 5 entries In Contest
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I'd like you to write me a piece about a temporary disability you have suffered at some point in your life. This disability should be physical and you can describe the difficulties it created for you in going about your usuaby judyjudyjudy 600 points, ended July 23, 8 entries In Contest
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just a little cocktail of a contest about things we drink in summer, alcoholic or non-alcoholic, tall or short. just 4 or 5 lines and make it rhyme.by judyjudyjudy 450 points, ended July 19, 10 entries
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Family picnic, BBQ, church picnic, company picnic, romantic picnic in the moonlight. Write me a poem about a picnic, 20 - 60 lines, rhymed or unrhymed as the fancy takes you. Think of grammar and spelling mistakes aby judyjudyjudy 700 points, ended July 17, 11 entries In Contest
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My last two contests have asked people to submit entries on how they found out the facts of life. By "facts of life", I meant the sexual facts of life but one of my contestants, who shall remain nameless of course, submittedby judyjudyjudy 750 points, ended July 2, 1 entries In Contest
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FOR MEN ONLY This contest is for men only and is the counterpart of DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN in which I asked women to submit pieces about how they learned the facts of life. I suspect men are a little more retiby judyjudyjudy 1000 points, ended July 2, 5 entries In Contest
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FOR WOMEN ONLY Can you remember when your mother told you about the facts of life otherwise known as the birds and bees? Before that, you might have thought the stork was responsible or maybe the doctor brought yoby judyjudyjudy 700 points, ended June 30, 6 entries In Contest
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Don't know about you but the weather (hot and humid) has been on the minds of everyone in the city where I live. So here's some weather prompts to help you write a poem about any season or weather related topic you like.by judyjudyjudy 625 points, ended June 29, 11 entries
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WHO WAS OPHELIA? "How could I your true love know From another one? "By his cockle hat and staff And his sandel shoon." That's Ophelia wandering sadly through Hamlet and leaving us wonderingby judyjudyjudy 700 points, ended June 21, 5 entries In Contest
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Jenny Kiss'd Me Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that wealth anby judyjudyjudy 300 points, ended June 10, 6 entries
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I held a contest a while ago requesting poems about loss and grief. A lot of you responded so I have decided to run another one. Not to sound corny, loss is a universal human experience. I would welcome poems about
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... than anywhere else on earth. This contest is for Garden Club members and those who wish they were. It's the time of year when even those who don't have access to a patch of earth are just itching to plant some sby judyjudyjudy 300 points, ended June 7, 5 entries
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Never eat at a diner named Mom's Never play cards with a man named Doc And never make love to a woman [or man] Whose troubles are greater than your own. I think this is just an old folk saying (maybeby judyjudyjudy 300 points, ended June 6, 5 entries In Contest
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The definition of normal has become important to me since I recently applied for a disability pension because I am bi polar. I had been determined to get along without one because I never liked the word "disabled" and neverby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended May 30, 10 entries In Contest
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This hit me out of the blue. I just did a couple of surveys and decided to get on the bandwagon. Will make this one painless. 1. What is your favourite colour? 2. What is your favourite food? 3.
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Loved the entries in the Twenty Seven contest. It didn't strike me until later that most of you mentioned work only in passing. So, if those who entered that contest plus a few others would like to write about the work you
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...and all the men and women merely players. Here's the link for a passage in Shakespeare's As You Like It known as The Seven Ages of Man: oldpoetry.com/opoem/15490-William-Shakespeare-All-The-World-s-A-Stagby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended May 13, 4 entries In Contest
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My nephew is turning 30 on May 5th and I have written him a rhyming poem about the tooth fairy, frivolous but with a theme of not forgetting childhood. (I think!) Perry is a married man with two boys and another chiby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended May 12, 4 entries In Contest
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This is my 27th contest and it's simple and straightforward. Please write me a poem, 20 to 60 lines, about what your life was like when you were 27, what you were doing and what you remember of your surroundings -- tby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended May 11, 8 entries In Contest
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The square of the hypotenuse The square of the hypotenuse The square of the hypotenuse. What was that it happened To Socrates to Jesus? I am not sure if this is the entire poem or not butby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended April 26, 7 entries
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First of all, here's a poem from the Old Poets, not exactly a prompt, just something to think about, an example of a haunting poem of loss: oldpoetry.com/opoem/7175_Dylan_Thomas_Fern_Hill There is form of thby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended April 25, 7 entries In Contest
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According to Google, chapbooks started as timeless books of jests and tales, sold by itinerant chapmen in England in the 16th century. Wikipedia says that chapbooks have "been revitalized in the past 20 years by theby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended May 2, 6 entries In Contest
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William Shakespeare's birthday falls on April 23rd. They say he died on his birthday (in 1616) and left his second best bed to his wife. No one is sure if that was a sign of love or not. Anyway, Shakespeare was borby judyjudyjudy 550 points, ended April 26, 4 entries In Contest
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Please use one of the following literary terms as a prompt for your entry. Definitions are taken from Wikipedia. 1. Pathetic Fallacy - "description of inanimate object in a manner that endows them with human feelinby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended April 25, 5 entries
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Here's another poetic theory that appears in POETIC STATEMENT AND CRITICAL DOGMA, the book I referred to in my last contest. "...the poem is experience, not mediated statement about experience...the poem is itself thby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended April 19, 7 entries In Contest
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Hope there will be a few of you who haven't been scared off by the weighty sound of my contest title. It is also the title of a book by Gerald Graff, which dates back to 1970. Just started reading it today, a bit nervously,
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The rich are different from you and me. They have no money. - F. Scott Fitzgerald The rich don't know much about the poor and the poor are too busy to know much about the rich. - judyjudyjudy (I'mby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended March 31, 5 entries In Contest
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This is another trip along Memory Lane and you have three options: 1. Imagine yourself back in school, sitting in your desk. The subject is poetry, perhaps Wordsworth's Tinturn Abbey or Shakespeare's 29th Sonnet.by judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended March 15, 7 entries In Contest
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Just thought some Gilbert and Sullivan parodies might cheer you up in the dead of winter. Here are some examples of the lyrics, just to get you going. Poor wandering one, If such poor love as mine Can help
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1. That old rhyme has a nice, cosy sound to it. If you like, you can write about bedbugs from that point of view. 2. On the other hand, you may choose to describe what it is like to do battle with these unpleasantby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended February 16, 6 entries In Contest
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the road less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost Have you ever been in the position of having to m
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I read a poem today by one of the Old Poets, Archibald MacLeish. It's inspired me to set up a contest with the following prompts: 1. A poem should be... 2. A poem shouldn't be... Start your poem
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It would be nice to read some haiku. Please make them about the season of your choice and please include that season in your author's notes. Have fun with them.by judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended January 23, 15 entries In Contest
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That's the next thing, now that Christmas and New Year's are over. Now, unless you're into winter sports, you wait for Spring. And to help you wait, here's a contest. Subject: Waiting for Spring or Spring and whatby judyjudyjudy 525 points, ended January 15, 6 entries In Contest
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