What to Submit?
1 original rattling rhyme!
In March, an anonymous and awesome Souper gifted me a PM, and I thought it was high time I used my powers to host a contest!
I would like you to write me a rhyme which rattles along, barely pausing for breath! For this contest, please use a metre which stresses every third syllable, like this:
YA ta ta YA ta ta
Or this:
ta ta YA ta ta YA
Or even this:
ta YA ta ta YA ta
I don't mind how many "feet" to a line, or how long or short your poem is.
I use this metre a lot in my poetry, and it's well suited to fun poems, speedy poems, action poems... but it's up to you! If you'd like some examples, you can take a look at my poems "Last Tussle in Brussels", "Bow vs Brain" and "Hillbilly Hank" - or you could take the chance to read "From a Railway Carriage" by Robert Louis Stevenson - a childhood favourite of mine!
A few rules:
- Please write a NEW poem, dated on or after 29 July 2018.
- Please call your poem "A Rattling Rhyme" (that, and only that) so I don't read it - you're welcome to include your own title within the body text if you like.
- Please also left align your poem and don't italicise the whole poem (you can use italics for emphasis within the poem if you like) - this is so I don't recognise your "handwriting"!
- As ever, no names, and please date your poem.
- Have fun! (That's an actual rule...)
Prizes
As I see fit!
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.