Free Verse Club

Free Verse Club

A club for writing, sharing, and discussing free verse poetry

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    Free Verse Club Club Update · Aug 1, 2024
    Hello everyone! After a fantastic and busy month filled with RP month activities, Camp NaNo, and lots of poetry writing, the month has finally come to an end. I am here to announce the winners of the July 2024 Free Verse competition!!

    First of all, a big thank you to @WeepingWisteria, @KateHardy, @OrabellaAvenue, and @redcarnation who were incredible judges this month. And thank you to @ChrysanthemumCentury for helping me run things this month while I travelled *round of applause*

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    And thank YOU to everyone who submitted! Let's jump right into the results!

    Third place goes to...

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    @KateHardy with a score of 16!


    Second place goes to...

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    @WeepingWisteria with a score of 16.333!


    First place goes to...

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    @NoOneInParticular with an incredibly high score of 18.25!!!


    And congrats to our two runners up...

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    @APoltergeist with a score of 15.125 and @Coffeewriter with a score of 15!


    Some quotable quotes from this month:

    Flip a coin if you must; time is ticking
    you can’t erase your footsteps, you really
    can only keep walking, and hope
    oblivion is a patient guest.


    (i hate to admit it, but without them i am lost like hansel and gretel but no stones or pebbles will ever save me.)


    You are the dead bird. The small bites of soil and bacteria take you away. You are a part of the soil. You have given your remaining strength to the plants which are to grow among the footsteps you leave behind.


    Fantastic work to everyone who participated! If you want to be a judge or help run the contest, please contact @EllieMae!! I look forward to reading your wonderful poems this coming month :)


Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins