Contest Description
What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of .......Anything...
THANKS FOR THE GREAT ENTRIES ON MY LAST CONTEST.
JUST A REMINDER IN MY RHYMING CONTESTS I AM VERY STRICT ON PERFECT RHYMES. REPETITIOUS FORMS LIKE PANTOUMS, GHAZALS AND VILLANELLES WILL NOT SCORE WELL BECAUSE THE REPETITION IS PENALIZED.
YOUR BEST RHYMING POEM POSTED JULY-DECEMBER 2016. PLEASE DATE ON THE BOTTOM
REMEMBER NO NAMES, AND I FAVOR INTERNAL RHYMES.
ALSO DO NOT ENTER A POEM THAT PLACED HIGHER THAN 5 IN ANY OF MY PREVIOUS CONTESTS, I WANT POEMS I HAVEN'T SEEN YET!
ENJOY!
Prizes
First Prize, Recognition
Second Prize, Recognition
Third Prize, Recognition
Up to eight placements according to score.
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
IF THE POEM YOU ARE ENTERING HAS PLACED HIGHER THAN 5 IN A PREVIOUS CONTEST PLEASE CHOOSE ANOTHER AS I WILL RECOGNIZE IT.