Ditch the ads, upload images and much more - upgrade today from 5.95/month!
Read Contests Groups Learn Forums Store Help
 

Have a look

Option 1: What kind of a poem would an American Transcendentalist write? Show me!

Option 2: Write about either a desert, jungle, forest, woods, swamp area, arctic region, any type of waterscape, or a mountainous landscape. Paint it it my mind, using a MAXIMUM of 40 lines.

Option 3: Write me a poem about a garden. Amaze me!

Option 4: Write me a poem about an animal in its natural habitat. Show your appreciation for it.

Option 5: Write me a poem about a flower. What does the flower you chose symbolize?

Please don't exceed over 40 lines. It's not a rule, but a request.

No erotica or anything explicit: If so, the entry will be disqualified.

No cursing please: If so, the entry will be disqualified.

I request that in your author notes you indicate which option you used.

That is all. Enjoy!

I can't wait to read your entries. I'm looking forward to it. Good luck.

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on July 29, 2007
  • Rewards: Gold: 300
  • Final notes:
    I had very wonderful entries, and this contest was hard to judge. Thank you all for entering. I enjoyed all of your poems. Congratulations to the winner. As for all the entrants, keep up the wonderful work

Contest Winners

  1. Error: Unable to find finalist item 3234276, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  2. Frosted skies / Footprints fixed behind me / The Devil cries / No flames or pain surround me / Darkened skies / Beauty draped before me / The Sun will not rise / Yet the lights burn deep inside me /
    by Frozen.Fracture 18 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 12 4:01 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Nature, Contest
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. Patient and pure / Violent as well / The labor required / The softness I felt / Alive and powerful / Controlling and moved / As life and de
    by Unstoppable 11 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 12 12:56 PM 2007
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  4. by cherche -d -ame 22 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 12 6:09 AM 2007. In Contest entry, Life, Love, Nature, Other, Sad, Spiritual, Thoughts, Freewrite
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  5. Error: Unable to find finalist item 3184604, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  6. Tonight she sleeps so sweet and tender / Tomorrow she will bloom in splendor. / She is the Sun-God's timeless lover / The golden shower cal
    by sunflowerpoet 18 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 10 10:47 PM 2007. In Nature, Love, Flowers, Sunflower
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

Entries [19]

1 - 19 of 19
  • by Rainy Days 26 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 11 11:28 PM 2007. In Love, Friends, Garden, Flowers, Symbolism, Weird
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Stars encrust a blackened sky , / Moonbeams fall on dunes of sand, / Silence deafens As i lie, / Upon this stunning arid land. / No trees or plants or life, / At all, / Just golden hills, / Standing tall.
    by astrum 16 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 12 5:53 PM 2007. In nature
    • Commented on by judge.
  • In the garden of heaven . / Peacefulness grows of al type of flowers . / I choose the rose . / It's shinning unfurls from the beauty within
    by LIve For Today 17 lines, 13 comments, on Jun 12 9:40 PM 2007. In spiritual, nature
    • Commented on by judge.
  • i walk alone / on this desert ground / dodging all the cactus's / and yuca plants / i can see the bones / of dried up animals / the sky is open / you can see for miles /
    by Emo Cowboy14 50 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 18 2:34 PM 2007. In Nature
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Like. The sentence before. Me / I am. Missing something. / My being lacks a verb / Doing words exist in my mind / But in doing so they are conquered / Of their title and escape / From nowhere but my lips.
    by Anastasis 23 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 10 3:30 PM 2007. In Personal, Spiritual, Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge.
  • You hide in the fields / Of waving golden wheat / You play in the forest / Your body so discreet / The warm sun settles / Onto your crimson fur / While a leave meddles / On your bushy tail / A rabbit in the di
    by Friesian 44 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 11 11:39 AM 2007. In Nature
    • Commented on by judge.
  • waking up in the morning with dew smeared across my face / I must have fallen asleep in this serene place / as the sun slowly becomes bigger in the horizon / showing it's blushing face from behind the tree grove
    by Jiyo 28 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 12 1:27 AM 2007. In Nature, animals
    • Commented on by judge.
  • I sit alone with you in the garden / looking at the beautiful flowers. / They are just like people, / all so different / but still need the
    by Dee23 33 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 12 1:48 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge.
  • The sparkle spoke / A thousand Words / Her stare / Could Move / A Thousand Herds / I broke the lamp post / And left it hanging / In the Moonlight
    by jwilter 8 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 12 2:47 PM 2007. In Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge.
  • The garden of a glimpse / Is only seen once / what beauty it holds / to see all in a rush / Fuchias and carnations overflow the newly white painted gate / and roses and its thorns whisp and turn as vines do / ever
    by Lyns xOx 13 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 12 6:44 PM 2007. In Nature, Fantasy
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Only the sound of birds and crickets, / and not any hint of the busy city. / No planes flying overhead nor screams in the dark, / completely serene with the pleasant world around me. / I am lost in the sounds of the g
    by SweetRoses 17 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 22 5:20 PM 2007. In Nature, Personal, Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge.

Add a comment

    : Comment:

Comments


  • Harrisham Minhas
    July 29, 2007
    Edit | Reply
    Thanks a lot Aratidevi, for the Gold and a wonderful contest!

    Harrisham Minhas


  • cherche -d -ame
    July 29, 2007
    Edit | Reply
    congrats to everyone and thank you for hosting this inspiring contest
    reenie