Alright, here's the thing.
I was scanning through all of the contest and repeatedly kept seeing:
*Under twenty Lines
*Under twelve lines but over five
ETC YOU GET THE POINT
And I was like... I WRITE on average FIFTY LINES.
SO THIS GOES TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT PUT FORTH ALOT OF EFFORT TO GET THEIR FEELINGS OUT ON PAPER. I WANT POEMS WITH MORE THAN FORTY LINES PER POEM. And when I co-join with my friend I WILL ADD MORE POINTS. HOPEFULLY A THOUSAND to the GOLD WINNER, AND AT LEAST 300 to the SILVER. UNKNOWN for the BRONZE.
SOOO - I WANT IT ABOUT THIS:
[any of these and or/ more - use your NOGGIN]
*no cliche love. If you do, USE Words that inspire.
*Rhythm that makes you wanna sing (not like a song though)
*DOES NOT have to rhyme! But I certainly approve of unforced rhyming patterns etc!
*NO DEATH, NO EMO, NO SUICIDE OR RAZORBLADES INVOLVED unless written from the heart, no misspells, and it CAPTURES my mind in descriptiveness! (no if, what ifs, of whines)
*Erotica... Not this time.
[[EDIT: Somebody kindly said I didn't mention what I wanted it to be about, just the do's and don'ts!
NOTE TO ALL: IT CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING - AS LONG AS IT FOLLOWS THE GUIDELINES ABOVE! Let your heart soar
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RULES*
I DON'T HAVE ANY.
EXCEPT
No grammar mistakes,
MUST BE more than forty lines per poem,
You can submit up to two poems,
Title the poem with something that doesn't give the poem away!
And give me a dang-nabbit, holy-smacker, BANG! OF an ending.
K?
Alrighty.
Have fun, play nice.
And
- Your Lovely Tweedle Dee and Dum
I was scanning through all of the contest and repeatedly kept seeing:
*Under twenty Lines
*Under twelve lines but over five
ETC YOU GET THE POINT
And I was like... I WRITE on average FIFTY LINES.
SO THIS GOES TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT PUT FORTH ALOT OF EFFORT TO GET THEIR FEELINGS OUT ON PAPER. I WANT POEMS WITH MORE THAN FORTY LINES PER POEM. And when I co-join with my friend I WILL ADD MORE POINTS. HOPEFULLY A THOUSAND to the GOLD WINNER, AND AT LEAST 300 to the SILVER. UNKNOWN for the BRONZE.
SOOO - I WANT IT ABOUT THIS:
[any of these and or/ more - use your NOGGIN]
*no cliche love. If you do, USE Words that inspire.
*Rhythm that makes you wanna sing (not like a song though)
*DOES NOT have to rhyme! But I certainly approve of unforced rhyming patterns etc!
*NO DEATH, NO EMO, NO SUICIDE OR RAZORBLADES INVOLVED unless written from the heart, no misspells, and it CAPTURES my mind in descriptiveness! (no if, what ifs, of whines)
*Erotica... Not this time.
[[EDIT: Somebody kindly said I didn't mention what I wanted it to be about, just the do's and don'ts!
NOTE TO ALL: IT CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING - AS LONG AS IT FOLLOWS THE GUIDELINES ABOVE! Let your heart soar
]]RULES*
I DON'T HAVE ANY.
EXCEPT
No grammar mistakes,
MUST BE more than forty lines per poem,
You can submit up to two poems,
Title the poem with something that doesn't give the poem away!
And give me a dang-nabbit, holy-smacker, BANG! OF an ending.
K?Alrighty.
Have fun, play nice.
And
- Your Lovely Tweedle Dee and Dum
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 15
- Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 300, Bronze: 30, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: You guys did a great job on the entries!! Some of you didn't do exactly or over forty lines but I tried to look past that! Over all I am, and Dum are very pleased with the entries!!
I personally am sorry it took so long to judge! Christmas and school came on full swing, but I hope to those of you who won that you know why you won, and to the ones that didn't, it really was soo hard to choose! There were more that I loved but I could only give out so many points!
Congratulations to the winners! Peace to everyone and your families.
- Sincerely,
Tweedle Dee and Dum
Contest Winners
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And the song goes on,
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This is a tribute piece to all firefighters.
by WordsDoMatter 60 lines, 22 comments, on Dec 11 5:40 AM 2008. In Firefighter, fire, rescue, adventure, drama, story
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Amen to this. I love long poems, haiku is not my thing. Will be submitting something, um...probably tomorrow, I've procrastinated enough today.
You said what you DON'T want it to be about, what would you like the poem to be about? -
I love that picture ... where did you find it?
& Awesome contest. Hope you get great entries
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google!
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this is a really cool contest, i don't get over 40 lines a lot of the time, but limits under a certain amount always bothered me so good job =D
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Might just have to do this one for the cause. Bookmarked
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I love the irony of the contest name, yet limiting the entrants to what they can and cannot write about lol, but yeah, I know what you mean.
I might try and enter, if I can get my completely numbed bastard brain working for something longer.
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Good idea ...
but I don't feel up to writing just now. Too bad you aren't taking prewrites since I have a bunch of long poems posted here.
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Ummmm.....did you NOT just do what you complain about?
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LOl yes but I tried to go back and change it to TIRED OF SMALL ENTRIES but It wouldn't let me because I'm co judging this and my partner has to do it.
SORRY about the confusement! MERRY XMAS.
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Poetry is about saying the most with the fewest words possible, and sometimes, that takes a lot of words.
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lol damn, I missed this one. I write on average fifty lines too, and I am always hearing about length in contests. I mean don't get me wrong I appreciate the talent of writing such deep emotions in a short amount of lines and sometimes I manage to do so, but I also appreciate lengthy poems, of course since that is mostly what I write. Ahh well, I will catch your next contest.
Amy
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