Jeff and Sue welcome you to the greatest test of Rhyme and Flow on AP.
Some changes from the last time we were here, first, thanks to generous donations we have MUCH bigger prizes. We hope to pick up more donations so we can continue to give large numbers of HMs
Each round will have a "Dalaney" contest, this is a sort of beginners prize. All the contests stand alone, you may enter any number of rounds or all of them.
Also this time two entries per round per poet, and only one of these can be a pre-write.
1 5000 gold 2000 silver 1000 bronze Summertime
Never-ending Summer by Amera and Summer's Inspiration by PerVirtuous joint winners Breathe, a Land in Wait by One Angry Monkey Bronze
2 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Children's
3 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze *** New ***
4 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Fantasy
5 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Love/Romance/Sensual
6 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze The Wall
7 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Old
8 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Memories
9 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Feelings
10 6000 gold 3000 silver 1000 bronze Grand Finale (Subject to be decided)
Advice to a poet
Paint in a poem a place that you love
Show us your world as it's seen from above,
Tell us in rhyme of the things that you do
Give to the reader the story of you.
Dream us a dream of the life that you crave
A hero of childhood so manly and brave,
The form doesn't matter, the art is the thing
Put up a poem that makes a heart sing.
Sue likes fond sadness, it's whimsy for me
Tell us the tales of the visions you see,
Weave us a spell that we'll never forget
But really just pen us your best poem yet.
Dive to the depths of the way that you think
Show us the nectar that you love to drink,
Guide us with fondness where-ever you go
Put all your wishes and fancies on show.
A taste of the food that you think of as home
A step on the path where you wish you could roam,
The beach where your sandcastles washed in the tide
A glimpse of the you that you think you should hide.
Sue likes nostalgia, a love song for me
Sing us the songs that would let you fly free,
Weave us a spell that we'll never forget
But really just pen us your best poem yet!
(If any of you would like to write us a new poem about rhyming poetry to replace this one here. Please go for it!!!)
In other words what we are after is poetry that rhymes, and we both strongly favour exact rhyming, and poetry that flows.
We both love poems in other forms but this contest is for rhyme and flow. Formed or unformed doesn't matter, so a sonnet has as much or as little chance as a loose ballad.
Judging:
We set a standard for rhyme and flow, all poems that meet that standard reach the final, from there we mark on meeting the theme, the content and what we call the poetry, that is the rhyme, flow, meter etc. During the judging we will remove some poems from the final, this is just to make it easier on ourselves re-ordering the finallists. All poems are read at least twice, all finallists at least twice more, and the nearer you are to the prizes the more work we will put in.
These are not "Form contests" we are not marking against "rules" so if you have a Villanelle where you modified the repeat lines a bit, that is fine here. They are also not spelling tests, we do want you to get everything right but unless the spelling and punctuation mean we find it hard to understand, we won't punish you heavily.
Finally they are our contests, and we decide!!! If we prefer one poem to another it will win!
Part 2
New
Interpret this how you will. This is deliberately chosen to give a very wide range of entries and attract all sorts of rhyming poetry. As a result the judging will be more difficult than usual, we must be mad!
You may enter two poems each, but only one may be a pre-write. You will not win two major prizes, but you can get a cup and an HM.
If you have not won a major cup from us, or two or more HMs you can enter the Dalaney contest that will run in parallel.
Dalaney cup winners are invited to this contest where they are automatic finalists.
The picture is only for show and is not the prompt, but you may use it for inspiration if you so desire.
Some changes from the last time we were here, first, thanks to generous donations we have MUCH bigger prizes. We hope to pick up more donations so we can continue to give large numbers of HMs
Each round will have a "Dalaney" contest, this is a sort of beginners prize. All the contests stand alone, you may enter any number of rounds or all of them.
Also this time two entries per round per poet, and only one of these can be a pre-write.
1 5000 gold 2000 silver 1000 bronze Summertime
Never-ending Summer by Amera and Summer's Inspiration by PerVirtuous joint winners Breathe, a Land in Wait by One Angry Monkey Bronze
2 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Children's
3 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze *** New ***
4 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Fantasy
5 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Love/Romance/Sensual
6 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze The Wall
7 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Old
8 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Memories
9 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Feelings
10 6000 gold 3000 silver 1000 bronze Grand Finale (Subject to be decided)
Advice to a poet
Paint in a poem a place that you love
Show us your world as it's seen from above,
Tell us in rhyme of the things that you do
Give to the reader the story of you.
Dream us a dream of the life that you crave
A hero of childhood so manly and brave,
The form doesn't matter, the art is the thing
Put up a poem that makes a heart sing.
Sue likes fond sadness, it's whimsy for me
Tell us the tales of the visions you see,
Weave us a spell that we'll never forget
But really just pen us your best poem yet.
Dive to the depths of the way that you think
Show us the nectar that you love to drink,
Guide us with fondness where-ever you go
Put all your wishes and fancies on show.
A taste of the food that you think of as home
A step on the path where you wish you could roam,
The beach where your sandcastles washed in the tide
A glimpse of the you that you think you should hide.
Sue likes nostalgia, a love song for me
Sing us the songs that would let you fly free,
Weave us a spell that we'll never forget
But really just pen us your best poem yet!
(If any of you would like to write us a new poem about rhyming poetry to replace this one here. Please go for it!!!)
In other words what we are after is poetry that rhymes, and we both strongly favour exact rhyming, and poetry that flows.
We both love poems in other forms but this contest is for rhyme and flow. Formed or unformed doesn't matter, so a sonnet has as much or as little chance as a loose ballad.
