Contest: Whatsiname

whasinaname:  
www.allpoetry.com/poet/whatsinaname
has a birthday coming up on February 21 .

So, This contest is based on these:
1. Favorite things: you can chose as many as you can get into a poem (poems only)

2. Use the Likes and Dislikes to write a poem in one of the following forms:

Ghazal, Pantoum, Quatern, Kyrielle(or Kyrielle Sonnet), and Villanelle. (Poems only. Only use these forms for this option or it doesn't count! If you don't know the form go to: www.shadowpoetry.com  )

3.  Zodiac Sign (Pisces): Write about this sun sign in some way that will provide emotion and imagery (poems only).

4. Trait List: Use ALL of the words on the trait list in a poem about this person (you might not want to do it if you have no idea who they are)

5. Write a joke into a poem or a limerick. He likes funnies.
(Don't know what a limerick is go to www.shadowpoetry.com ). If you submit an off-color joke; MARK IT ADULT!!! We are all grown up (at least by age anyway) but don't want the young'uns on the site to read it.

6. The Year 1962:  Go back to 1962 and write about something from that year (between 300 and 1000 words).  I don't want fiction and I don't want opinions. It needs be written in your own words and in an unbiased way!  NO POEMS on this option!!!

RULES:
1. Don't cuss excessively and if you have ANY vulgar language mark it ADULT!!! A non-stop run on of cussing...and I won't even finish reading it. If you cuss, cuss wisely!

2. Behave! Do not be mean to anyone and respect the guidelines of the contest.

3. NO-NO's!!! No cutting, no suicide, no angst, no depressing stuff, no violence
(if you write on option #6, the rules will be more loose but the "facts" of "facts" are still relevant. If it is war, I want to know what happened not a vivid picture of how much blood you think was spewed!)

4. I shouldn't have to remind people of the rules on their topic.

5. No limit to entries.

6. Prewrites accepted ONLY for Options 2, 3 and 6

7. Don't complain if you think the contest is hard... I have been saving points for this for months and THAT WAS HARD!

8. BROWNIE POINTS FOR ANYONE WHO CAN FIND AN EVENT THAT OCCURRED ON FEBRUARY 21, 1962!!! (not someone elses birth or death but a historical event that took place on Feb.21, 1962 that had significance. It doesn't matter where in the world it was!


1. Favorite things: you can chose as many as you can get into a poem (poems only)
PERSONAL INFO:
Favorites:
Favourite time of the day:  is early morning!!!
Favourite thing to do: walking in the woods
Favourite poet:  currently is genielassie used to be Robert frost
Favourite author: Nevil Shute
Favorite Book: "Your Sacred Self" by Wayne dyer
Favourite poem: "If" by Rudyard Kipling
Favorite Number: Seven
Favorite band: Eagles
Favorite song: Jet airliner by Steve miller band
Favorite movie: City of Angels
Favorite TV show: Baywatch
Favorite Food: sea food (shrimp)
Favorite Color: purple

OR

2. Use the Likes and Dislikes to write a poem in one of the following forms:
Ghazal, Pantoum, Quatern, Kyrielle (or Kyrielle Sonnet), and Villanelle. (Poems only. Only use these forms for this option or it doesn't count! If you don't know the form go to: www.shadowpoetry.com  )

LIKES
Solitude to dream in
Mystery in all its guises
Anything discarded to stay discarded
The ridiculous
like to get 'lost'

DISLIKES
the obvious
feeling all at sea about something
know-it-alls
pedantry

OR

3.  Zodiac Sign (Pisces): Write about this sun sign in some way that will provide emotion and imagery (poems only).

Zodiac Sign:   Pisces
Birth Stone: Aquamarine
Star stone: moonstone (not the same as birthstone)
Birth Flower: Violet
The Violet, February's flower, comes in white, yellow and pink, as well as the more commonly seen vivid purple-blue. It has lush green leaves and dainty flowers. Violets represent devotion and faithfulness.
SYMBOL: Two fish, in opposite directions
ELEMENT: Water
PLANETS: Neptune
COLOUR: Aquamarine

OR

4. Trait List: Use ALL of the words on the trait list in a poem about this person (you might not want to do it if you have no idea who they are) :

Humorous
Intelligent
Dreamy
Sensitive
Creative
Compassionate
Mystical
Idealistic
listener
Sympathetic
Intuitive
Loyal
Humble
Adaptable
Charitable
Sentimental
Caring
Poetic
Artistic
Indulgent
Curious
Imaginative

5. Write a joke into a poem or a limerick (Don't know what a limerick is go to www.shadowpoetry.com ). He likes funnies. If you submit an off-color joke; MARK IT ADULT!!! We are all grown up (at least by age anyway) and don't mind reading them, but don't want the young'uns on the site to read it.

6. The Year 1962:   Go back to 1962 and write about something from that year (between 300 and 1000 words).  NO POEMS on this option!!! I don't want fiction and I don't want opinions. It needs be written in your own words and in an unbiased way!

