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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.
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July 21, 2021 at 6:58am
July 21, 2021 at 6:58am
#1014039
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.
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June 5, 2021 at 1:32pm
June 5, 2021 at 1:32pm
#1011352
Beaches

Tanned to the gills,
they lie on the sands,
baking in the heat;
like the heliotrope,
face to the sun.


24 syllables 4-5-5-6-4
Free verse
For 24 Syllables, 06.05.21
Prompt: Heliotrope.
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May 26, 2021 at 3:18pm
May 26, 2021 at 3:18pm
#1010806
Riposte

You may say that I’m facetious,
but your statement is just specious -
my jokes are simply deleecious.


24 syllables, 8-8-8
Rhymed aaa
For 24 Syllables, 05.26.21
Prompt: Facetious
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May 23, 2021 at 7:32pm
May 23, 2021 at 7:32pm
#1010625
Critic

The gadfly bites,
precise and deep
as the surgeon’s blade.
The patient squirms,
seeks to end
his buzzing pest.


24 syllables 4-4-5-4-3-4
Free verse
For 24 Syllables, 05.24.21
Prompt: Gadfly.
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May 18, 2021 at 1:12pm
May 18, 2021 at 1:12pm
#1010376
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.
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November 2, 2020 at 1:10pm
November 2, 2020 at 1:10pm
#997485
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.
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October 7, 2020 at 6:28am
October 7, 2020 at 6:28am
#995247
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.
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October 5, 2020 at 4:45pm
October 5, 2020 at 4:45pm
#995122
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.
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October 2, 2020 at 10:10pm
October 2, 2020 at 10:10pm
#994881
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
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September 30, 2020 at 7:32am
September 30, 2020 at 7:32am
#994659
Pastime

Weary of age,
I find rest in writing
of the life that brought me here.
Memories transport elsewhere.


24 syllables, 4-6-7-7
Free Verse
For 24 Syllables, Sept. 30 2020 - Winner.
Prompt: Weary.
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