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Best of 2007

Well, the year of 2008 is nearing around the corner so what better way to celebrate the year by hosting a contest of this magnitude?!

What will happen is that I want writes (whether fresh or old) that was written in the year of 2007 but read carefully because just in case you’re looking for a bit of inspiration, options will be provided just in case.  Remember that you necessarily do not have to use the options if you want to enter a fresh write.

 


Before the options are given, here are the rules:
• Proper grammar is a must
• No swearing, erotica, OR bashing of any kind
• Poetic devices are your friends!
• Any and all entries should NOT exceed fifty (50) lines
• Legible fonts & backgrounds
• If using the options, list option and sub-option in notes [Option A-5]
• Don’t expect right away commentary. Be patient
• Expect honest critiques and occasional updates
• Absolutely no clichés!
• Most importantly….HAVE FUN

 

 


Options:
A) Titles (Pick one and use it as the title of your entry)
1. Pendulum of Reality
2. Uncrossed Affectivity
3. Another Writer’s Language
4. Scriptured Lines
5. Transmigrated
6. Poetically Defined
7. Boulevards & Avenues
8. Half Opened Awakenings
9. Countryside Aspirations
10. Breathe
11. Wiseman’s Teachings
12. Replicated Love
13. Shortcuts Entwined
14. Innovation’s Imagination
15. Whispers to the Wind
16. Aspired Wisdom
17. Alliteration Paraphrased

 

 


B. Pictures (Choose one.  DO NOT DESCRIBE THE IMAGE)
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C. Quotes.
1. “All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.” –Wilfred Owen

2. “Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” –Oscar Wilde

3. “Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” –Arthur Koestler

4. “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” –Rita Mae Brown

5. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.” Albert Einstein

6. “Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.” –Alan Bennett

7. “The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see --it is, rather, a light by which we may see -- and what we see is life.” –Robert Penn Warren


8. “Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.” – Antoinette Brown Blackwell

9. “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” –Frank Lloyd Wright

10. “Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.” -Henry David Thoreau

11. “Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” –Henry David Thoreau

12. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you...
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”- John Muir

 

 

 

 

GOOD LUCK

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on December 30, 2007
  • Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 400, Bronze: 100
  • Final notes:
    Oh wow! I have to admit that there were a few--if not several strong entries here. But having to organize, then reorganize, but here I go again with having to re-reorganize for a third and fourth time, all of you brought your 'A-game'. Judging this was difficult but I think everyone of you is a winner in your own right; and granted that my commenting was off and on in the duration of this contest, I did what need to be done nor did I show favoritism in any manner.

    Congradulations to everyone who entered and remember to always keep penning.

Contest Winners

  1. Error: Unable to find finalist item 3742694, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  2. Exordium
    POY gold trophy winner 2007
    by Sonja 52 lines, 69 comments, on Jul 4 1:05 AM 2007. In Love, Creative Imagination, Free style, POY, CreativeCommons
    Silver trophy winner
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. Emblem to Humanity
    be it not the Element Required to Live
    or the Creed Required to die;
    by Luken 21 lines, 41 comments, on Jan 20 8:00 PM 2008. In Life, Nature, Personal, Spiritual, Thoughts
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  4. My Four Quartets: 1-1
    I-The Memory of Strawberry Fields
    I
    by Hadji Murad 53 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 26 12:05 AM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  5. [ Let's get one thing out of my hair ]
    Let's get one thing out of my hair I always wondered do you care
    by ThatONEweirdChick 24 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 24 9:25 PM 2007. In Thoughts, My own style
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

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  • cvillelisa
    December 26, 2007
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    Hey can I enter a poem for another person? A friend of mine wrote an unbelievable poem inspired by Jack Keruac, Lorca and the language and experience of Poetry called the White Stallion .. I'd love to surprise him with entering it here ..???

    It is out for publication in several reputable journals so I'd have to get it in fast and if he gets notified of acceptance, we'd have to withdraw it but .. well, let me know and good luck to everyone who enters..

    IM me if you think that would be okay. Thanks.

    Lisa


  • Sonja
    December 30, 2007
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    Congratulations to all winners and thank you for this nice shiny silver trophy.
    Happy Holidays!
    ~Sonja~