WD Poetic Form Challenge: Dodoitsu Winner
This was a fun challenge to judge. First off, there were so many dodoitsu entries. Second, they’re all short, which means it’s kind of like poetic popcorn. That said, the…
This was a fun challenge to judge. First off, there were so many dodoitsu entries. Second, they're all short, which means it's kind of like poetic popcorn. That said, the competition was fierce. I had to go through several rounds of getting the list down to a top 10; there were 40 dodoitsu that made it past the first cut alone.
I did get it down to a top 10 list (below) and this winner:
It Is Written, by Nurit Israeli
The love note from bygone days
still convincingly asserts
why we will never part ways.
Oh, short forevers...
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Congratulations, Nurit! I love how this dodoitsu sneaks in a little rhyming while also being effective without it.
Here's a complete look at my Top 10 list:
- It Is Written, by Nurit Israeli
- Backbreaking Mountain, by Bruce Niedt
- "I prefer the work of love," by James Von Hendy
- "I flip the flipping burgers," by William Preston
- "we fed music to our love," by Sasha A. Palmer
- "The most unexpected of things," by Karen
- "She said it's not in the cards," by David M. Hoenig
- "Torn lovers still align," by Helena Janssen
- "As a poetical gal," by Rie Sheridan Rose
- "he loves me or maybe not," by candy
Since the form is so short, I'm going to try and get the top 3 into my column. Fingers crossed! Congratulations to everyone in the Top 10! And to everyone who wrote a dodoitsu!
Look for the next poetic form and challenge just around the corner.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community, which means he maintains this blog, edits a couple Market Books (Poet’s Market and Writer’s Market), writes a poetry column for Writer’s Digest magazine, leads online education, speaks around the country on publishing and poetry, and a lot of other fun writing-related stuff.
He loves learning new (to him) poetic forms and trying out new poetic challenges. He is also the author of Solving the World’s Problems.
Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
