A contest, a contest hmmm, what's it gonna be this time. this will be the last big one i do for a while i think because school starts soon and i won't have alotta time anymore so it better be a good one right? Right. OK so it's big points and you have alotta options because i want alotta brilliance.
Option #1 Prompts (pick a prompt and write a poem, put the Option and prompt in your ANs)
1. Take me for a trip to the past on a pirate ship
2. Write a 25th century poem about Earth history
3. Write a poem if humans were something else's pet
4. Write a poem where each stanza describes a different color but don't use the color names (no blue, red, orange, yellow etc...)
5. There once was a man from Bethlehem...
Option #2 SoC
Write a stream of consciousness piece
Option #3 Acrostics (Write an acrostic from the below prompts)
1. I think therefore I am
2. Better to have loved and lost
3. Revolution is evolution
4. How do I love thee?
5. Summoning of the muses (this is a Dead Can Dance song, the link is on my page if you want to hear it but the acrostic doesn't have to be about the song I just like the title)
6. Believe in Dreams (This is a flyleaf song, the link is on my page if you want to hear it but the acrostic doesn't have to be about the song I just like this title too)
Option #4 Darkness
1. write something dark (no rules except no adult content like erotics)
2. Write a battle between Heaven and Hell
3. Dark Dirty Pretty
Option #5 Funny
1. make me laugh with a funny poem about something
Option #6 Picture Prompt (the picture above is the prompt (put credit to "the Innocence" by littlemewhatever at DeviantArt)
Rules:
Don't harm any animals during the writing of your poems. Put "No animals were harmed during the writing of this poem" in your ANs
Option #1 Prompts (pick a prompt and write a poem, put the Option and prompt in your ANs)
1. Take me for a trip to the past on a pirate ship
2. Write a 25th century poem about Earth history
3. Write a poem if humans were something else's pet
4. Write a poem where each stanza describes a different color but don't use the color names (no blue, red, orange, yellow etc...)
5. There once was a man from Bethlehem...
Option #2 SoC
Write a stream of consciousness piece
Option #3 Acrostics (Write an acrostic from the below prompts)
1. I think therefore I am
2. Better to have loved and lost
3. Revolution is evolution
4. How do I love thee?
5. Summoning of the muses (this is a Dead Can Dance song, the link is on my page if you want to hear it but the acrostic doesn't have to be about the song I just like the title)
6. Believe in Dreams (This is a flyleaf song, the link is on my page if you want to hear it but the acrostic doesn't have to be about the song I just like this title too)
Option #4 Darkness
1. write something dark (no rules except no adult content like erotics)
2. Write a battle between Heaven and Hell
3. Dark Dirty Pretty
Option #5 Funny
1. make me laugh with a funny poem about something
Option #6 Picture Prompt (the picture above is the prompt (put credit to "the Innocence" by littlemewhatever at DeviantArt)
Rules:
Don't harm any animals during the writing of your poems. Put "No animals were harmed during the writing of this poem" in your ANs
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on September 1, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 300, Bronze: 150, Honorable mention: 10 people
- Final notes: This is my last contest for a while since school will consume alot of time so i gave you alot of options and you didnt dissapoint me and gave me some of the best stuff ive read so far in all the contests i did this summer. its so hard to pick winners when the bar is set as high as this one was. please take the time to read the winners entry, its a marvelous tale of the end of days done in a John Milton style of sonnet thats just yummirhythmic. HMs are not in a order. thanxu all for entering and congratulations to the winners
Contest Winners
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We make our final stand in scarlet mud
and pledge our lives upon this sacred bloodby Peripatetic 17 lines, 18 comments, on Aug 23 9:22 AM 2008. In Eschatology, War, Death, Salvation
Gold trophy winner
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Blood streaked trenches in the cement wall
Chips of finger nails stain where she began to claw• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
the story of my life?
maybe.by xxRainbowDawnxx 35 lines, 39 comments, on Jul 10 1:18 PM 2008. In dirty pretty
Bronze trophy winner
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#4 DARKNESS The battle between heaven and hellby storiesuntold 55 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 23 12:37 PM 2008. In Thoughts, battle between heaven and hell
Honorable mention
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I have made a candle
Of many distinct colorsby kareneisenlord 57 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 25 1:46 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Contest, Life, Nature, Personal, Spiritual, Thoughts Honorable mention
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Watch what you wish for...sometimes wishes come true!by Shakes-spear 40 lines, 20 comments, on Dec 8 4:59 PM 2005. In Personal, Love, Humor Honorable mention
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Can you see the pain of the broken heart?
Can you hear the hurt of true friends apart?• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
in this nightmare he sees me alone
he evil fuzzy body is perched upon his thrown
surrounded by eggs and chocolate fun• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
I'm the most important
the start of the rainbow• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
very long vacation has been taken by my shrinkMy file is in his briefcase, so I don't know what to think• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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Hello, my love,
Hello, my light• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
Silver trophy winner
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Poinsettia flashing through ivory snow
Cutting the wind as it blows byby owlish 35 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 22 10:07 AM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
I pulled into a lay bye cause I was taken short
Cocked my leg over the fence my trousers then got caughtby judmc 9 lines, 50 comments, on Apr 23 6:52 AM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
My Love for You
My love for you is sacrificeby ajcpoetry 18 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 11 5:54 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
It's almost like the words of that song:
When the music fades, all is stripped away..by Nitney 28 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 26 4:27 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
It's been thirteen days since the death of all
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the web collapsed,
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Add another mark to the record
'Cause this is one more broken recordby sucks2beyou712 17 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 24 8:57 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Did you mean to leave the prewrites on?
There are some really interesting prompts here, can we enter more than one? -
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yah prewrites are kewl if yours fits a prompt and you can enter more then 1 too
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