•  $100 Winning Prize  
•  $10 for Honorable Mentions  
•  Free Entry  
•  Ends Sunday
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Each week's Winner will receive a $100 cash prize, sent via PayPal to the user's registered e-mail address. Entry is free.
 
There may occasionally be one or more additional poems that receive an Honorable Mention. This will not necessarily be awarded every week, but when awarded, the poet(s) will receive a $10 cash prize, sent via PayPal to the user's registered e-mail address. All Winners and Honorable Mentions will be eligible to be included in future print anthologies.
 
Any type of poem is welcome! Formal or informal, long or short, rhyme or free verse—we like all kinds of poems. Results will be announced within three days of the contest end and posted in the contest winners' forum. Honorable mentions will be posted in the honorable mentions forum.
 
Each week's winner will be selected by Poetry Nook's editorial staff. 
 
Rules
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1. Any length.
2. Any theme.
3. You must be a registered user of this site to post (registration is free).
4. By posting you certify that this is your own work, you hold the copyright, and you are granting us permission to publish it on our site and in a printed anthology.
5. Prior publication is fine, as long as you hold the rights to republish. Please credit the prior publication beneath the poem, in italics.
6. Posting on social media or other sites is encouraged. We actively follow user likes and insightful comments on the poems.
7. Non-English poems are welcome as long as you have an English translation beneath it.
8. Winners will be announced within five days of the contest end. For example, if the contest ends on Sunday, the winner will be announced by Friday.
9. Payments will be made only via Paypal, sent to your registered email address within one week after the winner is announced. The recipient is responsible for any Paypal fees. We will not send payment by any other method.
10. No feedback will be provided if your poem did not get chosen.
11. If your poem did not get chosen in a given week, you are welcome to resubmit it in a subsequent week.
12. Winners are welcome to enter subsequent contests with a different poem.
13. We recommend copying your poem into the editor from Notepad or some other program that does not add text markup for best formatting results. Please review your formatting after posting to make sure it looks how you want it to look. In the worst case scenario, if you can't get line breaks to work correctly, please disable rich text.
14. Every contest begins on Monday at 12:00 AM and ends on Sunday at 11:59 PM (New York time).
 
Thank you for participating! We look forward to reading your work. 

Press the blue "Compete" button below to participate (viewable to registered users). You can only participate in active contests, not "Upcoming" contests. Please check the date the contest begins before attempting to participate. The active contest can be found on the home page.

 
Monday, August 22, 2016 to Monday, August 29, 2016
Contest type: 
Poetry contest
Poem Name Submitted By Likes Commentssort ascending
Sanctuary in a wintry night rickjstassi 2 2 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Days Roll Slow Ken Allan Dronsfield 2 2 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Jupiter & the Moon Ron Sparks 7 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
YOU FOREVER boladonline22 1 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Favorite Nazi dmlovic 1 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fellow Snorers Rebecca O'Bern 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Adoration (a sestina) tessberger 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Anguish Michael Noir 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I Suffer in Silence Simon Lind 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Petrichor Sarah Russell 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Midnight Confidante plexiglasspoet 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Bulgarian tobacco Fabio Navarro 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Yellow Pages Ernie Nweke 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
— Just before the nod — rattletrap99 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Cherry Blossom Reverie Miles T. Ranter 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Convincing Of Cuchulain Eric McCulley 3 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
On the Night They Took Your Life Trish Lindsey J... 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Why me? Dvor 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Daedalus' Daughter WC Roberts 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Dancing Shadows Bluehalcyon 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Daughter Says Joe Cottonwood 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Organic Farming coleymel555 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Five 'o' clock C F Emery 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Alfred Hitchcock's Doll Marge Simon 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Spring Cave QueenElizabeth 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
All So Simple cartervance 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Am I just strange? baggins404 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Touches Cathy Bryant 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Unburied Hatchet Ryan Stone 3 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Collecting Coal from Railroad Tracks frithar 3 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Why We Fall for Bad Boys Sara Backer 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Eternal Summer K. S. Dearsley 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Confessions of a Body Thief Bruce Boston 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Other People Macabre Republic 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Under the Archway Erin Armstrong 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Her father’s rosary (For Immaculée Ilibagiza) Lee Nash 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
i have made progress when my father passes away zhanglinyi 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Orbit DivaDiane 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Are you impressed? lekshmy arun 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Addicted Havok21 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
barbara and phil kman 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Salt-Water Wolf Caseylgrooten90 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Deliver Us SquidWaffle 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Re-genesis sachi0932 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Bradbury's Warning Debbie 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Shelf-Life Neil Slevin 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Deadbeat love Abhinavya Egala 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
golden age Dominic Daley 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ars Moriendi trishhopkinsonpoet 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
To be worthy of the dark marymckenzieg 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fragrance of Decay orphichaotic 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
All Alone Inside my Head rachaelscott 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Tiny stellarkatstar 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ramona Thompson ramonathompson 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Measure of Man Salmonier 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Noisy neighbors Masciano57 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Astounding Phil Jackey 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Cure for Mist Robyn-Jade Hosking 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]

Comments

Juss's picture
(3Flow) Indeed, many aspects of life are transparent, tunnel vision awaits your divine. Glaring at options, juggling decisions, trampling your ego & trusting your instincts... A free flow. Swiftly shaping irregular opinions, slowly swaying facts, so dominant. Never seeing what is in front, rather look back on what should've been done. A free flow, hold the freedom ...I crave to free my flow. The moment truth shed light, pinching my shield, activation is alive. 1 had broken promises, 2 deceitful lies yet 3 had both along with foolish pride. There is much beauty in chaos ,eye am the beholder. I stepped in, blind but confident. More wise and bolder

Juss

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