Welcome to the Battle Of The Muse. Fighting With Ink: Rounds Contest!
This will be a series of contests in which the public of AP will compete for the title of Top Poet.
This contest will be judged by DwellingInDarkness, twilight seduction, DancingRed, and myself - PerfectImperfection;
with the help of invited judges in next round(s).
++++OPTIONS++++
1. Tell a story in three stanzas. Any kind of story, any poetic form -
but it has to contain a beginning, middle, and end. (Nothing too lengthy please.)
2. Dark poetry. Stray from the cliché - we have judges that adore
the gore, and others who despise it - write with care!
3. Poet's Challenge: 55 syllables or ELSE! (Poems no less or more than 55 syllables)
4. Quote Inspiration: [Author's Unknown]
___a. "Bloom where you're planted."
___b. "A book tightly shut is but a block of paper."
___c. "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech."
___d. "Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking."
___e. "If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space."
___f. "Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
___g. "The person who said a picture is worth a thousand words obviously couldn't read."
___h. "When life gives you lemons, eat ‘em; it’s probably high time you pulled a few funny faces and had a good laugh."
___i. "When I read about the evil's of drinking, I stopped reading."
5. Phrase bank: Choose at least 6 and use them in your poem.
complicated simplicity
shattered whole
the weight of sour deceit
frosted intentions
petals of innocence
cotton candy comforts
precious pieces
rusted remnants of today
soaking up the animosity
winged serenity
live to live
seasons of Sundays
monochromatic stains
twisted into form
the end of nothing
a slice of moon between your teeth
green tea echoes in cold tea-cups
electric laughter
tunneled beneath the mainstream
veins and hollow crab holes
strangled indigo
the drumming of rain on a roof
wet side of clouds
dancing whims and limbs
tracing circles over her soul
oversized insomnia
kelp clogging the throat
a monologue of sand
swallowed in empty vows
black & white surgical lights
RULES
- Put your option choice(s) in the NOTES section of your poem!!!
- Use SPELL CHECK!!!
- NO chat speak!!!
- NO Erotica!!!
EDIT BY TWILIGHT SEDUCTION: PAY ATTENTION
I will tell all the contestants how I judge. I rank in four areas: Poetic devices, Use of English devices (like grammar, punctuation, spelling), originality, and lastly, organization.
Each area is worth 10 points. With me, the Use of English you can either get all or nothing on; I am a picky judge and hard to please. So either do it right to get 10 points, or do it wrong and be penalized. I WILL NOT DO POINT REVISIONS IF YOU REVISE YOUR POEM. If you did it wrong the first time, I penalize.
The other three areas are MUCH less strict, as poetry needs to have variety. Poetic devices could be anything from imagery to poetry type like cinquain. Easy points there people. Originality depends somewhat on you and my views on cliches....I hate them. If you do one, do it well. (HINT: I hate cutting poems) Organization is a number of things like stanza placement and plot device, especially if you chose the story option. STORY OPTION PEOPLE, PLEASE TRY TO GET GOOD ORGANIZATION SO I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU. A short story is confusing.
NO harassment of other contestants or judges will be accepted!
++++++++++++++ATTENTION++++++++++++
Round 2 will be posted soon! Please bare with us, and do not remove your poems until we have officially closed the contest!
Thank you!
Wendy
This will be a series of contests in which the public of AP will compete for the title of Top Poet.
This contest will be judged by DwellingInDarkness, twilight seduction, DancingRed, and myself - PerfectImperfection;
with the help of invited judges in next round(s).
++++OPTIONS++++
1. Tell a story in three stanzas. Any kind of story, any poetic form -
but it has to contain a beginning, middle, and end. (Nothing too lengthy please.)
2. Dark poetry. Stray from the cliché - we have judges that adore
the gore, and others who despise it - write with care!
3. Poet's Challenge: 55 syllables or ELSE! (Poems no less or more than 55 syllables)
4. Quote Inspiration: [Author's Unknown]
___a. "Bloom where you're planted."
___b. "A book tightly shut is but a block of paper."
___c. "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech."
___d. "Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking."
___e. "If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space."
___f. "Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
___g. "The person who said a picture is worth a thousand words obviously couldn't read."
___h. "When life gives you lemons, eat ‘em; it’s probably high time you pulled a few funny faces and had a good laugh."
___i. "When I read about the evil's of drinking, I stopped reading."
5. Phrase bank: Choose at least 6 and use them in your poem.
complicated simplicity
shattered whole
the weight of sour deceit
frosted intentions
petals of innocence
cotton candy comforts
precious pieces
rusted remnants of today
soaking up the animosity
winged serenity
live to live
seasons of Sundays
monochromatic stains
twisted into form
the end of nothing
a slice of moon between your teeth
green tea echoes in cold tea-cups
electric laughter
tunneled beneath the mainstream
veins and hollow crab holes
strangled indigo
the drumming of rain on a roof
wet side of clouds
dancing whims and limbs
tracing circles over her soul
oversized insomnia
kelp clogging the throat
a monologue of sand
swallowed in empty vows
black & white surgical lights
RULES- Put your option choice(s) in the NOTES section of your poem!!!
- Use SPELL CHECK!!!
- NO chat speak!!!
- NO Erotica!!!
EDIT BY TWILIGHT SEDUCTION: PAY ATTENTION
I will tell all the contestants how I judge. I rank in four areas: Poetic devices, Use of English devices (like grammar, punctuation, spelling), originality, and lastly, organization.
Each area is worth 10 points. With me, the Use of English you can either get all or nothing on; I am a picky judge and hard to please. So either do it right to get 10 points, or do it wrong and be penalized. I WILL NOT DO POINT REVISIONS IF YOU REVISE YOUR POEM. If you did it wrong the first time, I penalize.
