There is Still Time

A Word A Day is running a poetry contest this week and there is still time to enter see:

www.wordsmith.org/awad

and send your entries to  contest@wordsmith.org by FRIDAY - Good Luck

So far this week you can enter (definitions provided on wordsmith) 

1) clerihew

2) epigram

3) cento

4) limerick

5) Friday's form to be determined

So here are my contributions so far:

Clerihew

Mark Twain, né Samuel Clemens

Of modest midwest origins

Transformed himself through wit

Into a Yankee from Connecticut

Epigram

An epigram should sound

Witty, yet be profound.

Cento

The time has come the walrus said

To speak of many things,       

I must go down to the seas again

I know why the caged bird sings

Only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

Poems are made by fools I fear

Now and then there’s a fool such as I.

Lines 1 & 2:  The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carroll, 1872

Line 3: Sea Fever, John Masefield, 1913

Line 4: I Know Why the  Caged Bird Sings,  Maya Angelou, 1969

Line 5: Inaugural Address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933

Line 6: Blackbird, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, 1976

Line 7: Mad Magazine parody of: Trees, Joyce Kilmer, 1913

Line 8: (Now and Then There's) a Fool Such As I, Bill Trader, 1952

Limerick - from Life Limericks and the Pursuit of Happiness

My advice to poets who are shy

About revealing their soul’s anguished cry

Syntactical convolutions

And abstruse allusions

Can incomprehensibilify.