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Nature Photo Inspired

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I AM EXTENDING THE CONTEST DUE TO LACK OF ENTRIES!

NOW ALLOWING PREWRITES AND MULTIPLE ENTRIES!
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Choose any of the following images and let your creativity and imagination run wild!

Give me something new and beautiful, make me sigh, make me laugh, make me think or make me cry! Transport me!


-Poetic devices like Assonnance, Alliteration, Metaphor, Similie, Meter, Rhyme, Repetition, Rhythm, Internal Rhyme.

-Form/No-form/concrete/scattered/WHATEVER YOU WANT!

-"show don't tell", no bland or plain descriptions of the photo please.



**RULES**

-no Suicide or Cutting pieces please
-let me know in authors notes which photo you chose, by the name of the photo or assigned number.

**AWARDS**

-First place: shiny gold trophy and 300pts
-Second place: shiny silver trophy and 100pts
-Third place: shiny bronze trophy and 50pts
-Any honorable mentions will receive applause



and...









The Images:

1 Wolf Pup


2 Dancing Tree


3 Lagoon Nebula


4 Russ Hansen Hummingbird


5 Bright Flower


6 Joshua Strang Aurora













GO!

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on May 6, 2008
  • Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50
  • Final notes:
    I want to thank everyone who entered for sharing such beautiful pieces of poetry. You made it very difficult to judge which is always a good thing in my mind. My winners are as follows:

    1st place: Hummingbird [III]
    2nd place: Northern Lights
    3rd place: September

    2 honorable mentions: [solar wind flows] and
    Dancing Tree

Contest Winners

  1. Hummingbird [III]
    whisk of grey, not even breath enough
    for slash of red or shimmer-green —
    by micol 15 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 27 4:03 PM 2008. In Nature, Birds, Hummingbird, Spring
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. Northern Lights
    by dstreetpoet 30 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 10 6:17 PM 2008. In Lyrics, Life, Nature, Personal, Spiritual, Thoughts
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. September
    Nature readies autumn's foliage. An artist's palette pales compared to preparations
    by chiefmac 20 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 27 3:46 PM 2008. In Nature, contest
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  4. [ solar wind flows ]
    by marlene47 2 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 26 10:34 PM 2008. In haiku
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  5. Dancing Tree
    Loved for the daughter

    She is…
    by deercatcher 26 lines, 15 comments, on Apr 27 11:12 PM 2008. In Fantasy, Nature, Love
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

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  • Medea
    April 10, 2008
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    That dancing tree picture is phenomenal. Good luck with the contest!


  • CountryCousin
    April 10, 2008
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    I agree with Medea.

    All the pictures conjure up a lot of inspiration but that dancing tree just amazes me.


  • marlene47 silver member
    May 6, 2008
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    Thanks so much for the contest with the lovely choices... I really would like to write about each one of them.
    Thanks also for the HM. And congratulations everyone.
    Marlene