Al is unable to judge the contest
please welcome Nicolette and her brilliant interpretive skills to the contest.
Nicolette has just released her first book:
fire lily: flower of the flame
by Nicolette van der Walt
http://www.lulu.com/content/1527875
no end line rhyme
left align
sparse use of adjectives
imagery
walk through a door we are not expecting
please do not use blue as a metaphor for tears- get creative on my ass
There is no rush to post-
please in the interest of quality let your poem marinate for a bit.
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Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on December 12, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes:
Thank you to Nicolette for stepping in and filling some mighty big Al shoes.
This contest was filled with beautiful writing and was incredibly difficult to judge. I am not a fan of honorable mentions but we just had such a difficult time narrowing it down. I think Nicolette would agree the HM's could actually go three more deep-
but that said..
1. jansicle
2. burma shave
3. ariosto
4. rowan
5. transcendental baby
6. truembrace
thank you to everyone.
Mary and Nicolette
Contest Winners
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Gold trophy winner
Honorable mention
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I had a dream
there were three doors to choose fromby Carly Pop 34 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 6 7:29 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. -
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Choose between the blue door, or choose the red door.by WonderingForever 28 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 6 5:07 PM 2007. In Personal• Commented on by judge.
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by misselaineous 18 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 7 12:46 PM 2007. In Personal• Commented on by judge.
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the dozy currents
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Her skin becomes woad, pigments paintedby EvilKate 36 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 7 10:17 PM 2007. In Contemporary• Commented on by judge.
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by zochit2me 61 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 6 6:09 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Contemporary, My own style, Lost in thought, My life• Commented on by judge.
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seedy looking paint
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This ice palace's
corridors are cold;by poetesswiththemost 16 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 6 10:54 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. -
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been down so long it looks blue to me kind of thing maybe
bluesy woman says she may just enter this one afterall
as she fell through the door of blue men who cart off sad women
to the indigo forest of forgotten relatives,
oh wildmind is the color blue
a wind that blows
kat
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you give great comment...
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another colour huh
blue door i may be able to do
hm
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i hope so!
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Bookmarked.
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oh good!
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I do blue so well
bookmarked and marinating
Will see if I can get creative on your ass
Becky
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Through the blue door... nothing but blue skies... Love this colour series of yours, Mary. I haven't been very creative lately but I might have something blue...
~ Nicolette
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now, i'm excited!
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can I get creative on your ass?
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why, yes you may!
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Having read a few of the entries here I don't envy your judging of this one and that being said and my muse God knows where I think I'll refrain from entering this one
Ruth -
i really like that photo
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primary blues
Painting these cliches
Gets boring,
But the primaries never change.
3 shades of blue
spill across my canvas.
This is Triple Sec heartbreak
and I brought it on myself.
I keep changing angles
but the sun blinds me
from all of them
and I still can't see.
Blurred vision
creates optical discontent
tinted by the knowledge
that if I hadn't poured the salt
I would see just fine.
So cornflower and aqua
are what I settle on
saving midnight for myself,
it was the darkest I could find.
And my vision is still blurred
but the colors are beautiful
like the night stars I wish on
when I think of them.
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suzi..
this is so softly blue- in differing tints
your heart sits here- in the stars
in the night
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thank you
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