I want to have a contest.
But I can’t decide the theme
I’ve tried to think of one
‘Till I want to run and scream
Should it be about a child
or infertility?
About the greatest love you’ve known
‘My Joe is that for me’
Should I ask you to write haiku
sonnets, rhyme or prose?
I thought and thought about it
and this is what I chose
Write the way you write the best
it matters not to me
but if I can’t, relate to it
no trophies will you see.
Ok so that isn’t my best work. But, it’s off the top of my head.
I’m looking for something that touches me and that I can relate to. Something that when I read it I think they know exactly how it feels. How I felt. So it needs to be something I have experienced. I’ve given you some hints or if you want to check out some of my poetry to get a better idea feel free. Rhyme or not it’s your choice. I enjoy both, but be warned that if you choose to rhyme you need to know what you’re doing.
I won’t hesitate to tell you what I do or DON"T like about your work. If you want my points it had better be worthy of them.
Edited to add: Please tell me in your notes why tou think I'd relate to your poem. It might help if you have read some of my work (or have at least looked at my lists) and know who I am. Thank you. Patti
The picture is not a prompt. I just liked it.
But I can’t decide the theme
I’ve tried to think of one
‘Till I want to run and scream
Should it be about a child
or infertility?
About the greatest love you’ve known
‘My Joe is that for me’
Should I ask you to write haiku
sonnets, rhyme or prose?
I thought and thought about it
and this is what I chose
Write the way you write the best
it matters not to me
but if I can’t, relate to it
no trophies will you see.
Ok so that isn’t my best work. But, it’s off the top of my head.
I’m looking for something that touches me and that I can relate to. Something that when I read it I think they know exactly how it feels. How I felt. So it needs to be something I have experienced. I’ve given you some hints or if you want to check out some of my poetry to get a better idea feel free. Rhyme or not it’s your choice. I enjoy both, but be warned that if you choose to rhyme you need to know what you’re doing.
I won’t hesitate to tell you what I do or DON"T like about your work. If you want my points it had better be worthy of them.
Edited to add: Please tell me in your notes why tou think I'd relate to your poem. It might help if you have read some of my work (or have at least looked at my lists) and know who I am. Thank you. Patti
The picture is not a prompt. I just liked it.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on November 30, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 800, Silver: 400, Bronze: 200
- Final notes:
I’m sorry this took so long to judge. If you missed it my family was ill for weeks. Nasty bug. I hope none of you have gotten it. Oh yeah and my computer keeps crashing, but I needed to finish this before I took it to be fixed or replaced. I’m wondering if it has a nasty bug too. But I know part of it is my the fact that 15 mo pulled it to the floor and bent the screen back so far that one side is hanging on by a wire. (sigh)
This was harder to judge than I thought. In the end some of the order of the finalist came down to who touched me on the deepest level. Those people who I felt understood what I was looking for and what I meant by poetry I could relate to on a personal level. That doesn’t always mean that the best poem on a purely technical level.
I know I upset a few people who entered, but I tired to warn people that if they entered something that didn’t fit the rules I was going to let them know without a detailed comment. The first person I did that too sent me a nasty message and blocked me. LOL It left a bad taste in my mouth. It also means that in my next contest I will not allow pre-writes, because of the messages I got from others who felt it was unfair of me to judge them more carefully than I did poems written just for my contest. In the end I decided that what I really wanted was to inspire someone to dig deep and write something new that they might have never written if I hadn’t given them a nudge. So my next contest will make that clear.
I want to thank everyone, who didn’t send me a nasty note, for entering. In the end a contest is judged by someone who knows what they are looking for and if you don’t know them well enough it may just be a guess if you understand what it is that touches their soul on a deeper level. Which is what I was looking for when I asked for something that I could relate to on a personal level. If I haven’t experienced it it’s harder to do that. I felt like a few people entered after reading the title without ever reading the rules. I’m not going to apologize for not wasting more of my valuable time giving them personal comments when they didn’t take the time to make sure they were entering something that was close to following the rules. I thought I made that clear in the rules. I’m sorry if I hurt anyone’s feelings, but I’d rather be honest and I’d rather have honesty when it comes to my poetry. It’s the best way we can all improve our work.
