For this contest I would like you to choose one number between 1 and 15 and I will send you a lyric excerpt to use as your prompt. The lyric will either be one line, a couple of lines or a full verse/chorus so it will be varied. Either use the comments box at the bottom of the contest page, or send me a message giving me your chosen number and your username, so that I can mark that prompt as taken by you. Please put the prompt given in your Author's Notes, this is a curtesy to people reading your poem as much as it is for me, so that I know which prompt is which.
If you choose a number and you dont think you can work with it, pick another and I will send you another, however if you can not work with the second choice then I will not send another.
If you choose a number that someone has already chosen, I will ask you to choose another. I will try to keep up to date with numbers that are taken as much as possible, but I cannot be on 24 hours a day so it may be possible that more than one person may choose a number when I am offline. The person that chooses the number first will be given that prompt, if somone else has chosen it, I will ask them to pick again.
Contest will remain open until all 15 prompts are chosen. HM's may be added. Please read and abide by the rules.
Below is a list of numbers and who they are taken by (open prompts have no username beside them).
Taken Prompts
1. Taken By AliceInPoetryLand
2. Taken By Thendestinystruck
3. Taken By Midnight-x-Rose
4. Taken By StillframeShattered
5. Taken By giveuslifeagain
6. Taken By NevaehLenore
7. Taken By Shadow-Alchemist
8. Taken By PanickedOutxPoet
9. Taken By jmk8602
10. Taken By Royal Bitchess
11. Taken By PerfectImperfection
12. Taken By Friday
13. Taken by albinoblacksheep720
14. Taken By Broken--Doll
15. Taken By xXxIceQueenxXx
Rules:
Please put your given prompt in your Author's Notes
Stick to the prompt and use common sense, ie. if the prompt doesn't lean towards such things as cutting, suicide, erotica or depression for instance, then, don't write as such
Please label appropriately
I would prefer length between 10 lines minimum and 100 lines max.
No chat or txt speak
If entering dirty pretty, please keep punctuation to a minimum.
Please put Option choice in Author's Notes
No Bashing
If you choose a number and you dont think you can work with it, pick another and I will send you another, however if you can not work with the second choice then I will not send another.
If you choose a number that someone has already chosen, I will ask you to choose another. I will try to keep up to date with numbers that are taken as much as possible, but I cannot be on 24 hours a day so it may be possible that more than one person may choose a number when I am offline. The person that chooses the number first will be given that prompt, if somone else has chosen it, I will ask them to pick again.
Contest will remain open until all 15 prompts are chosen. HM's may be added. Please read and abide by the rules.
Below is a list of numbers and who they are taken by (open prompts have no username beside them).
Taken Prompts
1. Taken By AliceInPoetryLand
2. Taken By Thendestinystruck
3. Taken By Midnight-x-Rose
4. Taken By StillframeShattered
5. Taken By giveuslifeagain
6. Taken By NevaehLenore
7. Taken By Shadow-Alchemist
8. Taken By PanickedOutxPoet
9. Taken By jmk8602
10. Taken By Royal Bitchess
11. Taken By PerfectImperfection
12. Taken By Friday
13. Taken by albinoblacksheep720
14. Taken By Broken--Doll
15. Taken By xXxIceQueenxXx
Rules:
Please put your given prompt in your Author's Notes
Stick to the prompt and use common sense, ie. if the prompt doesn't lean towards such things as cutting, suicide, erotica or depression for instance, then, don't write as such
Please label appropriately
I would prefer length between 10 lines minimum and 100 lines max.
No chat or txt speak
If entering dirty pretty, please keep punctuation to a minimum.
Please put Option choice in Author's Notes
No Bashing
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on December 16, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 300, Bronze: 100
- Final notes: Firstly, thank you all very much for your entries, all that entered with their given prompt did really well and took them to most excellent and unexpected places.
This made it quite difficult to judge, but judge I did and the winners are chosen by what touched me the most. As I have said before, I am no critic and I am no professional and thus don't have a system for judging, only base it on what I like, what touches me the most.
Well done to all entrants, especially the trophy winners and again I thank you for making the contest a success and giving such excellent pieces to read.
For those who may be interested, I have posted a second Mystery Lyric Contest, which with any luck, will be an ongoing series, if you wish to enter, just click the link below to go and view the contest:
http://allpoetry.com/contest/show/2430623
Many thanks.
