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Lie To Me

I'm feeling utterly confused with life these days. Kind of like this dialogue:

Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah. Does it get easy?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.

Please do something with this dialogue, in the form of a poem. That is the prompt, use is as you wish, but no prose or paragraph form.

No line limits.
No word limits.
Use any backgrounds you want, as long as the text is readable.

Now, write!

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on January 14
  • Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50
  • Final notes:
    Congrats to all

Contest Winners

  1. Swallow.
    by Miss Faerie 14 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 15 12:50 AM 2008. In Other, Sad, Thoughts, Life, noguest
    Gold trophy winner
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. I Thought I Knew What a Lie Was
    I'm feeling bad, so let's skip the introduction;
    The only ones who stay are always the cheaters.
    by Kikai Ni 22 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 18 11:37 AM 2008. In Life, Love, Pain, Sad, Thoughts
    Silver trophy winner
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]
  3. Where the dreamer lies
    by Demington 45 lines, on Dec 10 2:52 AM 2008. In Fantasy, Sad
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]
  4. Field of Life
    The lies and truths of life.
    by Deaths-Gift-My-Curse 38 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 18 3:19 PM 2008. In Contest, Life
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]
  5. Lying to Get Through the Day
    This poem was inspired by the dialougue and the music of taking back sunday. I find it quite depressing actually.
    by Dylan-Moran 75 lines, on Dec 18 10:44 AM 2008
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]

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  • Demington
    December 5, 2008
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    Bless Joss Whedon's heart. I will definitely do this contest...


  • Redrusty66
    December 5, 2008
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    Interesting contest, it caught my eye because I actually wrote a piece to this episode called "Lie to me". I wrote it after being moved greatly by that episode. Not trying to advertise or anything, I just thought it a very interesting coincidence that I had wrote a piece a while back on this very exchange of dialog from Buffy. Glad to see someone else was as moved. You can see the piece I wrote below.
    http://allpoetry.com/poem/3993991

  • Demington
    December 10, 2008
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    Okay. So I am incredibly lame.

    I wrote a poem for this and accidently just added it to my general collection instead of editing my reserve for this conest. If you don't want to let me submit the poem as a prewrite I more than understand. We all must feel the jester at some point in time.



    I can send you the link if you like.

    • vampedvixen
      December 10, 2008
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      I've edited the contest to accept prewrites. Feel free to submit yours now.