Welcome to another of my dark lyrical poetry contests. I prefer this genre as this is what I myself write and feel qualified to judge. I prefer the darker side of emotions of course, pain, sadness, loss, depression, life trauma...on and on and all that goes with it. So give me your best lyrical poetry/prose.
No line or word limit within reason, these are lyrics not books. (Outside of visual genre's such as acrostic or Haiku I do not believe real artists are thinking about word count or how many lines they have written when under the possession of their muse, such limits are for hallmark card type mass production stuff and not artistic in my opinion.)
PW always allowed. Again, a talented painter may indeed work in a studio making making mass production paintings for motel rooms, however I assure you they would not consider such "on demand" work a viable representation of their talent, a piece of art takes time. So as long as the poem fits the criteria, I want your best, not a quick pressured jot and scribble based on my demand for my contest.
My basic rules.
1)Write and spell correctly.
2)I like what moves me, so enjoy the contest without whines or bad feelings.
3)I'm nice so be nice.
4)I'm fascianted to know who you imagine/picture singing or creating the music for the piece you submit, please put the person/group-s you feel would benefit from and could make a good song out of your lyrics in you author's notes. (this may help me better judge the piece.) Not required but may help your case come judging time as I try to put music to the piece in my head and catch it's flow.
Thanks all and enjoy.
No line or word limit within reason, these are lyrics not books. (Outside of visual genre's such as acrostic or Haiku I do not believe real artists are thinking about word count or how many lines they have written when under the possession of their muse, such limits are for hallmark card type mass production stuff and not artistic in my opinion.)
PW always allowed. Again, a talented painter may indeed work in a studio making making mass production paintings for motel rooms, however I assure you they would not consider such "on demand" work a viable representation of their talent, a piece of art takes time. So as long as the poem fits the criteria, I want your best, not a quick pressured jot and scribble based on my demand for my contest.
My basic rules.
1)Write and spell correctly.
2)I like what moves me, so enjoy the contest without whines or bad feelings.
3)I'm nice so be nice.
4)I'm fascianted to know who you imagine/picture singing or creating the music for the piece you submit, please put the person/group-s you feel would benefit from and could make a good song out of your lyrics in you author's notes. (this may help me better judge the piece.) Not required but may help your case come judging time as I try to put music to the piece in my head and catch it's flow.
Thanks all and enjoy.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 21
- Rewards: Gold: 350, Silver: 175, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: Thanks all for another great and difficult to judge contest. As always I was enamored by the quality of entries and endured the stressful readings and re-readings as I tried to put them into order. Hope to see you all in my next one. Thanks again for making it so very hard on me as usual...LOL
Contest Winners
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Bathe me in holy waterby Lady Nightshade 38 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 28 5:16 PM. In Lyrics, Dark, Contemporary, Love, Pain, Thoughts
Silver trophy winner
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Dear Diary
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Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [17]
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"by Fritz O skennick 30 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 18 8:07 PM. In Pain, Self harm., Dark, Schizophrenia., Depression
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Broken pieces in blood soaked hands Tears rain down and kill my loveby Caellach 40 lines, 3 comments, on May 13 5:09 AM• Commented on by judge.
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When you have reached an obstacle in life you just cannot decide what to do or where to go...• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Verse 1 / Surrounded by the night / shadows form around me / I become transfixed by / the visions that I see. / Verse 2 / I bleed here in tby shadowsiren 51 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 6 11:34 AM 2003. In Angst• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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I really like this poem. I ate a dove and the wrapper always says something, and it said Whisper in The Dark, so I decided to write a poem• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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You think that you know who is worthy of my hole, everytime you speak of me I brand my satanic number into your soul (666)by cellebelle 13 lines, 2 comments, on May 15 7:16 AM. In Dark• Commented on by judge.
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She takes her last breath and she poises herself. all that she knows disappearsby ATrueMirage 39 lines, 3 comments, on May 15 7:45 AM. In Life, Dark, Weird, Lyrics, My own style, Death, Abstract, Escape• Commented on by judge.
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I can observe it in your eyes The way you look at herby Blame Me 47 lines, 11 comments, on May 7 9:52 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Comments
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I will be back... I love your contests, so I hope I can get something going here *kicks muse's dead body* Grrrr...
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Eh, it's no problem. I'll keep running them as long as I have points (kicks self to remember to enter more contests myself..lol)
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I am more than happy!
Thank you for the gold
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Well desered, awesome write without doubt.
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