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'Image prompt' Contest Info

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Suzette Richards

10/13/2025

Premiere Contest WinnerHer yellow flowers, a fading warmth

The scent of damp wool,
my own retreating back.
Her skirt, a pale flag
in the periphery.
Yellow blooms, blurred
in the streetlamp's halo.
The weight of a memory,
a phantom touch.
My shadow stretches,
longer than the night.
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Richards Avatar
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hi Jami, I would like to include the link to your poem in my article "Metamodern Imagism | PoetrySoup.com". If you agree to it, please indicate it here in your reply. Thank you. Su
Patterson Avatar
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I agree. Thank You this would be great.
Hind Avatar
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Now this is worthy of first!!! Wow. Beautiful,
Patterson Avatar
October 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Thank you.
Anaya Avatar
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Congratulations on your trophy win Jamie! Lovely metamodern. You are the character , his perspective. Love the way you inserted yourself~
Patterson Avatar
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thank you!
Dietrich Avatar
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Amazing work, Jami. Congratulations on the trophy win
Patterson Avatar
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thank you!
Sharma Avatar
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Wow!! what a take, congratulations.
Patterson Avatar
October 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Thank you
Richards Avatar
October 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Congratulations Jami on your trophy win in my contest, Metamodern Imagism, with this stunning poem that honours my call for: layered, intentional, image-driven, and rooted in materiality. It doesn’t perform sincerity—it embodies it. The content is devastatingly precise: image-led, emotionally layered, metamodern ache. The headnote (title) isn’t just a label—it’s the poem’s thesis: ‘Fading warmth’ sets the emotional arc before the first line lands.
Patterson Avatar
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This was inspired by my nephew he asked what I thought the man saw and I started wondering that too.
Etgen-Baker Avatar
October 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
great response to the image prompt...best wishes with this contest entry
Patterson Avatar
October 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Thank you
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