Some Thoughts On Vocal Poetry Challenges

Introduction

This is quite a short piece about the seeming discrepancy between recent Vocal poetry challenge requirements and the actual lack of limits for poetry submissions.

The normal poetry limits:

And a typical recent challenge limit:

The music is "Listen To What The Man Said" by Wings

Further Thoughts

Does the hundred-word limit mean that forms such as ....

• Limerick
• Haiku
• Senryū (川柳)
• Sonnet
• Any sub-100 Word Poetic format

.... will not be considered for the challenge?

In the old days, I would pad out my poetry with an introduction to take the poem/story over a hundred words, but would that be acceptable if you wanted to submit a haiku for the challenge above?

My entries for these challenges are all more than a hundred words for the poetry, although they still have, sometimes, extensive introductions.

I doubt Vocal will read this, but it would be great to get a definitive rule for Challenge Poetry submissions. In the one above, it says any style or structure is allowed, but if the poem is less than a hundred words, will it be disqualified?

Thanks for reading and I would love to hear your thoughts on this.