​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 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 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. 
 
Each week's winner will be selected by Poetry Nook's editorial staff. 
 
Rules
-------------------------------------------------------------
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 three days of the contest end. For example, if the contest ends on Sunday, the winner will be announced by Wednesday.
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.
 
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 15, 2016 to Monday, August 22, 2016
Contest type: 
Poetry contest
Poem Namesort descending Submitted By Likes Comments
You Missed Two Young Bald Eagles Practicing Flight at Dawn over our Cove Elisavietta Ritchie 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
--Bum-- rattletrap99 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
97’ Deville mirahhhhhhhh 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Formulaic Love Story mibar007 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Proud Maiden Sleeps tellastory 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A sonnet for plotting amateurs CARO71 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Accidents & Emergencies cartervance 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Addictions Eyequeue012 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
After the Service AnnLardas 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
All His Fancies Dancing Marge Simon 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
All The While s.a.Morgan 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Apprehension Bluehalcyon 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Billy Jack baggins404 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Cloud Company sara.jm 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Coal Town Ryan Stone 5 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Cobwebs in the Sky P.E. Corbett 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
contrails j.lewis 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Curse of the Werewolf's Wife Bruce Boston 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Deliver Us SquidWaffle 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Depths Cathy Bryant 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Descent LokeWolfather 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Eating Light Robertmcat 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Emotional Explosives Adam Levon Brown 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Emptiness MeL1979 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Family Portrait John MacDonald 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Flower Mirror ingridbruck 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
GAIA Abdul Malik Mandani 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Generations Unseparated by Time and Distance d.r.sanchez 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Guilty Tranquility ramonathompson 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Half-Elegy for My Mother's Marriage saraborjas 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Head trip Lee Nash 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I am here dreaming settdigger 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I Dive BLUEK23 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I Write Poetry tamilani 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
ISLAND Ciarán Parkes 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Just Another Night stanekattack 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Just Me Roxana Nastase 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Karluv Most glenhswilson 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Kos, Greek Island Rebecca O'Bern 2 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Letting go ... Mennasthoughts 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Losing Weight blicciardi 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Love and Dust Hardeep 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
lovely and true rickjstassi 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Moving House rknester 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
my heart fell out / an aftermath leslieg 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My heart is crying zhanglinyi 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Mother on My Cousin's Wedding Day LynneViti 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Wilderness Brookelouvier 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
not me kacperniburski 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
on the loss of your husband, my good friend, Jodi Lowell 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
On the Night They Took Your Life Trish Lindsey J... 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
On The Plague Year: London, 1665 dmlovic 2 5 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Pelicans piscespoet 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Playing With Fire seedison 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Please call! Oceania 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Poetry for Peace Lizzi 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
RAW WAR Cosmic Cat 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Recycled Everlasting Love PrttyBrd 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Red Money. synapselens 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Rehab Bird Havok21 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Selection poet0926 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
She Shriharsha 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
SIGHTED: Ephemeral Innocence aMAXiMINalist 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Slipstream lyta 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Stuck in the Strings Susan Renee 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Summer Showers Brandon Jordan Brown 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sustenance Sarah Russell 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sway QueenElizabeth 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Arrogance Of A Writer jasbir_chatterj... 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Champagne in the Fridge LFHalt 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Golden Marvel Michael Noir 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Handmaid's Song kimabw 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
THE KING'S IN LOVE Nada 227 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Last Man cannotc 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Orchard On Its Way lauradaviesfoley 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Secret Lives of Ornaments chrisconnolly 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Sky Goddess angeladawn 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Theos Protean1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
These Eyes papagena58 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Thus Spoke The Leech Karthik Purusho... 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Timeless Splendor Ken Allan Dronsfield 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
To Gina JBludd 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Tomorrow Morning boladonline22 6 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Tracks and Trails frithar 2 2 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Training: Stances Mary Soon Lee 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Transfigured Night (a reimagining) britny.cordera 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Unconscientious Objector jlandwehr 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Waiting Around (after Pablo Neruda) trishhopkinsonpoet 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Waiting Room Rachel Grimes 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Waltzing Miss Jeanie pdlyonz 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
WHEN A NEW LOVE IS BORN abubakarabdulra... 5 3 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Why the Window Washer Reads Poetry LauraEuphoria 3 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
WONDER WONDER Gabrielajiri 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Worth By Different Standards Coco 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
You will never be mine rachaelscott 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
“It’s a remarkable apparatus.” orboh 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]

Comments

Nada 227's picture
Hello, that is the message I have gotten too.. Compete You've been already submitted the THE KING'S IN LOVE before. You can submit only one work per contest. You might proceed and select another one. Or quit the contest.

LINDA NABASA

Report SPAM

  

LauraEuphoria's picture
I registered for the first time after clicking from Trish Hopkinson's post. Registered, added a poem "Why the Window Washer Reads Poetry" and got the same message other folks did. I took a screenshot but don't see how to attach it to a PM. Here it is: You've been already submitted the Why the Window Washer Reads Poetry before. You can submit only one work per contest

Laura Grace Weldon's poetry collection is titled Tending. Connect with her at lauragraceweldon.

Report SPAM

  

Frank Watson's picture
It's showing that your poem is in the list, so your poem did enter correctly. It must be some bug with showing an error message when there's no error. I've contacted the developers who should hopefully have a solution by tomorrow.

Report SPAM