Contest Description
What to Submit?
1 New Poem on any theme
4 lines per stanza, 16 Lines only
8 syllables per line, Example below
Use rhymezone.com and howmanysyllables.com
Rhyme Scheme: aabB, ccbB, ddbB, eebB, Where B is the Refrain
Prizes
Multiple Placements
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. Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.
You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests.
Example
My Muse Once Sleeping is Awake
The blackened veins of parlor’s scent.
The roses blue and weeping spent.
The dismal pen — a slogging snake.
My Muse Once Sleeping Is Awake.
A harbinger hung on the door —
This shrouded wreath — a heartless core.
The piercing words, a pounding stake.
My Muse Once Sleeping Is Awake.
For if I’d only been dreaming . . .
Then why my lips senseless screaming?
The serpent raps, I feel its shake —
My Muse Once Sleeping Is Awake.
The faint of dread, when quill was dry,
I wondered if it’s breath would sigh.
No nightmares please! It’s my mistake!
My Muse Once Sleeping Is Awake.
- Kim Rodrigues -