Our contest TEN THOUSAND POINTS OF RHYME (Now 20,000+) Part 9 Feelings has been too successful. After just 3 days we have 92 entries and over 75 finallists. By the time it closes we will be unable to mark it fairly. We have therefore decided, rather than changing our criteria relative to the earlier rounds to split the contest in two and only allow one entry per contest to all poets. We will ask everyone who has already entered to pick one contest for each poem and where needed move it across. The two contests are identical in every other way. There is an additional restriction you will not win a major cup (gold silver or bronze) in both contests if your poems both get into the top three the lower prize will be demoted to an HM, but we won't tell you!
So in summary if you are entering for the first time this round it can go in either contest, you choose but if you already have one in one contest and want a second, enter the other please.
Sue Cardwell and I (I am Cricketjeff) are partners in rhyme, and we are both rhymers!
We both write in rhyme most of the time and enjoy reading other rhyming poetry.
We feel that rhymers don’t always get the exposure they should on AP so we want to encourage you all to write in rhyme.
Good rhyming poetry uses a steady rhyming pattern and should flow like melting icecream over hot jam roly poly, so this is what you will need to do to win, not just find a bit of prose with random line breaks and a few random words that sound about the same.
To promote good rhyming poetry, Sue has put up 10,000 points for a series of contests to find the best rhyming poets on AP.
Since then with donations from PassionsPromise, Dragon Tamer and a range of others who wish to remain anonymous the prize fund has topped 20,000 points.
Now we are approaching the end of the first series of rounds we can reveal what comes next.
First is to say that we will regard the winner of the Finale, which is purely for fresh writes, as the rhyming bard of AP. This contest, number 10, will start in just a few days.
Next every poem entered in every round has been carefully read, more than once and we are selecting a "best overall poem" obviously the winner of this prize will already have a gold, but silver and bronze and HMs may have won lesser trophies, this will not be judged against a theme so some very good poems that were in the wrong section may have an outside chance.
The best poems will be invited into a special contest where we can reward them.
Also every prizewinner, whatever the colour, has been accumulating points towards the title of "Best All-Round Rhyming poet on AP", it will be immediately apparent to all of you that actually means "Best All-Round Poet Alive". We do currently have a leader slightly ahead of the pack but following the leader are six poets that are too close to separate. There are enough points left in Sad/Nostalgic and Feelings and the double point scoring Finale for even a new entrant to win the overall title"
Finally all the main prize winners will be invited into a special contest after these have finished. This will be for a very large prize and a lot of kudos no doubt!
Back to the main series:-
We started with a 2000 point challenge to write the best Christmas poem on the site, and are moving through 8 more contests to a grand finale, with a 5000 point contest for new writes.
You may enter as few or as many contests as you wish.
If you can RHYME and SCAN these contests are for you
Contest 1 Christmas 2000 points
Contest 2 Children’s 1000 points
Contest 3 Nature 1000 points
Contest 4 Love! 1250 points
Contest 5 Fantasy 1500 points
Contest 6 Sensual 1500 points
Contest 7 Humour 1500 points
Contest 8 Sad/Nostalgia 1500 points
Contest 9 Feelings 1500
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GRAND FINALE 5000 points - This will be for fresh writes only and will include all the previous titles as options, or if there is something you think we have missed, please let Sue or I know and we'll add that as an option too. We will leave the finale open for two full weeks including three weekends, possibly longer to give everyone time to produce a great poem or two.
Each will be a separate contest, so please only post poems pertaining to the subject of that contest.
We will endeavour to interpret the themes quite widely.
Our aim is to see as much really GOOD rhyming poetry as we can.
We encourage you to read other entries and if you comment in rhyme, Jeff will be giving away bonus prizes as we go!
Rhyming poetry only!!!
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Rhyming means at least end rhyme and organised rhyming pattern, poetry means it flows!
A large element of how we judge each round will be on the quality of the rhyme, the flow and the poetry. HOWEVER and two or three entrants have commented on the winners. The best poem will win, not the best written poem, the most difficult poem or the cleverest poem. The poem that feels best to the judges, it will have to have nearly faultless rhyme and flow but after that content will count.
