Whose daughter are you?
I was watching the movie Coal Miner's Daughter, and the song that Loretta Lynn wrote about her father gave me the idea for this contest. Write a poem about one of your parents. Even though a song inspired this contest, I want poetry, not lyrics.
No pedestrian rhyme.
No purple prose.
Show- don't tell.
Imagery and metaphor are what I look for. If you enter something without imagery and metaphor, you will have no chance of winning this contest.
For those of you who do not know the song Coal Minor's Daughter, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9eHp7JJgq8&feature=related
Please check out my other active contests:
Guilt http://allpoetry.com/contest/2432393
Eternal Return http://allpoetry.com/contest/2432497
Not All Circles Are Round http://allpoetry.com/contest/2432721
Comfort Zone http://allpoetry.com/contest/show/2432971
Like a Watercolor in the Rain http://allpoetry.com/contest/2433231
Envy http://allpoetry.com/contest/show/2433237
I was watching the movie Coal Miner's Daughter, and the song that Loretta Lynn wrote about her father gave me the idea for this contest. Write a poem about one of your parents. Even though a song inspired this contest, I want poetry, not lyrics.
No pedestrian rhyme.
No purple prose.
Show- don't tell.
Imagery and metaphor are what I look for. If you enter something without imagery and metaphor, you will have no chance of winning this contest.
For those of you who do not know the song Coal Minor's Daughter, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9eHp7JJgq8&feature=related
Please check out my other active contests:
Guilt http://allpoetry.com/contest/2432393
Eternal Return http://allpoetry.com/contest/2432497
Not All Circles Are Round http://allpoetry.com/contest/2432721
Comfort Zone http://allpoetry.com/contest/show/2432971
Like a Watercolor in the Rain http://allpoetry.com/contest/2433231
Envy http://allpoetry.com/contest/show/2433237
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 29
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 50, Bronze: 40, Honorable mention: 1 people
- Final notes: What a tough contest to judge! Thanks to all of you for sharing yourselves with me. I enjoyed reading all of your poems.
Contest Winners
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So it's out/ My secret was a cloudy starless night/ in an alley absent of streetlight• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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dad says his memory is not
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I am the birthright
Mother, sister, daughter,by penchanted 86 lines, 10 comments, on Jan 11 6:19 AM. In Life, Hope, Personal, Thoughts, Contemporary, Longing, My life, Inspirational
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Gold trophy winner
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Entries [15]
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Daddy, I love you,
you raised me to be good.by blood.stained.tears 25 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 4 2:40 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
You said run, child and
I still do,by NoUseForAName 17 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 10 12:38 AM 2006. In Other• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
My mother was the daughter / Of a hard-scrabble farmer / in Dust Bowl Kansas. / The second of twelve / she had only one dress / and was alwby CelticQueen 91 lines, 12 comments, on Apr 25 2:15 AM 2007. In Life• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Simple little town
where I was bornby Lexie 75 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 17 9:29 PM• Commented on by judge. -
by FleetingImage 24 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 16 4:29 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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For three days in a sodden hotel in Dorset
I shared a razor with my mother.by evidently 11 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 8 4:26 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
A drop of nectar rest within my heart
a sweet remnant of you• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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ummm. pedestrian rhyme is very forced, unimaginative and cliche?
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From Wikipedia:
Purple prose is a term of literary criticism used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself. Purple prose is sensually evocative beyond the requirements of its context. It also refers to writing that employs certain rhetorical effects such as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an attempt to manipulate a reader's response.
celtic queen
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okay, i get that
but surely " writing that employs certain rhetorical effects such as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an attempt to manipulate a reader's response." is pretty much every type of persuasive writing or poetry out there?
and is it bad that i think that wikipedia extract is very, very purple prose ?
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I am not going to argue with you about it.
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I like your summary of pedestrian rhyme
Celtic queen gave you a very good definition of purple prose, but I will add that I also consider it purple prose when the writer uses so many big words in an attempt to look smart that it looks like a thesaurus threw up
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a thesaurus threw up.
celtic queen
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Thank you for hosting. Yes, my parents are both from the Finger Lakes. Lake Cayuga. I love that part of the world, it is very dear to my heart.
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I grew up just a little farther west, in Penn Yan, though I lived in Geneva and Canandaigua, Honeoye and Rushville over the years. I miss the area. It is so beautiful. And I miss the people. A lot of my best friends are still there. B ut I don't miss the cold. Neither does my husband.
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Names all familiar to me. Used to love the Henry Brothers band from Canandaigua. So are you a Hobart from Hobart College in Geneva then?
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My husband is, yes, and his sister actually married a Smith from the William Smith side of the college. That marriage only lasted ten months though. Apparently, he came out of the closet after he said "I do"
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