Write something inspired by one of the following:
IMAGES
1) Ola: http://chalo84.deviantart.com/art/Ola-79116508
2) ESCape: http://m3d4.deviantart.com/art/ESCape-85978964
3) Spiraled: http://mizamour.deviantart.com/art/Spiraled-40165211
4) houses in chaos: http://irinapronina.deviantart.com/art/houses-in-chaos-87145193
5) Santa Maria Nascente: http://nicemind.deviantart.com/art/Santa-Maria-Nascente-50151548
6) Abandoned House: http://digitalhomicide.deviantart.com/art/Abandoned-House-5166705
7) Fragile: http://caterangel.deviantart.com/art/Fragile-90350914
8) Voodoo Economics: http://moeromaru.deviantart.com/art/Voodoo-Economics-11921870
9) Battle of Susi: http://mariankretschmer.deviantart.com/art/Battle-of-Susi-80488699
QUOTES
10) ‘There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.’ – George Eliot, ‘Felix Holt: The Radical’
11) ‘…it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.’ – Niccolò Machiavelli, ‘The Prince’
12) ‘…history is fiction.’ – Maximilien Robespierre
13) ‘She walked to a rhythm – all that week there had been singing in her ears, summer songs of ardent skies and wild shade, and with his arrival the singing had become so loud she could have joined in with it.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘Tender is the Night’
14) ‘The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;
At stars with trains of fire and dews of blood…’ – William Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’
LYRICS
15) "We open the latch on the gate/Of the hole that we call our home." - Placebo, Protect Me From What I want
16) "And we are vagabonds/We travel without seatbelts on" - The Decemberists, Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
17) "poster girl for some suburban sickness" - The Dresden Dolls, Dirty Business
18) "And I find it kind of funny/I find it kind of sad/The dreams in which I'm dying/Are the best I've ever had." - Tears for Fears, Mad World
19) "But the film is a saddening bore/'Cause I wrote it ten times or more" - David Bowie, Life on Mars
20) "Negotiations and love songs/Are often mistaken for one and the same" - Paul Simon, Train in the Distance
OTHER
21) Dictionary inspired. Find a dictionary, open a random page, and write down the top word on the left hand side and the bottom word on the right hand side; then write a poem inspired by those two words. They don't have to be in the poem, but put them in your A/N. If you don't want to look them up, here are some from my dictionary which you can use:
aristocracy-asphalt
asphyxia-attaint
attempt-avert
aviary-balmy
bestial-bizarre
blunder-border
enact-enquire
exuberantly-fall
fatigue-fervour
follower-forget
lost-machine
material-menace
million-miss
misshapen-monthly
prevarication-profane
righteous-rooted
rope-rural
schemer-seaworthy
taste-term
thinking-thug
thumb-titled
unfortunate-unless
waive-watering
wishful-workaday
yacht-zone
22) Take a word you like, and that you think would be a good inspiration for a poem (or message me and ask for one, if you prefer). Type it into google images or deviantart or something similar, and write a poem inspired by one of the images that comes up.
RULES & INFORMATION:
1) You can be very LOOSELY inspired by the prompts, if you want - the link between the prompt and the poem can be as direct or as indirect as you like. You can also take only a part of a quote/lyrics as your inspiration, or you can take another quote by the person who said it, or another song by the same artist, and use that as inspiration instead.
2) All the usual contest rules (left-align, no sticky caps, no erotica etc.) may be broken in this contest, but please only if you really think you need to.
3) Put your chosen option number in the A/N.
4) You can pick an option even if someone else has already done it.
5) Prewrites are now allowed, so long as they fit, although preferment will be given to new poems. One entry each.
6) Points, HMs etc. may increase depending on quality.
7) However, if I don't get enough entries - say six - I'll probably close the contest.
