Welcome back everybody The following poets, the best Rhymers we could find! Are invited to come and collect still more of our points!
Amera
Legend
ecrivain01
Emile
Soul Catcher
jimmy20johns
Gwenevere
passim
LadyDementia
mimiagatha
Sonja
Dalaney
EarthToJim
PerVirtuous
Cinnarry
Soloneili
AliceinPoetryLand
kvwriter
Laura Lamarca
PassionsPromise
sultan
jamiedoring
potanical
RuthKephart
Vacant
Bad Bill
LovelyLuminousLilly
micol
moonbumps
PeaceNurse
Pirate of MLC
ronnica
Thoreau47
Never Fall in Love
Billbard
Wolf Run0
melphleg
mommyof2
Mirthryl
All of you won either a Gold Silver or Bronze Cup or more than one HM in our recent rhyming extravaganza. Now Sue thinks you did not work hard enough so she wants more blood!
Those of you who know us will have notice our poetry has changed, we want to reflect this. So your prompt this time is
"A change in my life"
This should be a change in your, the poet's, life. Either one that happened last year or that you want to happen this.
We are not going to specify the mood or the form, except to say that plusperfect rhyme, and liquid flow are of course a pre-requisite, and we will look kindly (points and or HMs) on anyone attempting something new for them!
There will be no pre-writes allowed. Two entries per poet maximum please.
So sharpen your pens, and aim to dazzle us,
Remember our judging criterion is that as long as your poem rhymes and flows at least as well as we expect, the beauty, appeal, conviction and content will decide it.
There will be HMs and bonuses aplenty.
The next Rhyming Series will start in the spring!!!
Amera
Legend
ecrivain01
Emile
Soul Catcher
jimmy20johns
Gwenevere
passim
LadyDementia
mimiagatha
Sonja
Dalaney
EarthToJim
PerVirtuous
Cinnarry
Soloneili
AliceinPoetryLand
kvwriter
Laura Lamarca
PassionsPromise
sultan
jamiedoring
potanical
RuthKephart
Vacant
Bad Bill
LovelyLuminousLilly
micol
moonbumps
PeaceNurse
Pirate of MLC
ronnica
Thoreau47
Never Fall in Love
Billbard
Wolf Run0
melphleg
mommyof2
Mirthryl
All of you won either a Gold Silver or Bronze Cup or more than one HM in our recent rhyming extravaganza. Now Sue thinks you did not work hard enough so she wants more blood!
Those of you who know us will have notice our poetry has changed, we want to reflect this. So your prompt this time is
"A change in my life"
This should be a change in your, the poet's, life. Either one that happened last year or that you want to happen this.
We are not going to specify the mood or the form, except to say that plusperfect rhyme, and liquid flow are of course a pre-requisite, and we will look kindly (points and or HMs) on anyone attempting something new for them!
There will be no pre-writes allowed. Two entries per poet maximum please.
So sharpen your pens, and aim to dazzle us,
Remember our judging criterion is that as long as your poem rhymes and flows at least as well as we expect, the beauty, appeal, conviction and content will decide it.
There will be HMs and bonuses aplenty.
The next Rhyming Series will start in the spring!!!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on April 4, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 5000, Silver: 1000, Bronze: 500, Honorable mention: 12 people
- Final notes: This was slightly different to our normal contests. We have marked all the poems against three criteria.
The theme, the poetry and the content.
All the finallists achieved a minimum standard in each of the three. We then re-assessed all these poems. Leaving us with four outstanding ones.
Each of three of them score at least one maximum, for poetry, theme or content but the winner did not, it scored very close on all three. Well done Ros a poem we both adored, Legend comes next, content perfect, but the poem less so and we asked for change specifically in the last year or the next, and this was a longer period. Does not detract from the brilliance.
Then we come to the difficult choice. A plusperfect poem but lighter on content and although right on theme not exactly as strongly as the final in the big four, content and theme is spades, but our contests are about the style of rhyme and flow we love and Tory has a different and very powerful style. We cannot really separate them, we want two bronzes, but that is not possible and we have decided to award the style of poetry with the trophy it is a poetry contest after all, but both poems get 500 points, they are equal.
All the other finallists get HMs.
To conclude thank you all for your entries, all wonderful. We hope you will join us when our main series returns at the end of the month.
Contest Winners
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I look back a year and I see what has changed
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by AliceinPoetryLand 27 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 21 8:47 AM 2008. In Contest, Rhyme, Change
Honorable mention
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This time last year hard to believe how dull my life had been
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Rhyme can take a back seat in a poem and just cling gingerly to the whole. That is the challenge sometimes.• Viewed by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
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Contest Entry for Ten Thousand Points of Rhyme - The Invitational! Named Poets Onlyby Soloneili 42 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 16 3:22 PM 2008• Viewed by judge.
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A true story. I was never the same after.
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What I long to do, before the final bell, is pen a perfect poem--or if not that,• Viewed by judge.
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"The best rhymers you could find"?
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In our contests! You didn't enter, so we couldn't find you :-(
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I didn't know they were on!
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This is true and a few others only found us at the end. We got 160 entries in our biggest round though. We are hoping to persuade some guests to judge a couple of rounds next time so we can have a game.
We met so many poets and got to read such a variety of work. A couple of good entries already in this extra bit.
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Thank you for the invite!
I will write when I can, and by the way ... you left the prewrite option open ..
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I'm honored to be listed here
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I'm afraid ...
that I am not up to writing anything for this. I have a great deal of trouble writing on subjects like this. I forced myself to write a poem for Laura's contest and was not at all happy with the result. I don't think I want to do that again. The ways that my life changed over the last year are not propitious and I don't think they are anything I'd like to commemorate in rhyme.
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I know I speak for Sue when I say how sorry we are that you are not well enough for this. Please do not feel you have in any way let us down, we have enjoyed each and every contribution you have sent us and your presence added greatly to our series.
All the very best with your health and we hope so much that you will be back and fit enough for our next series.
Thanks for your past efforts.
Jeff
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Congrats to all winners in this contest. I am sure ALL were amazing I will stop in and visit them here directly. Thanks to contest holders for the HM. Appreciate the entertainment.
Passions
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Congratulations to the winners and thanks so much for the HM
Thanks also for hosting.
Gaylene
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Once again i am amazed at being honoured with an award in your contests.More so with this one taking into account the excellent poets who were invited.
Thank you both.Congratulations to all the winners, which to my mind was every poet who entered -
Thankyou
Thankyou so very much.I am in shock.I really appreciate the Gold.Thankyou again, Ros
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