You are much more likely to win with a well written poem that skirts the topic, than a piece of prose with line breaks that is right on the theme, but you are most likely to win with rhyme and flow and emotion and content and word choice all combined into a truly great read.
We are judging all rounds on our own feelings about each poem. We are not implying that the winners are better than those who don't make the final what we are saying is the winners have written poems that appeal most to two inveterate rhymers. Look at the winners of the previous rounds if you want clues as to how to win I would suggest something along the lines of a poem with as near to perfect end rhyme as you can get (if you think your accent differs from two judges from Southern England suggest how any words you think could vary should be pronounced in your poem), wonderful flow, this means partly getting your syllable counts right but mainly read the poem out loud and listen to the result! And pour passion into the content, we are both somewhat sentimental!
For a guide on what we like please read this column
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CONTEST NUMBER 9a
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The theme this time is
Feelings
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You can use the picture Sue has chosen to illustrate your poem or one of your own but no picture is necessary. Please try to make the poems readable!
Here we are after all feelings and emotions, either evoke them or write about them, be creative, use the theme in ways we haven't thought of or be literal. Either way rhyme and flow are what we want so go through your best poems or write us something perfect.
Free verse can work well in this area, but not in our contest please. Yrt to fit the form you choose, if you do choose a formal form, to the content.
Gold will win 1000 points and a trophy and leave us breathless.
Silver 300 points and a trophy and leave us gasping.
Bronze 200 points and a trophy and leave us permanently changed.
HM’s and HMs plus points will be added depending on the quality of the entry and will leave us moved.
The rest will simply leave us.
Rules.
The usual site rules apply.
Please label all poems appropriately. This round is for poetry about feelings so some adult contents or strong language may creep in, label appropriately.
All the best -- Now Get Rhyming
One Entry in this and one entry in the sister contest at most please just for this round as it is so huge already.
We will not give more than one major prize to any poet in any round.
Non-rhyming poetry will be DQ'd at once, good poets can read!
So in summary if you are entering for the first time this round it can go in either contest, you choose but if you already have one in one contest and want a second, enter the other please.
Sue Cardwell and I (I am Cricketjeff) are partners in rhyme, and we are both rhymers!
We both write in rhyme most of the time and enjoy reading other rhyming poetry.
We feel that rhymers don’t always get the exposure they should on AP so we want to encourage you all to write in rhyme.
Good rhyming poetry uses a steady rhyming pattern and should flow like melting icecream over hot jam roly poly, so this is what you will need to do to win, not just find a bit of prose with random line breaks and a few random words that sound about the same.
To promote good rhyming poetry, Sue has put up 10,000 points for a series of contests to find the best rhyming poets on AP.
Since then with donations from PassionsPromise, Dragon Tamer and a range of others who wish to remain anonymous the prize fund has topped 20,000 points.
Now we are approaching the end of the first series of rounds we can reveal what comes next.
First is to say that we will regard the winner of the Finale, which is purely for fresh writes, as the rhyming bard of AP. This contest, number 10, will start in just a few days.
Next every poem entered in every round has been carefully read, more than once and we are selecting a "best overall poem" obviously the winner of this prize will already have a gold, but silver and bronze and HMs may have won lesser trophies, this will not be judged against a theme so some very good poems that were in the wrong section may have an outside chance.
The best poems will be invited into a special contest where we can reward them.
Also every prizewinner, whatever the colour, has been accumulating points towards the title of "Best All-Round Rhyming poet on AP", it will be immediately apparent to all of you that actually means "Best All-Round Poet Alive". We do currently have a leader slightly ahead of the pack but following the leader are six poets that are too close to separate. There are enough points left in Sad/Nostalgic and Feelings and the double point scoring Finale for even a new entrant to win the overall title"
Finally all the main prize winners will be invited into a special contest after these have finished. This will be for a very large prize and a lot of kudos no doubt!
Back to the main series:-
We started with a 2000 point challenge to write the best Christmas poem on the site, and are moving through 8 more contests to a grand finale, with a 5000 point contest for new writes.
You may enter as few or as many contests as you wish.
