--UPDATE-- I am NOT looking for a punctuated mess OR erotica. Thanks anyways. I plan on commenting on all pieces, and if your piece isn't what I'm looking for, I'll straight out tell you.
--UPDATE x2-- I am gone for church camp for a week, so be patient. I will comment every piece when I get back! Keep the entries coming!
I have been through almost every contest on this site and in the end resorted to starting my own, in hope that someone will enter something maybe somewhat inspiring.
Dirty Pretty; I used to adore it as a beautiful art and type of writing. I used to look to it as a unique inspiring manner of making the ugly somehow painstakingly memorizing, but I am afraid that it has become as cliche as the words that now define it.
I want someone out there to prove to me that the real essence of Dirty Pretty still exists and is more than word art, punctuation, lust, glitter, and eating disorders. By all means, I am not excluding these from topics you may include but I am warning you that I will be skeptical unless you happily surprise me.
I want;
Some new, refreshing, dirty pretty. Something that I read and feel like I have to immediately write down my response. Something that leaves me wondering how the hell you could have written something that makes so much sense and so little sense all at the same time. I want you to tell me how the sunset's heart beats and how the oceans waves cry out in loneliness. I want to understand it again.
Someone out there, help me. I will add more points later if I feel it is neccesairy. I have 15,000 to spare. Prewrites are aloud, just remember, I don't want what everyone else has defined dirty pretty as, I want the essence it once had, I want a new way to write it.
Free Verse-
Left Aligned preferred
Re-define something that has died in me?
--UPDATE x2-- I am gone for church camp for a week, so be patient. I will comment every piece when I get back! Keep the entries coming!
I have been through almost every contest on this site and in the end resorted to starting my own, in hope that someone will enter something maybe somewhat inspiring.
Dirty Pretty; I used to adore it as a beautiful art and type of writing. I used to look to it as a unique inspiring manner of making the ugly somehow painstakingly memorizing, but I am afraid that it has become as cliche as the words that now define it.
I want someone out there to prove to me that the real essence of Dirty Pretty still exists and is more than word art, punctuation, lust, glitter, and eating disorders. By all means, I am not excluding these from topics you may include but I am warning you that I will be skeptical unless you happily surprise me.
I want;
Some new, refreshing, dirty pretty. Something that I read and feel like I have to immediately write down my response. Something that leaves me wondering how the hell you could have written something that makes so much sense and so little sense all at the same time. I want you to tell me how the sunset's heart beats and how the oceans waves cry out in loneliness. I want to understand it again.
Someone out there, help me. I will add more points later if I feel it is neccesairy. I have 15,000 to spare. Prewrites are aloud, just remember, I don't want what everyone else has defined dirty pretty as, I want the essence it once had, I want a new way to write it.
Free Verse-
Left Aligned preferred
Re-define something that has died in me?
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on July 22
- Rewards: Gold: 5000, Silver: 1000, Bronze: 500, Honorable mention: 10 people
- Final notes: The first place writer was amazing. She probably should have won all the trophies, but to make it fair I just gave her gold and some extra points. There were so many amazing entries. I only gave trophies to poems I LOVED, but there were many others I really liked. Thank you, everyone, so much for giving me a slight amount of hope for this site, and form. Really. You guys are amazing. Come back for the next contest? <3
Contest Winners
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we’re alone in a dollhouse, caught up in each other.• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
June died, the peonies grew brown around their edges like antique lace- a testament to the beauty of aging romance.
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She was hiding under heart beats;
She was hiding in the holes in his chest.• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
We Were- We Were Um-by Apres Moi le Deluge 70 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 24 2:15 PM
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by InfiniteCaitlin 28 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 24 11:47 PM
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Shadows grow across my heart, and my body is confused as to what it should be feeling. I’m a girl of simple pleasures, sleep, food and loveby aanika-xox 65 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 31 11:18 AM. In Sad, Personal, Life, Love, Pain, Thoughts, Prose, Nature
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I lay on the hard warm ground staring up at the sky,
the wind whistling in my ears,by aanika-xox 93 lines, 15 comments, on Mar 16 7:38 PM
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i’m the opposite of everything you wanted.
i’m accident-proneby aanika-xox 87 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 12 3:05 PM
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the sand is filled with secrets
& the heat burns our backs untilby aanika-xox 74 lines, 18 comments, on Jul 2 11:17 PM
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i wasn't bulimic.
i was just sick of you.by aanika-xox 87 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 14 1:35 PM
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you,
you gave it to me.by aanika-xox 62 lines, 29 comments, on Jul 12 11:58 PM
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we fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.
& our mouths couldn't speak what we felt in our heartsby aanika-xox 73 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 12 11:00 AM
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Kamikaze snowflakes
refusing to live,by Weetzie bat 27 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 28 5:10 PM
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a hopeless romanticism slipping away from my tongue,
wearing sickness's crown and daunting the summer breeze.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Pure Emotionby Poetic Obscenity 59 lines, 19 comments, on Apr 8 12:26 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Mr and Mrs Bubble
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Sunburned baby soft skin, wounded from the outside in,by AliceWinters 23 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 24 2:58 PM. In Contest• Commented on by judge.
