WD Poetic Form Challenge: Ovillejo Winner
Here are the results of the Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge for the ovillejo. More than 30 poems made the original cut before I was able to get it down…
Here are the results of the Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge for the ovillejo. More than 30 poems made the original cut before I was able to get it down to a Top 10 list and eventual winner.
Here is the winner:
Painting the Lake, by Taylor Graham
How to paint the spectrum of light?
An egret's flight.
She seeks a landscape in her brush--
a sort of hush.
No answer but blue, flake by flake,
ripples the lake.
And still she paints for painting's sake--
not perspective, the eye's blind reach,
but light, and what the shadows teach.
An egret's flight. A sort of hush ripples the lake.
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Congratulations, Taylor!
Here’s a complete look at my Top 10 list:
- Painting the Lake, by Taylor Graham
- The Old Man at Midnight, by William Preston
- Cipher, by RJ Clarken
- Rainy Days and Fun Days, by ely the eel
- Denial After Years of Oil and Olay, by Nancy Posey
- The Clouds Know Things, by De Jackson
- Monsters, by Tracy Davidson
- Transformation, by Paula Wanken
- Passion Flower and Catnip Tea, by DMK
- Two Boys on the Beach, by Annie Doyle Newcomer
Congratulations to everyone in the Top 10! And to everyone who wrote an ovillejo!
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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.
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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.
