Write in any genre but explicitly on the twin topics of one of the following alternatives:
(i) Of Frosts and Fjords.
(ii) Of Privacy and Phones.
(iii) Of Greetings and Guests.
(iv) Of Smells and the Sea.
(v) Of Shells and Shocks.
(vi) Of Moons and Mountains.
[Please write at least 110 words]
Lyndon is the host and judge.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on September 28, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 3000, Silver: 2000, Bronze: 1000, Honorable mention: 4 people
- Final notes: Tammy and Lyndon:
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The mix in the short-list is so varied that the mind boggles!
GOLD: Mountain's Moon Secret. Congratulations.
This poem is energetic, dynamic and fine poetry.
"ponderosa shadow"; "deep in needled ground" ~ these tell us of a Western Pine Forest very adequately: a fine point of style.
This is enviable figurative language:
"like dormant wings of antique chair
holding arms, a book to wander,
charming space, as deeper distance
inside the eye of middle sky."
Thank you for this delightful poetic endeavour.
SILVER: The Accolade. Congratulations.
This playful sonnet
deserves an accolade of its own!
Dear poet, you write with such ease. The archaistic poeticisms of your pronouns are used properly and are quite tonally correct with the sonnet narrative.
It is Petrarchan through and through in its "charming" sensual content and most certainly in all technical aspects. Voice and thus person are important. The octet is Queen to her knight. The sestet is Queen to herself and ultimately, the reader.
The apparent ease of your writing, poet, should not be taken for granted. It has a certain perfection and polish to it that would be the envy of many.
Intended or not, there is a ribald joke at the end which, in modern terms, is acceptable in mixed company.
BRONZE: Paneta Street. Congratulations.
Superlative poetry. Fine free verse.
Understatement, here, wins hands down. You have recorded an experience in terms of the prompt excellently.
This poem is worthy of being anthologised.
Truthful and non-exaggerated imagery presented in fresh phrasings that thrilled me ... yes this kind of modern poetry is often a long time coming at AP.
1st Honorable Mention: Luminous Infatuation.
Most satisfying romantic poetry.
Set in metered rhythm and alternate even line rhymes, your quatrains are simply fanciful and fantasy made remarkable. Wonderful poem for all ages.
I congratulate you in presenting pure joy of the imaginative mind in traditional mode.
2nd Honorable Mention: Innuendo's Embryo.
Fine chain of linked professings of conversational pieces, to self or communicated to others - does it matter? - the general metaphor still holds for the whole.
Feeling, force and fragmentary in nature, this collection is one poem, nonetheless.
Your title is of interest. The embryo of innuendo is born of such poignant depths of passionate feelings.
I enjoyed particularly:
"To saturate self
in certain seeds of malice,
{far distant from grace}
rooting in rococo dirt
'neath crocodile clouds in tears."
There is a freshness to this description and I like the turn from the cliche to 'crocodile clouds in tears". Well done.
3rd Honorable Mention: Psalm of antiphon.
Oh dear ~ From Norwegian search engine to ancient Lord of the Earth and Deep Waters god - your opening clause of prelude invocation drives one to mead.
And who am I to say that Hebrew scriptures did not unscroll as verse, Mosaicly and antiphonally?
Actually I watched last night an oldie, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and Marrakesh did have lots of flesh milling about: true!
Thence to Bulgariston! I do suppose that Buddha, Jesus and Confucius have taught mankind most about peace. I wonder at the hypothetical conversation.
This is intellectual wit at its best.
I am not sure whether we have here a send-up or a put-down. Choose one's own preposition.
The religions of mankind under the pressure of modern technology is a new insight for me with thoughts travelling unused paths.
Finally, you begin and end so well and in between is not too bad either.
4th Honorable Mention: The Mountain and the Moon. Beautifully descriptive work.
In general, all but two poems managed to fill us with much interest. Our finalists are all worthy poems and some that missed out on our particular judgement are worthy too. Congratulations to all for this contest anthology.
Tammy & Lyndon.
Contest Winners
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Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
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Sitting together with toes bathed
in the eternally old saltsby Star Shine 37 lines, 20 comments, on Feb 13 10:40 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I’m just a wave as in many an ocean of a tide in many a sea
I cannot get rid of the notion how they’d manage without little meby judmc 15 lines, 8 comments, on Apr 10 4:50 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
How I love to gaze at the mountains
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The Winter's frost has settled on me
as I lay on browning grass and ponderby JWGoethe 66 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 18 10:12 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
On Scafell Pike at dead of night beneath her silver sheen
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I'm begging for legging when I put on my shoes,
I'm unready to take a machete or two.by Jpoteet 17 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 18 8:34 AM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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Thanks much for all these inspirational contest, congrats to the winners,,,Rich
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