Description:Write a poem in the style of a past master

Sponsor(s):scribbler
Judge(s):TBD

Objectives:To see if you can capture the style of a past master

Subject matter:Choose from this list of past masters and write a poem in their style : Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, W.E.B.Du Bois, Keats or Robert Hayden. Please limit your entry to a minimum of 8 lines and a maximum of 30. Can be rhyming or not and on any subject. If you have another past master you would prefer contact me and I'll check with judge to see if it is acceptable. Be sure to put June Contest and the author whose style you are mimicking next to title. Have fun and holler if you have questions..............stan

How Judged:

Description:To gain a better understanding of the masters of poetry

Leader: China Blue
Moderator(s):
Wesley Snow
Alidzane

Objectives:To learn about and how the 19th century masters lived ,and wrote

Level of expertise: Open to all

Description: A poem to make us smile or , even better, laugh. Six stanzas maximum. No more than five lines per stanza. Any form, can be old or new (new would be preferred).

Sponsor(s):scribbler
Judge(s):TBD

Objectives: Just a contest to have fun and get each other smiling

Subject matter: Any subject within neopoet guidelines

How Judged:

Description:
26 days, one subject, three styles of poetry, biting critique, 10 slots . . . Are you willing to give it a try

How are you feeling?

Up to a challenge?

Want to test your ability to write way out of your comfort zone?

Good.

Then join my workshop. It starts May 8th and runs for 26 days.

In that time, 10 lucky people will be assigned a subject and will produce three (3) separate poems and critique 27. You do not get to choose the subject, the styles, or the time.

What could possibly go wrong?

Description:

Leader: scribbler
Moderator(s): judyanne

Objectives:Improving poetry by more effective use of titles

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Titles and their effect

Description:A poem written in either rhyming couplets or quatrains. Often used in Christian liturgies and often containing the phrase "Lord have mercy on us."

Sponsor(s):stan
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives:Expose folks to a fairly unusual form

Subject matter:Kyrielle - derived from Kyrie elision" which means "Lord have mercy on us."
It can be written in either rhyming couplets or quatrains (4 line stanzas).It may use the refrain "Lord have mercy" or a variant as the refrain which occurs in the second line if using rhyming couplets or in the last line if using quatrains. In less strict usage another phrase or even a single word can be used as the refrain.
Each line consists of eight syllables. There is no upper limit on the number of stanzas but the generally accepted lower limit is three.
If written in rhyming couplets the rhyme scheme is a-A,a-A. these are known as "identicles".
If written in quatrains there are many acceptable rhyme patterns :
a-a-b-B , c-c-b-B , a-b-a-B , c-b-c-B. (upper case letters signify the refrain.)
In the original French kyrielle, lines were usually octosyllabic. In English the lines are usually iambic pentameter.

I know this sounds pretty complicated but once you try it you'll find it's not as hard as it sounds. So get those pens out and have fun.

How Judged:Judged by a single workshop leader each month whose identity remains anonymous and changes each month.

Description: Analysis of "critique"

Leader: W. H. Snow
Moderator(s): Alidzidan, Rula

Objectives: To leave the participants with a better understanding of what and how the poet critiques.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Critique.

Description: Write a Quatern about anything you wish

A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain.The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, the third line of stanza three, and the fourth line of stanza four.

A quatern has eight syllables per line.It does not have to be Iambic or follow
a set rhyme scheme.

line 1
line2
line3
line 4

line 1
line2 (line1)
line 3
line 4

line 1
line 2
line 3 (line 1)
line 4

line 1
line2
line 3
line 4 (line1)

Example :
True Love, Redefined

One day she hopes true love to find,
One soul, one mind, two hearts entwined;
Somewhere out there's the perfect guy,
For Youth has set her standards high.

He must be rich, handsome, refined,
One day she hopes true love to find,
Yet no one seems to measure up
And disappointment fills her cup.

The years go by, her nights grow long,
Her aging voice sings sorrow's song,
One day she hopes true love to find,
Her definition's redefined;

Simply a plain and faithful friend
To see her to life's journey's end;
For though her face with age be lined
One day she hopes true love to find.

Sponsor(s):Neopoet
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives: To have fun and maybe try something new

Subject matter:A French Quatern

How Judged: The contest for tech reasons is posted as by scribbler with a co-editor. But the judge is actually neither

Description: A workshop concerning the fundamentals of poetic meter.

Leader: Wesley Snow
Moderator(s): Rula, Judyanne

Objectives: For those who have found meter difficult in the past, this workshop will be a comprehensive attempt at solving the difficulty once and for all.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Poetic meter and its application.

Description:

Welcome to the first monthly "Point of the Spear" Neopoet monthly contest. This month's subject is door(s). Write either a rhyming or free verse poem about either a figurative or actual door(s). If you write a free verse make sure it has some poetic qualities such as alliteration or imagery. Please limit the poem to 30 lines.(A bit longer is acceptable but it better hold the judge's attention). *POST YOUR POEM IN THE STREAM, AND SELECT THIS AS THE CONTEST*. Beside the title put (Feb. contest). No entries will be accepted after midnight (your local time) of Feb 22. This will give the judge about a week for judging.

Sponsor(s): Scribbler
Judge(s): TBD