I want you to go to the first poem that AP allows you to show that you have written ( mine starts in July 06 and I began writing on ap Jan 05).
Copy and paste your first poem SHOWING and your last poem you posted together on the same entry. Give links and when written.
The two will be judged together.
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So, got it? Copy your first poem showing and your last poem entered on AP
example, these are mine:
Turning To Tune The Night Needs - For WolfHeart
Look, sister, moon rises and someone is weeping.
We know that mourning call, late in the night.
A sorrowed sigh of willows dip their faithful palms
Into puddle of shadow
Watching evenings painted beauty
Fall into fitful light of evening.
Golden eddies of sunset are covered
By shroud of silence that drops
Across the moon.
A woman in a sudden streetlight moment
And she comforts a chorus of caution
That wishes to be cried
And holds it in this waiting game.
It is black, but we are light
And our songs rise above dark timber
Echoes through valleys
Where the small and sorrowed curl.
Listen, sister, the moon, our sister
Smiles at us in our turning to tune
Fine knobs of need in night.
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2110873 July 6. 06
The Coldest Cut
This plastic life
suspended like fine threads
one lie knotted to another
like little rosaries all connected
fingered like pearlized thoughts
in womby padded places it grew
incense being flung by golden pot
water splashed
it makes no difference
if whom you love has split tongue
and half-brained ideas
about what femininity is
I raise a fist to pop this over-stretched veil
so honesty can chafe where it hurts
jittery whoosh and push of truth
spills hot on shrunk blossoms
wrapped in tangle of mesh
yet dangling to clink in evidence
I refuse this caustic pain, this saline solution,
and you, in your suddenly chauvinistic
reaction to my withdrawal from you
not because of you, but because I needed to recover
from the slash of your ultimate comeback for everything:
“You breastless wonder!”
http://allpoetry.com/poem/3758816 Dec 31.08
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 4, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 150, Bronze: 75, Honorable mention: 8 people
- Final notes: What a challenge I set up for myself. I was making lists and catagorizing, check them twice, and having top winners...then suddenly, I realized that there were two that needed their own catagory.
So congratulatiosn to the gold, silver, bronze and the hms in order.
Then
Christmas/One Last Poem to Bear Our Laughter
and
A Different Kind of Metamorphism
show poets who already had strong voices and there was little or no way to say their two poems coudl be any better than they were. Thus, they wille ach receive no trophies but will receive 500 points each because they are studpendous when they first posted and stupendous when they last posted.
Contest Winners
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First AP poem I posted on the site: I Love Ice Cream• Commented on by judge. [remove]
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 3761262, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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by Night Hope 66 lines, 10 comments, on Jan 1 9:59 AM 2008. In Personal, Creativity, Love, Life, Nature, Spiritual, Hope
Bronze trophy winner
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http://allpoetry.com/poem/2305778• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Quizzical,
Hemlocks bow• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
PureCountry
Pleasing thoughts as the day ends.• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
My first here at AP entered on Feb. 4. 2005 Friday Night Reflections - a sestina• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Honorable mention
Entries [27]
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My how much my writing has changedby Malabu 53 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 1 9:38 AM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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Your Poem I look at your site• Commented on by judge.
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Miracles
miracle...by spiritualangel 38 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 1 9:56 AM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge. -
Waiting On You [Oct 30.07] http://allpoetry.com/poem/3558846by brittany.geeze 55 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 1 10:37 AM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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by LadyDementia 72 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 1 10:39 AM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge.
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Somewhere in the hollowness
that leaves the meek, December moon glowby kaibab 103 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 1 11:05 AM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
There isn't a day that goes by without me thinking of you.
When I first lost you I thought my life was over,and I didn't know what to do.by oh quiet one 48 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 1 12:23 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
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Dream Lover
You came to me in a dreamby Soulful Woman 65 lines, 12 comments, on Jan 1 1:06 PM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge. -
yeah idk but, i just thought i should entire a contest and see what y'all think
by PoodleBoy13 61 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 1 9:01 PM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge. -
by Lyndon 72 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 2 8:23 AM 2008
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I LOVE YOU If I told you that I loved youby Jeremy0826 129 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 2 11:55 AM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge.
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(last One) A Second Chanceby ThisIsMyWonderland 87 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 2 2:31 PM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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cheeky little monkey and Happy Birthday Jemsby The Poetic Angel 61 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 2 7:54 PM 2008. In contest• Commented on by judge.
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the first poem i posted on AP - well... i deleted it! but i have a written form of it with me... can i enter?
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hi, in fairness...it must be as the first of the contest, as I have bolded it now........
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ap does not let me go back more than forty pages...
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Yes, that is so rude of them to do... I do not understand why our accomplishments mean so little to them here... I have written 2783 poems to date on AP and so few now show since they did that. And, we used to be able to see our trophy wins by clicking ont he trophies, Ijsut found out we can not do that either.
So, yes, go back to that first one that shows...
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If the last poem written is one that is currently entered in someone else's contest, is it OK to enter it?
Puzzled,
Bill -
I have a tecnicality
Since the last poem I actually wrote was entered in a reserve spot from the day before will that constitute my last poem. I wrote two other's beofre that one but on the list is shows up as being written after the reserved one..Hope I explained that right. So can I enter the one in the reserve or not. -
I am sorry I missed entering this contest but I am enjoying reading the entries!
I think I just missed it!
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Great Idea ~
Happy New Year to you Hun,
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Thank you for hosting & for the bronze, Carol. I didn't envy your task of judging, considering the quality of entries here. Congratulations, one & all. Be well, Poets & Scribes. Wanda
"Gifting Oneself & Remnants"
http://www.allpoetry.com/poem/3760370
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Thank you for hosting such a wonderful contest and Thank you for the HM, Congrats to all the winners.
Bravo
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Thanks for the chance to put first and last together...such a stupendous contest indeed...congrats to the winners...Rich
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Very unique competition, thanks for hosting it and thanks for the HM!
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Cheers for the hon mention Carol!
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