Writer Cafe's Next Top Poet  March 3, 2012 - March 5, 2012

Contest Completed

Congratulations

1st Place - A CARNIVAL IN HER EYES
2nd Place - ~ The Chess Queen's Ocular
3rd Place - Early
4th Place - [writing deleted]
5th Place - Dream of the Rose's Kiss
6th Place - Trinitoe
7th Place - Oh Vatican.
8th Place - Ode to the trees
9th Place - I know she's braver than me
10th Place - Picaresque

Details

2nd Edition.

Ongoing contest with rankings, enter a poem every 4 days. Minimum 20 submissions.

Submit a poem now while it's early, it might get hard to score in a month if contestants grow as I predict.

What kind of poems will rank?

- original explorations of common themes
- bonus points for erotic or spiritual verse
- a good vocabulary
- unexpected endings
- rhyming or decent haiku
- self-important and highly stylized verse
- it must be readable, not too long
- clear, melodic and lyrical
- not too emo or brooding to the point of sounding immature
- bonus points for nature poetry
- bonus points for social-activism themes

* Do please avoid putting a poem you already put into the rankings.

oh and thanks!

Moderator


Stats

32 Contestants
32 Submissions
406 Views
Created Mar 3, 2012