Howdy All! here we go... Into the deep!
I am very new here on the site...Just barely a week! But I’ve decided to have my first contest to get to know some of you.
I’ve been writing poetry for two years now, as part of my learning the English language, and have had a lot of fun along the way. I’ve been thinking of a topic and since it’s almost Father’s day, it came to me.
FATHER FIGURE
This means so much to me. Why? Because I’m a single dad for over five years now, living together with a daughter of 13 and a son age 18.
I know everybody has his/her own experiences with this subject. Some will be good, others bad. Just give me your emotions!!!
Or it can be a dedication to your dad or other meaningful male person in your life; I think you get the drift.
If not and have questions, please feel free to IM me anytime.
Prewrites are allowed cause I’m sure there are some awesome poems written in the past for this subject, and since I’m so new, heck, I know I haven’t read it!
Rules? Well I don’t have many, but here they are:
1 NO Suicide, cutting or other things like that
2 No cussin’ please, or at least a bare minimum
3 Absolutely nothing adult, I don’t see how the hell it would fit this contest
Well then, there is something nice about everything. I am Dutch by the way!!
My vocabulary is probably not like yours. I do, however have a Webster’s handy here and am able to look up words but please don’t give me a hard time with having to be a rocket scientist to read it, OK?
Something that might be nice to know about me is that not only am I Dutch, but I’m a “Red Neck” as well!
I really have a heart for a dose of humour in your writes. If you want to know what kind, feel free to check mine, I have posted a few myself.
1 place 300 pts and Shiny GOLD Trophy
2 place 100 pts and slightly tarnished Silver Trophy
3 place 50 pts and a bunk of scrap Bronze
Honorable mentions???? Maybe if there are enough entries.
Anyhooooo, I hope ya’ll enjoy this contest; I’m looking forward to meeting you and reading your muse!
Pen on!!
Hugs and greetings
Herman aka Prince Charming……the Dutch Red Neck
Update: Well as far as I know I read every entry to this contest. You all give me the fantastic hard job now to judge it. I try to do this as fair as possible. Its hard some fantastic writers enter the contest some writes touch me very deeply.
I want to thank you all very much for your work and I promiss to come back as soon as possible with the final statement with winners.
Its my first contest I done it the way I think is right. Everybody deserve a good solid comment for their work Judging has to be done as soon as possible I see to many contest here were the host not even comment on writes (has he even read it) and judging takes years. That is in my eyes not fair. I hope you all have enjoy this contest as much as I done it
Herman ake PC the Dutch Red neck
I am very new here on the site...Just barely a week! But I’ve decided to have my first contest to get to know some of you.
I’ve been writing poetry for two years now, as part of my learning the English language, and have had a lot of fun along the way. I’ve been thinking of a topic and since it’s almost Father’s day, it came to me.
FATHER FIGURE
This means so much to me. Why? Because I’m a single dad for over five years now, living together with a daughter of 13 and a son age 18.
I know everybody has his/her own experiences with this subject. Some will be good, others bad. Just give me your emotions!!!
Or it can be a dedication to your dad or other meaningful male person in your life; I think you get the drift.
If not and have questions, please feel free to IM me anytime.
Prewrites are allowed cause I’m sure there are some awesome poems written in the past for this subject, and since I’m so new, heck, I know I haven’t read it!
Rules? Well I don’t have many, but here they are:
1 NO Suicide, cutting or other things like that
2 No cussin’ please, or at least a bare minimum
3 Absolutely nothing adult, I don’t see how the hell it would fit this contest
Well then, there is something nice about everything. I am Dutch by the way!!
My vocabulary is probably not like yours. I do, however have a Webster’s handy here and am able to look up words but please don’t give me a hard time with having to be a rocket scientist to read it, OK?
Something that might be nice to know about me is that not only am I Dutch, but I’m a “Red Neck” as well!
I really have a heart for a dose of humour in your writes. If you want to know what kind, feel free to check mine, I have posted a few myself.
