The picture is the cover of one of my all-time favorite books, "Mimus" by Lilli Thal. It is a wonderful book and it comes with my fullest recommendation.
Come one! Come all! It's time to sharpen your tongue and whet your wit. Try your hand at the most noble art of jesterdom.
We've all seen those movies and/or read the books where there's an insufferable jester whose sole purpose in life is to poke fun and torment the courtiers with particularly witty rhymes and insults.
Your task is to try to write one yourself, and so, in the spirit of creativity, I will not be allowing prewrites. Just like the jester and the swordsman(as what is a jester, if not a swordsman who uses his/her tongue as his/her weapon of choice?), you must form your thrusts and parries on the spot.
Also in course with the spirit of jesterdom, modern profanity and sexual references/innuendos will not be permitted
The rest of the rules are as follows:
-No erotica(just reiterating in case you didn't glean that from the statement above)
-No Dirty Pretty
-Minimal Swearing(unless it's appropriate for the time period in question)
-No bashing
-No sticky caps, chat speak, or anything of the kind
-Please use readable backgrounds
-Try to limit your spelling and grammar mistakes. (There's a spell check there for a reason)
- Please limit your poem/jingle/et cetera to somewhere between 4 and 40 lines. If you want to submit couplets(and you are more than welcome to do so), you must have at least 2.
-I would prefer if the submissions were rhyming but I'll make exceptions for exceptionally well done work.
Appropriately, this contest will end on April 1st, the day of fools and pranksters. So get your entries in in as timely of a fashion as possible.
AS USUAL, I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS CONTEST IF AND WHEN I DECIDE THAT THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH ENTRIES, OR IF I FIND THE ENTRIES UNSATISFACTORY.
So, have at it! Feel free to message me if you have any questions
Come one! Come all! It's time to sharpen your tongue and whet your wit. Try your hand at the most noble art of jesterdom.
We've all seen those movies and/or read the books where there's an insufferable jester whose sole purpose in life is to poke fun and torment the courtiers with particularly witty rhymes and insults.
Your task is to try to write one yourself, and so, in the spirit of creativity, I will not be allowing prewrites. Just like the jester and the swordsman(as what is a jester, if not a swordsman who uses his/her tongue as his/her weapon of choice?), you must form your thrusts and parries on the spot.
Also in course with the spirit of jesterdom, modern profanity and sexual references/innuendos will not be permitted
The rest of the rules are as follows:
-No erotica(just reiterating in case you didn't glean that from the statement above)
-No Dirty Pretty
-Minimal Swearing(unless it's appropriate for the time period in question)
-No bashing
-No sticky caps, chat speak, or anything of the kind
-Please use readable backgrounds
-Try to limit your spelling and grammar mistakes. (There's a spell check there for a reason)
- Please limit your poem/jingle/et cetera to somewhere between 4 and 40 lines. If you want to submit couplets(and you are more than welcome to do so), you must have at least 2.
-I would prefer if the submissions were rhyming but I'll make exceptions for exceptionally well done work.
Appropriately, this contest will end on April 1st, the day of fools and pranksters. So get your entries in in as timely of a fashion as possible.
AS USUAL, I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS CONTEST IF AND WHEN I DECIDE THAT THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH ENTRIES, OR IF I FIND THE ENTRIES UNSATISFACTORY.
So, have at it! Feel free to message me if you have any questions
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on April 21
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 1 people
- Final notes: Despite the fact that I only had eight entries in this contest. I must say that they were eight excellent entries. I believe that everyone who entered deserves a prize, but even I'm not that loose with my points. And so, with great difficulty, I have made my choices, and thereby deem this contest a success! Thank you all!
- To judge this contest, you need to have at least as many finalists as you have rewards. You have 4 awards but only 3 finalists.
Contest Winners
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The king stood up and raised his glass
“I call upon the royal ass• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
… those words rang round the banquet hall,
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The jester kept the King within his place By showing off the faults of all his court• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [7]
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Ah milords and lads
Ladies and cadsby danceswsquirrels 57 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 27 6:49 PM• Commented on by judge. -
A jangle came from his pointed hat Prancing gaily before the Prince to be Kingby knot2tangled 28 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 29 11:30 AM• Commented on by judge.
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Plain Jane.• Commented on by judge.
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