Congratulations to the winners. Patti
Contest Winners
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 4773017, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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Catch a golden moment
to hold it in your handby Gwenevere 24 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 9 4:49 AM 2008. In Positive thought• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
Gone into the dark....• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 4788509, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
Bronze trophy winner
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I wish I was not quite so stupid
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His voice echoes through my head
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Forgiveness is a miracle
where you lower your self pride,by Poetess12 28 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 5 5:28 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
These walls are talking...make that screaming--
Shouting "you don't belong here"...I don't belong.by AboveApathy 23 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 25 9:54 PM 2008. In Emotional Abuse• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I was wanting to see you
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I've been pushing my teeth into my lips. Canines
sharpened on a grinding wheel enter and exitby Nevous 36 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 17 3:37 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
I watch you tease her / playing with her heart / watch as you look at her / you never seem to part / you give her small gifts / of dead thi• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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It's all I see... It's all I need...• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by tigerspence2012 93 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 17 10:13 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Did you know that on that day
I couldn't stop crying?by Amarillistarshot 62 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 18 9:52 PM 2008. In Personal• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Her heart's over there,
In that boy's hand.by Soul Sonata 95 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 24 6:02 AM 2008. In Love• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Climbing up my naked leg
This intrepid ant should be• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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If you decide to allow PreWritten poems, please let me know. I'd like to enter one I think you might be able to relate to. Thanks, FAH
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If I don't get many entries I may change it to allow prewritten poems, but often when you allow them people take advantage and post anything and everything even if it’s not relevant. I’m sure yours wouldn’t be, but I’m not sure how to weed those out. Check back in a couple of days and see if I’ve changed it.
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Y u’ll people don’t allow per-writers?
Those are not the poems ……………….?
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If it falls Iunder your category and suits per your theme than what stops you…..?
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There are people who unfortunately enter rewrites in contests that have noting to do with what the person asked for. It kind of ruins it for the rest of us. Plus I like to think that I inspired someone to reach down deep and pull a masterpiece from their heart. Not that they just recycled one they’d already written. I have a very eclectic collection of poetry and I’d like to think that everyone could find something that they could relate to and that would motivate them to write something new of their own.
Thank you. Patti
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I have an amazing poem for this contest!
But guess what????
Its a pre-write!
Grrrrrrr, I would love for you to read it, but since there is no PW allowed, you won't be able to!! Awwww man, sorry! When you have PW allowed let me know pleeeeeeeeeease!!!!!
Your contest seemed pretty neat!!
Soncerely, O -
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OK ! OK! I have revised this to allow pre-written poems. However if you enter one and it doesn't fit the contest, that's all I'm putting in the comments. If you can't handle that or an honest comment; don't enter. I'd hate to have someone else block me because I told them that their poem was not what I was looking for and that they misspelled a word. (and used one I wasn’t familiar with and didn’t feel like looking up when it wasn’t in word, because I knew what they meant by “unbid”
A contest is subjective and if you enter something that I just don’t get then it’s not saying that your poem doesn’t have merit. Just that it’s not what I’m looking for and that it doesn’t speak to me. Good Luck.
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YUPEEEEEEEEE!
Thank you soooooo much!! I am so happy that you have allowed pre written poems! I hope you enjoy all the poems!!! -
How come you don't comment on them, anymore? I'm curious as to what you think the merits of my poem are, and also anything I should rethink.Or perhaps you only comment on a select few?
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I’m working my way slowly thru these. My whole family was ill, for 2 weeks, and I wasn’t up to commenting so that’s why I stopped. I’ve commented on a few already tonight and I will get to the rest. Thank you Patti
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Fuck This !
Sorry if you could not relate!
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"I also warned that prewrites would be judged harshly"
in this case i dont know why you opened this costest and allowing prewrites... when you dont value them as much as fresh ones ? was your aim to annoy people who came up with prewrites ?
Do you consider prewrites as shit ?
you fucked my mind, y u did not delate my poem ?
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My aim was to not allow prewrites, but several people begged me to and claimed they had one that was perfect. So I allowed them. But yes I do hold them to a higher standard as I expect everyone does. Because it should be something that fits the contest description flawlessly.
“Something that when I read it I think they know exactly how it feels. How I felt. So it needs to be something I have experienced.”
After reading many of these I have to wonder how many people actually read something of mine to see what kind of things I’ve experienced.
Besides why shouldn’t I give more merit to a poem that someone took the time to write just for my contest, instead of one that someone has entered in a bunch of contests. Although truthfully I don’t look before reading and if a poem wows me is more important than if it’s prewritten.
Only I know how I have felt in the past and if I couldn’t relate to a poem it’s because I wasn’t taken into a moment that I remember.
I don’t know why you would expect me to delete a poem from my contest. Unless I felt a poem was offensive I can’t see a reason for doing that. At least not in this contest, although I have entered contests where they did under certain circumstances.
I’m sorry that you don’t like the way I’m judging my contest.
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Thank you for the gold and for a great contest. I enjoyed it. Take care and Have fun. Steve
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