Contest Description
sweet soupers, let’s have fun with this! spin a NEW, ORIGINAL POEM on a form called vignette: a hexastich in 6 lines with 2-4-4-6-7-3 syllable count per line, unrhymed..
there are a few approaches of this genre, but let’s go for the short version… a vignette focuses on ONE mood, character, setting, or object to paint a picture of a moment in time in a SUBTLE MANNER…
choose one of the compound words as your theme: 1. sailboat
or 2. silkworm or 3. staircase or 4.scrapbook....
title of your poem is your theme...
my draft :
my tracks
follow shadows
walking along
pastures of lonely nights,
requesting lucent star’s pail
to drain tears--
n. onclaud
*include sponsor's name, contest title, and date of poem
*write ONE STANZA of vignette only ; under VERSE category
*consider sense of timelessness, poetic mood, flow of imagery for your piece
*follow all rules of TPS and that of sponsor's
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David Galef, writer and director of the creative-writing program at Montclair State University, states that the end ( of a vignette) is suggestive rather than conclusive… a requirement for your poem!
i’m so looking forward to your wonderful entries… go and have a heyday!
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