It was once pointed out to me that my rules should be at the top. So here we are: top and tailed!!
RULES:
Rhyme Only
No Free Verse
No bashing, cutting, blood etc
Nothing smutty or crude
No swearing
Traditional Black Country Rhyme (but you don't have to write in dialect like this):
"Come in an av sum hum brewd erl
Stop as lung as yom erbul
At a public called the Siden House
Weer the beer runs up the terbul."
The Crooked House, Himley, UK
was built in 1765 as a farmhouse, it later became a public house called Siden House (Siden being Black Country dialect for ‘crooked’). Its leaning effect is due to local mining in the 1800s when the building was badly affected by subsidence, meaning that one side of the building is now four feet lower than the other!
It then became The Glynne Arms – named after Sir Stephen Glynne, on whose land it stood before being condemned as unsafe in the 1940s. Fortunately it was rescued by Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries and reinforced with supporting buttresses and girders. Now known as The Crooked House, it has become a tourist attraction and is visited by thirsty travellers from all over the world.
The level floors combined with the leaning walls can create some very intriguing optical illusions. Glasses slide slowly across tables and beer bottles appear to roll uphill, while not a drop of alcohol is required to feel a little peculiar when walking to the bar!
This is a contest for everyone who enjoys rhyme. I like to see good rhyme and good meter so please don't enter any free verse.
Use the picture for your prompt and take it down any route that you wish. It can be humorous or not, but nothing crude or it will be deleted without comment. Of course, if you have mastered the art of our Black Country dialect tharull bay bostin !!!
RULES:
Rhyme Only
No Free Verse
No bashing, cutting, blood etc
Nothing smutty or crude
No swearing
RULES:
Rhyme Only
No Free Verse
No bashing, cutting, blood etc
Nothing smutty or crude
No swearing
Traditional Black Country Rhyme (but you don't have to write in dialect like this):
"Come in an av sum hum brewd erl
Stop as lung as yom erbul
At a public called the Siden House
Weer the beer runs up the terbul."
The Crooked House, Himley, UK
was built in 1765 as a farmhouse, it later became a public house called Siden House (Siden being Black Country dialect for ‘crooked’). Its leaning effect is due to local mining in the 1800s when the building was badly affected by subsidence, meaning that one side of the building is now four feet lower than the other!
It then became The Glynne Arms – named after Sir Stephen Glynne, on whose land it stood before being condemned as unsafe in the 1940s. Fortunately it was rescued by Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries and reinforced with supporting buttresses and girders. Now known as The Crooked House, it has become a tourist attraction and is visited by thirsty travellers from all over the world.
The level floors combined with the leaning walls can create some very intriguing optical illusions. Glasses slide slowly across tables and beer bottles appear to roll uphill, while not a drop of alcohol is required to feel a little peculiar when walking to the bar!
This is a contest for everyone who enjoys rhyme. I like to see good rhyme and good meter so please don't enter any free verse.
Use the picture for your prompt and take it down any route that you wish. It can be humorous or not, but nothing crude or it will be deleted without comment. Of course, if you have mastered the art of our Black Country dialect tharull bay bostin !!!
RULES:
Rhyme Only
No Free Verse
No bashing, cutting, blood etc
Nothing smutty or crude
No swearing
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 7, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 300, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: I was very pleasantly surprised at the amount of entries and also the high quality. You were all brilliant and did a great job. Thank you so much for supporting my contest. I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did. Next time I am in The Crooked House pub I shall drink your health .
Contest Winners
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Let's raise a can to the drinking man
and the landlords and landladies too.• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
This pub must be the perfect place to drink
Where sober men all stagger to the barby cricketjeff 18 lines, 13 comments, on May 4 5:57 AM 2008. In Humour, Humor, Contest entry, sonnet
Silver trophy winner
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We were driving through the Black Country one year
When my brother said, "Stop, I could do with a beer."• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
by AliceinPoetryLand 44 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 29 8:03 AM 2008. In Contest, Thoughts, Rhyme, Picture Inspired, Prompt
Honorable mention
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I think that I shall never see a house that's crookeder than thee.• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Banks's Ales and pie time grub In our slidey wonkey pub.by quantumsurveyor 28 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 30 9:13 AM 2008. In Contest, Humor, Life Honorable mention
• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
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Well, I don't drink my trusty friend But I'm intoxicated on the atmosphere• Commented on by judge.
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tucked in a corner
t'was the crooked house• Commented on by judge. -
Ever get that sinking feeling, One that makes the mind go reeling.• Commented on by judge.
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Um, no dialect for me! I have no idea what may come of thinking on this, but I hope for a poem.
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That's me gal, gud on yer
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What a great idea ...
and I wish I felt up to writing now. But I don't.
Good luck with the contest.
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There is something like this in Branson Missouri - no doubt inspired by this little crooked house. It does give you an odd floaty feeling when you walk through! Interesting and refreshing contest!
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That's so neat! I love crooked things and I LOVE rhyme. I will bookmark and come back if I can write something worthy enough.
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We have a "wacky shack" in an amusement park near where I live that has similar disorienting effects. But a bar? I wonder if the house appears straight to those who have imbibed too much while inside it? Great contest idea.
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This house/tavern would cause my already vertigo to run amuck. Kudos for this contest idea. Humor softens the troubles of life.
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Shtanck you vveewy much fer the siillva kup
iss so mnice filed wiv beer
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Congratulations to the winners and thank you for the HM and for hosting
gaylene
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