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Edward Anon Portielje Painter - The Letter

Laurits Andersen Ring - An old woman from Lille Næstved knitting

Fabio Cipolla - Italian painter - Children in front of a pastry

Get into the conversation

• Must be new poem,

when you enter a poem, it will automatically give me the date written.

• You don’t have to put info of the contest anywhere. Unimportant to me.

• Please, I like punctuation, will be marked lower if it isn’t.

• 10 syllables or less across and no more than 20 lines

• I want imagery
• emotion
• Good luck 

What to Submit?

1 original, poem on the theme of .............
Any form is acceptable.

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.