Jeff and Sue welcome you to a rather sad contest, the Grand Finale of our second, and final, Rhyme and Flow challenge. After about 25 contests and almost 90,000 points we have decided that this format has run its course for now, so this our Grand Finale will be for 10,000 points and on the theme "Goodbye" As usual you may interpret that in any way you choose, but unlike in the other rounds there will be no pre-writes (we are aware that this could be a problem for the way a couple of our regulars work they should message us).
(This contest is for everyone, there is, of course, a "Dalaney" contest, for beginners, here)
You may have two entries this round per poet, but no pre-writes.
1 5000 gold 2000 silver 1000 bronze Summertime
Never-ending Summer by Amera and Summer's Inspiration by PerVirtuous joint winners Breathe, a Land in Wait by One Angry Monkey Bronze
2 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Children's
Twinkle Toes by Gwenevere Gold, The Magic Train
by NeonRose Silver, The Color Poem by Amera bronze
3 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze New; Shopping (Trijan Refrain) by Amera, gold; In Medeas Res ... Retourne by ecrivain01 silver; Hiding Place Gwenevere, bronze
4 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Fantasy - Aflame in Fiery Death by One Angry Monkey gold; Shape Shifter by Amera silver; The Dragon at Retal by ecrivain01
5 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Villanelle by Vera Rich gold Sonnette - Love by pania Silver A Fantasy, Perhaps by NeonRose bronze
6 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze The Wall Unscalable by EarthToJim, Gold. Caged by One Angry Monkey, silver. Indestructable by Allan Emery Bronze.
7 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Old - The Nature of Old by EarthToJim Gold Bessie by Vera Rich Silver Time Does Its Work by GreySquirrel Bronze
8 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze Memories - Reverie's Well by Amera Gold, The rare case of the walled up witch. by masterblaster Silver, Corrosion by One Angry Monkey Bronze
9 2500 gold 1000 silver 500 bronze still running
10 6000 gold 3000 silver 1000 bronze Grand Finale Goodbye
This below illustrates something of the sort of poetry we are looking for, no-one has written us a new example poem so I did!
Impressing the judges
Flowing like butter on toast in the morning
Oil in an engine, or water downhill
Rhyme like a bell that is rung for a warning
Clock on a church spire when weather is still
The poems we seek are all rhyming and flowing
Beautifully worded and sounding like song
If you're a poet with talent for showing
Then this is a contest that cannot go wrong
Sonnets and villanelles, ottava rima
Anything rhyming with meter sublime
On ode or a ballad that tells of a dreamer
No awkward corners and plenty of rhyme
Triplets or monorhyme, couplets or rubai
Exact and not slanting if you want to win
Form found in Texas or somewhere near Dubai
Just pull up your muse and it's time to begin
Look at the theme and then write us a beauty
Edit and polish it make sure it shines
Careful attention's a good poet's duty
Match up the sounds of the words on the lines
All of the entries are read by the judges
Three or four times in our heads and aloud
So if you write rhyme and you never bear grudges
Write us a verse that will make you feel proud
In other words what we are after is poetry that rhymes, and we both strongly favour exact rhyming, and poetry that flows.
We both love poems in other forms but this contest is for rhyme and flow. Formed or unformed doesn't matter, so a sonnet has as much or as little chance as a loose ballad.
Judging:
We set a standard for rhyme and flow, all poems that meet that standard reach the final, although we both strongly prefer exact rhyming (that is defined by my dictionary as an identity of sound from the last stressed vowel sound to the end of the words) we have always allowed a small amount of leeway but don't push your luck, more than a couple of slant rhymes in a long poem, more than a couple of places where only an unstressed syllable rhymes and you won't win. Once we have assessed a poem as good enough for the final we mark on meeting the theme, the content and what we call the poetry, that is the rhyme, flow, meter etc. During the judging we will remove some poems from the final, this is just to make it easier on ourselves re-ordering the finalists. All poems are read at least twice, all finalists at least twice more, and the nearer you are to the prizes the more work we will put in.
These are not "Form contests" we are not marking against "rules" so if you have a Villanelle where you modified the repeat lines a bit, that is fine here. They are also not spelling tests, we do want you to get everything right but unless the spelling and punctuation mean we find it hard to understand, we won't punish you heavily.