1 place 300 pts and Shiny GOLD Trophy
2 place 100 pts and slightly tarnished Silver Trophy
3 place 50 pts and a bunk of scrap Bronze
Honorable mentions???? Maybe if there are enough entries.
Anyhooooo, I hope ya’ll enjoy this contest; I’m looking forward to meeting you and reading your muse!
Pen on!!
Hugs and greetings
Herman aka Prince Charming……the Dutch Red Neck
Update: Well as far as I know I read every entry to this contest. You all give me the fantastic hard job now to judge it. I try to do this as fair as possible. Its hard some fantastic writers enter the contest some writes touch me very deeply.
I want to thank you all very much for your work and I promiss to come back as soon as possible with the final statement with winners.
Its my first contest I done it the way I think is right. Everybody deserve a good solid comment for their work Judging has to be done as soon as possible I see to many contest here were the host not even comment on writes (has he even read it) and judging takes years. That is in my eyes not fair. I hope you all have enjoy this contest as much as I done it
Herman ake PC the Dutch Red neck
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 21, 2005
- Rewards: Gold: 300
- Final notes: Well here I am back for the final of this contest.
53 entries all stole my heart.
Deep and beautiful emotions were shown here in this contest
You all did not make it easy for me, but that’s what I was hoping for from the start.
Well you all did not let me down and its up to me now to make the hard decision to tell who will have gold , silver and bronze. Who will have a honorable mention.
I had my fight here behind the screen. Reading every piece ones again and sometimes again. I read the best out loud. And here I am sitting behind my computer for the difficult task.
After laying them next to each other I made the final ordeal.
Gold goes to Legend for his “Discovering dad”
Silver goes to Sewasham for his “Dad”
Bronze goes to Smileywinks for her “To have a father”
Honorable mentions:
Lady anairO for her “My only memory”
Poetryismyoutlet for her “Hello’s and Goodbye’s”
Super Mo for his “Single Parent”
Blazing White Wolf for his “Father”
Pisces Pond for her “Its my turn”
Dark Visions for her “Up in flames”
Lamemans Terms for his “An empty Canvas”
It was very hard and very emotional and I laughed and cried with all your writes. Personally I would love to give every one of you a gold trophy I think you all deserve that but its just impossible. And I can only hope to see you all coming back on a new contest of mine in the future. I want to thank all of you for the wonderful weeks you gave me reading all your works, and want to thank you once again for those amazing entries
Herman aka PC aka Dutch Redneck
Entries [21]
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Dear Dad,
Christmas isn't what,by Soft rayne 45 lines, 50 comments, on May 19 1:24 PM 2004. In Sad• Commented on by judge. -
A bachelor, farmer, and provider
You split the church, became a divider• Commented on by judge. -
Protecting myself and all that matters to me, that’s all I gotta do
Even after everything I only have one reason to care about you• Commented on by judge. -
Daddy, what did you do
To make Mommy cry• Commented on by judge. -
He thinks he can control me,
He thinks he's the "queen bee"by Imapinkstar 12 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 7 7:17 AM 2005. In Sad• Commented on by judge. -
Colin thinks he's better
Once I wrote him a letterby Imapinkstar 12 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 11 7:09 AM 2005. In Personal• Commented on by judge. -
Midnight.
He squawks in his crib,• Commented on by judge. -
• Commented on by judge.
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Daddy
What is a Daddy?by Rose Patrick 44 lines, 15 comments, on May 6 7:14 AM 2005. In Personal• Commented on by judge. -
Dad,
It'd have been nice to start this letter out saying• Commented on by judge. -
There is the blood - connection.
That dared hurt me so• Commented on by judge. -
Daddy, you are my reason for living
I love you more than my mind can comprehendby bleedingarms 19 lines, 4 comments, on May 6 2:32 PM 2005. In Hope• Commented on by judge. -
This started as wanting to write something about abuse of/in the eyes of a child, ended up turning into a super personal thing instead..by anomaly1101 73 lines, 4 comments, on May 7 7:29 PM 2005. In Abuse• Commented on by judge.
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this morning,
my father’s• Commented on by judge. -
Running around with carefree day and pretending I'm an angel with beautiful glowing wings flying around underneath the bright, bright yellowish-orange sun--feel• Commented on by judge.