If you can RHYME and SCAN these contests are for you
Contest 1 Christmas 2000 points
Contest 2 Children’s 1000 points
Contest 3 Nature 1000 points
Contest 4 Love! 1250 points
Contest 5 Fantasy 1500 points
Contest 6 Sensual 1500 points
Contest 7 Humour 1500 points
Contest 8 Sad/Nostalgia 1500 points
Contest 9 Feelings 1500
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GRAND FINALE 5000 points - This will be for fresh writes only and will include all the previous titles as options, or if there is something you think we have missed, please let Sue or I know and we'll add that as an option too. We will leave the finale open for two full weeks including three weekends, possibly longer to give everyone time to produce a great poem or two.
Each will be a separate contest, so please only post poems pertaining to the subject of that contest.
We will endeavour to interpret the themes quite widely.
Our aim is to see as much really GOOD rhyming poetry as we can.
We encourage you to read other entries and if you comment in rhyme, Jeff will be giving away bonus prizes as we go!
Rhyming poetry only!!!
======================
Rhyming means at least end rhyme and organised rhyming pattern, poetry means it flows!
A large element of how we judge each round will be on the quality of the rhyme, the flow and the poetry. HOWEVER and two or three entrants have commented on the winners. The best poem will win, not the best written poem, the most difficult poem or the cleverest poem. The poem that feels best to the judges, it will have to have nearly faultless rhyme and flow but after that content will count.
You are much more likely to win with a well written poem that skirts the topic, than a piece of prose with line breaks that is right on the theme, but you are most likely to win with rhyme and flow and emotion and content and word choice all combined into a truly great read.
We are judging all rounds on our own feelings about each poem. We are not implying that the winners are better than those who don't make the final what we are saying is the winners have written poems that appeal most to two inveterate rhymers. Look at the winners of the previous rounds if you want clues as to how to win I would suggest something along the lines of a poem with as near to perfect end rhyme as you can get (if you think your accent differs from two judges from Southern England suggest how any words you think could vary should be pronounced in your poem), wonderful flow, this means partly getting your syllable counts right but mainly read the poem out loud and listen to the result! And pour passion into the content, we are both somewhat sentimental!
For a guide on what we like please read this column
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CONTEST NUMBER 9a
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The theme this time is
Feelings
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You can use the picture Sue has chosen to illustrate your poem or one of your own but no picture is necessary. Please try to make the poems readable!
Here we are after all feelings and emotions, either evoke them or write about them, be creative, use the theme in ways we haven't thought of or be literal. Either way rhyme and flow are what we want so go through your best poems or write us something perfect.
Free verse can work well in this area, but not in our contest please. Yrt to fit the form you choose, if you do choose a formal form, to the content.
Gold will win 1000 points and a trophy and leave us breathless.
Silver 300 points and a trophy and leave us gasping.
Bronze 200 points and a trophy and leave us permanently changed.
HM’s and HMs plus points will be added depending on the quality of the entry and will leave us moved.
The rest will simply leave us.
Rules.
The usual site rules apply.
Please label all poems appropriately. This round is for poetry about feelings so some adult contents or strong language may creep in, label appropriately.
All the best -- Now Get Rhyming
One Entry in this and one entry in the sister contest at most please just for this round as it is so huge already.
We will not give more than one major prize to any poet in any round.
Non-rhyming poetry will be DQ'd at once, good poets can read!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 29, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 300, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 19 people
- Final notes: As those of you in this round know this is the second half of round nine and boy are we glad we split it in half! We would have found it almost impossible to choose between the gold winners for a single prize. Sonja's oddly titled masterpiece gets better and better on every reading, but then so does Amera's. Two of the best four poems we have seen across all the rounds, please, all of you, read and comment on both of them I promise you they are worth it.
Ecrivain01 would have taken a joint bronze but of course gets its own silver, Legend takes the other silver. Legend may well have have got another bronze but the rules said only one major cup so Cinnary's Surrealist took on Pervirtuous's utterly wonderful and wicked song. Jimmy John's Dirge a very very good bronze on the other side. We have a number of HM+s Cinnary and Legend each getting a bronze and an HM plus and Passim two HM+s. We are not grading the HM+s this time there were 8 in contest 9 and 6 in 9a. The HMs and HM+s were shared across the two contests.a total of over forty HMs. Behind the best winning pair (better even than nature? have to wait for the best overall poem to find out)
Well that is it for the prewrites. Now we get down to the serious business we know many of you have already entered or started working on masterpieces for round 10. Sue and I are starting to look at these poems so some will start being put into the preliminary finallists, not being there does not mean your poem isn't going to get there, just that we assess each very carefully. For this round we are going to apply new and even stricter criteria, you have all got so much better as the contest has gone on.
