A daily poetry contest

There is a daily poetry contest on writing.com called “A Poem a Day”. Each week prompts are posted for six days, while one day there are no prompts. The challenge for the participants is to write a poem about at least one of the prompts. One of the prompts is a poetry form.

The forms for this week are (1) Triolet, (2) Monotetra, (3) Balassi Stanza, (4) Le Sizain Hétérométrique, and (5) Candlelight Poem. The forms are challenging enough to push the poet and short enough to finish the poem in a single day. I want to attempt to enter the contest every day. This is the third or fourth week I have attempted this challenge. Even though the poems are short, sometimes it is difficult to write a poem every day.

The poems I write for the contest I post in my writing.com portfolio under Contest Submissions. The poem I wrote for today is a Triolet titled “A Cloudy Sunday Morning”. It rained in Las Vegas last night and early this morning. When I woke up, I washed some bed linen with the intention of hanging the sheets on the line; I had to change my plans. This was the inspiration for the poem.

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This Week I am Writing a Monotetra

Kamál (Perfection), 16 ‘Alá (Loftiness), 164 B.E. – Sunday, March 16, 2008 about 7:23 PM PDT

This week I am writing a Monotetra. The problem is I cannot come up with a theme or a subject. One would think that with so many holidays and Holy Days occurring between March 16 and March 23, I could find an interesting subject to cover. In addition, to those there is the two flat tires I had on Tuesday, March 11. The deadline for the Monotetra is Thursday at 11:59 PM EDT that is 7:59 PM PDT

This past week my life is full of interesting and weird events. I should be able to come up with something. If nothing else I could write about having only Hobo Stew to eat. I like Hobo Stew and its a dish that is different every time I make it, so I am not going to get tired of it. I am using only a slow cooker to fix meals with right now. There is not a lot of different types of food you can make in a slow cooker.