[Edit] 24/5/2025
Your Suzette Swan Arc (formerly 'Inframetron') does not have to be a lengthy verse. Suzette Swan Arc poetry treats verse like a nonlinear conceptual space, and aims for a natural sinuous flow, culminating in the signature open-ended finale of the verse (this may include an ellipsis), i.e. there is no beginning (hook), development, and resolution/conclusion commonly associated with poetry forms. My poem, WATER, above illustrates the line count particular to Suzette Swan Arc poetry with relation to the line limit of the contest—however, don’t include the pilcrows in your poem submitted.
What to Submit?
Craft a 30-lines or less ELEMENTS OF NATURE Suzette Swan Arc. The line count includes the negative spaces between the lines!
NO QUOTES INCLUDED, PLEASE.
Choose ONE
The elements of nature—water, fire, air, and earth: An emotional echo in nature—swing (oscillate, and not juxtapose) between objective and subjective perception throughout the poem. You may use rhythmic devices that embrace oscillation—such as alliteration, consonance, and enjambment.
Title (just the one word): The element of nature you chose to base your poem on, eg WATER.
Presentaion: Indentation, capitalisation, and punctuation are optional.
EXAMPLE POEMS
Water (poetrysoup.com)
Earth (poetrysoup.com)
Air (poetrysoup.com)
Fire (poetrysoup.com)
Recommended Reading -
Klein's Vase Verse - A New Poetic Form | PoetrySoup.com
Q & A
Please use the blog to pose questions relevant to this contest and not on my poem(s) or via soup mail. Thank you.
I also explain the terminology used, for example, non-linear, oscillation, open-ended, etc. Don't guess. Also, in all my example poems I clearly demonstrated these techniques See the blog for the pictorial representation of one of my poems.
See the updated edits where I included examples to illustrate the poetic devices used.
Elements of Nature - Suzette Swan Arc Poetry - Suzette Richards's Blog (poetrysoup.com)
Judging
Feedback, as always, will be given on the top 3 poems only (in line with most international contests practices).
The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the results posted.
Prizes
First Prize, Glory
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
7 Honorable Mentions - if warrented