Welcome everyone. I was presented a form in a poetry workshop I am in. I think this form is pretty interesting and hard to pull off. It’s easy to do but hard to make a great poem. I do think it is possible to blow someone away with this form though.
I haven’t made anything great off of this form but I assume that some of you may inspire me to work on this.
Here are the rules:
***NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT WRITE ON THIS FORM YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED SO PLEASE STICK TO THIS. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO TRY THIS EXERCISE DO NOT PARTICIPATE!!!
There is no defined rhyme scheme or meter but you can conduct your own if you feel it will help.
THIS IS NOT A HAIKU FORMAT.
Line#1 Abstraction plus verb, plus place
Line #2 Clothe the abstraction
Line #3 Summarizes the action
**If anyone needs a definition onto what an abstraction is and what I mean by “clothe the abstraction”. I will try to simplify. I hope this helps. :-)
ab·strac·tion –noun
1. an abstract or general idea or term.
2. the act of considering something as a general quality or characteristic, apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.
clothe
1. to dress; attire. (Dress it or cover it in something. Perhaps some personification may also work here if you do it right.)
Example: Draped in blood, covered with chaos, Drenched in Distain.In other words, you can "clothe" it in another abstraction but you cannot clothe another abstraction other than the abstraction you first presented in line #1. In other words, if your abstract concept is Love, you cannot clothe Lust in your second line but may clothe love with lust if that makes sense. You can go as abstract as you want. As long as it is attempting to follow this while making it more abstract and better. I hope this helps everyone. I figured I would try to specify since "squeezy" insightfully brought me to the understanding that I perhaps may have not been clear enough. :-)
Here is an example:
Death walks through empty hallways
Wrapped in flawless white
And cuts open crimson life
Let’s see what you got!
UPDATES
Ok everyone, I have read through each poem a lot of times so far and now the current order of the finalists are based on those that met the requirements I specified and did something creative and/or moving. My next round of judging will be based on whether or not the poem seems like it needs more. If this form exists and is good to use, it will only be a good form if the form helps the poem instead of restrains it.
ANYONE THAT WANTS TO SUBMIT, PLEASE DO SO, THIS IS STILL OPEN.
If anyone wants to make changes to their work because they notice they aren’t in the finalist list, please send me a message so I can look for it. I will no longer tell you want you are missing in your poetry although there are a few that still have not met the requirements.
Just because you are not in the finalist list doesn’t necessarily mean that you haven’t me the requirements; it just means that you got brought down through my second round of eliminations. There may be something else I think the poem lacks and/or seems unfinished.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on October 29, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 4 people
- Final notes: Thank you all for entering my contest. A lot of you really took the form and made it your own. Some people either didn’t follow the guidelines and/or need to build on what s/he has to really give life to the abstraction s/he addressed. Never the less, no poem is better or worse, the winners, in my opinion, really took this form and made it their own. Everyone in the Preliminary Finalists list did an exceptional job at meeting the requirements. It was very tough to judge from such a talented group. Their poems didn’t seem to lack substance due to the form and really said so much with so little which is what the form is all about. Also, thank you to the few who brought alliteration into the form, I think this works wonderfully and probably wouldn’t have seem how wonderfully it works without you guys.
The winners:
Gold: “Holiest shrine” by Sandip Saha (wonderful originality and perfect flow)
Silver: “Clandestine Comforts” by Laura Lamarca (use of alliteration made this flow like butter)
Bronze: “Teardrops” by penman (very unique concepts and abstractions)
Honerable mention (4 in total- I needed to add another because you all did a good job here)
“N R Ae of Phormd Po Ehms by Satanic-Faery
“Effervescent Visions” by CascadingSakura
“Changing views” by Mykee
“~Minds Daggers~” by Colin Marschall
Contest Winners
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Human is the holiest shrine of soul
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Three different poems of this form.
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by TwilightDazzles 2 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 24 12:22 PM 2007. In Contest, Thoughts, Love
Honorable mention
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by Fug-azi 5 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 24 11:06 AM 2007. In Three Line Poem, Jealousy Honorable mention
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Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [23]
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A puppet is placed in power Revving the war machineby LarryATilander 2 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 24 9:36 AM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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Poets analyse twisted sentences
in a poem of love..lustby spiritualangel 3 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 24 10:27 AM 2007. In Thoughts• Commented on by judge. -
Destiny lounges on his throne
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Curiosity itches impatient hands• Commented on by judge.
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Her love blossoms in my heart.
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Ego condemns reality devouring all feelings of hopeby liquidmindforever 2 lines, on Oct 25 9:10 AM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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Love beckons my empty heart lifting my spirit to the heavensby Griswold 2 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 24 4:55 PM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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Karma twirls, spinning down godless halls. Skirt capturing the Colors.by Lovely Luci 2 lines, on Oct 26 9:53 PM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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warm blue sky curls up
into night's ashen fistby inder 3 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 29 8:21 AM 2007
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Hi, just a little suggestion. I think I got what 'clothe the abstraction' meant, but am very aware that it was from formal study, so some writers might not have heard the terms before (some schools/unis call abstraction by other terms). Maybe you could define the terms 'abstraction' and 'clothe' as well as giving the examples (which are fantastic for showing how the form works
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Thank you for your suggestion. I explained the terms above so that may help. I appreciate your advice. Let me know if this helps.
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Thank you for introducing us to something new, I very much enjoyed the challenge. Thank you also for the honour of Silver, it's much appreciated. Well done winners!! La x
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Thank you for the bronze. Congratulations to all the winners.
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Thank you for the HM and for holding such a great contest. I had a lot of fun learning about this new form
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