Prize Winning Poem?

A poem for D.K. Shepard's Keep It 100 challenge

By Rachel DeemingPublished 2 years ago • Updated 2 years ago • 1 min read

One hundred words is not a lot

To write a poem for a shot

At winning D.K.'s super prize,

The chance of praise from colleagues' eyes.

So, what to write to try and provoke,

Or move, or conjure, or merely evoke?

It's hard to think of a poetic winner

When you don't know what to cook for dinner.

I think if I prevaricate

I'll miss the boat, it'll be too late

And so, this verse will have to do

Of one hundred words, honest and true

I ask, judges, to please be kind:

As I had congestion of the mind.

This was an entry to D.K. Shepard's Keep It 100 challenge which you can read about here:

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