Statue Photo Inspiration

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I AM EXTENDING THIS CONTEST DUE TO LACK OF ENTRIES!

ALSO 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 Cupid and Psyche

2 Shepherd

3 Cloaked Form

4 Babyman

5 Forest Monk

6 Heads

7 Giant Cat

8 Cemetary Statue

9 Balto Statue

10 Nike Victory Statue (recreated in Snow!)

GO!

Contest is Over

Contest was judged on April 29, 2008
Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50
Final notes:
I want to thank everyone who entered this contest, it was hard to judge because there were so many excellent pieces. My winners are as follows:

First Place: Upon the Past
Second Place: Everyday Heroes
Third Place: The Rake
Honorable Mention: The Summer Sings

Contest Winners

Upon The Past

by AliceinPoetryLand 19 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 19 6:41 AM 2008. In Contest, Photo Inspired
Gold trophy winner

• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Everyday Heroes

We celebrate the indomitable spirit of our heroes. We honor them with gilded statues in the park.

by KayJay 26 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 27 2:40 PM 2008. In Life, Society, Hope, Heroes
Silver trophy winner

• Commented on by judge. [remove]
The Rake

by Gypsie Ink 29 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 15 1:24 PM 2008. In Contest, Erotica, Thoughts
Bronze trophy winner

• Commented on by judge. [remove]
The Summer Sings

Could I weep for you,
I would cry for your innocence,

by Sprite 18 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 27 11:41 PM 2008

• Commented on by judge. [remove]

Entries [9]

1 - 9 of 9

Vacant (Ashley Rhyme)

by Pamela A Lamppa 17 lines, 14 comments, on Apr 10 8:55 PM 2008. In Life

• Commented on by judge.
Bloom

Found and cloaked my emptiness
heart is a vessel holding unseen hope

by Peteskid 26 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 14 7:28 PM 2008

• Commented on by judge.
Resurrection

She found me kneeling in fading sunset
shadowed beneath unwanted end of day

by Peteskid 13 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 1 2:02 PM 2007. In form poetry, Ottava Rima

• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
A Point

Such a small spot
at the end of a page

by Mirthryl 20 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 26 9:33 AM 2008. In Thoughts, Spiritual, Death, Life

• Commented on by judge.
the angelic creatures ..

Oh God
they were the innocent birds sitting under the tree

by PrabhuDayal Khattar 17 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 19 9:10 AM 2007. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Life, Nature

• Commented on by judge. Prewrite

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AliceinPoetryLand
April 29, 2008
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Thank you ever so much for the gold! I am thrilled!
Congratulations to the other winners and thank you for hosting
Gaylene