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Welcome to my thirty-second contest...





Okay, I'm looking for some amazing poems here.
I don't want anything ordinary.
I don't want immature.
I don't want limited vocabulary.


Accepting all subjects excluding:
Erotica,
Religion/Spiritual,
America/Patriotism,
Self Harm/Mutilation/Cutting,
and Rape/Molestation.



I want the very best you've got.
I want nothing over fifty lines.



Read the rules:

1. No StIcKy CaPs
X.x.[{{&&No weird --accentuation;; of *words}}].x.X

2. Cursing is welcome.

3. Rhyme or free verse only. No acrostics, Haiku, and such.

4. Do not just give me anything.

5. Fifty lines max. No more. I like concise.

6. You want to break the rules? Go for it, But it better be AMAZING

All poems not to my liking or that have no shot at winning, Shall Be Removed Without Warning, but you may enter again.
All poems breaking rules, Shall Be Removed Without Warning.
Horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes will definitely earn your poem a Removal Without Warning!


Closes whenever.
Points may change.
Make it your best.
Make me proud.
Comments to those deserving.
Remaining anonymous is not an issue;
you may respond to comments.


Best of Luck to All Whom Enter...


*Comments will point out mistakes and dislikes/likes.

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on June 10, 2007
  • Rewards: Gold: 300
  • Final notes:
    Thank you all for entering.

    The winners:

    Gold: Entreaty to Élan
    Silver: The People in The Painting
    Bronze: Van Gogh Hands

    Congrats to all.

Contest Winners

  1. Ambivalentine
    It's tantamount to empathy but
    Less, perhaps, forfending
    Fatal entropy
    by Profesh 56 lines, 22 comments, on Jan 18 12:51 PM 2007. In Hope, Nature, Love
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. The People In The Painting
    The crimson dawn greets Cormoranth
    by Previn 28 lines, 22 comments, on Dec 5 4:44 AM 2006. In Weird, Fantasy, Freewrite, My own style, Thoughts
    Silver trophy winner
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. Van Gogh Hands
    he held me with his Van Gogh hands,
    to paint emotions across canvas
    by Cupcrazy 28 lines, 11 comments, on Feb 11 12:35 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Other, Imagry
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  4. Christopher
    minutia eats lives, chomping time
    into careful-sliced passages
    marked with four different pens,
    by Macey Muse 40 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 20 5:20 PM 2007. In Personal
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  5. Agony of Mind
    The midnight sky, black as the ink, / That drips from my writing quill; / My mind is blank, so tormented; / My lips remain so still. / Broken and beat, mind and soul; / Flames baptize my hell. / Unspoken word
    by yellowrose190 25 lines, 11 comments, on May 31 4:22 PM 2007. In Dark, Deep, Rhyme, Weird, Pain, Personal, Thoughts, Writers Block
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  6. And The Dead Shall Walk
    When the old thrush knocks / On the old wood docks / And the sun shines down / On the old brown rocks / From the old blue sea / She’ll return to thee / Back to the hard ground / ‘Neath the old oak tree /
    by MerelyMadness 23 lines, 4 comments, on May 29 10:15 AM 2007. In Prophecy
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  7. The Brolly With Angst.
    I’m the brolly, ‘she’ forgot. / You know, the usual tale. / Carried here and carried there, / in case of rain or hail. / / Yesterday was j
    by passim 41 lines, 6 comments, on May 8 7:05 AM 2007. In Humor, Humour, Silly, Angst
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  8. Scene and Not Herd
    misery is this years latest trend. / acoustic heartbreak and / screen names with hearts and stars. / we're no longer interested in ink. / listening to the same song by different artists. / this chord, discord. /
    by literaryromantic 19 lines, 10 comments, on Jan 21 6:54 AM 2007. In society, contemporary, culture.
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

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