WD Poetic Form Challenge: Rime Couee Winner

Here are the results of the Writer's Digest Poetic Form Challenge for the rime couee along with a Top 10 list. You can check out all the rime couee entries in the comments on this post.

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Here is the winning rime couee:

"Scorned," by Margaret Fiske

Undine never kept to her grave
Of kelp and shell, of briny wave
I put her there you see
For wicked Undine had to go
Her naked knees bespoilt my beau
I brewed her almond tea

I watched her from the widow's walk
Each night she clambered shoal and rock
Hissing with pinguid glee
A bloated sac of oyster meat
Gone putrid in mid-summer heat
Eyelessly stalking me

One night I woke from dreams of doom
And found death creeping in my room
To snuff me where I lay
I grabbed a knife still slick with drum
And cleaved that strumpet into chum
Then fed her to the bay

But as I rowed to my home shore
There circled moonlit fins galore
Upon the roiling sea
With cloying scent of almondine
Each baited shark became Undine
Savagely mincing me

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Congratulations, Margaret! "Scorned" is a fun read filled with murder and revenge. Plus, it sent me to Wikipedia to learn more about undines and almondine. Fun times!