Entries for the 24 Syllables Contest 2020. |
Write a poem using exactly 24 syllables and a prompt word - there's discipline for you! The illustration of darts for the collection symbolises the need for accuracy in such tightly constrained poems. |
Encouragement to the Committee Come, let us not flounder, diligence is required, answers must be sounder, and suggestions inspired. Line count: 4 Syllables 24, 6-6-6-6 Rhymed abab For 24 Syllables, deadline 7/30 Prompt: Flounder. |
Aesop Odds True to lethargic form, tortoise takes the long view, hare’s rest betrays his pace, and so the race is won. 24 syllables 6-6-6-6 Free verse For 24 Syllables, 05.18.21 Prompt: Lethargic. |
Foreshadow The sky boils with clouds, the light heavy and ominous, pregnant with threat, portending the storm ahead. 24 syllables, 5-8-4-7 Free Verse For 24 Syllables, November 02 2020 Prompt: Ominous. |
Pine Trees Eerie stands the forest in its depths, dark the distance through the trees, silence the balm upon my soul. 24 syllables, 9-7-8 Free Verse For 24 Syllables, October 07 2020 Prompt: Eerie. |
Bête Noire Like Saturn’s malefic eye or some evil Disney villainess, baleful presence, Covid nineteen. 24 syllables, 7-9-4-4 Free Verse For 24 Syllables, October 05 2020 Prompt: Malefic. |
Old Friends Backs of my hands, my tired old hands, veined sinuous as the Mississippi sprawling through its Delta. 24 syllables, 4-4-4-6-6 Free Verse For 24 Syllables, October 02 2020 Prompt: Sinuous |