"a poem is a city filled with streets and sewers
filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen,
filled with banality and booze,
filled with rain and thunder and periods of
drought, a poem is a city at war"
extract from - a poem is a city
by Charles Bukowski
Make a city poem
make it work
there are a lot of points at stake, don't make it crap
show, don't tell
make use of poetic devices
please, please, please - do not tell me about where you live!!
RULES:
left align only
don't use busy moving backgrounds
you may add a picture if you think it doesn't detract from the poem
no end-line rhyme
no word limit
no line limit - but don't do a three page epic either
Thanks
Gill.x
take your time to enter, then ................................................................................................ write
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on April 11, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 600, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 4 people
- Final notes: Okay, this one set my mind mulling over and over and there were some absolutely brilliant entries and my top 5 were up and down like a dockside whore's kecks... but in the end.... I went with my guts
and chose
so .... many thanks to all of you for some damned fine poetry!!
Gilly.x
Contest Winners
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 4053089, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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Cello notes in the streets of Sarajevo• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Restless…
Wandika 3-28-2008• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
to measure the weight
of hollowed stones• Commented on by judge. [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 4105511, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Honorable mention
Entries [16]
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and the moon rose after quite a wait
on behalf of citizens (hurried and silent and chilly)• Commented on by judge. -
Struggle for air
scarce space to standby Peteskid 28 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 23 12:57 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
Pregnant off aggressions' best grace as ladies legs
tumble then roll• Commented on by judge. -
by Idle Mind Wondering 57 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 23 3:13 PM 2008
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Two thousand years of history The loves and fears of timeby cricketjeff 16 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 23 3:30 PM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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by endofgame123 61 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 9 7:02 PM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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This city knows my name Her streetsby insearchofsweetness 27 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 10 12:59 AM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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Comments
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AJ Morelli best come out and play for this one, he's got one of the best cities ever to write from
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and you chicca... and you!!!
or else...... I may have to resort to unscrupulous things of a torturous nature... lololol
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you!!!
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i will seriously seriously enter this one... if only i have spots left i see two entries already!
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Unblocked
Reaching back through time, clear to Chicago...
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Sandburg and Buk ..... it's all there
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Love this concept. Bookmarked.
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Fine, I won't tell you about where I live, but I'll tell you about where I'm from lol!
Bookmarked for sure, best wishes with this G.
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lol cant wait to see!
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And here I assumed that you must be creating a contest to continue the celebration of the fact Manchester CITY finally swept Man U for the first time in nearly 40 years.
Too bad they couldn't do the same thing with Bolton...
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go on, why dontcha... and rub salt into my wounds
ya rotten sod...... -
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here's an "FA Cup haiku" just to make you smile Gill:
rooney screams --
muntari rips off his shirt
portsmouth advances
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hehehehehheheh
that's cute
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I'm still trying...
but I can't seem to connect to the 'city'
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oooohhh i know you have something knocking about... yes!!!!!
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Now look what you make me do. You make me think of a poem for the city. You wicked temptress.
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not another one, who thinks i'm a witch... hehehheheh
me, wicked..... nahhhhhhh
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That poem is absolutely gorgeous. I'm going to have to look it up ^_^
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Very cool idea Gill.
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