Best Contests Poems

I pick up my notepad and find a sharp pencil
(Hope any comments won’t be too detrimental)
 
I scan the contest themes and hope I’m inspired
I’ll enter an old poem if I’m just too darn tired
 
I post my ‘best effort’ and hope that I win...

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This contest style’s description is one I’ve never heard
I’m unfamiliar with that particular word 
An internet search comes up empty 
However, others seem to have poems aplenty 
My eyes are getting blurry a total collapse seems imminent 
Quickly penning an entry appears to be the...

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Entering contests isn’t a race
First past the post may not get a place
Don’t make it a mission
To get first position …
Attacking sponsors is a disgrace

Written after reading F J Thomas's blog  AFTERAFFECTS OF HOSTING A CONTEST
30th May 2015...

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You LOVE my poem (or you say)
Your glowing comment really made my day
I simply smile and am floating on air 
Sit down contentedly writing at my chair
Enter a contest and wait…
The contest is judged  - I await my fate ….
Sweet N/A



10th January 2015...

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To post a poem is not a marathon*
   when entered in a contest to be placed-
but rather there for others urged upon
   to read- become inspired with its grace.

Unlike a sports Olympics, contests are
   to challenge inner selves to...

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If we never want to...
experience poetry forms new

Or... read how other poets
on the same theme do it

As well as... meet a deadline
with a poem ready on time

Or maybe... show capability
of your rule readability

And... no need to discern
new words to learn

If any of these are so...
then...

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Winning contests pleases folk;
Losing makes ‘em shrug.
Write a lot and go for broke;
Get that writing bug.

Try new forms and have a blast;
Enter, have a ball.
Nothing wrong with coming last;
Laugh about it all.

for Joe’s I just can’t win contest
Using the 7/5 trochee, a form created by...

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Someone inquired of me about poetry contests,
And I shared some thoughts and considerations,
The contests, I wrote, are an incentive to write
Learning about poetry’s forms and foundations.

Don’t enter a contest for an opinion of your work
For your very best will sometimes go unnoticed
Some sponsors recognize only...

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Contests! good for building egos up

great for knocking creativity down

as I pore over words and sounds

to make my poetry jump off the page

to come alive in others minds

in the most imaginative way.

Contests! we don't need them

they drive us crazy every day

putting our best foot forward

and...

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THE ELEPHANT

The elephant is big and stout
And strong enough to knock you out
But when he really knows you well
The elephant will like your smell

The elephant is my best friend
For what I hope will never end
The trust we share will never part
For how we care to...

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Eight contests to write for
Eight, is more than enough
Eight is the will
I need to fulfill
The chance that may seem like a bluff

I know that my body can do it
I know that my strength will endure
I know that I can
For the sake of my plan
To be...

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All little boys like to master the fart
Among their peers its considered an art
It must be loud
To make them proud
If stinky, a winner right from the start

...

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Once again I write what I think
Include your name, hell that stinks
It should all be read blind
Just imagine the finds
Leave the Judges purely in think





All contests should be read blind, unless a Workshop named!...

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Why do I have a distinct feeling that
Some of us are addicted to Poetry Soup?
I look so forward to my Soup Mail chats
And those occasional poems about poop!

First thing in the morning I check to see
If there is a Blog I simply must read,
If I...

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Poem guns in hand
we stand ready
to write those poems
that will spin your “heady”.

Sexy adjectives describe nude nouns.
Risky adverbs put dull verbs down.
Smoking pistols shoot sharp rhymes
at fake poets who commit word crimes.

When we win we strut our stuff
like hot chicks who can’t get enough.
When we...

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