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Emotional torture abandonmentby Miss Behavior 80 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 24 3:22 PM• Commented on by judge.
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hello, beautiful, where is your smile?
did you misplace it when you were buying eyeliner,by deadpixie020 46 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 15 2:27 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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Picture perfect smile eaten away,
by fear.by thunder.xx.paradise 32 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 24 8:23 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Tight shirt, short skirt
Heels hit the groundby thunder.xx.paradise 31 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 10 12:46 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I watched as the pieces of his eyes Fell apart,by They Say Shannon 127 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 25 9:38 PM• Commented on by judge.
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Shattered eyes; Crushing themselvesby They Say Shannon 99 lines, 17 comments, on Sep 5 3:13 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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you took every part of me that was left
you words danced around meby madradrawrr 39 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 23 7:11 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
by KissMeImContagious 113 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 28 9:54 PM. In Personal, Thoughts, Sad, Dark, Pain, Angst, Emo, Depression, Escape• Commented on by judge.
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I And none mark the passing of the hourby Hermit Risin 66 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 27 1:26 AM. In Thoughts• Commented on by judge.
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She's a broken beauty queen with an obsession with plastic smiles and tears
of icy regret. [steal nerves were never this preby glamour guts 30 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 8 9:10 PM. In Personal• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
by InfiniteCaitlin 18 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 27 8:31 AM• Commented on by judge.
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As insecurity drip, drip, dripped from the palms of my hands, yours had no trouble finding their way to the seam of my skirt,
to the buttoby bestkeptsecrt 30 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 28 10:22 AM• Commented on by judge. -
Just watch me spiral into your ocean blue eyes with waves the size of your lies / as i drown in poisoned words / Ill bite my glitter painteby bestkeptsecrt 29 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 8 3:26 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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drip dripby MannequinPOISON 30 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 29 3:08 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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His puppet, tug of stringby CinfullyDelicious 53 lines, 22 comments, on Jul 4 5:02 AM. In DIRTY PRETTY• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Screwball weather related stories of self diagnosed psychosis. Trippin straight into a wall that I thought wasn't there, listening to the dust bunny tell me a tattoo riddle.• Commented on by judge.
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by PerfectionIsPoison 37 lines, 18 comments, on Jul 6 6:11 PM• Commented on by judge.
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Purposly taking the long way back / tears falling on the steering wheel / I turn the radio up / as I think of how I'm not good enough for y• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by LaurenLightning--x 23 lines, 21 comments, on Oct 7 5:07 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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We should definately talk sometime. You should message me.
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Wow.
You are amazing.
Thank you so much for making this contest.
ily babe ♥
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No problem!! I need it
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Maybe my entry isn't dirty pretty.
I think I've lost it too. =[ -
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well if its not. read the entries that win and be inspired
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how many times can you enter?
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as much as you want, but dont just enter to win.
Enter to really help re-define this.
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I think it's funny that people find 'Dirty Pretty' a new concept. My favorite writer used puncuation and capitilization way back in the 1920's.
"
but mr can you maybe listen there's
me &
some people
and others please
don't
confuse.Some
people
's future is toothsome like
(they got
pockets full may take a littl
e nibble now And then
bite)candy
others
fly,their;puLLing:bright
futures
against the deep sky in
May mine's tou
ching this crump
led cap mumble some
thing to oh no
body will
(can you give
a)listen to
who may
you
be
any
how?
down
to
smoking
found
Butts"
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Exactly My point. Thank you<3
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I brought this up a long long time ago back when dirty pretty was still *fresh* all I got was some teenage soap opera, about how each puncuation means something.
e.e. was a genius.
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wow, you're going to get so many crappy prewrites *feels sorry for you because your contest is good*
i've never really attempted dirty pretty, because it seems like every poem is required to talk about hip bones, eyeliner and cigarettes, but i dunno. that's probably the masses of sub-par writing.
anyways, i respect you for trying, good luck
-cassidy
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the sunset's heart beats
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thank you for the comment. i appreciate it. =]
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No problem!
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i completely agree with what this contests about.. but im horrible at writing dirty pretty.
however i did enter cause i wanna hear your opinion on my poems =)
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i haven't written dp in so long.
i will try, but i might be all used up in that area.
i may have exhausted it.
bookmarked.
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you can manage it.
i have faith
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wow some people dont have any clue do they doll?
they enter in that fake flustered bull and it makes me regurgiatate their falseness a little.
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You are so right.
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ack
sorry I missed it
66 entries
horray
I haven't given up on the rainbow -
The Rules of Double OOs
the OOzies have me wOOzy
and lOOse me at a loss
for how they sound right now
is different in the past
for those of german origin that chOOse the double O
have rare configuration and lOOse one in time's flow
for that is how they chose
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Hey
im sorry to sound dumbass here
but what exactly is dirty pretty?
ive been on this site for a couple motnhs and so far NO ONE has been able to tell me
so i was hoping you could?
cheers
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