A contest about the USSR.
Simply:
Poems welcomed on any aspect of the Soviet Union, life, leaders, ideology, history, art, geography, legacy, anything.
I will also accept entries on its successor states.
In more detail:
Da!
1. Do enter interesting, thought provoking poetry.
2. Do enter poetry with meaning.
3. Do enter philosophical, metaphysical and political poetry.
4. Do feel free to be obscure.
5. Do feel free to be original and do not feel any subject is closed. If you want to hypothesize about Stalin's sex life, then fine.
Nyet!
1. Don't enter rhyming poetry.
2. Don't enter anything else trite or contrived.
3. Don't under any circumstances add a picture to your poem - if you can't say it in words you can't say it at all.
4. Don't chose a hideous garish background.
5. Don't submit your entry in Russian, that's too pretentious even for me.
Closes in a little while (I'd like at least 10 entries, I think).
301 points for gold.
Simply:
Poems welcomed on any aspect of the Soviet Union, life, leaders, ideology, history, art, geography, legacy, anything.
I will also accept entries on its successor states.
In more detail:
Da!
1. Do enter interesting, thought provoking poetry.
2. Do enter poetry with meaning.
3. Do enter philosophical, metaphysical and political poetry.
4. Do feel free to be obscure.
5. Do feel free to be original and do not feel any subject is closed. If you want to hypothesize about Stalin's sex life, then fine.
Nyet!
1. Don't enter rhyming poetry.
2. Don't enter anything else trite or contrived.
3. Don't under any circumstances add a picture to your poem - if you can't say it in words you can't say it at all.
4. Don't chose a hideous garish background.
5. Don't submit your entry in Russian, that's too pretentious even for me.
Closes in a little while (I'd like at least 10 entries, I think).
301 points for gold.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on March 28, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 301
- Final notes: Gold: Osip Mendelstam
Silver: After-Image
Bronze: Russian Blood.
Very close between the top two for gold.
Comments to come but you'll have to wait a week to ten days for them.
Thanks for entering.
Contest Winners
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Osip Mandelstam
getting killed by poetry• Viewed by judge. [remove] -
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The Soviet Union lived on Russian blood
That is why their flag was red• Viewed by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [7]
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Oh Mother you have been cruel to me!
Oh Mother you have betrayed me!by Ilitilian 80 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 21 9:13 AM 2007• Viewed by judge. -
No matter how others view
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Mother Russia
Learn of Russia and Leninby tony yates 70 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 6 4:42 AM 2007. In Political• Viewed by judge.
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no prewrites?
okay, maybe i'll manage writing another one about stalin, i already have three poems about him...
i wish you lots of luck with your contest!
annie 
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ooh yay- i got back from there last week
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Where exactly? Care to add an entry?
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I should have liked to have entered this. What a pity, though, that you exclude rhyme. (Particularly in view of the fact that the Soviet ideologues tended to view unrhymed verse as potentially subversive.)
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Kak zhal (too bad) that you don't allow pre-writes or rhymes. My poem entitled "Mamaev Kurgan" would have been a good choice for this contest. I hope you read it anyway.
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