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Exercise your Want

Describe want.

Tease it forward

toward the reader

make them

touch the very flesh of it

but do not use the word

not even once

in the body of your

Want.


Some notes:

Please take some time and thought before you plunk your words of want. For want should be simmered in, that all those served, that willingly partake, will drool for want of it.

Go for the pulse the delicate heart beat.

If I smell a hint of indifference and lust for mere points I shall oust your ass. I want some care and due attention, as all want does assuredly require thus and get.

Plenty of thought please, you are poets, that's what we do.

Begin...

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on April 15, 2008
  • Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 300, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 3 people
  • Final notes:
    I've based my final decision on the actual 'want' level I felt displayed. How clearly and smoothly the writer lead, showed, and intensified the reader's, this reader's, experience. There were different kinds of want, and this lead to different ways of approaching each poem . A hard contest for me to judge, but an enjoyable one to say the least. All wonderful entries that displayed thoughtful intent. I truly did enjoy each one in it's own way.

    I saw your want and it is beautiful. Thank you and I applaud you all heartily.

Contest Winners

  1. Oh Winds of Change Blow Forth From the Mothballed Closet
    Take no heed of your television screen because it bleeds with schedules of silent denial . . . instead listen
    by marc creamore 89 lines, 15 comments, on Apr 12 12:48 PM 2008. In Angst, Society, Personal, Thoughts
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. Error: Unable to find finalist item 3091272, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  3. Tu es Dangereaux
    And each tracing fingertip
    trickles your intoxication into my blood
    by Gl1tt3rn1nj4 23 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 31 7:21 AM 2008. In love, lust, personal
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  4. Dreamcatcher
    Sun
    Pierce through tigareye's darkest dark and
    by imkleyurflesh 46 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 10 1:53 PM 2008. In Love, Spiritual, Hope, Thoughts, Want
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  5. What I Wouldn't Give
    Burrow deep within your heart, sheltered from the winds of woe.
    Holding your heart in my hands like a child holds a dream.
    by Lotus-Mama 24 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 28 11:14 PM 2008. In Love
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  6. Conspiracy
    There are intentions
    stitched in the lining
    by Raazi 15 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 12 4:47 AM 2008
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  7. How Sweet It Is.
    by artis 31 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 31 12:19 AM 2008. In Adult, Erotica, Humor, Love
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

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