NOTE: I have decided to end the contest. AP is messing up entries, only allowing one entry and no one seems to be fixing it. So I think it's the fairest thing to end it before more problems occur. I apologize, and will have the winners chosen, hopefully by Tuesday evening. Thanks for your understanding.
Yem
I don't know if there is such a thing as micro-poetry, if not, there is now.
Enter poems with only 11 words, no more, no less. Any subject. Rhyme or Free Verse, I don't care.
A few examples I wrote just now (so excuse how bad they are
Haunt
The wind whispers your name
and I feel
a cold chill.
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Self-Awareness
You did not
see me
in your
search to find yourself
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Dinner Discourse
A fork is not
a utensil
to be used...
as weaponry!
You may enter 4 times per account. I feel like commenting this week.
Have fun, I'm sure I will.
Yem
I don't know if there is such a thing as micro-poetry, if not, there is now.
Enter poems with only 11 words, no more, no less. Any subject. Rhyme or Free Verse, I don't care.
A few examples I wrote just now (so excuse how bad they are
Haunt
The wind whispers your name
and I feel
a cold chill.
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Self-Awareness
You did not
see me
in your
search to find yourself
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Dinner Discourse
A fork is not
a utensil
to be used...
as weaponry!
You may enter 4 times per account. I feel like commenting this week.
Have fun, I'm sure I will.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on December 3, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 405, Silver: 124, Bronze: 102, Honorable mention: 5 people
- Final notes: First, let me apologize for all the troubles that AP had whenever anyone tried to add more than one poem.
Second, let me apologize for ending the contest early (due to the AP glitches.)
Third, I want to thank everyone for entering such intriguing and excellent entries. Picking Just eight to award trophies to was difficult...picking a winner, almost impossible. On another day, or in a different mood, I might have chosen a different winner, such was the quality of the entries. I wish AP wasn't so miserly with HM's so I could have handed out a few more...because there are some people going home empty-handed who wrote fine poems deserving of a trophy.
Fourth, there is no fourth, I just wanted to be irritating, lol
Thank you everyone...well, except one, lol. I appreciate the spirit with which you entered into this contest and I thank you for letting me read your work. Hopefully you'll enter if I host another contest of this type...without all the glitches of course!
Contest Winners
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garage sale -
second-hand memories;• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
The spark
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i'd hold tight
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Don’t look so handsome
“for sale” signby Sandra R Reynolds 4 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 29 10:48 AM 2008. In Contest, Humor
Honorable mention
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Stained glass whispers
Of votive petitions• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
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Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [31]
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Pie in the sky
lands in your eye.by Judith Chandler 2 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 29 10:40 AM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge. -
Winters frozen tears• Commented on by judge.
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They say a blind man sees,
More than we ever will.by Onionducks 1 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 29 11:34 AM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
Along Big Sur,
white caps, rocky shore.by Yy13 2 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 29 12:03 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
The total sinfullness of steel,
lost in red hot bawdy dance.• Commented on by judge. -
In the heat of my thoughts• Commented on by judge.
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by Black Narcissus 4 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 29 1:19 PM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge.
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Grey skies,
grey hair,• Commented on by judge. -
This fine meat
once liveby Long Road Home 6 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 29 4:07 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
Serenity sewn on silk
slips softly across skinby JenessaRiann 4 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 29 4:39 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
by paulcreates 24 lines, 22 comments, on Nov 30 7:47 AM 2008. In Contest• Commented on by judge.
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peaceful stillness
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no path left to walk
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enter!
LOL, that exclamation mark looks like it is a demand. Please enter. There that seems a lot nicer.
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some people use sweet words to command others - you use commands to express your sweetness ... I like that !
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there was a time when we were able to applaud comments...yours deserves lots!
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and you deserve a big hug ...
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yay
ooh this looks like fun!
and the judge feels like commenting too! a bonus!
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now go enter...four times.
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I like shorts!
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You like shorts, I like nice frilly summer dresses.......
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short dresses...?
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maybe you don't call short pants shorts over there.
Otherwise, since when have you found my silly humor wearing odd clothes to be unfathomable? O-o back at ya.
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ja ja, shorts are shorts, like shorts...
but there are long dresses and short dresses...ok nevermind
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No, I just meant, you like shorts, I like dresses...was a joke that now lies flatter than a pancake I might to to make.
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Oh 4 entries per account
let me start counting how many I can enter
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I may need to increase the entry limit to 120.
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hmmmmm
what could I do with 11 words? ....lol
there once was a sloth
all covered in cloth
the end
lol
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The lol puts you at 12 words, you are disqualified!
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That's only fitting seeing as how I'm typically too long winded ...lol
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The contest turned out to be one big fiasco. The entries were good but AP messed up and was kicking out multiple entries by authors. So I closed it. Most have understood, though one entrant thinks I am somehow the devil's spawn for my failed attempts at correcting AP's errors. Life is fun...how are you these days?
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Those that fail to understand that the workings of AP may as well be on top of Mount Olympus aren't likely to ever give anyone much grace when it does what it does .. so were it me I'd lose no sleep over it.. ( but probably would anyway because I hate it when people growl at me )
I've read a few of the entries AP decided to keep, some of them are lovely so maybe not entirely a fiasco? Call it distilled
I'm doing well enough, but finding it awkward to write after being absent.. How are you?
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Yes, the entries are quite good. I'm of course crediting myself for that.
Yes, you haven't posted anything here that I remember in quite some time...but I figured you were just doing like I often do...keeping them hidden away...like the little diamonds mine are, lol
I could give you a writers prompt but all mine usually start like, "There is a cow in the bathtub..." And as I remember...that isn't your style.
If you write it He will come...He being of course...Me...(capital letter intentional)
As you can see, I am the same as usual.
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There's a cow in the bathtub, dear Liza, dear Liza,
There's a cow in the bathtub,
oh make it go home.
But where shall we moo-ve it, Yemassee, Yemassee
But where shall we moo-ve it
it must weigh a ton......
In a field with some clover, dear Liza, dear Liza,
In a field with some clover
where buffalo roam.
lol and as you can see so am I
My 'style' seems to be whatever odd frame of mind I'm in at the moment...
If I write it, He might be the only one who does
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Good one! See now, I'd post that and be mighty proud that I'd written it! Then again, I am me...which is sort of the problem....
Are you kidding> You have a legion of fans (he says without actually knowing the exact meaning of the word legion in this instance) you have like these wild eyes crazies that defend you when I make Yemish jokes! That would slit my throat in the night just for saying I didn't understand something you wrote...hordes of talented critters who fall at your feet waiting for your next poem...
and there you sit, disappointing them.
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LOL.... I marvel at the people who do that.. if this were back in the time of chivalry I'd be doing great!
You need to work a little harder on those .. I have a safety switch on the side of my head that alerts me when one might be present. ( don't I wish... lol )
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They do that, your peeps (I'm hip you know) It's great to see how they speak of you...sure it's over-the-top, but that just shows how loyal they are, and in between my insanity ridden clown comments I've gushed a time or two also about you, you just never noticed it because well, you fell asleep by the time I got around to saying it.
It's what we, your peeps do, we keep it real
At some point you'll just start writing in order to shut me up!
Ok, supper time. Have fun. Thanks for bubbin' for a few minutes.
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the horrible bigfoot is eating entries!!!!
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LOL, I'm looking into it. Don't add anymore...he has a bottomless stomach!
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Grrrrrrrrrr, KEVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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thank you
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Obrigada, em nome das outras
This was fun, do it again
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Thanks much for the HM looks like you really enjoyed this contest, glad ya did!
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