The other three areas are MUCH less strict, as poetry needs to have variety. Poetic devices could be anything from imagery to poetry type like cinquain. Easy points there people. Originality depends somewhat on you and my views on cliches....I hate them. If you do one, do it well. (HINT: I hate cutting poems) Organization is a number of things like stanza placement and plot device, especially if you chose the story option. STORY OPTION PEOPLE, PLEASE TRY TO GET GOOD ORGANIZATION SO I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU. A short story is confusing.
NO harassment of other contestants or judges will be accepted! ++++++++++++++ATTENTION++++++++++++
Round 2 will be posted soon! Please bare with us, and do not remove your poems until we have officially closed the contest!
Thank you!
Wendy
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on June 20, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 300, Bronze: 200
- Final notes: Upon much deliberation, these are the 14 moving on in the contest. I would like to thank you ALL for your time, talent, and patience; we have enjoyed reading each and every piece!
1. Eerie Canal
2. ~A Monologue Of Sand~
3. [ "Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." ]
4. total eclipse of the sun
5. Communion
6. My Soul
7. A Monologue of Sand
8. the Machine
9. One Kiss
10. Intentions of Youth - 4
11. Artful Memories - 4
12. Epiphany - 2
13. Untitled Feelings - 2
14. Catherine Wheel - 2
***Round 2 will be posted very soon, and each of you will receive an invitation with the link. Thank you!!!
Contest Winners
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Her eyes complicated simplicity / dripping under the weight of sour deceit, / melding to the warm wet circles / tainting the already tiredby Fug-azi 32 lines, 6 comments, on May 24 4:56 PM 2007. In My own style, Thoughts, Contest
Silver trophy winner
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The heather was the color of strangled indigo in the pre-dawn light. / I traveled in winged serenity as I approached the sacred grove. / Myby DK akaLunaticSerene 32 lines, 20 comments, on Jun 8 6:20 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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She gazed at me with weary eyes and {frosted intentions}.
We both knew her revolting secret and dreaded this intervention.by EmanonTragedy 26 lines, 4 comments, on May 21 5:32 PM 2007. In Self destruction• Commented on by judge. [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 3009614, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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Strangled indigo hues, / Those frosted intentions of youth, / Hazed of misdirection, / Ever blinding us from truth. / We live to live in paby Cerulean Sunrise 18 lines, 7 comments, on May 27 4:08 PM 2007. In Contest• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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by amaranthine lover 31 lines, 6 comments, on May 22 11:46 AM 2007. In Angst, Contemporary, Dark, Fantasy, Life, Pain, noguest• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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"If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space." / The world is round for a reason / So we never have to walk I straightby Lauren Noir 22 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 2 4:56 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
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ONCE NOT SO LONG AGO A LITTLE SPRITE NAMED / WINGED SERENITY DECIDED SHE WAS GOING TO A / FAIR AS SHE HAD NEVER VENTURED AWAY FROM HER / HOby katscradle 15 lines, 11 comments, on May 21 6:01 PM 2007. In Fantasy• Commented on by judge.
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You lay in bed, covered tight / You shut your heavy eyes / A lone wolf howls, piercing the night / In the corner of your room lays a surpri• Commented on by judge.
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The drumming of rain on a roof and the mists that follow in bloom bestow on my mind / the floret of the wet side of clouds. / Like green tea echoes in cold tea cups, its body swells silently about, always in• Commented on by judge.
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The Seasons of Sundays and frosted intentions in the front pew, third seat. The boy with a freckled spine who brought out the end of nothinby miss midnight 8 lines, 3 comments, on May 31 3:26 PM 2007. In Love• Commented on by judge.
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Beneath skies, of strangled indigo, / on the wet side, of clouds turned black, / in the background, the tempo set, / by rain drumming on the roof, / she sits. / Grasping at cotton candy comforts, / while vuby Lady-Desdinova 36 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 1 1:20 PM 2007. In Angst, Dark, Hope, Life, Love, Pain• Commented on by judge.
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Pulled out of precious pieces as petals of innocence / I await your complicate simplicity written onto me. / A slice of moon between your teeth, / Creativity tunneled beneath the mainstream, / Of visage deceivingby i write passion 15 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 3 6:32 AM 2007. In story, leaf, canvas, poetry, painting• Commented on by judge.
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We linger on the cold wind, with nothing more than understanding / no words are said and yet the moonlight shines harshly upon us / as if bby artisticxpoetry 25 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 7 8:46 AM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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The waxing moon gives presidence, / as we turn in our divine ballet. / Clothed in robes to reflect, / the bonfire's tempestuous display. / Hear our vocal celebration, / of the earth beneath our feet.by Senkura 34 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 7 10:22 AM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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Gather round my little friends / And I will tell a tale / Of evil, fear and wickedness / That will leave you pale. / There once lived on that hill yonder / A hag with skin an evil-green / They heard her cackles evby poettrical 52 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 8 7:21 PM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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whoo hoo
I am in, and I already have my inspiration
Be back soon
Lynda
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Great! I look forward to having you Sis!!!!
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Looking forward to reading your entry sis
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Bookmarked
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Great options! Very inspiring...bookmarked for my return!
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interesting quotes, i suppose
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Count me IN!
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Great! I know we are in for one hell of a judging with this one!
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Hooray! This is gonna be awesome.
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I think I will have to join this, can't wait to battle with my sisters ... Look out the shadows are here!!!
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Welcome!
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contest
I am new to this site. How do I tell when round two is or how many points i might have etc, since this is a multi round contest.... sorry dumb question I know but lol -
Righteous! Congrats to all! I'm honored to be moving on!! Kewl!
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