You are going to take me to someplace I've never been. "How?" you say. By the awesome power of your pen! Yes, I've been on a trip around the world and through time and it is the poets of AP that have been taking me on this wonderful journey.
The place you take me for this contest is India. I want you to take me there with your poem. I want to feel it, see it, experience the emotions of it. It can be modern India or the India of antiquity or any other time in history. It can be the India of reality or the idealized, romanticized India of your imagination. Just make me feel it. I'm giving you a couple of days so that you can research it if you want and you can have enough time to create something I can see, feel, experience. Just don't make it read like a school sociology or geography report. Make it poetry! Use imagery to write the emotions of being there.
Rules:
Keep it clean please.
Anonymous Contest: don't reply to or rate my comments until after the winners are awarded
Line limit: at least 5 but may be more
No prewrites
HMs may be added
Please don't entitle your poem "India" (You are more creative than that!)
Suggestions:
Use imagery, originality, metaphor, poetic devices.
This isn’t a quickie so take the time to pen excellence in verse. (I’m making it worth your effort)
And now.............. TAKE ME TO INDIA!
The place you take me for this contest is India. I want you to take me there with your poem. I want to feel it, see it, experience the emotions of it. It can be modern India or the India of antiquity or any other time in history. It can be the India of reality or the idealized, romanticized India of your imagination. Just make me feel it. I'm giving you a couple of days so that you can research it if you want and you can have enough time to create something I can see, feel, experience. Just don't make it read like a school sociology or geography report. Make it poetry! Use imagery to write the emotions of being there.
Rules:
Keep it clean please.
Anonymous Contest: don't reply to or rate my comments until after the winners are awarded
Line limit: at least 5 but may be more
No prewrites
HMs may be added
Please don't entitle your poem "India" (You are more creative than that!)
Suggestions:
Use imagery, originality, metaphor, poetic devices.
This isn’t a quickie so take the time to pen excellence in verse. (I’m making it worth your effort)
And now.............. TAKE ME TO INDIA!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 9, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 250, Bronze: 150, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: Well my fellow poets you have amazed me again with your talent. I have so enjoyed reading your poems in this contest. Each of you had a unique perspective that brought much enjoyed variety to my experience in judging this contest. You took me on a wonderful trip to India. Thank you.
Please consider taking me to Spain in my new contest Take Me There Part IV: Spain 900 points http://allpoetry.com/contest/show/2363816
You certainly didn't make it an easy contest to judge but here are your winners:
Gold- New Dehli
Silver- Vedas
Bronze- Back Waters
Honorable- Modern Bazaar
Honorable- Calcutta Forever
Thank you all for taking me to India!
Contest Winners
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when grandfather spoke of Brahman,
wisdom dropped like finest, draped dhoti• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
Sun sets through thunderclouds.
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She is not quite dead nor dying / This multitudinous lady / She is living / And forever will she live. / Her house is no more a home / Where life may thrive / It is falling apart / Brick by brick• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Standing on Karachi railway station / In smartly pressed drill uniform / And polished shoes / I just happened to see / the most beautiful girl in the world. / Her oval face framed by a cloud of dark hair. / Withby williamstown 14 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 27 6:51 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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You have to visit Hyderabad, / the very happening city of the east, / capital of Andhra Pradesh / nestling in the southern continent. / Her• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Wonderful Contest!
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Thank you. I hope that you will enter.
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Certainly!
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Being Indian, I guess I'll enter this contest
Good one!
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Please do!
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Mother Ganges
India is such a vast and wildly different continent. One poem could not pay justice to its variety. Come with me on a white-water rafting trip down the tumbling waters of Ganga, without which most of northern India would be a desert.
Born in the high Himalayas, among their majestic, silent peaks, within sound of Tibetan horns, where monastaries hang in impossible positions among the clouds.
Here deserted towns start to fill in April, when the thaw commences. Pilgrims haul the statue of Shiva to these high places. Thawing by day and refreezing at night sends rock slides tumbling. This is the habitat of the snow leopard, and the Yeti.
This tumbling torrent begins to slow as it reaches the plains, longer stretches now between the rapids, and the first towns appear. Fifteen hundred miles of towns temples and ghats. Benares, the most holy of Indian cities stands on its banks. Nightly the water is flickering from the glow of burning candles, floating in lotus-leaved `boats`.
Bathing in its waters restores the soul.
Soon the Bramhaputra joins. In June when the monsoon torrents fall the river swells, carrying tons of washed our soil to form the fertile plateau that feeds millions.
No defined outlet, the waters split into a myriad outlets, the Sundarabunds, before discharging into the Bay of Bengal. This delta has a race and culture all its own. Stoic people, dependent on fishing and losing their homes to almost annual flooding.
This is just one river. India has so much diversity.
Perhaps next time I will take you through the Sind Desert.....If its not too much of a travalogue! -
Dear Evereind Rising
I am glad that you would like to see India. I just saw your competition. I have writen a poem that would take you for a tour to Tamilnadu, India. I would be glad, if you could include my poem too in the competition. Thank you. -
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mrajarams, I had extended the contest deadline by 2 days. If your poem isn't a prewrite (hasn't been entered in any other contests on this site) you may enter it. If your poem is a prewrite preventing you from entering it, you may still write a new poem but it must be entered before the new deadline.
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Thanks for the contest.
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