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A Rainy Day

Contest Judged:  10/6/2018 12:00:00 AM
Sponsored by: Sara Kendrick | Send Soup Mail
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 PlacePoemTitlePoet
Contest Winner Medal 1 Rain Falls Jesse Rowe
Contest Winner Medal 1 Say Carpe Diem- and Enjoy Sandra Haight
Contest Winner Medal 3 Healing Rain Deb Radke
5 Throw Your Umbrella To the Wind Edward Ibeh
5 Finally a Rainy Day Line Gauthier
5 Rainy Days Joseph May
6 Rainy Day Carpe Diem Sheri Fresonke Harper
6 Living the Rainy Day Subimal Sinha-Roy
6 A Rainy Day Supraja Kannan
6 A Band of Color Mike Gentile
6 A Moment's Rain Gregory Richard Barden
8 Message of Rainfall Beata Agustin
8 A Piece of Yesterday Sandison Jumbo
9 A Rainy Day of Hope Lu Loo
9 The Beauty In Rain Constance La France
9 Wisdom In a Nutshell Maureen Mcgreavy
10 Arc of Happiness Kim Rodrigues
10 A Rainy Day Jack Horne
11 A Rainy Day Joanna Daniel
12 Winter Rain Jane Gomm
12 Rainbow Umbrella Andrea Dietrich
13 Let It Rain Awhile Nette Onclaud
14 Wear Your Courage As a Glove, Never Fear To Speak Robert Lindley
14 Jump In That Puddle Caren Krutsinger
15 Squirreled Away John Lawless
Honorable Mention A Rainy Day Contest Dietra Reid
Honorable Mention Cheers Jerry Hackett


Contest Description

A poem about a rainy day. You can go in any direction with this one be expressive and creative. Please no more than 20 lines in length. Place the number of the picture that you are using at the end of your poem plus the date written. Please look up Carpe Diem to see how to write in that style. Use one of the pictures below as your inspiration to write your poem. Enjoy this one. Yeah!!!

Try this site to get an idea about Carpe Diem...

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/carpe-diem-poems-making-most-time

 

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Prizes

First Prize, Glory
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
Twelve Honorable Mentions

Preparing Your Entry

Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts. 

English Language

Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.

A Note to Poetry Contestants

You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests.


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