Background behind the contest: At my work we are celebrating the 4th of July by each team coming up with a poster in the 4th of July theme. We are putting phrases, sentences, and pictures onto the board. I am a competitive kind of guy at work and would love some ideas to put on there.
Theme: What does America mean to me?
Options:
- Write me a patriotic poem with the same theme as above.
- Write me a single sentence as to something great about America.
Rules:
- 2 Entries per person - you may enter a poem and a setence, or either/or. (You don't have enter both, lol.)
- Anti-American poems will result in your poem being deleted from the contest and you ending up on my ignore list. Don't waste my time. :)
- Prewrites are not allowed, but feel free to rewrite a poem or post a sentence you came up with before. Copy and pasting prewrites in as a new poem will result in your poem getting removed from the contest. You may REWRITE, but not just copy and paste.
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- Creativity Counts
- I like rhyming poems, but I can be impressed by free verse.
- I don't like to read super long poems.
- Impress me.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on July 5, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 300
- Final notes: I have to say I'm pretty disgusted that I only got 6 entries when all I was asking for was a single sentence. (Not saying that about any of the entrants, hehe, just saying about the other poets on AllPoetry). Ah well, the board at work came out looking pretty sweet, though I forgot to print out any poems for it. Thank you very much for all the entries, even though I did wish for more. Keep on penning, dear poets!
--Tim
Contest Winners
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Winds sway the sparkling stars
Proud waves reach for the skiesby imperfectperfection 31 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 1 1:14 PM 2008. In Life, Love, Patriotism, Society, My thoughts, My own style
Gold trophy winner
• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
In Dakota's Black Hills
stare men of strong will.• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
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oceans lined with shimming white stars
flows across the white and red stripesby peridotPixi 6 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 1 12:10 PM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge. -
I'm proud i am an American
though war is raging nowby jacbgd2 38 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 1 3:10 PM 2008. In Contest, Society, My own style, Lost in thought• Commented on by judge.
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Woah, you actually do contests???
*looks with curiousity*
Eh... what IS July 4th?? Not exactly australian
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its the day when you the US gained independence.
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Aww thanks for that
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your not accepting pre-write?
I just wrote one for another contest today that would be perfect -
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Looking for fresh writes. I have never accepted prewrites and never will.
--Tim
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Thank you for the silver trophy, Tim, and for the opportunity to return to and improve this poem.
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