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Contest Judged:  7/22/2026 12:53:00 PM
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 PlacePoemTitlePoet
Contest Winner Medal 1 Deadly Pattern Jack Horne
Contest Winner Medal 1 Cloud Patterns Oliver Mckeithan
Contest Winner Medal 2 The Pattern of Light Joanna Daniel
Contest Winner Medal 2 Patterns in Nature Constance La France
Contest Winner Medal 3 Pattern Margarita Lillico
Contest Winner Medal 3 PATTERNS of LIFE Brian Strand
Contest Winner Medal 3 Patterns Joseph P. DiMino
Contest Winner Medal 3 - Grandma's Handmade Pattern - Anne-Lise Andresen
4 Battered Butterfly Patterns Karen Jones
4 Pattern Maker I Am Anaya
5 Winter Window Patterns Faye Gibson
5 Patterns David Crandall
5 Sudoku Checkmate Reason A. Poteet
6 Patterns on a Tiger and Zebra Valsa George
6 Of Floral Patterns Nette Onclaud
6 Patterns Krishnanand Guptar
7 Silver Origami Pattern Sotto Poet
7 Patterns, Patterns Everywhere! Natasha L Scragg
8 Nature's Patterns Alison A Smith nee Howarth
8 Embroidery Patterns Patri Venkata Ramana
9 Weaving Patterns Sandra Haight
9 Kaleidoscopic Patterns Subimal Sinha-Roy
10 The pattern of hope Nazia Sultan
10 A Male Pattern Andrea Dietrich
10 Patterns of Brolgas in Flight the barefoot bard
11 Special Child's Milestones Beata Agustin
11 When the Pattern Hesitates John Anderson
12 Pattern Of One's Life  Paula Goldsmith

Contest Description

What to Submit?

1 original, poem on the theme of "pattern/s"
Any form is acceptable.

This is a very relaxed contest. I do ask for no poems over 20 lines. You can go in any way with the theme of Pattern/s. You can go with sewing pattern/s, carpentary pattern/s, geometric pattern/s, light giving pattern/s, etc.  Please use pattern or patterns in your title so maybe I will not read it by accident.

Repeat: 

Poems of  20 lines or less. It can be a Haiku or a sonnet or a rhyme with 5 stanzas of 4 lines each. I like short poems. 

Pattern or Patterns in the title in some way

You can go any way with the theme of pattern/s

Remember and respect the sites rules

I thought of this because when we were first married, we had very little money and I made a lot of my two daughter's clothes and I have made something for my son but mostly for the girls. When my first grandson was little I made a few things for him as well. 

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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