This is a contest all about improving, so I'll get right to the point. Enter a piece, any piece (meaning ALMOST any piece) that you want to improve. I will read it, critique it, and expect you, not neccessarily to take everything I say, but to at least consider and make some dramatic changes. I will judge based on improvement and quality of the REVISED piece.
Please only enter if you really want to improve your piece. If you enter, I comment, and then you get all mad at me, you will DQed. So please...don't do that. Also, please know editing may take more than on try. Don't be discouraged. So I'll need to count on you logging on at least every other day to check your poem.
Rules
~NO erotica or adult/sexual content.
~min. 10 lines, max. 40
~no ricameter, senyru, etc. I don't know how to critique these.
I think that's all for now. May the force be with you and may the best poet win!
P.S. I may get another, more experienced poet to help me judge this, so you may have two people commenting on your piece.
Please only enter if you really want to improve your piece. If you enter, I comment, and then you get all mad at me, you will DQed. So please...don't do that. Also, please know editing may take more than on try. Don't be discouraged. So I'll need to count on you logging on at least every other day to check your poem.
Rules
~NO erotica or adult/sexual content.
~min. 10 lines, max. 40
~no ricameter, senyru, etc. I don't know how to critique these.
I think that's all for now. May the force be with you and may the best poet win!
P.S. I may get another, more experienced poet to help me judge this, so you may have two people commenting on your piece.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on February 22, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 700, Silver: 500, Bronze: 300, Honorable mention: 9 people
- Final notes: What can I say for this contest? It was interesting, to be sure. So much has been said, not much is left, so I shall simply explain my choice of winners.
All who attempted edit were finalists and received hm's. The top three were poems that I really noticed a huge effort to improve in, so they received top scores on my scale. The lower finalists either did not edit as much, or did not have anything to edit, whch is admirable, but not what this contest was about. Anywho, thx to all who entered, especially those who really tried to make your piece better!
Contest Winners
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I've lost my way
Sitting in the woodsby The-Choke 22 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 10 4:58 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts, Depression
Gold trophy winner
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Yellow and orange hues
flicker in the darkness• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
The Angel of peace whispers in my ear
it's time for you to find love my dear.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
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You're my everlasting fear
My always falling tear• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
A luminous cutting edge piercing midnight / Silently revolving on a lonesome tower / As if in its own orbit / Guiding ships, passing in theby Knight70 26 lines, 27 comments, on Jun 10 10:59 PM 2007. In Freeverse, Lighthouses, Spiritual, Life, Metaphor for Faith
Honorable mention
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I know this girl,
Just plain an ordinary,by VirginiaDarling 19 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 24 2:25 PM 2005. In Personal, Humor, Contemporary Honorable mention
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Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
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Standing alone outside the Mirage,
I felt like the only gambler in Las Vegas.by A60sMan 16 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 21 7:24 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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'He reads, He Weeps'
He reads, He weepsby Nicolette Everett 24 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 17 9:27 PM 2006. In Personal• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Addiction; The uncontrollable compulsion to do something over and over no matter the devastation I brings to you, your family, or your furture. I know this all too well, and never have I fully came out of it's depths• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The cold, cold shutdown
the hellish shrieks of defeat• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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This is an excellent idea for a contest. I know some people (me) need a little motivation to revisit their poems and try to better them!!
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Loving Flame -
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Me -
Note to self:
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a great concept. More people need to actively, at the very least, re-read their past writes. Doing so will inevitably bring to light errors that we somehow never see the first time we write it.
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Some of them didn't get viewed/commented on. HOW are they supposed to improve?
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Dear poet, I am insulted. (Not really; I'm just being dramatic.) I would never close a contest without commenting on, must less reading ALL entries. Are you an entrant? If so, you would have received my notice of intent to finish reading tonight, which I am doing right now.
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Yes, but it's closed. How are they supposed to improve it if it's closed? Isn't that what the whole contest is about?
Don't be insulted..... I merely have curiosity.
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Aye, it is closed, meaning no new entries are being taken, but 3 days remain til it will be judged (closed and judged being two different things). Do you see?
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**Book Bound In Leather**
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Truth of Life
Edited.
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Edited...the background at least..lol Good luck with the judging
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Venetian Backwaters
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edited.
Repetition.
Repetition.
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Repetition.
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edited.
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I had edited my poem and I thought I had sent a message regarding that but I guess that I hadn't.
I changed it from Ghost to Angel. -
Oh..forgot to say I edited.
Thanks for the reminder!
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Thanks for the contest.
Congratulations to the trophy winners.
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