We recently asked poets to craft for us a poem (minimum 20 lines) without using the letter e. Why? That’s a good question that we’re not prepared to answer. There were so many poets with nothing better to do than craft fantastic e-less contest entries. Michelle Luelo’s exquisite use of loopholes in our contest rules wins her the top prize for her poem “Omitt d.” Despite her blatant disregard for the rules we laid out, we admit she outsmarted us and won us over with her witty take on a poem that did not once use the letter e. Congratulations, Michelle!
Craft us a po m
you can’t us an ,
A cl v r d sign
writing absurdity
I sat down to work
a tal on my mind
Confid nt words
would b asy to find
I jott d down lin s
some w r quit good
But most didn’t sound
th way that th y should
Without you can’t writ
of lov , d ath or b trayal
A po m about hop
is d stin d to fail
Fiv stanzas to go
fiv from th top
I was ov rcom with frustration
my writing was block d
A th saurus in hand
I xchang d word for word
But it distort d th story
lik I f ar d that it would
Lik putting on socks
with your writing hand ti d
Words wouldn’t string
no matt r how hard I tri d
I swor at th pag
and tapp d with my p n
In a last d sp rat mom nt
I d cid d right th n
If th right vow ll ss words
won’t com to m
Scr w it! I’ll writ down what do s
and r mov v ry .
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