MAJOR EVENTS of 1962:
Soviet missile bases detected in Cuba; President Kennedy demands their removal. The confrontation is the closest the U.S. and U.S.S.R. ever come to war. Crisis is resolved when Soviets agree to remove Cuban missiles in exchange for removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey.

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann executed in Israel

U.S. establishes semi-permanent military presence in Vietnam

Pope John XXIII convenes the Second Vatican Council, which will modernize many practices of the Catholic Church when it concludes three years later

Industrial robots introduced to perform repetitive manufacturing tasks

Sino-China War

Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand

Avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in Peru ; 4000 deaths

The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba 's membership

US announces its trade embargo with Cuba  

The United States Government bans all US-related Cuban  imports and exports

For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto  align

French President  Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria  to be an independent nation

Adolf Eichmann  hanged in Israel

Independence of Rwanda  and Burundi

Locust  swarm  threatens Delhi

Jamaica  becomes independent

Trinidad and Tobago become independent

Soviet Union  agrees to send arms to Cuba

President John F. Kennedy  declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade

Civil war erupts in Yemen

The first black student James Meredith  registers in University of Mississippi  escorted by Federal marshals

Uganda becomes independent within the Commonwealth

Infamous Columbus Day Storm  strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph; 46 dead, 11 billion board feet of timber blown down, $230 million U.S. in damages

Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba  takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. A stand-off then ensues the next day between the United States and the Soviet Union , putting the entire world under threat of a nuclear war

Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union  leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba

a referendum in France favours the election of the president by universal suffrage

Saudi Arabia  breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt  following a period of unrest partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt

Apartheid : The United Nations  General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa 's racist  apartheid  policies and calls for all
UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation

Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union  agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba , US President John F. Kennedy  ends the quarantine of the Caribbean  nation.

Tanganyika (now Tanzania) becomes a republic within the Commonwealth, with Julius Nyerere  as president

Britain acknowledges the right of Nyasaland (now Malawi ) to secede from the Central African Federation -

The last foreign occupied territories of India, Daman and Diu  and Goa are freed from the Portuguese by the Indian Army

"Big Freeze" in Britain - no frost-free nights until March 5 1962

In Literature

Rachel Carson 's book Silent Spring released, giving rise to the modern environmentalist  movement

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

Stranger in a Strange Land  by Robert A. Heinlein

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1962:  

Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr. becomes first American to achieve earth orbit; his Mercury 6 mission is followed by two other Mercury flights
Ranger IV first U.S. space probe to reach the moon, where it crash lands by design

Telstar becomes the first communications satellite intended for regular service; relays television signals between North America and Europe

Morning sickness drug thalidomide found to be causing birth defects
Niels Bohr dies

OR FROM ENTERTAINMENT AND MUSIC:

TV Shows:
I've Got a Secret,
Beverly Hillbillies,
Route 66,
The Flinstones,
Price is Right,
Ben Casey

Books:
Letting Go, Philip Roth;
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck;
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn;
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey;
The Thin Red Line, James Jones;
Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Charles Schultz

Marilyn Monroe dies, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills

40 Greatest Hits Of 1962
1. Do You Love Me - Contours
2. You Belong To Me - Duprees
3. Twist and Shout - Isley Brothers
4. At Last - Etta James
5. Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons
6. The Loco-motion - Little Eva
7. Let's Dance - Chris Montez
8. Return To Sender - Elvis Presley
9. Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker
10. Good Luck Charm - Elvis Presley
11. Party Lights - Claudine Clark
12. Twistin' The Night Away - Sam Cooke
13. The Wah Watusi - the Orlons
14. Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
15. Sherry - Four Seasons
16. Don't Hang Up - the Orlons
17. Desafinado - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
18. Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel
19. Alley Cat - Bent Fabric
20. Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out) - Ernie Maresca
21. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) - Roy Orbison
22. The Stripper - David Rose
23. Beechwood 4-5789 - the Marvelettes
24. Slow Twistin' - Chubby Checker and Dee Dee Sharp
25. The Wanderer - Dion
26. Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
27. Green Onions - Booker T. and the MG's
28. Sealed With A Kiss - Brian Hyland
29. Having A Party - Sam Cooke
30. I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
31. Soldier Boy - Shirelles
32. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka
33. Mashed Potato Time - Dee Dee Sharp
34. Roses are Red (My Love) - Bobby Vinton
35. Baby Its Cold Outside - Ray Charles & Betty Carter
36. I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Tony Bennett
37. Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys
38. 409 - Beach Boys
39. Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares
40. Baby, It's You - the Shirelles

movies in 1962:

Lawrence of Arabia
The Music Man
Mutiny On The Bounty
The Longest Day
To Kill A Mockingbird
Birdman of Alcatraz
Days of Wine and Roses
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Freud
Lolita
My Geisha

POINTS:
I have lots of points saved up; but until I see the quality of the pieces in this contest I am only putting up 300.
The contest could suck and I don't like the idea of having to give points to something just because there was nothing else better.

IF I AM IMPRESSED AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THERE ARE GREAT ENTRIES I WILL SPLIT UP AN ADDITIONAL 1200 POINTS BETWEEN THE GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE AND UP TO 2 HONORABLE MENTIONS