Must be true religious and/or philosophical content and written in a clearly rhyming pattern throughout or will be disqualified and deleted. One entry per person.
1st Place - 1,000 points
2nd Place- 400 points
3rd Place- 300 points
Judged on effectiveness of content and quality of technique.
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I have been overwhelmed with greatness, a considerable number of perfect poems, all of which are the very best... so, what to do?
I must CLOSE the Contest a day early because these Best Poems all deserve Awards. There are only 3 Prizes and 8 Best Poems. Any more Best Poems now would be impossible to accomidate! In order to be able to do justice to and award these 8, I am opening a Second Auxilliary Contest to this one only for the technical purpose of awarding the trophies to a second set of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Winners.
These are ALL THE WINNERS:
Two First Prizes, 1,000 Points (each)
I See the Stars - Andy Stephenson
Ninety-Nine Names - XPatient GraceX
Two Second Prizes, 400 Points (each)
The King's Daughter - jciavare
Time Illimited - Carole Dudley
Two Third Prizes, 300 Points (each)
Power of Memory - Dee Crepit
Holy, beautiful in spirit - Lyndon
Two Honorable Mentions, 100 Points (each)
Alive - scripter 7
But I Choose Christ - heismysong
Also
Beginnings - Mark Spencer
An Ode to the Egyptian Sun Goddess of Summer, Sekhmet - Charishma
Confused Trees - Bonnie Q
To tread the grass - Turquoise Truth
Human - The MOof
are Noteworthy
SPECIAL THANKS to CookieZeal, whose poem, Hand Prints, would have won a Top Prize, but chose instead to help me with this Contest. Sandy Collins also helped. Thank you both.
All of the second named for the second set of Trophies must resubmit your poems to the Auxilliary Contest,
Philosophical / Religious Rhyming Poem [Contest] for the First Prize points in the case of XPatient GraceX and for XPatient GraceX, Carole Dudley, and Lyndon Wise for the trophies.
1st Place - 1,000 points
2nd Place- 400 points
3rd Place- 300 points
Judged on effectiveness of content and quality of technique.
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I have been overwhelmed with greatness, a considerable number of perfect poems, all of which are the very best... so, what to do?
I must CLOSE the Contest a day early because these Best Poems all deserve Awards. There are only 3 Prizes and 8 Best Poems. Any more Best Poems now would be impossible to accomidate! In order to be able to do justice to and award these 8, I am opening a Second Auxilliary Contest to this one only for the technical purpose of awarding the trophies to a second set of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Winners.
These are ALL THE WINNERS:
Two First Prizes, 1,000 Points (each)
I See the Stars - Andy Stephenson
Ninety-Nine Names - XPatient GraceX
Two Second Prizes, 400 Points (each)
The King's Daughter - jciavare
Time Illimited - Carole Dudley
Two Third Prizes, 300 Points (each)
Power of Memory - Dee Crepit
Holy, beautiful in spirit - Lyndon
Two Honorable Mentions, 100 Points (each)
Alive - scripter 7
But I Choose Christ - heismysong
Also
Beginnings - Mark Spencer
An Ode to the Egyptian Sun Goddess of Summer, Sekhmet - Charishma
Confused Trees - Bonnie Q
To tread the grass - Turquoise Truth
Human - The MOof
are Noteworthy
SPECIAL THANKS to CookieZeal, whose poem, Hand Prints, would have won a Top Prize, but chose instead to help me with this Contest. Sandy Collins also helped. Thank you both.
