Short and Sweet

The Prompt

Embrace the beauty of brevity to create a heartfelt love poem using only words with four letters or less. This constraint encourages you to find creative ways to express the complexities of love with the seemingly simplest vocabulary. All forms of poetry are welcome.

In order for your submission to qualify, it must be:

The Prizes

• Grand Prize: $500
• Second Place: $250
• 10 Runners-Up: $25

For your poem to be eligible, it should be a poem that uses only words that are four (4) letters or less, submitted to the Poets Community, and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Poems published on Vocal and entered into the contest up until July 21, 2023, at 11:59 PM ET will be entered for consideration. Official Rules for the Challenge can be found here.

The Short and Sweet Challenge is exclusive to Vocal+ members. To learn more and upgrade to Vocal+ visit https://vocal.media/vocal-plus.

To be eligible to win the grand prize, second place, or runners-up prizes, you must be over the age of 13 and residing in a country where Stripe is available at the time of entry. A complete list of countries where Stripe is available can be found here—winners will need to have a Stripe account created and connected in order to receive the prizes. For this reason, entrants located outside of any of these countries will not be eligible to win.