WD Poetic Form Challenge: Rimas Dissolutas Winner
Here are the results of the Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge for rimas dissolutas. There were a lot of fun poems, but only 10 can be finalists and just one…
Here are the results of the Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge for rimas dissolutas. There were a lot of fun poems, but only 10 can be finalists and just one can win.
Here is the winning poem:
About Love, by Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
There are days when love is sweaty,
when even a thin camisole
is too much to wear and wet-clings
to a body bothered by heat.
On other days love is flighty,
giddy and shimmying up poles,
or jumping, like dolphins, through rings,
or break-dancing to some wild beat.
The best is when love is mighty:
when it can weather and make holes
in hardened isms, eroding
veneers that cover those clayed feet.
The poet said, "Love is blind..." Thing
is it's bright, red as a cut beet.
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Congratulations, Lelawattee! I enjoyed the sweaty, flighty, and mighty versions of love and the bonus envoi at the end.
Here’s a complete look at my Top 10 list:
- About Love, by Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
- Supermoon, by Taylor Graham
- Out on the Performance Floor, by JR Simmang
- The Maestro, by Heather Paquette
- Amorphophallus Titanum, by RJ Clarken
- I Am Made Of, by Kelli Simpson
- Awake in Rain, by Cate Morin
- I Have Woken Up, by Rosemary Nissen-Wade
- Victims, by Bruce Niedt
- Road Map, by Nancy Posey
Congratulations to everyone in the Top 10! And to everyone who wrote rimas dissolutas!
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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.
