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Gimme Your Best Beat Poem

I want your best beat poem!

Take your influence from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Peter Orlovsky, John Clellon Holmes, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, the Road, Freedom, Drugs, America. Gimme your best!

Contest is Over

Contest was judged on December 19, 2008
Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 150, Bronze: 100
Final notes:
I loved every poem in this contest. It took me a very long time to figure out which one was my favorite. Thanks to all who entered.

Contest Winners

Battery Park Serenade

by Lowell Poe 72 lines, 108 comments, on Oct 11 1:52 AM 2008. In Life, Pain, Society, Adult
Gold trophy winner

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Scribblings From My Muse's Outhouse Walls

by lunarlunacy 6 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 22 6:47 PM 2008. In Adult, Humor
Silver trophy winner

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lady liberty

by Cerulean Sunrise 14 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 9 7:55 PM 2008. In Adult
Bronze trophy winner

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Streets

Those posters of 'Wanted', littered
Upon the floor

by MilichichiBass 28 lines, on Dec 9 6:26 PM 2008

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Just a Footnote

Pages screamed out loud on fractured tongues
ended in awkward silences that

by McRae by nature 14 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 18 9:08 PM 2008

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Metropolis - Reborn

by myriad-dark 450 lines, 17 comments, on Mar 7 11:14 PM 2007. In Abuse, Dark, Society, Angst, Personal Tribute to Alan Ginsberg, Adult

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Entries [14]

1 - 14 of 14

what Sal Paradise taught me

there aint
a thing to
writing

by seven 13 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 8 2:35 PM 2008. In writing, other

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I Just Don't Know

I care about you more than i should
More than i thought i ever would

by blondevamp 145 lines, 15 comments, on Oct 26 9:08 PM 2008

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Truth

by xxRainbowDawnxx 81 lines, 17 comments, on Aug 23 2:39 PM 2006. In Lyrics, Beat

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Exit Plan

by zochit2me 66 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 24 6:36 PM 2008. In Contemporary, Personal, Thoughts

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out of body, out of my mind

by Luna Tique Fringe 41 lines, 19 comments, on Dec 9 11:58 PM 2008. In Adult, Metaphor, Life, Spiritual, Personal, Nature, Illegal Substances

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Scream For Your Children...

They lamented with tears of stagnant liberty.
Screaming for your children.

by skyviewexpress 40 lines, on Dec 10 1:06 AM 2008. In Life, Sad, Society, Thoughts, Other

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Nurtured Futility

Time alone is the ultimate conqueror.
It wears down great men and empires alike.

by A60sMan 34 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 10 7:14 AM 2008

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Ode to Safie

Even the blind can see her walking in
rhythm with the angels, cruising through my

by jamesbliss 25 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 5 9:24 AM 2008. In Love, Personal, Hope, Spiritual, Romance, Contest

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lunarlunacy
December 9, 2008
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James Barrett
December 10, 2008
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Closed for Judging already? Wow. Didn't expect this big of a response.

I hope to be done judging soon. I wish all you cats good luck.