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Okay, I left my brain in Georgia (currently up in Ohio) along with my Top 10 list for the haibun challenge. I will update this post when I get back down to Georgia, but I don’t need my list to remember the winning haibun. It’s not because the other haibuns were not excellent; it’s because this haibun haunted me personally (as the father of five children).
Look for updates next week, but here’s the winning haibun in the meantime:
Splash of Silence, by Taylor Graham
He left his room in disarray – toy cars scattered, coloring books on the floor with broken crayons. He didn’t make his bed this morning. How his mother would like to straighten the sheets, pull up the comforter, and fluff the pillow in its place. She watches at the window as a searcher follows his dog down the street.
creekwater giggles –
a deep pool under willow
dances small debris
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Wow! Please congratulate Taylor. She wrote an amazing haibun. Like I said, I plan to release the rest of the Top 10 list once I have it with me.
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I hope you’re ready to poem, because it’s time for another WD Poetic Form Challenge. This time around, we’ll be tackling haibun poems. Click the previous link to view the details, but a haibun combines a prose poem with a haiku.
If this is your first WD Poetic Form Challenge, here are the guidelines:
- Write as many original haibun poems as you wish and share them in the comments below
- Please include your name as you would like it to appear in print (just in case you win)
- Deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. (Atlanta, Georgia time) on September 16, 2012
- Have fun!
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, these challenges incorporate the three F’s: fun, free, and fame. These challenges are primarily for the fun of poeming, and they’re completely free. But the winning poet/poem is selected to be published in a future issue of Writer’s Digest magazine as an example of the poetic form–this time a haibun.
So roll up your sleeves, unlock your brain, and start poeming!
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A week ago, I explained the quatern. It’s a fun form that includes a refrain but not too many rules beyond that. (Click here to learn more about the quatern.) Anyway, I … Read more
It’s time for another poetic form challenge from Writer’s Digest. This time around, we’ll be tackling luc bat poems, which are poems of alternating lines of 6 and 8 syllables with an intricate rhyme scheme. You’ll just need to check out my original post to see what’s involved, but I promise they’re fun after you wrap your head around the form.
The winner of the challenge will be featured in a future issue of Writer’s Digest magazine as part of my Poetic Asides column. And yes, anyone can win–so previous experience is not considered (just your luc bats).
Here are the luc bat poem challenge rules:
- Write and share your luc bat entries in the comments below.
- Your luc bats must be previously unpublished (and yes, it’s okay to enter any you’ve only shared on this or your blog).
- Challenge begins now and wraps at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday (6/23/12).
- Results will be announced on the Poetic Asides blog–probably around the beginning of next week.
- Please remember to include your name with your luc bat(s) as you would like it to appear in the Writer’s Digest magazine. You know, just in case your luc bat is selected as the winner.
I think that’s about it. If you have any further questions, just send me an e-mail at robert.brewer@fwmedia.com with Luc Bat in the subject line. But I promise, I’m pretty laid back about the whole process. Just share your luc bat, include your name, and have fun!
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I’ve come to realize one thing over the past week or so: I really like the luc bat form. It offers such an off-beat way to turn rhymes while still providing enough flexibility to deliver meaning as well. The top 10 luc bat poems (as well as many outside the top 10) all managed to delight in their own ways, but there can only be one winner.
This time the winner happens to be Nancy Posey for her luc bat titled “Vietnam: A Lesson in Geography (and More).” Here’s her poem:
Vietnam: A Lesson in Geography (and More), by Nancy Posey
“War is how Americans learn geography.”
–from This American Life
We had to search the map
to understand what happened there.
We tried to be prepared,
to know the places where they went–
Saigon, Phnom Penh. They spent
those sweet years meant to grow
into adulthood—no
small task—having to go to war
in a country so far
away that they had hardly known
its name. Then they were gone
to jungles overgrown, so green
they looked more like a scene
on film, a magazine full-page
spread, just boys at the age
for adventure, not sage enough
to see the risk, the stuff
of nightmares, dreams too rough for boys
imprisoned in Hanoi, or flown
in coffins back to homes,
to families who’d known no more
why they were there, before
or after, some who swore to learn
about that place, who burned
with passions that they turned to zeal,
not sure how they should feel,
confused by Fortune’s wheel, by fate,
by lessons learned too late
and wars fueled both by hate and greed.
Instead we had to heed
our instincts, sate our needs as we
studied geography.
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Please congratulate Nancy on her winning poem! And then, go back to the original post to find these other luc bat poems in the top 10!
- “Vietnam: A Lesson in Geography (and More),” by Nancy Posey
- “What the Artist Said,” by Taylor Graham
- “Whale Song,” by Susan Budig
- “The Empty House,” by Daniel Ari
- “The Blind Date,” by Tracy Davidson
- “Softening,” by Andrew Kreider
- “Luke Bats,” by George Smith
- “The Source of Pain,” by Jane Shlensky
- “Square Dance,” by Sara Ramsdell
- “Winter Fire,” by J. Lynn Sheridan
After checking out the top 10 poems, please congratulate those poets–and thank everyone for participating. It won’t take you long to realize that there were many poems outside my top 10 that would easily fit on another reader’s top 10 list. Thank you so much, everyone, for participating!
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Time for another WD Poetic Forms Challenge. This time around, we’ll be writing nonet poems. Click the link for the rules related to this type of poem. Nonets are pretty easy to figure out. Start with a 9-syllable line and lose a syllable in each line after–all the way down to the 1-syllable 9th line.
If this is your first time participating in a WD Poetic Forms Challenge, here are the guidelines:
- Write as many original nonet poems as you wish and paste them in the comments below
- Please include your name as you would like it to appear in print (just in case you win)
- Deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. (Atlanta GA time) on July 29, 2012
- Have fun!
Why participate? Well, for one, it’s fun to write poems. For two, it’s free. But for three, the winning poem and poet will be featured in a future issue of Writer’s Digest magazine as a prime example of the nonet form in my Poetic Asides column.
So these challenges incorporate the three F’s: Fun, free, fame
Next week, I’ll announce the winner on this blog.
Until then, have fun poeming!
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It’s time for another poetic form challenge, and–as some may have guessed yesterday–this time the form will be prose poetry, which some poets may understandably argue has no form. Well, you’ve got … Read more
It took me a while, but I’ve finally landed on a winner for the Prose Poem challenge. I found great difficulty in choosing a winner, because the prose form seemed to liberate … Read more
This is a place to post poems for the poetic form challenges mentioned in the Writer’s Digest magazines–not for active challenges. I’ll share more information in the near future. This post is … Read more
After completing the recent November PAD Chapbook Challenge, a poet let me know he was relieved there were no poetic form prompts during the challenge. Usually, that’s something I’ll do on a … Read more
These tritinas were fun to read. If sestinas are poetic marathons, these tritinas are like half-marathons (or even 10Ks). Sorry, the runner in me has to reach for that metaphor. As usual, … Read more