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sitting on a swingset
a little girl and dadby -my hiding place- 25 lines, 4 comments, on May 20 7:31 AM 2005. In Personal• Commented on by judge. -
To have a father
Whom is Dutch• Commented on by judge. -
Daddy dearest, you have two sides,
Just as a coin,by Lacerated-Eidolon 41 lines, 6 comments, on May 20 1:22 PM 2005. In Other• Commented on by judge.
Bronze trophy winner
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Comments
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Luckily enough i had just the poem written. Great contest,and good luck judging the entries!
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Sweetie, this was a wonderful idea! I wish you all the best and hope you get loads and loads of entries to feast your red neck eyes on!
I'll be back later in the week with an entry in honor of theme, just for the love of it, though
Sandi
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I love this contest, i think he the very best. at least it is to me anyway. i thank you so much for this contet. And yes I have enter it.I thank you again for shareing this with all of us here
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Great idea, i am sorry my poems arent humouous...
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hey ima in class right now soo... i cant enter at the moment but i would like to if i have time this weekend i will but ima working so i might not get to enter neway good luck with your enteries
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I love this idea! I'll have to enter it once I make enough comments to do so! I've had several father figures in my life and I've been meaning to write about them, so this contest will give me that opportunity.
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this is a nice contest. i john so wou is gane win this gontest hahahahahaha
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this is a great idea... i was gonna enter it... but its jsut to painful to talk about...but i hope you get many entries (which i see you already have)... and welcome to the site...xoxo stac
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Thank you for your warm welcome. I understand that very well. But if you ever want to talk about it I am no futher then just an IM away
Hugs Herman -
Your very critical on pieces posted in this contest. This are poems most written with very deep emotions.
To say you wont believe it is very easy to say, Ive seen many sides of the coin myself. Life is nothing like Hollywood its real. Its sounds like your comment is written with frustrations of your past and your emotions.
Its to easy to be critical like this and say I dont believe half of you. Respect others and I challenge you to write your emotions of your dad for this contest
Herman -
Well okay you made your point clear. This contest is open for everybody Its here for experiences writers as for non experiences writers. Some have talent others maybe less but then again every art is just a matter of taste. What you wont like can touch my soul and the other way around
I think thats the beauty of art in every form
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It sounds like someone has something they would rather not talk about, so they would rather attack others. This is a great idea. And a wonderful way to say what otherwise may not get said. And what kind of challenge is it to whine about what you cannot change. Uplifting is much preferable to the constant beating a lot of authors seem to enjoy. Lighten up and join in the spirit of things, or just ignore it and go on your merry way. Poison is poison, whether powder or words.
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I agree with this The subject of the contest is Father Figure. It brings emotions Some good others bad. The way that they are expressed is always good. If the readers does not like a poem he's free to skip and look futher. For me its very uplifting that so many wonderful people share so many emotions with me. For me everybody is a winner so its going to be a task later on who's going to get the trophy's. I still hope there are more entries coming for this contest.
Herman -
I do not envy you the judging. I only had five at the most in my contests and it was hard on a couple of them. I am too demanding. Good luck.
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Well this is a good topic to base poems on in this contest... original, and I like it!
Zaph
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Hello sir,,, I'm Veronica and not a very well writing lady, but I stick my neck out for LL TO SEE. gREAT CNOTEST i'M WORKING ON IT NOW
I'm not good @ spelling and not good at english neither.
But I will try to not fall
Have an awesome day
xoxo Veronica aka smileywinks -
tHaNk you a million times for that wonderful contest and the h.m!!!!
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Thank you for this wonderful contest and the honorable mention..
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Thank you for the silver trophy Herman, this was a great contest and I enjoyed it. You had some wonderful entries and I am honored to be among them. Take care and Have fun. Steve
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Herman to take this gold in a contest of such excellence from the other poets is indeed an honour, my thanks for running the contest Thank You
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good
Thank you so much for the HM. I really appreciate it! Good job everyone, good contest!
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