*PS*
I forgot to add the 5 HMs for those who are in the prelim finalist list along with the trophy winners, if I could figure out how to send the trophies and points, I would....sorry guys.
Contest Winners
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by EmeraldDreams 19 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 1 4:56 PM 2008. In Contest, Lyrics, Thoughts
Silver trophy winner
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For the sake of the stars that have shone in this light
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Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [14]
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by AliceinPoetryLand 38 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 23 3:57 AM 2008. In Contest, Adult, Lyrics Inspired, Thoughts• Viewed by judge.
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So perfect in her beauty
so lucious in her rageby Thendestinystruck 21 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 5 4:52 PM 2008• Viewed by judge.
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somone - someone, just a typo
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Lyric Prompt No.3 is: “Well the skyscrapers look like gravestones
From out here” – taken from “Diab Soul” by Acid Bath
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oh really struggling with that one.
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May I have number 7 please
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Sure thing.
Lyric Prompt No.7 is:
"“They’re going to put me in jail?
Man, I’m already in jail
Don’t they know that my life’s
Just one, big cell” from 'In My World' by Anthrax
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hey.
could i have prompt number four?
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No problem.
Lyric Prompt No.4 is:
“In the name of the blood dripping out of the sun
I call out your God, till before me he stands
But don't send me Jesus, he's only a man” from “Meat Sandwich” by Gwar
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I would like to try my hand, I see this is the heavier stuff
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Number 11 please!?
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Thanks. No problem.
Lyric Prompt No.11 is:
“I feel unworthy
My body feels dirty
I spit up your thoughts on my breakfast plate” from 'Neurotic' by Keith Caputo
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Hell with prompts like the ones below I have to stick my hand up.
Number 9 please?
No, wait... 12
No... 9
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No.12? lol, sure, no problem.
Lyric Prompt No.12 is:
“Hideous devastations, lifeless serenity
My abstract emotions, somehow, get the best of me” taken from 'My Mind Is Dangerous' by Life Of Agony
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No! 9!
I'm only kidding.
Yay for fun prompt! Thanks
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Number 6 please.
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Okies, no problem.
Lyric Prompt No.6 is:
“If I could grow my wings again, I would shed all my skin” taken from 'Drowning' by Mindfunk
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Number..... 9... I want the one Friday missed out on.
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Certainly.
Lyric Prompt No.9 is:
“So let me fill, my children’s hearts
With heroes tales, and hope it starts” - taken from 'Eiledon' by Big Country
Many thanks.
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Woo!
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Certainly can.
Lyric Prompt No.14 is:
“Torn like an old dollar bill
Girl let them say what they will
That no one should hurt you
And thats all I seem to do
That no one should desert you
And thats all I seem to do” – Dollar Bill – Screaming Trees
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Sure thing.
Lyric Prompt No.7 is:
"They’re going to put me in jail?
Man, I’m already in jail
Don’t they know that my life’s
Just one, big cell” – 'In My World' – Anthrax
Many thanks.
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Could i have number 2?!?!?
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You sure can.
Lyric Prompt No.2 is:
“She smiles like a child with flowers in her hair
With blood on her hands
Into the sun she stares
She feels it die
I heard her cry….
Like the scream of the butterfly” – “Scream of the Butterfly” – Acid Bath
Many thanks.
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number 8?
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Sure thing.
Lyric Quote No.8 is:
“My moral standing is lying down” – The Only Time – Nine Inch Nails
Many thanks.
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ahaha that just confuses me.
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Sure.
Lyric Prompt No.5 is: “Some people are better, left alone” – 'You Don’t Need' – Rollins Band
Many thanks.
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perfect! thank you
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10 plz
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Certainly.
Lyric Quote No.10 is:
“He stood in the storm, carved out in stone
He said I've worn my honesty with pride in everything I've done" – from 'Ships' by Big Country
Many thanks.
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Thank You!!
Thank You for the Trophy and points for I am Honored also Appreciative
Congratulations to all who placed
Excellent contest and Love the prompt
for I felt it grab also tug hard~
Thank You for Hosting Sweet Soul!
Many blessings to You
Best wishes in all You do
with much love & light~ Desire~*~
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Congratulations to the winners and thank you for hosting.
Gaylene
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Thank you for the shiny, and for judging.
Congrats to other shiny-getters.
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