Contest Description
What to Submit?
- ‘I was born with the meaning of home running through my veins.’
- ‘When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.’
Write a Suzette Prime poem on the topic of Light or Shadows, inspired by ONE of the two above quotes by Lauren Eden from her book, The Lioness Awakens, Poems. You may add the quote of your choice to the top of your poem, but also credit Lauren Eden.
Title: Based upon your chosen quote, Light (for option 1), or Shadows (for option 2) - or all in lowercase.
Design of Suzette Prime: Please see the updated Definition under Types of Poems.
Limits placed on design for the contest:
- Syllables per line are capped at 13 (the max number per line).
- Maximum 20 lines.
MY POEM SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE FOR BOTH OPTIONS, but bring your own poetic voice to bear.
Light and Shadows (poetrysoup.com)
Presentation
I prefer it to be presented flush with the left margin and in single spaced lines.
PoetrySoup T & Cs apply.
Syllable counts will be verified by: https://www.howmanysyllables.com/syllable_counter/
The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the results posted.
Prizes (3)
First Prize, Glory 'trophy "
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
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.