I'd like to thank Mary Cat for agreeing to join me on this one:
and you might ask, what is this one?
- Pitbull on a Hatbox
well, here it is:
We want your best poetry.
about poetry, making poetry, in love with poetry:
like a pitbull on a hatbox, we want your ferocious love and your style
Poetry about writing, writing about Poetry.
We do not, however, want people just posting any old stuff, nor do we want people
to post early trying to win a "race"
Please, please, please take your time and think about this one
Inspiration for You All:
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
- W.H. Auden
"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."
- William Blake
"Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all."
- Ted Hughes
"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. "
- Charles Bukowski
Rules:
We mostly prefer left aligned poems please
We do not like end-line rhyme, unless it's the dog's bollocks
We want to see your best work, so don't rush to post
Watch your grammar and spellings
Use various manner of poetic devices to tell your story
Speak to us in the language of Poetry
THANK YOU
Gillian & Mary
Judging Process
Please bare with us... ...... things have been hectic
this will be judged ASAP
many thanks
G & M
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 1, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 600, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: Myself and Mary would like to thank everyone for partaking in our contest and Mary wished me to add on the final notes, that she'd read every entry several times, and even though her comments were a little short, we did discuss the entries behind the scenes to come to our final decision.
The top three trophies wiggled and jiggled to get to their spots and we enjoyed how each of the top three were different yet unleashed what we wanted from the contest
1st Klimt Colours - this is what poetry colours
2nd Crooked cocks at dawn - this explodes with brilliant imagery and story telling
3rd The Novellist - how acerbic life can be from a battered writer
HM's to Don't take the moom
17 crystal steps
both sparked our imaginations and made us ponder
please read the winners
MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED
G & M x
Contest Winners
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not recognizable / an expression with the / atmosphere about my eyes / like those who / survive trauma / i lay upon a bed of leaves / watching emeralds / in the first light / coconuts in testicular arraby Grunts Girl 42 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 25 3:07 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts
Honorable mention
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Silver trophy winner
Entries [11]
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a distillation of chaotic thought, / a fine-tuning of the stray and random. / It is both experience and emotion, / forged in the fire of imagination / and allowed to cool / in the breeze of reflection. / Poetry ca• Commented on by judge.
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A whirlwind of thoughts come together / hope and love and fear all coalesce / three dreams / merge into one / of undying happiness / and an• Commented on by judge.
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Pomegranate green tea afternoons / from a bottle / staring into oblivion via your ceiling fan / the infamous call at 6 am from your mother / on your day off / It's chow mein and one chopstick /by MsPoetPixy 29 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 27 9:35 PM 2007. In Thoughts• Commented on by judge.
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sigh
"......we want your ferocious love and your style..."
don't I wish I had any ... lol
nice one..
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mull on it hun... mull on it
things might come to mind
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looks like I'm going to miss this one
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i'll extend it for ya lassie.. if you get your pills and potions in order
flap your wings -
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I have nothing but floaty things taking up space .. but if I do manage to create after the fact I'll post it
not to the contest of course..
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well of course... i shoulda realised that... snorts!!
you bad girl
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wonderfully done gillian!
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The mutt's nuts, eh?
so many options... so little time...
Good luck with this!
~ fox
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Oh, finally! This looks like a fun contest that will also be challenging. Not sure I am up to the challenge, but I am bookmarking it
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Great idea
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i used to
smoke drawn in like sea's mississippi suck
spewing cirrus clouds, hurricanes, and twisters
whole atmospheres to stain everything about me;
my fingers grew calloused from the burning.
Now I chew like a cow in a field, sucking
little drips while wearing out my jaw. Addicted,
unromantic, full of wet noise, and my fingers
have come clean. -
...I said "I
no wait "I
I mean "
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Wonderful concept here, Gill and Mary. Will bookmark and see if I can come up with something substantial.
~ Nicolette
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have i ever told you that ... i like beer?
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bloody hell girl, i had pillbox not hat box!! have had the wrong contest title in my head all week
but still can't write for it
ferocious love i don't do... writing i can't do...
elaine
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>^..^
I know im totally gonna get pwned but I was sitting on this idea an a few stanzas ever since this contest came out. I just gave it all I could, I wasn't even going to enter because I felt like it wasn't finished. There were even a few times I was going to start completely over again but I didn't want to let the opportunity get away. Sorry if you don't like it. -
I pulled my entry but got the notification it had been judged. Just wanted to tell you I loved the Title of the this contest.
Congrats to the winners..
Lisa
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i wish you hadn't quit again and pulled yours.. truly
but thanks anyways...
you're getting as bad Liza at pulling your stuff... lmao
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Thank you very much for the placing and trophy. It was an inspirational title, without a doubt.
Congrats to.. OMG Lute, and GRM.
*Sidles off nervously clutching trophy just in case there is some mistake*
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thank you for the honor, and for placing me among such great writers, Gill & Mary.
this was a great contest.
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Thankyou very much indeed for the HM,congratulations to gold,silver,bronze and other HM,have already read grm's bronze and was blown away by it,thankyou for the contest perspiration oops of course meant inspiration lol
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