Ok this is the first pif i have ever been punished for by winning, as to me the thought process it takes to come up with a good contest (and i only like to offer the best) is just too much for me. i try and stay out of the pif thing, so even though this is my payment for the gold in http://allpoetry.com/contest/2400783 it is NOT required for the contest to be pif... if you want to ok but that is up to you if not that is ok too... alright so it was a long and arduous task but i stuck to your theme with my contest, so here goes...
*Big Breath*
ok so the contest i won had a fantastic quote about fate and my poem was my personification of it (and if you want to read it fee free its called alabaster hand, again not required... but i drift)
*steers self back to subject*
ok so where was i? oh yeah right here with the x on my palm so i always know right where i am as x marks the spot.
so my contest is also a quote inspired one. you get your pick of 6 quotes. and here they are:
1> “As punishment for my contempt for authority, fate has made me an authority myself.” ~ Albert Einstein
2> “Yet who shall shut out Fate?” ~ Edwin Arnold
3> “Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme! Who shall presume to prophesy their date, Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?” ~ Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
4> “Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.” ~ Mary Renault
5> “Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.” ~ Elizabeth E. Bowen
oh and i see some of you can count since i said 6...
the last one is the quote in the title of this contest which of course is my own quote.
now for the part every one hates but in truth these are not so much for you but for me
1. please put quote inspired and then the quote of your choice before your poem in the body of the text and not in your author notes.
2. underneath where you put your quote that inspired your poem put the tag. if you do not know what this is look at any of my poems they are ALL taged. but here is the example i want
ex.> ~quote inspired~ "i like dancing with fate,
but i like her brother, death, better."
by: Star of Atlantis
the tag> Fate's dance
By: Star of Atlantis
body of poem
ok the tag is the title and your nam' de plume.
this is to also be in the body of the text.
i am not a gold member. i like to mull over the poems and judge them the best that they can be and the fairest. it is hard for me to do without knowing who the poem belongs to. your little pictures in the notes dont help me and i like to check your other works out, something i cant do if i cant find you easily.
as to spelling and all the other crap rules that people get so picky about on this site, they mean nothing to me. be creative and i will be happy. be metaphorical and deep and i will be even better than happy. but no mater what embody the quote in your poem. let me understand and feel and eat and breath and touch your poem in all its vividness and know the quote in it so deeply because i have read your contribution.
also i like to give points for audience participation. so please comment on your peers there will be points awarded for best commentators and no one liners will qualify put some thought in it. and there will be a peoples choice award. so you will all have a vote in the end. if you dont read than you cant vote. and if your going to vote than read all the competition. oh and you cant self vote. (hence anther reason for the tag)
*Big Breath*
ok so the contest i won had a fantastic quote about fate and my poem was my personification of it (and if you want to read it fee free its called alabaster hand, again not required... but i drift)
*steers self back to subject*
ok so where was i? oh yeah right here with the x on my palm so i always know right where i am as x marks the spot.
so my contest is also a quote inspired one. you get your pick of 6 quotes. and here they are:
1> “As punishment for my contempt for authority, fate has made me an authority myself.” ~ Albert Einstein
2> “Yet who shall shut out Fate?” ~ Edwin Arnold
3> “Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme! Who shall presume to prophesy their date, Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?” ~ Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
4> “Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.” ~ Mary Renault
5> “Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.” ~ Elizabeth E. Bowen
oh and i see some of you can count since i said 6...
the last one is the quote in the title of this contest which of course is my own quote.
now for the part every one hates but in truth these are not so much for you but for me
1. please put quote inspired and then the quote of your choice before your poem in the body of the text and not in your author notes.
