Alrighty my dear poets.
This is essentially the first time I have hosted a contest with another member of Allpoetry.
My dear friend and Ap big brother graciously donated 7,000 points to this contest.
We have been harboring an idea that started as a joke about having a single reward for this contest, a gold trophy worth 15,000 points.
We thought that perhaps this would give people the proper motivation for a somewhat difficult contest.
But I have faith in you. I know that there are many of you out there who are more than capable of the task at hand. To you, it will be simple!
So here is the task at hand. The two of us have put our brains together to make a list of 20 words.
All you need to do is write us a poem, 20 lines or less, using all of our combined words.
Sounds simple, right? Well it is!
Here are the words:
1) Apathy
2) Masochistic
3) Decipher
4) Timeless
5) Cosmos
6) Connection
7) Ambivalent
8) Progression
9) Genius
10) Imagination
11) diatribe
12) teratoma
13) massacre
14) dissection
15) prune
16) ebullient
17) pie
18) braille
19) inheritance
20) cinch
It may be a challenge, but that's the fun of it.
You may use a variation of our words, but it will be to your benefit to use them in their own pristine form.
Alright, get going!
Abby & Steve.
ps Both of us will be commenting on every poem, and both of us will judge it together. That is all.
This is essentially the first time I have hosted a contest with another member of Allpoetry.
My dear friend and Ap big brother graciously donated 7,000 points to this contest.
We have been harboring an idea that started as a joke about having a single reward for this contest, a gold trophy worth 15,000 points.
We thought that perhaps this would give people the proper motivation for a somewhat difficult contest.
But I have faith in you. I know that there are many of you out there who are more than capable of the task at hand. To you, it will be simple!
So here is the task at hand. The two of us have put our brains together to make a list of 20 words.
All you need to do is write us a poem, 20 lines or less, using all of our combined words.
Sounds simple, right? Well it is!
Here are the words:
1) Apathy
2) Masochistic
3) Decipher
4) Timeless
5) Cosmos
6) Connection
7) Ambivalent
8) Progression
9) Genius
10) Imagination
11) diatribe
12) teratoma
13) massacre
14) dissection
15) prune
16) ebullient
17) pie
18) braille
19) inheritance
20) cinch
It may be a challenge, but that's the fun of it.
You may use a variation of our words, but it will be to your benefit to use them in their own pristine form.
Alright, get going!
Abby & Steve.
ps Both of us will be commenting on every poem, and both of us will judge it together. That is all.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 27, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 15000, Silver: 500, Bronze: 250
- Final notes: Alright everyone! This contest was a GREAT success.
I had tons of fun reading all of your entries.
And I know Steve enjoyed bossing everyone around.
Thank you very much to everyone who entered, and I know this may sound corny, but I truly wish I could give everyone a trophy for their efforts.
Abby and Steve.
Contest Winners
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by Cerulean Sunrise 21 lines, 19 comments, on Jan 5 11:00 PM 2008. In Society, Contemporary, Contest, Adult
Bronze trophy winner
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Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Entries [15]
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by leslielovesthomas 0 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 5 5:50 PM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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I have a huge apathy for masochistic things,
So I cannot decipher the large; now timeless red lines...• Commented on by judge. -
I look through a pair of masochistic eyes,
onto the apathy that has become the world.• Commented on by judge. -
Hammering unfathomable progression Ineffable fingers dissect life’s ambivalenceby BermudaHighway 13 lines, 13 comments, on Jan 6 2:36 AM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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My windows, lacking of screen,
but not of dust, unable to decipher• Commented on by judge. -
With ebullient thoughts I write
Poetic genius across the pageby KnightOfTheRose 27 lines, 14 comments, on Jan 6 5:43 PM 2008. In Thoughts• Commented on by judge. -
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by Everlasting-Fallout 41 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 17 11:28 PM 2008. In Personal, Society, Spiritual, Religion• Commented on by judge.
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that's a lot of points. that's a lot of frickin points.
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lol i thought i might spice it up a bit.
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dude, the single most standoutish word in your word bank.... PIE? I had to reread the word like five times before I believed my eyes
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lol you can thank STEVEN for that one. and the title as well lol.
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Actually it is pretty apparent there is a break from 10 to 11 in the word bank ... AND as one may assume, I'd never suggest Apathy, as a word. heh
So who created what, well, ughm... follow the white rabbit.
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you know what?! I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN LITTLE BOY.
and having such ridiculously complex words (for yes they are somewhat complex to most people) takes away from the smoothness of the poem! so i thought i would simplify it. a words bank needs at least SOME simpler words. sheesh.
there you go you hurt my feelings.
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Oh come now. prune? pie? inheritance? massacre? Over half of these words are quite understandable. If they are not, then www.dictionary.com is available. Once you know what teratoma is, its easy as well.
Ya know what, I'm gonna write a 20 line poem with these 20 words. And I'm gonna use internal rhyme! 
It'll be all right though, we have some talented poets on here ...
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well if you wanted me to use all words that required a dictionary for the poets to write them, i could easily have done that!
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Out of my 10, 3 were dictionary words.
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true but why are you making a stink about it?! what are we even arguing about?
oh thats right, you were being mean to me. so i got pissed and sais something snotty in return. i remember now! NOT ALL OF US ARE AS SMART AS YOU and im an idiot. there i said it! -
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actually, I thought this was being light-hearted. I only suggested that there were words that you created and I created and where it broke ... *shrug* I wasn't even arguin, atleast that's what I thought.
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you weren't arguing, i was just being hotheaded. it's a touchy subject! my intelligence i mean. and you didnt even say anything about it i know. (sigh)
just ignore me.
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aww.. I'm sorry.
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dont worry about it
just me being immature as usual.
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what is going on? are you guys insane? have you gone completely bonkers? how the hell do you expect me to put all those words into anything, if I don't know what half of them mean. WTF?? how about I copy & paste all of the words and put each of them on a single line. that would give me 20 lines now wouldn't it. I thought my family is supposed to love me.. what do you call this? I say you both are driving me nuts.
you loving sister
kat
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lol. Well said. Dictionaries tend to come in handy when one doesn't know the meaning of a word
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Does it have to be those exact words? What if, for example, I want to use "cinched" instead of "cinch"?
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Abby and I conferred and you may use a variation of our words, but if you are able to work without the variation, it will be to your benefit.
Thanks
~Steve
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I added my poem - but for some reason I can't figure out, the title didn't edit properly. So yes, it says "Slot saved" - but really, it should say "Battle of Life".
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
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The title looks to be "Battle of Life" now. You should be good to go.
Best of luck!
~Steve
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Wow, what a contest!! A very good idea indeed... and you have some absolutely wonderful poets entering this challenge. Good luck to all of you!!
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Oh man. You have no idea how excited I am. It's rare that I get a challenge. The last word bank challenge that I actually struggled with was when I picked 40 random words from a dictionary and set myself to write a 100 word poem. Talk about a struggle...but so fun.
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I think there should be more words. Specifically nouns, or even names. One of the best poems I ever wrote (in my own opinion) was using a word bank with words like Rubik, the inventor of the Rubiks cube, Eden, fortune cookie, Newton, and the like. Now that will force a person to think
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Thank you for the bronze &
for having a great contest!
Be Well
Mark
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