Sue and I are now looking at where these go next. We have already announced new contests for the best overall poem, we are preparing a shortlist but cannot complete it until the end of round ten of course. We do now know the best poet of the series, the leader has an unassailable lead, any of seven or eight poets can take silver or bronze. We have also discussed preparing a lulu book of the best poems, if any prize winners would like us not to consider their poems for that project please let us know, we would of course seek individual permission before going ahead but would be nice to know if anyone wants to be excluded in advance.
Thank-you all for taking part in round 9 and please get us the best ever rhyming poems as fresh writes in round 10, you have two weeks left!
Contest Winners
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It was mid morningish, that fateful day
I was tired, sleepy, missing my wife.by ecrivain01 19 lines, 52 comments, on Nov 11 3:07 PM 2005. In Sad, Society, Contemporary
Silver trophy winner
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Does age really matter, when you’re old and grey?
I find it rather fun to choose the age I’ll be today.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 3828493, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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Perhaps it is the colour, which invades the orphan verse
It breaks, and wheeling, tumbles down before me
by Animarising 22 lines, 22 comments, on Nov 12 1:51 PM 2007. In poetry, tribute, loss, inspiration, spirit
Honorable mention
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The candles long have been put out
The dreams have faded too• Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 3604655, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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As the movement makes her shudder, she cries one last time, a departed mother.by PassionsPromise 57 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 21 9:05 AM 2008. In love, pain, sorrow Honorable mention
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Entry for the 'Feelings 9a' contest• Viewed by judge. [remove]
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option 4by Susan E. Pennycuff 14 lines, 15 comments, on Jan 21 10:08 AM 2008. In Society, Thoughts Honorable mention
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I know there's really nothing left to gain
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freedom rings in her mind
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by amaranthine lover 27 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 23 8:41 PM 2007. In Contest, Fantasy, Contemporary, Abstract, Dark, Villanelle, noguest
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Just yesterday it was – or so it seems From the lust and love in his green eyesby jinglingjoy 28 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 21 4:54 PM 2008• Viewed by judge. [remove]
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The face I put in front of you,
is the face you only know.by WillAlwaysLove 23 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 18 2:26 PM 2008• Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
"Such a pretty little doll" he says
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I want to fly
I want to runby HeavensDaughter 51 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 27 2:56 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Personal, Spiritual, Thoughts, Inspirational, Longing• Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
Am I to be a stranger to my own feeling to truths behind emotions I’m revealing ?by Haunted-Memory 23 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 18 5:01 PM 2008. In Life, Thoughts, Other, Lost in thought, Loss, Emotions
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The birds were all lined up on the telephone wires
They were waiting for Woodstock, the concert,• Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 3636570, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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As I take my my trip
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The voice I hear so tender and gracious,
And i try to find the power to be couragious.by blinkytyedye 26 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 28 12:24 AM 2008. In Life, Love, Friendship, Romance, Happiness• Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove]
Gold trophy winner
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Take me henceforth Into the abyss sought,• Viewed by judge.
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Tonight I dance to memories Of long lost lore and fantasyby rosecourts 31 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 8 9:45 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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ok...great to do rhyming poetry, will see if i can come up with something; thanks for the opportunity- not many chances to write rhyme on AP...PK
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Keep an eye on our pages, we intend to keep a constant stream of rhyming contests going. There are currently three different ones only for rhyme there, all for big points.
Round 8 will close tonight though.
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I love these contests. Will be back latter for this one
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Thank you for HM Congrats to all the winners
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yay me! yay! yay! yay! I rhymed and won a trophy! oh, sorry, lol! Congrats to everyone! yay me again!
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Thank You
Thanks Sue and Jeff for the Hm in this contest yet anothe enjoyable one to enter all the best Brian.
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