2. underneath where you put your quote that inspired your poem put the tag. if you do not know what this is look at any of my poems they are ALL taged. but here is the example i want
ex.> ~quote inspired~ "i like dancing with fate,
but i like her brother, death, better."
by: Star of Atlantis
the tag> Fate's dance
By: Star of Atlantis
body of poem
ok the tag is the title and your nam' de plume.
this is to also be in the body of the text.
i am not a gold member. i like to mull over the poems and judge them the best that they can be and the fairest. it is hard for me to do without knowing who the poem belongs to. your little pictures in the notes dont help me and i like to check your other works out, something i cant do if i cant find you easily.
as to spelling and all the other crap rules that people get so picky about on this site, they mean nothing to me. be creative and i will be happy. be metaphorical and deep and i will be even better than happy. but no mater what embody the quote in your poem. let me understand and feel and eat and breath and touch your poem in all its vividness and know the quote in it so deeply because i have read your contribution.
also i like to give points for audience participation. so please comment on your peers there will be points awarded for best commentators and no one liners will qualify put some thought in it. and there will be a peoples choice award. so you will all have a vote in the end. if you dont read than you cant vote. and if your going to vote than read all the competition. oh and you cant self vote. (hence anther reason for the tag)
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on June 16, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: sorry it took me so long to get the contest judged. i have chosen not to award hm per only 5 entrents. however i loved all the poems and you 5 are all wonderful poets. i thank you so much for the entering my contest. i wish there has been more. ok so my pick for gold took me to places in my mind that may later end up in one of my stories. i like when my muse gets a boot up her *$$ and starts working for me so gold is yours for that. silver is our peoples choice award and it was almost unanimously that way so kudos. one didnt vote and you of course couldnt vote for yourself. but you took the rest so way to go. i love the words in your poem and the feelings and textures they invoked. my third place winner is getting this award because this is the FIRST well written poem about cutting or suiside that i have seen on this site. way to go for not being a cleshay with a cleshay subject matter. thank you sooooo much for thinking outside the box on this one. it gives me an idea for a contest but i may not get as many creative people as i did here and truely i am not into reading crap. but incase any one wants to use it as an idea here you go... how about take all the cleshay subjects like love hate suiside loss and pain and see if it can be written in an out of the box kind of way... just like your poem i am pleased to say that now i have seen a poem worthy of reading in a subject i usually skip.
now on to the end. this was a pif contest originally that i had to pif. but personally i think that promots a lot of quickie crap contests. so i will put it to you this way. dearest gold winner the points are all yours baby and you do not have to do this again. but if you want to pif then all i ask is that you keep with the subject of fate. the chain of this pif was a fate win and a fate forward. if you do a contest of fate i may want to enter it so please let me know. but again i think pif is more of a punnishment than a reward so i wont hold those kinds of contests and leave it up to you to deside how you want to play it. in any case keep me updated and if you do pif let me know. if not no biggie like i said those are well earned points you dont have to give them to any one
finally to my 2 poets that went cupless in this contest please send me the links to your pages. i want to go find a poem on your pages to review and to perhaps take some happy faces that clap on to them. i know there are more treasures out there to read. i leave this offer open to any of you if you want more of your poems read, all you have to do is let me know.
ok thank you again and i hope to see you all in my next contest when ever that may be
- 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
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Shadow of a Shadow
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Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
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This tango with fate
It makes me weary,by SinInChaos 23 lines, 6 comments, on May 14 12:19 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
Time and space;
people and places.by Map of Stars 29 lines, 11 comments, on May 20 3:21 PM 2008
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your quote is fawed, life is full chancs, death is fate.
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death is not fate! I should know, I am Fate! my best friend is death! And Death is not my brother, she is a lovely woman. But life.... well she is a bit of a pill.
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this is funny to me what you wrote here about the people you know... and my fave line is that life is a bit of a pill so true and so pointed...
thank you for the smile
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yes life is a pill. glad you like my comment
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nice i didnt think of it that way when i wrote it... actully its part of a story i am working on, a bit ironic and funny which seams odd since this is not where i found my entrants taking it. thank you for showing me a new side of the quote. i love the feedback
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bookmarked
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not sure if you made it back to enter. if so great then i am waiting for your vote to complete my judging. if not well next time i am sure i will see you there
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Thanks for the Gold trophy ...
and congratulations to the others who won trophies and to those who didn't since they took the time to enter the contest.
If I do a contest it won't be right away. I've got two going and I'm going to be very busy for the next few weeks.
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your so welcome. and like i said before this is not a PIF this is just the payment of the pif... if you dont want to then dont its not a manditory thing for me we all get bussy and i would rather enter a good contest then a thrown together one and that is how i feel a lot of enforced PIF's are
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