Okay. Same bizzo as usual; five options etc., etc. But I’m being a bit more pernickety about rules this time. So rules first:
- Option in Notes
- Has to be relevant to the prompt!!!!!
- Prewrites/multiple writes are fine BUT (and I‘m gonna get really pissed off about this) I do not just want to read five prewrites from one author. So new rule: IF YOU ENTER MORE THAN ONCE AT LEAST ONE HAS TO BE A NEW WRITE!!!!!
- Not a rule, but I’m partial to free verse and I don’t mind dirty-pretty, as long as it’s well done.
- Oh yeah, and no erotica.
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, the options:
1. GODOT, WAITING FOR. A play, for those of you who don’t know, by the illustrious Samuel Beckett. Write about it, write something similar to it or just be inspired by one of these quotes.
VLADIMIR: What do we do now?
ESTRAGON: Wait.
VLADIMIR: Yes, but while waiting?
ESTRAGON: What about hanging ourselves?
POZZO: Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It’s abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day like any other day, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we’ll go deaf, one day we are born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that no enough for you?
VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we go?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let’s go.
[They do no move]
2. GUIDE. Take that any way you can. Surprise me.
3. GUELDER ROSE. A pretty flower. Don’t take this literally and give me a description of this bush, okay?
4. GUARD. Or guardian, I suppose. Just give me something interesting to read.
5. GOD. I don’t want ANY religion bashing or religious promotion. I’m thinking more mythical stuff, like Osiris and Zeus and Venus and all that.
So go for it and good luck!
- Option in Notes
- Has to be relevant to the prompt!!!!!
- Prewrites/multiple writes are fine BUT (and I‘m gonna get really pissed off about this) I do not just want to read five prewrites from one author. So new rule: IF YOU ENTER MORE THAN ONCE AT LEAST ONE HAS TO BE A NEW WRITE!!!!!
- Not a rule, but I’m partial to free verse and I don’t mind dirty-pretty, as long as it’s well done.
- Oh yeah, and no erotica.
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, the options:
1. GODOT, WAITING FOR. A play, for those of you who don’t know, by the illustrious Samuel Beckett. Write about it, write something similar to it or just be inspired by one of these quotes.
VLADIMIR: What do we do now?
ESTRAGON: Wait.
VLADIMIR: Yes, but while waiting?
ESTRAGON: What about hanging ourselves?
POZZO: Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It’s abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day like any other day, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we’ll go deaf, one day we are born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that no enough for you?
VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we go?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let’s go.
[They do no move]
2. GUIDE. Take that any way you can. Surprise me.
3. GUELDER ROSE. A pretty flower. Don’t take this literally and give me a description of this bush, okay?
4. GUARD. Or guardian, I suppose. Just give me something interesting to read.
5. GOD. I don’t want ANY religion bashing or religious promotion. I’m thinking more mythical stuff, like Osiris and Zeus and Venus and all that.
So go for it and good luck!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 6, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: Thanks guys for entering. They were all quality poems. Letter H should be up soon-ish if you're interested.
luv Pandorea.
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As we travel down the river of life
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by Xxthe angry gothxX 19 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 3 1:46 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Spiritual, Thoughts• Commented on by judge.
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errrr, i think anything i'd write on prompt five would cross the invisible line or just be crap. so it's gonna have to be ...
THEY RUSTLE
THEY MURMUR
THEY RUSTLE
LIKE LEAVES
LIKE ASHES
LIKE LEAVES
... we'll hang ourselves tomorrow.
by the way, i totally knew you were going to do Godot and God as prompts for this one. psychic.
oh and? i've been ignoring this modern history assessment (2000 word essay on stalin) all holidays, like, i didn't even LOOK at it. and then i pick it up today and it's due on wednesday. i am so unbelievably screwed. why do i do this to myself????
if school goes back tomorrow i'm not going to be there because i've told mum and dad it goes back tuesday so i have an extra day to get this shit DONE. gahh. -
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hahaha hoe could i let G go without godot. and god, well, same goes.
look forward to reading whatever you come up with
anyways, school does go back on tuesday so see you then, i guess. and good luck with that essay...but hey, it's stalin. should be a breeze for you
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fucking awesome. although i have smsed that absentee number already to tell them i'm away 'cause i'm sick. covering my bases.
i'll write for this as soon as i've finished this modern crap. 593 words down, 1407 to go.
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I love Waiting for Godot, existentialism enthralls me, but G is for.... Gaia.
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Or wait, Gaea, a Greek mythological goddess whose name begins with G.
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Gaea is a God...so thus i'd love to read bout her...
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Thank you for the bronze. congratulations to all the winners.
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