Fairly simple.
Just give me your poetry on this topic.
You can be pro-choice, pro-life, or even undecided.
All I ask is that you make your pieces heartfelt
and GOOD.
I don't want something you just threw together in ten seconds.
I want some raw emotion and some real thought behind your words.
I'm not asking you to debate or even show your stance (though that is welcomed as well),
I'm just asking you to write a moving piece on this topic.
I'm curious as to what you have to say.
More than one entry is allowed and there really are no rules except
Watch your spelling and grammar.
Any questions?
Feel free to ask.
Points will most likely go up.
Just give me your poetry on this topic.
You can be pro-choice, pro-life, or even undecided.
All I ask is that you make your pieces heartfelt
and GOOD.
I don't want something you just threw together in ten seconds.
I want some raw emotion and some real thought behind your words.
I'm not asking you to debate or even show your stance (though that is welcomed as well),
I'm just asking you to write a moving piece on this topic.
I'm curious as to what you have to say.
More than one entry is allowed and there really are no rules except
Watch your spelling and grammar.
Any questions?
Feel free to ask.
Points will most likely go up.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on June 15, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50, Honorable mention: 4 people
- Final notes: This has to be without a doubt the HARDEST contest I have judged!! I could not believe how many great entries there were and I had the toughest time picking the top 3 let alone arranging them from gold to bronze! All three definitely deserved gold (if not more) but I decided on the order after a LOT of thought! "To My Unborn Child" really just touch me in a crazy way...
Sorry if I did not comment on your piece; sometimes I feel like I start repeating myself and honestly, I'd rather leave no comment then a half-assed one (excuse my French).
But thanks everyone! My favorite contest yet!
And congrats to the winners! This is the most HM's I have ever given! I suggest you all go and read them because they were all good pieces!!!
--DAMSELx
Contest Winners
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by Fug-azi 46 lines, 24 comments, on Aug 15 3:47 AM 2007. In My own style, Society, Thoughts
Bronze trophy winner
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So as I'm reading poems on the Web
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Reproduction's the same for man or squirrel:
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A spark ignites; new life.• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Gold trophy winner
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Unborn life lay in the womb,
Already placed into her tomb.by PonyPride 13 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 10 6:21 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I dont belive in abortions no good can become of them.
There are so many women who think that it will solve there problem.by Sweetgirl814 21 lines, 7 comments, on May 29 7:28 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
Nazis took millions of innocent lives
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Mommy, mommy I can’t wait, to realize my very fate.by PonyPride 42 lines, 7 comments, on May 29 7:49 PM 2008• Viewed by judge.
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There was a sin
An, oh, so terrible sinby Mad As Rabbits 32 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 28 9:08 AM 2006. In Sad• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
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I am beautiful, defenseless
compared to the rest of those like meby lowercase prelude 26 lines, 4 comments, on May 12 7:57 PM 2008. In Contest• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
A new soul is born
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by Luna Tique Fringe 64 lines, 19 comments, on Oct 12 11:51 AM 2007. In Vignettes• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Oh Mommy dear you're evil,
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It sickens me that people use sex like a game uncaring of not wanting children and only think of what to dafter the fact. Why dont we thin• Viewed by judge.
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I know I'm not ready, To be a mother.• Commented on by judge.
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Eight-years-old shuffling out of a bus, Meeting dry suns and more arid prophets,• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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She was only thirteen
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I have not yet entered your world
In others eyes I do not yet existby TeenageTears 33 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 7 3:56 PM 2008• Viewed by judge. -
There is a word that some just hate!
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by righteousme 40 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 18 10:49 AM 2008• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Swim and drown in despair awhile;
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What's inside is not a potential life,
But a life that has potential.by coddledsoul 43 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 8 2:01 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Mother to be. A terrifying phrase• Viewed by judge.
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Can someone please write some Pro Choice stuff on this thing.
I'm going to try to write something, and i hope to god people read it and think.
Stop being so far up your own arse about a bunch of cells and think about the women who suffer. -
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My thoughts exactly. I might try.
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I managed to write a pro choice poem, not easy though, pro lifers have all the shock value baby killing self righteousness to fall back on. All I've got to work with is logic...
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I think.
I think that people have to write what they feel whether it is pro or not. I really believe that some really do not see the facts and just want to push their agenda on others. So let the people write their true feelings. If you differ then be diplomatic. -
Great contest, everyone has so much controversy of abortion, it's hard NOT to write something...
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I did write a pro-choice poem
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I am with CountryCousin I think everyone should write from their own views and from their hearts. I entered two poems one from a mother's point of view and the other from a unborn child's. I think that this affects all women in different ways and no way is right or wrong, who are we to judge others?