All of the second named for the second set of Trophies must resubmit your poems to the Auxilliary Contest,
Philosophical / Religious Rhyming Poem [Contest] for the First Prize points in the case of XPatient GraceX and for XPatient GraceX, Carole Dudley, and Lyndon Wise for the trophies.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on February 19, 2006
- Rewards: Gold: 1000
- Final notes: Xpatient GraceX (for your points) and XPatient GraceX, Carole Dudley, and Lyndon Wise (for your trophies) re-submit your winning poems to the 2nd Contest which is open only to you for this purpose. --Ellis
Entries [11]
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See the Milky Way’s ascent-
from God’s index finger print-by CookieZeal 33 lines, 24 comments, on Apr 14 2:46 PM 2002. In Abuse• Commented on by judge. -
I submerge in the oceans deep
like a soul being reborn I weep.• Commented on by judge. -
To tread the grass and know its’ fame
Call to heaven, whatever thy nameby Turquoise Truth 24 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 15 4:53 PM 2006. In Spiritual• Commented on by judge. -
He will be called The mighty God;
Prince of Peace: Jesus is His name.• Commented on by judge.
Bronze trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
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hmmmm...a great idea.I think it needs a god of rhyme and a philosopher like you to win the contest.
Shahrzad -
I'm not too good at religious and spiritual poetry.....I could try philosophy, but I'm not too sure if I could create a very good one. Anyways, good luck with the judging.
Please give this a look. You might like this-
allpoetry.com/Column/1818700
And yes, good luck with the Show Don't Tell part 2 contest. It will start on 1st March. -
OW! I like this contest, but I can't write a good religious nor philosophy poem no matter how hard I try. But I hope all the great poets that can will enter. Have fun and hopefully this contest WILL be a success!
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Hi Ellis, what do you class as true religious? hugs Di
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I want to report and thank you, Shahrzad Maftooh for visiting my page and referring me to this contest. I offer my matching work for this high profile of genres, and not really the points, however nice they are to receive. thank you so much.
And Ellis, as a Greeter, and since we're in the league of His own, Let me help if I can.
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WOW!!! I can't tell you how pleased and surprised I am with the gold trophy and a 1000 points! That is extremely generous and I am glad you were impressed with the poem. I read it over again twice, and it is among my best; but I am surprised none-the-less. Thanks alot Ellis.
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I feel fortunate to even have an honorable mention- thank you so much!
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Congrats to the winners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace
Jeri -
Congratulations to all the winners! And, thank you, Ellis, for the very kind nod to Confused Trees. It is most appreciated.
Love and hugs, B♥nnieQ
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I'm disappointed that you didn't bother to comment on my entry. It appears you didn't even read it, however as a gold member I know you can cloak yourself (but I wouldn't recommend it when judging a contest). I enter contests to get critiques from the judges. I don't care about points or trophies, but sure I'd appreciate them. But critiques are still more important. Even if my entry wasn't what you were looking for, simply thanking me for entering and saying it didn't fit (and giving a reason) would at least tell me something. While I'm sure those who won and got honorable mentions deserve their recognition, I would hope my entry would at least earn a read, if not a critique. Even if you hate what I say, and how I say it, that's fine by me. Spiritual poems often lead to disagreements and debates. I have no problem with those who leave comments with either of those themes. I take my poetry more seriously than most, so I'm not going to cuss you out or throw a fit if you say you dislike something. I'm mature enough to accept actual critiques because I want to improve my writing. I'm sure the poem I entered could use some work. If you could take the time, whenever you're not too busy, will you please read and comment on it? Here is a link in case I forget and pull it from the contest: Faith in Faithlessness allpoetry.com/Poem/544859
Anyways, I still want to say CONGRATULATIONS to the honorable mentions and the trophy winners! -
Apology accepted...
Contests are hard work... and sometimes you don't get notified of a new entry until it's too late, or not at all. What I like to do is click on and read the first entry, make sure I left a comment, then click the next in contest link until I come back to the beginning again. (I do this after the contest says closed for judging).
Anytime you have trouble with anything on here, you can always reach out and ask for assistance on the boards, in groups, or even by asking a moderator. Perhaps your helper could have waded through and pulled ones that didn't fit the criteria. Just an idea in case you change your mind and have a next time. (I hope you do, since there are few judges who genuinely care as you seem to!)
Don't feel bad, I've just had a lot of irresponsible lazy judges not bother looking at my entries so I tend to assume that. Sorry about that.
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