•  $100 Winning Prize  
•  $10 for Honorable Mentions  
•  Free Entry  
•  Prior Publication Okay
•  Ends Sunday

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. 
 
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 you 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. 

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Monday, April 17, 2017 to Monday, April 24, 2017
Contest type: 
Poetry contest
Poem Namesort descending Submitted By Likes Comments
"Wishbone in Moonglow" mary. 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
10:51, Evening slingingwords 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Homeless Woman Cleans Her Nails SJLuke 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Psalm for the Soul Abdul Malik Mandani 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Accidents & Emergencies cartervance 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
American Way darkernature 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Anniversary Coffee mmaddoxh 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Anticipation and Possibility goldenfygg 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Are these the words? Owen Tilley 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Blackberries sonjajohanson 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
By the Numbers Mary Soon Lee 1 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Death in Suburbia Ryan Stone 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Deep End Mypoetryexpress 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Existential Consequential DonBeukes 1 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Felus Catus LynneViti 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
For Wendy Darling kzk 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Half-truths Elizabeth 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Happiness In A Jar Alaskan Vogue 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Hard Work Pays Off abigailmcdade 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Heal Me Slowly HibahShabkhez 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
How Something Breaks sarahdickensonsnyder 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I lost summer somewhere Sarah Russell 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
If Only Icarus Knew C Bottas 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
In My Sleep Will E. Wrightmoor 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
In Other Words, Freedom Maria Stadnicka 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
In some near Bolaji T Othniell 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Independence Julia Tannenbaum 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Industria KatieClarke 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
L'hitraot Quiltpoet 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Life goes on and on hadiaaziz12 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Nail Ails wolfe1965 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
nerves never lead to anything except shaking hands and sloppy footing holdenlyric 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Never Land wei 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Nightfall After Trump's Election dwalker8508 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
no solution danagasta 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
October Night adolzlane 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Of Night Rhonda Rieck-Rush 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Offspring trishhopkinsonpoet 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Old man's knees Chris Brunette 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Plantation's Corn Stillwriting 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Plataan / Sycamore (Afrikaans) Johann F. Potgieter 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Playing with Words (or if I could write a love letter) Mystical_Mark 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Recipient Unknown Sarah Nichols 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Reservoir No. 6 Miles T. Ranter 3 2 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Revelation 16:16 noahfarb 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ripples K. S. Dearsley 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
rising blue Frank Prem 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Seal Kevin Cowdall 2 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sending Out Roots TerezP 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Shades of dark Hiraeth 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Shadow Light Bruce Boston 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Shh! Audrey DiPlacido 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sleepers Mark Danowsky 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Take Me There Sayantika Mandal 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Admiral Apprentice SerenitySavage 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Bar Girl Sara Backer 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Clicker Clack Man Tsuchigari 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
THE CODICIL john foy lord 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Cruelest Month Joan Colby 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Flowers Grow Pendecardiel 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
the new traditions Jonathan May 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Pathetic Fallacy MHPayne 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Satirical Definition of a Poem Lydian 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Untamable beast cripplingdepression 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Way We Are Now stevieslaw 1 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
This Morning, A White Mare RT Castleberry 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Thousand Reflections Imon Shrabana 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Where the Wild Things Are JMFernandez 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Who Am I? Niko15 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Wild Gods DavidKM 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Words At 2 AM Marty W 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Words Like Waves kellycassie 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
World of Trouble jdbabwe 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]

Comments

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Elegy for Syria this is the covenant of Death this is the sacred brutality of holocausts titanium Daggers screaming screeching hurtling across the blue seas of red released into streets the gleam of flames reflecting off the shattered glass lying in the road the call to prayer retains its Efficacy supplicants shuffling among exploded Everything holiness they see through rubble to the ruins of Mecca see stars through the Smoke they can hear Allah over the explosions; “Be not afraid,” He soothes, “Soon your Suffering will end.” the same Prayers they will mutter with a last gasping Breath the City is on fire the children Are on fire

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