General Poetry posted December 11, 2020


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a free verse

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by Bill Schott

Competition Contest Winner 


One must compete where loss is served

more often than the win;

like tennis players,

peers in their power,

vying to beat the best.


As gamblers test their nerve

against the fifty-two -- no tells,

a card finds flush,

lands out of straight,

and fortunes fall or rise.


Some sculpt sonnets,

hew haiku, lay out limericks,

venture a villanelle,

or paint a portrait in prose,

positioning for approval.


Meter meets format,

alliterative allusions align,

rhyme and rhythm are read

by presumed impartial peers,

and favor found.


Competition

leads

to

a

more

perfect poet.








 

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Writing Prompt
Write a free verse poem on competition. Tell what it means to be competitive and why you love competition or not. Free verse is a form of poetry that does not necessarily follow to any specific meter patterns, rhyme, or any other pattern. Free verse, despite its freedom, often still has some elements of form. Most free verse does observe a convention of lines and structure. No rhyming patterns.
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