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2010 Contests - Preliminary List - Please Review
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All are welcome to comment on the list but I will give preference to Mentors and Advocates for the final decisions of the 11 contests in 2010.
The list below is a compilation of ideas offered by members of Neopoet. Please provide feedback before 2/5/2010. No feedback will be considered after that date and the final list of contests will be posted on 2/6/2010. This list is presented in no particular order, final matching of contest and month will be determined separately.
2010 Contest List - Preliminary
The list below is a compilation of ideas offered by members of Neopoet. Please provide feedback before 2/5/2010. No feedback will be considered after that date and the final list of contests will be posted on 2/6/2010. This list is presented in no particular order, final matching of contest and month will be determined separately.
2010 Contest List - Preliminary
- Alliteration
- No more than 20 lines
- An example of alliteration
- in each line?
- At least once per 4 lines?
- X times per poem?
- No meter constraints
- Subject = Sparrows
- Villanelle
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle
- Open Subject
- Design a meter
- Create a meter
- Document meter in poem submission
- Subject = Sky
- Cannot be an established meter
- Freeform
- 100 characters or less, including title
- Subject = Dirt
- Japanese
- Any documented Japanese style
- Subject = Rain
- Must provide link defining style
- Blankish Verse – Simile
- Exactly 12 lines
- No metaphor allowed
- No rhyming allowed
- Can be any meter
- Subject = Fire
- Worst Poem
- 300 characters or less, including title
- Subject = Marigolds
- Must be your original work
- Acrostics
- Must include the following words:
- Milk
- Elephant
- Napkin
- Spoon
- Ocean
- 50 Lines or less, including title
- Must include the following words:
- Love Poem
- 500 characters or less, including title
- Cannot use any form of the following words
- Love
- Hate
- Husband
- Mate
- Wife
- Heart
- Soul
- Feel
- Happy
- Joy
- Sad
- Misery
- Metaphor
- 500 characters or less, including title
- Cannot contain any simile
- No meter constraints
- Subject = Hate
- Profanity
- Select a single profane word
- Provide a defense or condemnation
- 300 characters or less, including title
- No meter constraints
- Narrative Poetry
- 500 Characters or less, including title
- Must tell a story
- Must reference the following:
- Mice
- Cups
- Tea
- Snow
- Fission
- Rhyme-a-polooza
- A consistent stanza structure
- No more than 10 lines per stanza
- No more than 6 stanzas
- No more than 14 syllables per line
- Must have a rhyme scheme
- Document rhyme scheme in poem submission
- Open subject