Description: The essentials of meter in four simple exercises.

Leader: weirdelf
Moderator(s):  I would love help from anyone who knows how to parse meter. Any volunteers?

Objectives: To write four quatrains, all in strict meter. One in Iambic pentameter, one in Trochaic hexameter, one in Anapaestic trimeter or pentameter, one in Dactylic tetrameter or hexameter.

Description:A poem of around thirty lines. [a few more or less is acceptable].
Describe your most pleasant memory of "Spring" or use your imagination to create the perfect "Spring". Keep it light and cheerful! This contest will run from April 2nd until April 26th

Please remember to put April contest in the title and click April contest on the drop down menu
next to save. Thank you and Good Luck!

Sponsor(s):
Judge(s):Anonymous

Objectives: To test your ability to describe a season and your feelings about it!
There is a $25.00 Gift certificate on Amazon.com

Subject matter: "Spring"

How Judged: One judge: Anonymous

Description:A poem of around thirty lines. [a few more or less is acceptable].
Describe your most pleasant memory of "Spring" or use your imagination to create the perfect "Spring". Keep it light and cheerful! This contest will run from April 2nd until April 26th

Sponsor(s):
Judge(s):Anonymous

Objectives: To test your ability to describe a season and your feelings about it!
The prize is a $25.00 Gift certificate on Amazon.com

Subject matter: "Spring"

How Judged: One judge: Anonymous

Description: Help in finishing some poems which are well begun. Each participant will post one unfinished poem. Two other participants will be assigned to complete the poem. All will be accompanied by discussion.

Leader: scribbler
Moderarors(s): sparrow, weirdelf

Objectives: To show authors some ways in which their unfinished poem might be completed.....and hopefully have fun doing so.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Unfinished works

Description: Any form, thirty lines and under.

Sponsor(s):Stan [Scribbler] and Guy [Geezer]
Judge(s): Anonymous

Objectives: Describe what cellphones and their use mean to you. Please remember to put the Month and name of the contest in your title. Then hit the drop down menu and click The Ode To The Cellphone contest. Thank you and good luck!

Subject matter:Cellphones

How Judged: One judge

Description: Short form appeals to a reader's imagination and goes across cultural barriers.

It disciplines the poet and requires the most precise choice of words in the same time leaving a good degree of pleasant ambiguity.

How to use a poetic toolbox – personification, extended metaphor, allusions, alliteration, repetition, rhyme, meter – in short form? Without a doubt it is a difficult question, however, it is well recognized that structure and patterns make a short poem esthetically pleasing.

Description:A contest using astronomy or astronomical events for your subject. Can be rhyming or free verse but if free verse it should still have good flow and at least Some structure. Quote from a Hawking/Mlodinow book might help give the right mindset :
"We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe... Living in this vast world that is by turns kind and cruel, and gazing at the immense heavens above, people have always asked a multitude of questions: How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves?How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from?..."

Sponsor(s):scribbler and geezer
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives: To have fun writing about the universe

Subject matter: Astronomy, astronomical events

How Judged: Whichever poem the judge likes best

Description: We are going to stretch our wings a bit this month by writing the same poem in both free verse and western classic. Please try to keep your poems under 24 lines each.

Sponsor(s):scribbler and Geezer
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives: To get folks to explore a form outside their comfort zone and have fun doing so

Subject matter:The new year. Can write as either a retrospective of the year just gone or a hope for the coming year or even a combination of both.

How Judged:

Description:Submit a 20 line maximum poem about a favourite holiday memory. Must be free verse and imagery rich

Sponsor(s):scribbler and Geezer
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives: Have fun recalling past good times

Subject matter:Favorite holiday memory

How Judged: Anonymously be a varying panel of members according to the Contest guidelines.

This workshop is now solely about the works of Wole Soyinka and discussion of them.
Phases 2,3 and 4:
2- Other popular poets past and present in the region.
3- Discussion of trends, influence of politics, accent and grammar issues, and publishing possibilities in the region.
4- Neopoet members from the region offering poems about WA, their specific country, and culture.

Will be run as separate workshops starting early in the near year."