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The Sonnet

Contest Judged:  6/12/2025 9:52:00 PM
Sponsored by: Miranda Hawley | Send Soup Mail
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 PlacePoemTitlePoet
Contest Winner Medal 1 CRAYON BOX DIVINE DREAMS Beata Agustin
Contest Winner Medal 1 That's Not Safe Becoming trude from the ruins
Contest Winner Medal 1 Give me the Rhythm Christine Watts
Contest Winner Medal 1 Give me the Rhythm Debjani Mitra
Contest Winner Medal 1 Crayon Box Dreams John Anderson
Contest Winner Medal 1 Give Me The Rhythm Karen Jones
Contest Winner Medal 1 Crayon Box Dreams Sotto Poet
Contest Winner Medal 1 Crayon Box Dreams Sara Kendrick
Contest Winner Medal 1 Give Me the Rhythm Crystol Woods
Contest Winner Medal 2 Crayon Box Dreams Charles Messina
Contest Winner Medal 2 Crayon Box Dreams Madison Power
Contest Winner Medal 2 Crayon Box Dreams Constance La France
Contest Winner Medal 2 Give me rhythm joseph randall
Contest Winner Medal 3 Of Crayon Box Dreams Andrea Dietrich
Contest Winner Medal 3 Crayon Box Dreams David Crandall
Contest Winner Medal 3 Crayon Box Dreams Thompson Emate
Contest Winner Medal 3 That's Not Safe Subimal Sinha-Roy
Contest Winner Medal 3 That's Not Safe Victor Buhagiar
Honorable Mention Give Me the Rhythm Kim Rodrigues
Honorable Mention Crayon Box Dreams Jasmine Tsai
Honorable Mention Give me the Rhythm Regina Mcintosh


Contest Description

What to Submit? Sonnet is the only style of poems I will accept. Here are the 3 chooces of titles that you will be choosing from.

  1. Give me the Rhythm.
  2. That's Not Safe
  3. Crayon Box Dreams

If you want to win DON'T.

  1. Use wraparound lines
  2. Use complex verbage. If your poem is over my head I won't choose it.
  3. Nothing political or politically adjecent​  look, even if we agree on what the political climate should be, I don't want anything political. 

ALSO

  • I want to physically see the fact that it is a sonnet, meaning 3 stanzas of 4 lines and the last stanza of 2 lines.  I hate the one stanza sonnets, or at least my eyes do.

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.


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