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Will I Lose My Dignity (Will Someone Care?)

Thanks to Soulful Woman, this contest can now be extended and more points can be given! Thank you so so much!

I am working on my second play (my first musical). This one is about something much more serious and much more real than my first. After watching Rent (which always makes me cry), I got inspired to write about AIDS. I need to get some research done and I thought what better research than the poets of Allpoetry? What do I need from you? I need your poems about the disease, especially if you know someone who has it and their struggles. You're poems will not be used as songs, just as background information. I will add more points as I gain them.

A few rules:
1. Stay on topic
2. Must be informative (either the emotional or physical aspect of the disease)
3. Please no story poems. I'm not much of a fan of those.
4. If your grammar and spelling are too atrocious, I will disqualify you. Be wary and use spell check.

If you would like to offer any other information about the topic, feel free to message me about it.

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on May 14, 2008
  • Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 600, Bronze: 400, Honorable mention: 2 people
  • Final notes:
    Thanks again, everyone!
  • To judge this contest, you need to have at least as many finalists as you have rewards. You have 4 awards but only 3 finalists.

Contest Winners

  1. One is the loneliest number
    Do not turn your back on me for I am a victim of circumstance
    by Soulful Woman 30 lines, 13 comments, on Apr 30 8:53 PM 2008. In Sad, Society, Thoughts
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. St. Louis Blues
    by Sprite 44 lines, 4 comments, on May 14 12:54 AM 2008
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. Aids
    I remember my uncle A Marine
    by AngelSeeker 34 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 13 2:22 AM 2008. In Personal, Sad
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

Entries [10]

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  • My mother once told me
    my mother once told me about one of her friends
    by lunagirl15 32 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 21 3:00 PM 2008
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Passion
    Across these border lines
    Into the waters of the sea
    by only1love4ever 61 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 10 3:47 PM 2008
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Empty Eyes
    The eyes are the window to your soul.
    Your eyes that once sparkled with the brillance of
    by skye01 25 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 31 4:48 AM 2008. In Love, Pain, Personal, Spiritual, Death, My life, Sadness, Loss
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Aids In Africa
    Oh Great Africa, Oh Mother Hear The Cries Of Your Mother
    by sweethelper 40 lines, 2 comments, on May 6 11:47 AM 2008
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Aids - The beginning in india
    i walked through the village with a knife in my hand
    by Alex Hex 111 lines, 2 comments, on May 6 12:12 PM 2008
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Be Real Now...
    AIDS, Not me…a Latina girl,
    by Marcy Anna 40 lines, 1 comment, on May 13 3:59 PM 2008
    • Commented on by judge.

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Comments

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  • Matt Holck
    April 12, 2008
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    Erasure - Too Darn Hot (Red Hot + Blue) YouTube


  • Matt Holck
    April 12, 2008
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ablm52o6DxU


  • butterflytears
    April 13, 2008
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    I love the movie RENT and it always makes me cry too, unfortunetly I cannot help you with this task. I wish you the best of luck with your production and your first musical.


    • Little Lottie
      April 13, 2008
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      Thank you for your kind words. I'm working on the outline for the acts right now. It's difficult but I don't have to finish it now. The end of Junior year is my iffy deadline. I might not take this one to competetion.


  • CountryCousin
    April 13, 2008
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    I would like.

    I would like to get back on this one. I do care about AIDS and work in the health care field. Kind of busy today but will try to do an entry.

  • ecrivain01
    April 13, 2008
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    I am not up ...

    to writing just now, having been rather under the weather for some time. I do have some poems posted by others on my website, Voices For Africa, about AIDS. You might like to look through those. One of the best is by Alex Gildzen (I think that's the right spelling), about a tribe in Africa who were stonecarvers and are all gone now due to AIDS.

    http://www.voicesforAfrica.homestead.com/

    I will also give you some points for your contest if you need some.

    Jim Dunlap


  • Cat10
    April 13, 2008
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    I love Rent so much makes me cry, even when I know what's going to happen! good luck with your play!


  • Shassidy
    April 13, 2008
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    It's funny because I just started getting into Rent. I've never seen it, but I recently got the CD and I love it. I was just browsing the contests and saw this and I couldn't resist coming to look at it. I might enter, I might not, since I don't have any personal experiences with AIDS. Anyway, thanks for putting up this contest!

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