Samuel Marmaduke Memorial Contest
Story telling in verse.
Break out your story telling skills. This is your chance to convey an incident or anecdote beginning to end——direct and succinct or obtuse and metaphorically complex. They’ve been doing it at least since rock cave walls, since Iliad and the Odyssey, Beowulf, Idylls of a King, Casey at the Bat, Casey Jones, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Streets of Laredo, MacLean’s (Bye Bye) Miss American Pie, and last but not least Johnny Cash’s, Shel Silverstein classic, Boy Named Sue. You’ve got a long list of possibilities waiting to be told. So folks, put on your camp-fire story telling hats and verse us a tale.
Sponsor: Cheryl Lee Wilkie
Form: Narrative, as in: Meter, Rhythm, Sometimes rhyme, (modified ballad)……not prose cut into little vertical strips and called “poetry”.
Line Limit: 32-50
You may enter up to three poems, but you are limited to winning only two prizes/contest.
To reach the 50-line limit for this poem, the writer may add a summarizing couplet at the end of the poem.
Deadline: August 1, 2011
Prizes: First $25.00: Second $15.00: Third $10.00