**NOTE: Sorry I keep extending this contest, but I'd like at least a couple more entries!**
Hello. I felt like running a contest... so that's what I'm doing.
I might just have a boring options contest.
But you know you love it.
You absolutely adore it.
Trust me, you love option contests. :-)
Okay.
Here are the magnificent options.
1) I'm doing exams at the moment. They're not important exams, just exams within the school, but they're still a pain and I'd still like to do my best. In fact, I should probably be revising... never mind. Anyway, write me a poem either inspiring me to revise (if any poem manages to do that I'll be amazed, I can't stand revising!) or telling me how horrible exams are. Or how brilliant they are.
2) I just had an exam (see the theme?) on Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. Fun fun fun. I love Much Ado About Nothing, but not analysing how the characters use language to create an atmopshere or something like that. So, I was thinking, maybe you could write me a poem in Shakespearean language.
Just a note, I normally hate poems in Shakespearean language that aren't actually written by someone who was alive in Elizabethan times. So do it very, very, VERY well.
*END OF EXAMMY OPTIONS*
3) Write me a poem. But impress me. With a complicated form. I'll let you decide what I mean by 'complicated'... I'll give you some advice though, the same rhyme on every line (eg. fine, line, dine, pine, mine, etc. throughout the whole poem) isn't enough.
By the way, the poem has to be really impressive as well. :-)
4) Write me your view on something. I mean something like what is time, what is light, what is existence, what is anything. Feel free to submit religious poems, but 1. I won't encourage them, and 2. Don't try to convert me. (I know nearly ALL spiritual poems aren't like that, but just being cautious)
I love individual theories about those questions, so I encourage that kind of thing.
Right, rules...
*No sticky caps
*No swearing
*No adult or erotica
*Enjoy yourself... OR ELSE! MUAHAHA!
I'll try to comment on every entry!
You know you want to enter!
Terms and Conditions: This contest, despite claims, cannot promise eternal happiness. However, it can promise a few seconds of slight interest as you read it. These few seconds could be happy, or sad, or angry, or nasty, or anything.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 29, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: Sorry for the delay in judging. Congratulations to everyone who entered, this was a very hard contest to judge.
Thank you all for showing me some amazing poetry!
Contest Winners
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A flock of birds.by JustBe 84 lines, 73 comments, on Nov 29 10:54 PM 2006. In Poetry, Latin characters, English language
Bronze trophy winner
• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
Cause as we grow up they clip our wings
And clasp at our throats so we cannot sing• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
time; a stable measurement for unstable things / like the table in my room, holding golden clocks / and my clock seems to be able to capture time / like a hunter catches it's pray, without notice / timeby Excul 20 lines, 2 comments, on May 10 2:02 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts, Weird
Honorable winner• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Silver trophy winner
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Theres a girl in the bath room / stomach so big / she had liquor in one hand / and in the other a cig / / the smoke circled her face / herby LeaLush 29 lines, 3 comments, on May 10 1:50 PM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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What is Time? / Does It exist? / If so, / Where? / I could not see it. / Can not see it, / and never will see it. / But i know it's still t• Commented on by judge.
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Inebriation,
No solutionby saxophonicwolf 35 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 11 4:45 PM 2007. In Emotastic• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Waiting to embark to the voice of love.
My spirit enchanted with that land concealed.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
There comes a time in everyone's life / when they must act very brave / and suffer through the evilness / of the test that shall not be nam• Commented on by judge.
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I’m trying to find my-selves in other universes / But there are too many strings in my quest, / It would be like trying to find infinity / At the crest of one’s second-last breath / I’m trying to find myselfby thebears 27 lines, 1 comment, on May 24 9:12 PM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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Dang it! No prewrites! I have just the thing for option 2.
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I've got a perfect exam poem as I am also doing them! But it's a prewrite, so I can't enter! Noooo
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I absolutely love your attitude. I'll bet you lead a very satisfying existence.
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thanks for the gold and for the points
i was just sort of drifting then when that message appeared, woke me up
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Thanks for running such a cool contest.
I'm really thrilled to win something in this contest, because this is such a nifty idea for a contest, and because the judge seems like such a well-adjusted individual.
Wish I could say the same for the gold winner, who is notorious for pulling winning poems from contests within hours of judging 100% of the time ... before anyone can read them.... Writes good poems, too. Wish I knew which poem won. Just had to throw that in so that certain people might decide to show a bit of respect for the efforts of the judges at least some of the time.
Thank you for the cup. I'm honored to receive such a compliment. Congratulations also to ilovethomix, MessedUpMarionette, Excul, and sublimewriter. I am sure I will enjoy reading your entries.
Best,
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i remove my poems from contests when they are over for my own personal reasons, being personal reasons that means i should not have to explain to others why i do that nor should i be sent instant messages saying i am disrespectful by the person below mentioning -
the gold winner, who is notorious for pulling winning poems from contests within hours of judging 100% of the time ...
what i do in this site is my choice, once a contest is over then why should i leave my poem in it, regardless of whether i have won gold silver bronze an hm or nothing. i do it in all cases, not just the contests i hav won but those i have lsot in too. i do not get instant messages saying why have you removed your losing poem so why should i get one saying disrespectful for removing one i have won! it can not be one rule for one thing and diferent for another.
thank you and sorry to the host here for speaking in reply to what was said about my removing my poem once your contests had ended. as i say, i do it for my own personal reasons.
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