Image Credit: Abstract by enrique
Hello Talented Poets!
Welcome to an image prompt/word bank contest guaranteed to make your eyes twitch and put your nose out of joint.
Well - maybe not, but it should be fun.
Please use the image above to spark your muse and write a poem using at least 15 of the words from the following word bank.
Word Bank
Actuate, Aerate, Blood, Burst, Conflict,
Crystal, Decimate, Detonate, Dynamite, Eradicate,
Explode, Ice, Minion, Pause, Point,
Radial, Spark, Struggle, Trigger, Trip.
Rhyme or not, it's up to you.
I will be looking for unique and different angles of thought in your poetry, lines that activate the imagination and make me travel to places I would not normally go.
THE RULES:
1. Proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation will matter
2. Please, no sticky caps
3. No cutting, suicide, or self-mutilation
4. No erotica, tastefully sensual is fine as long as it fits the subject matter
5. Please left align unless your poem specifically calls for a different format
6. If you post an image with your poem, please be sure to credit the artist
7. Step out of the box and learn
OK - off you go now. Remember, it's ALL about the poetry.
Have Fun, Write, Express, and Learn!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on July 31, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 500, Bronze: 250
- Final notes:
Well dear poets, what can I say, you have again stepped beyond the norm and produced marvelous poetry. We have everything from free verse to rhyme to intricate form verse in this contest and ALL of it so creatively written.
Thank you all for your wonderful entries.
Without further ado, here are our winners:
GOLD - Final Pause
SILVER - The Alchemy of Love
BRONZE - red petals
Congratulations. You have done an utstanding job in this contest.
Thank you all.
Contest Winners
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by Everlasting-Fallout 33 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 26 12:18 AM 2008. In Spiritual, Society, Love
Gold trophy winner
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by Lavender Butterfly 33 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 12 9:01 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Other
Bronze trophy winner
• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Entries [15]
1 - 15 of 15
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by Carly Pop 25 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 12 9:53 AM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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On that still November morn with no one near,
He pointed his new gun at the green Deere.• Commented on by judge. -
Life in this burst of conflict
sparks our struggle with truth.by ennovy 12 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 12 9:48 AM 2008. In Thoughts, Imagery, Pic Inspired, Word Bank
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by Lyndon 69 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 12 11:18 AM 2008. In Activate, image prompt, word bank, Contemporary, Nature, Thoughts, Society, Li
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her icy pause
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Pause not or actuate this point.
Blood lines conflict or decimate.by nature mithya 5 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 13 7:09 AM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
by paperparadox 20 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 13 8:02 AM 2008. In Picture prompt, word bank, free verse, adult
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Urgencies explode In floral dynamite,by Judith Chandler 21 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 14 10:24 AM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge.
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To decimate with dynamite,I'll detonate the trap And I'll aerate your minions where they standby cricketjeff 13 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 25 9:41 AM 2008. In Weird• Commented on by judge.
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Comments
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Mannn,
This contest sounds like fun and I like what words you have in the word bank,
but my grammer sucks.
So I guess I'll pass -
I know this has been asked in all your other
word bank themes, and the answer has been the
same...but I will ask again since it came to
my attention that I assumed:
Can we variate the same word?
IE~ detonate, detonated, detonation??? -
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Absolutely! I expect that and I always forget to mention it. Thanks Blue
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Pam
thanks for the opportunity. It took some 'brain power'.
Frans
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