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The Coffee House Prompt Challenge: Round 5

The Coffee House Prompt Challenges are a series of contests featuring different types of prompts. This round is poetic lines. The contests are open to anyone apart from round 10 which is invite only for the trophy and HM winners of the previous rounds.



The Challenge Programme:

Round 1: Picture Prompts. Closed 2nd August 2008
Trophy winners: Gold: Providence by Blazor, Silver: A Busy Day by Cricketjeff, Bronze: Respite by BellaD

Round 2: Titles. Closed 18 August 2008
Trophy Winners: Gold: The Broken Soul by xJustifiablyMex, Silver: Wild Spirits by wildfiredreamer, Bronze: Wild Spirits by King-Ben

Round 3: Word Banks. Closed September 12 2008
Trophy Winners: Splintered Farewells by xJustifiablyMex, Silver: Responsibility for Lyrical Art ... by waydownuponjoy, Bronze: Cherokee Eyes by chiefmac

Round 4: Random Phrases. Currently being judged.

Round 5: Poetic Lines.

Round 6: Quotes

Round 7: Random stimuli

Round 8: Opening/closing lines.

Round 9: Cliches

Round 10: Grand Final (a mix up of all the above).


All the above are prompt styles I post in the group so if you want to practice please feel free to join. We can be found at The Coffee House

The form of poetry, genre is entirely at the writers discretion but please label appropriately.


Ju and I are looking for creativity and imagery so a free verse has as much chance of winning as a structured rhyming verse. Spelling and grammar count too.


There is a poem length limit of 10 to 30 lines.


This challenge is about creativity, imagery and artistry. The use of metaphorical and figurative language is strongly encouraged.


One of us will acknowledge your entry but no indication of preference or comment will be given until after judging.



In this round we are giving you a selection of poetic lines  to use as inspiration for your poetry and want you to show us where they take your muse. Be descriptive, use vivid imagery in your words.

Poetic lines uses lines written by other writers to inspire your own write. I do however suggest the actual line is not used within your poem unless as a title.

You may enter as many times as you like but you can only use each option once.



A few boring rules:

1) No dirty pretty please.

2) nO tYPING sillY its impossible to read.

3) Label your write appropriately.

4) Please keep to the 10-30 line limit.

5)Please put the option number in your notes

6) Please give credit to the original author of the line.

 

 

 

Your poetic lines selections are:

1) ‘He wears a stuff whose thread is course and round’ (George Herbert)

2) ‘I sat and mused and drank sweet wine’ (William Butler Yeats)

3) We ride into still water and the calm of a sweet evening’ (Wilfred Seawen Blunt)

4) Beyond them swam the new moon in amber’ (Robinson Jeffers)

5) ‘A cap of lead across the sky’ (Emily Dickinson)

6) ‘The colours and noise like the flying hands of exultation’ (Anthony Hecht)

7) ‘The moon just looks down calmly, she has magic to perform.’ (Jeff Green)

8) ‘I watch you concentrate, with ink and brush’ ( Marie Marshall)

9) ‘How the old mountains drip with sunset’ (Emily Dickinson)

10) ‘Sleep slumbers here, like a great quiet sea’ (Eunice Tietjens)


I am sure those who know me are shocked at no Shelley lines but there you have it.

Good luck, poets

Jem and Ju

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on October 26, 2008
  • Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 300, Bronze: 150, Honorable mention: 4 people
  • Final notes:
    Once again we have had a tough job judging the poems we have been given. That I thank you all for, its stunning to say the least. From love to fantasy the variance on the prompts is amazing.

    Gold: A sonnet taken from WB Yeats

    Silver: A real piece of emotive poetry taken for E. Dickinson

    Bronze: A trip into Irish folklore, naturally a take from WB Yeats

    HMs are in no real order but very much deserved.

    Thank you everyone again for showing your talent and support.

    Jem and Ju

Contest Winners

  1. Sweet wine
    A glass of Madeira to help me to think
    Of all of the love that I hold in my heart
    by cricketjeff 14 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 24 8:28 PM 2008
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. Child of the Wind
    I feel the pounding rhythm of the rain
    memories of her dance through my head
    by chiefmac 29 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 14 11:15 AM 2008. In Contest, sad
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. Goll - The One-eyed Fenian King
    As one-eyed king I am recalled,
    a man of swords who kept the peace,
    by celticwarrior 25 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 24 7:02 PM 2008
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  4. I sat and mused and drank sweet wine....
    by Bad Bill 13 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 11 2:14 PM 2008. In Pain, Sad, Thoughts
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  5. Thoughts at Twilight
    by CitrineSunrise 23 lines, 47 comments, on Oct 22 2:46 PM 2008. In Love, Life, Thoughts
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  6. We Shake the Earth and Pull Mountains Apart
    by Everlasting-Fallout 29 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 22 10:52 PM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Life, Love
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

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