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Give Me Your Personal Best #10 (Prewrites Allowed)

As to figure out who I should add to my list of references... what I want to see is your personal best of almost anything as I'm trying to get a grasp at what's out there... so the more "creative" it is... the better your odds are at winning.

I will also try my best to give as many indepth comments as I can.

I believe it would be fair for me to say that it is quite a challenge to comprehend some of the sophisticated poetry submitted as they may very well be worth gold considering I feel the need for myself to be more educated as to what makes poetry great. Preferably, I want to see some sort of style rather than only the message itself. A form... a rhythm... a structured rhyme... a play on words... a strong use of metaphors... or whatever of the sort. Sooo... I have decided to make a suggestion which I hope helps me to learn how to improve on my own ability to write poetry --

Please indicate in your notes what is your style or even let me know how to interpret what's being said... although it's not required to do so, but it might help me fall in love with what's there. Thank you.

I hope nobody here will get upset or discouraged... my main aim is to find what suits me which in turn may find more people to acknowledge you.


Just in case you want to see some of my own favorite poetry to get an ideal of what might impress me...

http://allpoetry.com/poem/2176739
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2623230
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2275087

http://allpoetry.com/poem/2167811
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2195178
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2183611

http://allpoetry.com/poem/2664902
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2251844
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2255813

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Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on March 13
  • Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 50, Bronze: 10
  • Final notes:
    It was quite difficult to decide on who should be the top 3 finalists by which I wish to reward many of you gold trophies in this very contest. I want to thank you all for submitting your excellence. Sorry that it took so long for me to make up my mind as I've been overly busy all of a sudden. I might not be able to host any others for a long time, but will make a grand effort to applaud many of you and perhaps adding a direct link to my most favorites which to me should be worth far more than having thousands of gold trophies.
  • To judge this contest, you need to have at least as many finalists as you have rewards. You have 3 awards but only 2 finalists.

Contest Winners

  1. Out of the Blue
    Out of the Blue / Sestina
    by Amera 41 lines, 33 comments, on May 20 1:22 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Thoughts, Fantasy, Hope, Sestina
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. Demons Within Me
    This Is what I get, for following you all these years.
    God, you were the only one I trusted, but you drove me to insanity.
    by The Rose God Ororon 41 lines, 52 comments, on Mar 22 1:51 PM 2006. In Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

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  • aGent Lemon
    February 27
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    I just need a few more entries for me to get started here.

  • aGent Lemon
    February 29
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    It's so great to have read many poetry entered. I somewhat have an idea on who may be winning their trophies, but I will give this a little more time to see if there's going to be more added by which I must admit, much of the vocabulary are beyond my level of comprehension which is slightly above what is commonly found written within modern english newspapers.