I have entered several contests at allpoetry.com These challenges require 20 words or less. There are some excellent lessons in brevity in these contests.
http://allpoetry.com/poetryality This is my other poetry home.
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I remember the "bouts" with Poetry.com (and their like) over 20 lines or less... and all the challenges over word counts at many sites and with many, many , world-bored-and-weary people. Seems so many "played" that for me the term clever took on a seriously bad vibe.
You touch a place
- not forgotten,
just... very wish-full.
The late, great Langston Hughes inspired my first influence in the literary arts. As a child, I would listen on Saturday afternoons to "The Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Hour". I heard the poem, Motto by.. more..