What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of .............
Prompt: a flower bud (your choice of flower, but please choose only one, or one type)
Write a 5-stanza poem (4 lines per stanza), using the same type flower as the prompt for each stanza. It could be the same bud each stanza, or could be different buds on the same bush, or a flower arrangement that uses the same type of flowers, etc...
No rhyme (this time) [end rhyme].
*Each stanza must be complete in itself, able to stand alone* Though, there can also be a larger arc across all of them, or an overall sense of development from the order the emotions are placed in.
Assign an emotion to each stanza, and show the flower bud through the lens of that emotion. (Adjectives welcome; verbs preferred)
Example, stanza one could describe the flower bud through the lens of fear, stanza two could be anger, stanza three could be peace, stanza four could be joy, stanza five could be happiness.
The goal is to exercise seeing the same object from many different emotional angles.
*** CLARIFICATION -- yes, I am requesting that you omit the use of end rhyme. I chose the quatrain designation because i am requesting 4-line stanzas, and quatre is french for 4, and quatrain is a french term. I am aware Poetry Soup defines quatrain as including rhyme; however, Poetry Soup also states several times that quatrain is a form of verse. Verse means meter (even free verse uses meter, only without fixed line length), and I am not requesting meter either. So yes, I am requesting a cow without horns or udder, just the four legs, please. Entries have already been submitted that include rhyme -- i realize the ask for no rhyme was likely confusing, so it's really not a big deal. I didn't see a better category for 4-line stanzas than the quatrain designation. I figured that since most authors would not be using meter anyway, that they might not mind omitting rhyme, as well. If being strict about form definitions is important to you as a matter of principle and you wish to adhere to the definition of quatrain, please include the meter as well as the rhyme.***
Preparing Your Entry
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Language
English, Spanish, French welcome.
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.