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Babel, Bait, Blame, Blank Check

Contest Judged:  4/10/2024 7:08:00 PM
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet | Send Soup Mail
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Contest Description

Please ensure you carefully read the contest details before submitting your entry. Thank you.

1/  Kindly keep the title unchanged: using your own title automatically disqualifies your poem.
2/  Select one of the following topics for the contest:
3/Subject matters are derived from renowned quotations.
4/  Select any form.
5/  Submission requires a minimum of 12 lines or a maximum of 50 lines.

6/  Put the date, and the name of the sponsor in the poet's note section. If not possible, enter the contest anyway.

Do not put your name on your poem.

Looking for vibrant imagery, metaphors, and other poetic devices of your choice. Please feel free to structure your poem the way you like, but ensure that you follow the form aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke emotion and convey meaning.

Title 1/  BABEL

Quote: A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.Alexander Smith

Title 2/   BAIT

Quote:  Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. William Blake

Title 3/ BLAME

 Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. 
John Burroughs

Title 4/   BLANK CHECK

Quote: If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others. Ayn Rand

Good Luck, Enjoy

 


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