Form Over Substance Challenges

Welcome to the world of Form Over Substance! This forum has four challenges designed to familiarize today's poets with the various forms poetry can take. It all started with the Form Over Substance challenge, but has grown into additional challenges.

Form Over Substance Challenge

This challenge is a non-competitive challenge in which we present a different form each week, and encourage all FOS participants (FOS-ers) to try the form and post a link to their poem in the FOS thread. Also in the FOS thread you'll find information on iambic pentameter, including the acceptable substitutions employed in the meter.

Once Upon a Haiku

The Once Upon a Haiku challenge was created by Rainspirit (Renee) and is also non-competitive. To participate, simply write a haiku or senryu using the topic given by the last person who posted, and leave your own topic after your haiku. This is great fun, and we hope you'll all stop in and have fun with this haiku chain!

The Pantoum Kingdom

The Pantoum Kingdom is a special place dedicated to writing the world's longest pantoum. This is non-competitive, all for the love of it! Drop in and check it out!

Limerick Gimerick

The Limerick Gimerick challenge is brought to you by popular demand! This is a chain similar in structure to Once Upon a Haiku and The Pantoum Kingdom. Simply write a limerick using the "character" given by the last post and then leave your own character for the next limerick-er to use!

For more information on these challenges, please visit their respective threads below.

Thread Last Poster Posts Last Post Form Over Substance Challenge Come join in the challenge that started it all! This is a noncompetitive challenge to stimilate your poetic minds and learn new forms of poetry! Tony_parsons 11441  01-27-10  05:00 pm Once Upon a Haiku This is a noncompetitive haiku/senryu challenge, created by Rain-spirit. Come write a haiku or senryu in the last topic given and submit your own topic for the next entrant! Knightwriter 4794  04-15-12  09:45 am The Pantoum Kingdom Join us in creating the world's longest pantoum! Bubby 1637  03-05-12  06:03 pm Limerick Gimerick Come take part in our continuous limerick chain! Top o' the mornin' to ya! Rowly 7932  12-17-11  04:55 pm The FOS Meeting Place Michaelwalker 41  11-30-07  06:31 am Important AFG Announcement Hhazlett26 7  04-30-08  12:45 pm   Closed: New threads not accepted on this page