133rd Weekly Poetry Contest

• $150 Winning Prize
• $15 for Honorable Mentions
• Free Entry
• Prior Publication Okay
• Ends Sunday, Results by Next Sunday

Each week's Winner will receive a $150 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 $15 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.

Each week's winner will be selected by Poetry Nook's editorial staff within seven days of contest end. Contest winners can be found in the Contest Winners forum; Honorable Mentions can be found in the Honorable Mentions forum.

Note: Most literary magazines consider web-published poems to be "published" and will not consider those poems, so if you want to publish a poem in a literary magazine, we recommend that you wait until it is published and are allowed to re-publish before submitting here.

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 seven days of the contest end. For example, if the contest ends on Sunday, the winner will be announced by the following Sunday.

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 who are logged in and viewing an active contest). 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, May 22, 2017 to Monday, May 29, 2017

Contest type:

Poetry contest

Poem Name	Submitted By	Likes	Comments
The Cymbal Player	Miles T. Ranter	2	0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Stalin Shakespeare	brian hanway		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Love	Ryan Stone	2	1	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Dream Fragments	Fabiyas M V	1	1	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I Want a New Ward	DavidKM		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
That Woman In The Mirror	Shytaun		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Day at the Office	Maria Stadnicka	2	0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
True meaning of sorrow	Haris Čolić	4	1	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ten Words	Mary Soon Lee	2	0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Anticipation and Possibility	goldenfygg		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Poetry Speaks To The Page	Poetiq1der	1	0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Tale of the Bluegone Boy	Bruce Boston		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Just Think–	Sara Backer	1	0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Koans of the Night	stephthecat	1	0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Drive-Thru in New Jersey, 1999	Stillwriting	1	1	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
THE DEAD IN VALHALLA	Ciarán Parkes		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
breath sounds	Audrey DiPlacido		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sex slave	Lee Nash		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Silent Witnesses	Edilson Afonso ...		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Hush — a tanka	jrdawson		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fucking Emily Dickinson	Shelly Rodrigue		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Wicked	Zikeda		0	[field_honorable_mention][field_winner]

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A few dreams lie

A few dreams lie deep under like fossils; others vanish as butterflies.

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Hi Poetry Nook team,

Hi Poetry Nook team, I uploaded a poem earlier today, and got the usual "success" message but don't see my poem listed with the other competitors. I uploaded it a second time, still not listed. Is there a glitch with the site? Please can you advise -- thanks!

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The same thing happened with

The same thing happened with me.

Rileena

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There is a glitch on the site

There is a glitch on the site that's we're working on resolving. I've reported the issue to our tech person.

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If you are trying to enter a

If you are trying to enter a poem and are unable to, please post the link in this comment section and we will manually add them until this problem is fixed.

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Thank you!

J R Dawson

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My poem I posted today, May

My poem I posted today, May 28 has not appeared too, so, I post it here: Silent Witnesses It is common our disputes about this and that. Really, almost daily, we are at opposite sides. Friends say we are not well-settled a couple, and so misjudgment, I know, hurt us equally. In the deeps of night, standing awake in bed, I look at you asleep and feel all friends’ error. Who would bear testimony of us, I ask myself. Walls and roofs by sure know our inmost life but they do not speak, are invalid witnesses. I ask them if just to me would they say of us. They say of our confronts, furies, rough words and revilements but also remember hugs and hot kisses. Likewise, remember have listened some words like it is cold out, dear, wear your coat or don’t be late, darling; some little things only beloved ones are capable of. They say we are at hard and arduous a battle, on pursuing, although scarce, a bit of true love. They also say to keep the route and fear nothing. Tiles and bricks, indeed, they are; but perceive, unlike our best friends, the very plot of the play. First published in TWJ Magazine, October 2014. Author: Edilson Afonso Ferreira.

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I entered a poem two days ago

I entered a poem two days ago to the contest (breath sounds); it showed as submitted but does not "show". I have been checking since I entered and it is still not showing. Thanks, Audrey

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Please post the link to your

Please post the link to your poem; they're showing up in the new poems forum, but not in the contest.

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Greetings, Poetry Nook! The

Greetings, Poetry Nook! The web page would allow me enter my poem and add it to my profile but wouldn't allow me to add it to the list of entries. Hopefully in the end you won't be bombarded with multiple entries with all of us poets trying to get our entries through? I read that we can post a link here for you to manually add them. Here's the link to my entry, cheers! https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/member/hush-%E2%80%94-tanka

J R Dawson

133rd Weekly Poetry Contest

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A few dreams lie

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Hi Poetry Nook team,

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The same thing happened with

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There is a glitch on the site

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If you are trying to enter a

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Thank you!

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My poem I posted today, May

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I entered a poem two days ago

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Please post the link to your

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Greetings, Poetry Nook! The

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Thanks for the update on the

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Here's a link to my entry for

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Hello! I am new to the site.

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All poems mentioned in the

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Here's the link to my poem

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