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we're not. but every pro life person judges every pro choice person and every women who has had to have an abortion.i dont care if you're pro life, i do care if you will automatic hate anyone who think differently.
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I don't hate anyone who thinks differently, I don't even know where you got this from. I feel it is a persons right to chose not up to society to make the decision for them. I have never judged anyone for their views or beliefs and will never start.
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im not saying YOU are. im saying i hate those kinds of people.
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That's a rather sweeping statement; there's a keen difference between judging right and wrong, and caring about the life of an unborn child - you don't have to judge anyone to care about an individual life.
When these two pro groups disagree, they don't always judge each other, just their choices.
Assuming the debate stems only for a desire to control, mislead, and hurt others is what creates anger and divides our country.
Not to say hate and arrogance doesn't get thrown from both sides, but c'mon, aren't YOU judging people right here in this statement:
"every pro life person judges every pro choice person"
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ok, im sorry but before i get on abortion i want to say something about you thing 'is what divides our country', im from the uk. and here, like every other country in the world, abortion is an issue. its not an isolated thing in the US. but i know whats happening there. and i know that 'god' means alot more there than here.
and i do care about the lives of unborn children. we were all unborn children at one point. i have a very different view on cells that can one day become a child.
and im basing on what ive experience and what mother and grandmother have experienced. for some reason or another we have either had pro choice based views or been pro choice. i know no people who were fully pro life who could understand my side of the argument. even though i can understand where pro life are coming from even though i dont agree with it. and so can everyone else ive ever met or heard of who is pro choice.
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Sorry about that, I'm new to the internet, I spent most of my time writing by hand, I forgot about the whole "WORLD WIDE WEB", thing.
I used to debate embryonic stem cell research in my debate class, your argument of A can become B but A is not B was often the cornerstone of my strongest arguments, however I only won that argument because the rebutle from the other team didn't think about asking about the blueprints of a human embryo...
The truth is, yeah, the cells haven't FINISHED turning into arms legs and a heart, because it takes a meassuered time for things to grow - just like when you cut yourself, it takes time for the cells to renew themselves. But an embryo is still the infinitivly unique scientific program of the human. That means you've destroyed a human's unique blueprint when you destroy an embryo.
In the case of an abortion, you've destroyed a live cell that only needs time to become it's destined human body. (like cutting your arm off before that wound heals, except a baby cell will turn into another whole being) Perhaps it can't talk or use a brain in it's earliest stages of life, but it IS alive, and the cells WILL become that human if there are no complications (like abortion). A doctor has to destroy those "cells" or they become a very real baby.
"i know no people who were fully pro life who could understand my side of the argument"
I think you mean "experience" your side of the argument, I'll take your word about the rape you suffered, and believe me, the internet will never give you the respect and love we share with you here. What it CAN do is help you change your above statement, I bet somewhere out in the world there's a woman raped who is "fully" pro life too, and you just need to go find and know her.
In the case of rape, a mother can sacrifice herself to an monster's child, the child itself did nothing.
In the case of mortal complications, a mother can be a heroine to give her life up and save the child, the child might've died to save mom, but mom's the consenting adult who can truly show that the greatest love and secrifice is there or not.
In the case of a dead child mortally complicating the mother, chop that baby out.
A lot of pro lifers avoid these arguments because it really does impose too much on the mother. I personally think no one should be legally forced to NOT have an abortion, however, in the first two cases, their is undeniably an individual that has done nothing wrong that will be killed, and of the billions of people in the world, it should be the mother herself that loves that baby enough to give everything so it may live. I guess that's love, love doesn't have a lot to do with money or comfort. The hero's who die saving lives show that love, does that mean they don't have common sense?
Lady Nightshade, In your case, you have to convice everyone, and especially yourself, that the "cells" once growing very rapidly in your tummy were only that, cells... This is because if everyone agreed those cells are an individual human, everyone would've also agreed you ended someone's life when you had that abortion. I think you treasure life very deeply, that's why you think those cells aren't life.
I'm very sorry for what happened, but don't assume everyone is cluless to the grave reality of your situation, there have been plenty of rape victims. In a perfect world there would be no rapist, but greed and gluttony makes it imperfect.
No matter what Mom and Grandma and everyone else says, you had the choice to give those cells a chance to be what their father isn't, human.
And if you could ask that missing child who it is that really wanted you to sacrifice those things the most, you wouldn't hear Jesus, or pro life, or the innocent, you would've heard that child say, "me". Because those cells, us humans, we need love more than all the money and common sense in the world.
The rapist stole a lot from you, but he didn't abort you...
You get the last word.
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