Judging:
We set a standard for rhyme and flow, all poems that meet that standard reach the final, from there we mark on meeting the theme, the content and what we call the poetry, that is the rhyme, flow, meter etc. During the judging we will remove some poems from the final, this is just to make it easier on ourselves re-ordering the finallists. All poems are read at least twice, all finallists at least twice more, and the nearer you are to the prizes the more work we will put in.
These are not "Form contests" we are not marking against "rules" so if you have a Villanelle where you modified the repeat lines a bit, that is fine here. They are also not spelling tests, we do want you to get everything right but unless the spelling and punctuation mean we find it hard to understand, we won't punish you heavily.
Finally they are our contests, and we decide!!! If we prefer one poem to another it will win!
Part 2
New
Interpret this how you will. This is deliberately chosen to give a very wide range of entries and attract all sorts of rhyming poetry. As a result the judging will be more difficult than usual, we must be mad!
You may enter two poems each, but only one may be a pre-write. You will not win two major prizes, but you can get a cup and an HM.
If you have not won a major cup from us, or two or more HMs you can enter the Dalaney contest that will run in parallel.
Dalaney cup winners are invited to this contest where they are automatic finalists.
The picture is only for show and is not the prompt, but you may use it for inspiration if you so desire.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on June 15
- Rewards: Gold: 2500, Silver: 1000, Bronze: 500, Honorable mention: 12 people
- Final notes: Another round of high class poetry, perhaps fewer outlandish takes on the theme (New) than in some previous rounds probably due to its obvious wide meanings.
Amera is back to the top with a poem that uses the chosen form perfectly to express a very cheeky idea, ecrivain01 features in the top three for the first time this series with a truly gorgeous poem. Gwenevere keeps up her strong showing in this challenge but very closely pursued by Neon Rose and Pania. Sorting out the right number of HMs is always a problem and where to draw the line. There is no formal ordering of the HMs or those that did not make the winners circle, although some of the comments will give you an idea. Finally can we ask you all to please keep on entering our challenge, the next round (Fantasy) is already well underway and all of you could do worse than read the winners and a sample of other entries, there are some really wonderful poems here!
Contest Winners
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Trijan Refrain
by Amera 31 lines, 22 comments, on Jun 4 12:29 PM. In Contemporary, Trijan Refrain
Gold trophy winner
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Each living thing in Nature's plan
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While others flee when storming gods roll through
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Perhaps the butterfly displays it best
when freed from self-imposed sarcophagus,by RatherImaginative 19 lines, 23 comments, on May 29 11:15 AM. In Thoughts, Personal
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With the aid of the breeze, they float with ease,
wriggling and giggling, whisp'ring absurdities,by CelticQueen 13 lines, 3 comments, on May 26 9:56 PM. In Contest, Fantasy, Nature. Reward
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The night was closing quickly,
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Within depths of love gone mad, Came a prisoner of desire.• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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The part of me that I love to hate
Or hate to love, it's all the sameby ClaustrophobicJoy 22 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 9 11:13 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
Baby blue engulfs me
Its like staring into the seaby DeathlyxXxAngered 21 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 19 1:48 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
by Zero the Hero 31 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 4 4:26 AM• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Evil paints the shadows darker than they are
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Keeping with family tradition,
I led her to the brink.by RyanosaurusWrecks 14 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 17 10:04 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
My husband stood tasting the dishes I'd made.• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Let me tell you something
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I have a new friend come to stay when time allows we sit and play,• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Your in a pretty dress, what you gonna' do?• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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All snuggled up, curled into a ball.by Lady Altheia 13 lines, 2 comments, on May 22 12:45 PM• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Too soon summer starts and school will be out!!!!!
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You look so familiar, dear, though your name I can't recall;
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By the light of the silvery moon,
Watching fairies dance with beautiful wings,by dreamdragon6484 20 lines, 11 comments, on Apr 28 2:52 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
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Roll roll, roll down the lane.by Lady Altheia 16 lines, 3 comments, on May 22 9:28 AM• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Ripples in the water.
Hot summer sun.by Pisces rainbow 42 lines, 23 comments, on May 12 11:54 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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Bronze trophy winner
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She passes down the hallway Her eyes kept to the floorby chasingwhiterabbits 49 lines, 6 comments, on May 20 9:21 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Tears running down my face This feeling is nothing newby A-Daisy-Among-Roses 43 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 9 8:18 PM. In Life, Sad, Pain, Teenage thinking, Teen issues, Hate, Lost love, Depression, Emo• Commented on by judge.
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Light and shadow
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Last night I had a Dream and a Lesson in one
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hahahaha sink ya teeth in
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So sorry, won't be entering...I was exhausted reading the rules and then knackered thinking about them. Simplicity rules KO LOL.....Donald
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The rules are simple actually, just make it rhyme and flow!
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I'll be there like a bear....
Just my sort of contest.
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Do we write a poem based on the picture?
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You can if you want, but that isn't the idea
Anything that you consider "new"
So could be about a baby
A car
A pop song, a hole in your sock
It is just something to get you going.
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do both poems have to be about something new?
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the theme is "New"
so that is the theme of both poems, but they can be on the same subject or totally different. Just only one of them can be a prewrite.
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Summertime has closed, I'll add the contest winners above children's is still current, will end early next week.
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Oops! I think the poems I published would only fit in with the themes for the next two rounds. I retract them and apologize profusely!
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That's OK keep them for those. I hope you can find us something that fits this one too
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too hurried when writing 'home'
I hope it's ok to edit
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I like this contest prompt because poems with rhyme, rhythm and flow really grab my attention!
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Congrats to all the winners.
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Thanks for the Silver trophy ...
and congratulations to the others who received trophies.
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