So I thought this would be sorta cool for a contest. I want you to use your allpoetry screen name to make an acrostic. Try to keep some meaning behind it, maybe a poem about who you are. What I don't want to see is some fill in the blank nonsensical write about nothing. It can be happy, sad, funny, or mad. Just try to make a little sense out of it at the same time. Those of you with really long names, well this should be a welcome challenge!!!
The definition of acrostic from wikipedia, "An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, "top", and stíchos, "verse") is a poem or other writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message. A form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aide memory retrieval."
The definition of acrostic from wikipedia, "An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, "top", and stíchos, "verse") is a poem or other writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message. A form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aide memory retrieval."
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on April 2, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 75, Bronze: 50, Honorable mention: 10 people
- Final notes: I'm so sorry this took so long to judge. I thought I had finished it once and I guess it didn't save. Of course it took me 3 times as long to try and repeat the results. Really there were a handful of first place poems entered and allpoetry only allows me to give out one gold trophy. The honorable mentions are in no particular order. Plainly, I ran out of time but everyone that entered is a finalist in my opinion. Thankyou so much for being patient with me. This was boatloads of fun. Yowzer!!!!
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Enlighten me as to why Your love seems unkind.by eyesofanangel524 12 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 6 8:24 AM 2008. In contest, random thoughts, dark, personal, acrostic
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Irritating Rebelliousby GarnetAndBlack 9 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 6 6:38 AM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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by alandriel1138 11 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 6 7:36 AM 2008. In Personal• Commented on by judge.
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Artist-poetry is art, right? Mother- of a 7 yr old boy• Commented on by judge.
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Midnight, so magical, a time for dreaming
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Raged waters strike
Yellow skies inby RyanosaurusWrecks 16 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 6 1:38 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
Join with me, my lady onward we go through life• Commented on by judge.
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I don't think this will be very anonymous since we would be using our screen names.
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AH! I've already done one of these for my screen name and I really like it. but there are no prewrites.
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I did this awhile ago, too bad you arent accepting pre-writes... good luck =)
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Thank you for the Honorable Mention and points. Thank you for hosting this wonderful contest.
Tke care,
Sandy
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Thank you so much for the honor of bronze in your contest. So many wonderful entries.
Great contest. ~Pamela 
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very appreciateive, I 'd put my piece as focus and now this!
alaskanamber thanks for making us feel at home after bearing ourselves a bit
thank you thank you thank you for the honorable mention, I guess I can't get creative in the thanking department -- I hope that doesn't bother you... maybe expecially when I want to do it again! it was fun thinking components of such things.
again, I've got scanning of a contest to do after it's over with so much notice,
babies are my subject
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