IMAGES
1) Ola: http://chalo84.deviantart.com/art/Ola-79116508
2) ESCape: http://m3d4.deviantart.com/art/ESCape-85978964
3) Spiraled: http://mizamour.deviantart.com/art/Spiraled-40165211
4) houses in chaos: http://irinapronina.deviantart.com/art/houses-in-chaos-87145193
5) Santa Maria Nascente: http://nicemind.deviantart.com/art/Santa-Maria-Nascente-50151548
6) Abandoned House: http://digitalhomicide.deviantart.com/art/Abandoned-House-5166705
7) Fragile: http://caterangel.deviantart.com/art/Fragile-90350914
8) Voodoo Economics: http://moeromaru.deviantart.com/art/Voodoo-Economics-11921870
9) Battle of Susi: http://mariankretschmer.deviantart.com/art/Battle-of-Susi-80488699
QUOTES
10) ‘There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.’ – George Eliot, ‘Felix Holt: The Radical’
11) ‘…it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.’ – Niccolò Machiavelli, ‘The Prince’
12) ‘…history is fiction.’ – Maximilien Robespierre
13) ‘She walked to a rhythm – all that week there had been singing in her ears, summer songs of ardent skies and wild shade, and with his arrival the singing had become so loud she could have joined in with it.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘Tender is the Night’
14) ‘The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;
At stars with trains of fire and dews of blood…’ – William Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’
LYRICS
15) "We open the latch on the gate/Of the hole that we call our home." - Placebo, Protect Me From What I want
16) "And we are vagabonds/We travel without seatbelts on" - The Decemberists, Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
17) "poster girl for some suburban sickness" - The Dresden Dolls, Dirty Business
18) "And I find it kind of funny/I find it kind of sad/The dreams in which I'm dying/Are the best I've ever had." - Tears for Fears, Mad World
19) "But the film is a saddening bore/'Cause I wrote it ten times or more" - David Bowie, Life on Mars
20) "Negotiations and love songs/Are often mistaken for one and the same" - Paul Simon, Train in the Distance
OTHER
21) Dictionary inspired. Find a dictionary, open a random page, and write down the top word on the left hand side and the bottom word on the right hand side; then write a poem inspired by those two words. They don't have to be in the poem, but put them in your A/N. If you don't want to look them up, here are some from my dictionary which you can use:
aristocracy-asphalt
asphyxia-attaint
attempt-avert
aviary-balmy
bestial-bizarre
blunder-border
enact-enquire
exuberantly-fall
fatigue-fervour
follower-forget
lost-machine
material-menace
million-miss
misshapen-monthly
prevarication-profane
righteous-rooted
rope-rural
schemer-seaworthy
taste-term
thinking-thug
thumb-titled
unfortunate-unless
waive-watering
wishful-workaday
yacht-zone
22) Take a word you like, and that you think would be a good inspiration for a poem (or message me and ask for one, if you prefer). Type it into google images or deviantart or something similar, and write a poem inspired by one of the images that comes up.
RULES & INFORMATION:
1) You can be very LOOSELY inspired by the prompts, if you want - the link between the prompt and the poem can be as direct or as indirect as you like. You can also take only a part of a quote/lyrics as your inspiration, or you can take another quote by the person who said it, or another song by the same artist, and use that as inspiration instead.
2) All the usual contest rules (left-align, no sticky caps, no erotica etc.) may be broken in this contest, but please only if you really think you need to.
3) Put your chosen option number in the A/N.
4) You can pick an option even if someone else has already done it.
5) Prewrites are now allowed, so long as they fit, although preferment will be given to new poems. One entry each.
6) Points, HMs etc. may increase depending on quality.
7) However, if I don't get enough entries - say six - I'll probably close the contest.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on September 19, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 300, Bronze: 100
- Final notes: Thank you very much to everyone who entered! You all used the prompts really creatively and I enjoyed reading your poems
Contest Winners
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [10]
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Perceptions rarely are sustained, we're whirled
willy-nilly, helter-skelter, curled as foetus round our pre-conceptions, bet hedge against• Commented on by judge. -
by Passionate Phoenix 23 lines, 13 comments, on Dec 6 6:22 AM 2007. In Contest, Fantasy, Life, Personal• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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A weeping angel sits,
Alone on her cloud.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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nice Machiavelli quote
did you read the book? -
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Not yet >> I just got it today. Have you read it?
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yeah i have
pretty good
i dont agree with some of the things
but it is very detailed
and an extremly influential book
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Yeah, it looks v. interesting; I'm really looking forward to reading it. And obviously it will come in useful when I take over the world...
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its a little dry
so it took me a while to get through it
but thats why i read it
now im on step two of my plan to take over the world
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thanks for the gold, and congratulations to all the other winners!
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