Finally they are our contests, and we decide!!! If we prefer one poem to another it will win!
Part10
Goodbye
Interpret this how you will but please no CUTTING or SUICIDE. We both enjoy "adult" poetry but we want all our competitors to be able to read your entries here so no erotica, even if it fits the theme. Be creative here!!!
AMAZE US PLEASE!!!
You may enter two poems each, but no pre-writes. However you will not win two prizes so if you have the best two poems in a contest do not be surprised if one does not place, we will have worked hard to choose the right one (for us!) from your entries.
If you have not won a major cup from us, or two or more HMs you can enter the Dalaney contest that will run in parallel.
Dalaney cup winners are invited to this contest where they are automatic finalists. We will allow Dalaney winners in as prewrites.
The pictures are only for show and are not the prompt, but you may use them for inspiration if you so desire.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on September 21, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 6000, Silver: 3000, Bronze: 1000, Honorable mention: 13 people
- Final notes: We want to thank the poets of AP
For all their lovely rhyming poetry
The contests in this form are at an end
But everyone who entered is a friend
We hope you have enjoyed the tests we set
Now we are calling time with some regret
Amera wins this round and overall
And EarthToJim in second place must fall
A Neon Rose then gets to finish third
And that is such a handy rhyming word!
Enough of that nonsense!
Another great round, and a very sad one for Sue and me, don't worry though we will be running more contests just not in the same format.
Thanks to all of you, to Amera for a heartrending piece that takes gold (and another poem that is a personal favourite of mine that was a worthy contender for gold, to EarthToJim for a riotously funny silver winner and to Neon Rose for an utterly charming ballad. The HM winners were all excellent and the standard of this our final round was outstanding. Thanks again to all of you.
Jeff and Sue
Contest Winners
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As New England slept in the morning,
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I'm lying on the seashore, a teardrop in my eye
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The candles line up row on row
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The leaves are changing overnight…
Wandika 9-10-2008
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Your words just fell about like fire on ice,
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Hello again my only friend.
by thewhitesettler 98 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 30 11:49 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
Kiss me good-bye
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by Brinkle1952 24 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 12 12:18 PM 2008. In Death• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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by Thoughts-of-Soloman 37 lines, 17 comments, on Sep 5 7:42 AM 2008. In Contest, Friendship, Dedication• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Goodbye to summertime and the budding trees display,
to wandering on the sand and the smells of new mown hay,• Commented on by judge. [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 4558687, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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Now come's the time for the door to close
Strike the statues poseby Natural Disaster 28 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 4 4:24 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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I'm a Newbie!
I'm Brain Injured & don't really understand what's going on here!
I'm a Singer/Songwriter so I'm a rhymer big time. I'd like to enter. Am I eligible?
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This contest is open to all, there will be a parallel contest open only to beginners, I'll set that up tomorrow.
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Ok I entered a contest or two before. How are you eligible I am totally lost.
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Everyone is eligible for this contest. I have changed the messages to try to make things clearer. The beginners contest is not yet set up.
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Thank you for holding all these contest it made me experiment with the idea of rhyme and meter. I have to take my time on this one. Will you be judging the contest early or after 12 days.
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The contest will run for at least two weeks, almost certainly slightly longer, we try to give our entrants 2 full weeks and three weekends. Round 9 will finish on Wednesday and this one probably a fortnight later. However we are both very keen to get the best poetry entered that we can so those asking for a short extension may well be met with a positive response. For ten thousand points we aren't about to rush anything!!!
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Well you have your three, and you don't allow pre-writes, so I can't enter "Midnight at the Hill O' Many Stanes" anyway.
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Mmmmmm.....where is my muse......
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I don't see any parallel "Dalaney" contest yet. Will it be same points for the prizes in that contest? If I enter my poem here, can it be accepted as prewrite in the Dalaney? Thanks. Goodbye.
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Sorry hadn't put the link in
The Dalaney contest is here,
http://allpoetry.com/contest/2419593
or follow the link from Sue Cardwell's page.
No the points aren't as high there, but still substantial the Dalaney is not open to all so would not be fair to give such a large prize.
Yes we have left the beginners contest open to prewrites exactly so people can do that. We have had a Dalaney winner take an HM in the same round of the main contest.
Good luck to you
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Congratulations to the winners, kind regards Di
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