As poets we tend toward the dramatic, the serious, the life-altering, dimension-warping, brain-busting, culture-reforming, mountain-moving marrow of life. Here is a chance to ascend a few levels back to the surface of things and discover a new appreciation for the mundane.
Rules:
No swearing.
No erotica.
No unicorns.
If your great-great grandmother would be offended at it coming out of a four-year-old's mouth, don't say it.
Topic possibilities (but not limited to these): parts of your every-day routine, food, body parts you never thought you'd appreciate, bubbles, mud, the way a yoga mat feels to your feet fresh out of a shower, etc.
Awards:
First place 300
Second place 50
Third place 20
Note to Jesus-lovers: if you want to worship through writing, tend towards "The Message" rather than KJV, NASB, NIV, etc.
Thanks! I'm looking forward to reading your work!
Rules:
No swearing.
No erotica.
No unicorns.
If your great-great grandmother would be offended at it coming out of a four-year-old's mouth, don't say it.
Topic possibilities (but not limited to these): parts of your every-day routine, food, body parts you never thought you'd appreciate, bubbles, mud, the way a yoga mat feels to your feet fresh out of a shower, etc.
Awards:
First place 300
Second place 50
Third place 20
Note to Jesus-lovers: if you want to worship through writing, tend towards "The Message" rather than KJV, NASB, NIV, etc.
Thanks! I'm looking forward to reading your work!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 12, 2006
- Rewards: Gold: 300
- Final notes: I created a rubric for judging, which proved less useful than you'd think. Needless to say, this was a delightful experience and there were plenty of amazing submissions which made my wheedling particularly difficult.
Winners:
1) Weeding the Garden by Moonlight by KevinDunn
2) My Windowbox on The World by Lady Stone
3) A Loaf of Meat by LongRoadHome
Other than the winners, I'd like to give props to the following pieces:
11 September, 2001 by KevinDunn
Blowing Bubbles (Terza Rima) by Schatzi Elfe
Footsteps by LazarusMan
Orange by pyropoetic
smile by saativva
Winter by Ativan
Thank you all for entering! And congradulations to the winners! :-D
Entries [9]
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Ahhhh meatloaf lovely meatloaf,
that mysterious concoction of meat and stuff• Commented on by judge. -
Another piece of magic is this summer river;
swimming down between the old jetty's pilings• Commented on by judge. -
How lucky, how lovely, to have
the golden sands,• Commented on by judge. -
What did you smell, nose of mine?
Tell me about those scents divine.• Commented on by judge. -
by frayed-hope 6 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 4 12:44 PM 2006. In Weird• Commented on by judge.
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Upon the beach I heard a distant cry....
A seagull flying in the wind• Commented on by judge.
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Simple is good.
Hope you have a good time reading the entries - one always takes a risk opening up contests to pre-writes as you have the tendency to get slammed. I appreciate it though.
Lisa -
Tell me about it. I'll never open to prewrites again after my last contest. They don't pay any attention to what you ask for -- they just use it as an excuse to stick something in that they don't have to think about. Plus they think whatever they've written has been perfected through the ages by all the applauds or something. I feel bad about my new anti-prewrites thinking because I wanted to be open to pre-writes, given the fact that free members can't add more than 2 poems a day unless they do a lot of heavy critiquing. But maybe being more choosy and trying to write for contests that really matter to you is better in the long run for producing good writes. We'll see...
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I have seen some contests that will allow one prewrite and one new -- I've seen contests that you have to submit the prewrite to the host before submitting, also I hope you limited the number of poems in the contest? That always helps with pre-writes allowed.
Anyway, I hear ya. Once I co-hosted an AP Idol Contest the first round we got close to 600 pre-writes. We read and I commented on every single entry. My eyes were bloody strings for weeks.
Good luck.
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congradulations to the winners!
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WOW thanks so much for the silver! it will have a great home now!!! congrats to the other winners and the HM's as well, I think that this was a great idea, for a contest. thanks somuch everyone!
blessings to all-
Krystal
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