We're extending the deadline again until Sunday! Don't be intimidated! Give it a shot. We want serious and great poetry. Enter!!!
Hello, thanks for stopping by. Now I'm sure you're wondering why you should enter our humble little contest. Well.. we offer challenges, fun, a butt-load of points, and in-depth critiques! Your hosts and judges, Wrinkling Mind and ElectricBloom, welcome you. All that we ask in return is that you write something to amaze and mystify us, to confound or enlighten us, to amuse us, to make us hoot and howl like monkey's on a summer night.
We have, in total, 5 options for you to choose. Each option has a particular difficulty level, and in relation to the difficulty, a different reward. If you choose the hardest, for example, then you'll receive an automatic 20 points added to your score. *very nice* says Borat.
ElectricBloom and I will score each entry out of 100 with the particular grading rubric we've attached with each option.
The poem that has the highest score will win 10,000 points, our accolades, and all the prestige and wealth that comes with it.
Each person is allowed to enter 5 times. No prewrites.
RULES
Plain background
Plain font
No pictures
Put the theme of your poem in your author notes.
Okay, good luck and have fun!!!
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1. Letter Palindrome Poem
(extra hard - worth an automatic 20 points added to your score)
So you've made up your mind and you're going to venture into the dragon's lair? Do you have what it takes to stare down the belly of the beast and come out twice as strong? The challenge will call for patience and perseverance, your opponent - a formidable one, but the reward is greater than all the rest.
A palindrome is a collection of symbols that can be interpreted the same whether read forward or backward. For this contest we'll be using letters.
example: Do geese see God?
Except we want a poem:
Turn in urge,
bare no gut,
tug on era, beg,
run in rut.
So 'n rut' = 'turn' read backwards.
So, to clarify, we want the entire poem to be a letter palindrome. Not line by line.
The poem must have a theme and meaning which you must explain in your author notes.
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 20 points
Cohesion - maximum 20 points
Length - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 20 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 10 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 30 points
+ an automatic 20 points
which comes to a potential 220 points with a perfect score.
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2. No E's Please
(hard - worth an automatic 12 points added to your score)
Do you love the fun in a challenge that others might not bother with? Then this is the option for you. A challenging, fun, and doable option.
Basically what we want is a poem that completely excludes the letter 'E'. No where in the TITLE or the POEM itself should there be one of those pesky letter E's. You might want to double check as well because they always seem to slip by the eye.
Make sure to leave the theme of your poem in your author notes.
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 20 points
Cohesion - maximum 20 points
Length - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 20 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 20 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 20 points
+ an automatic 12 points
which comes to a potential 212 with a perfect score.
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3. Traditional Sonnet
(medium - worth an automatic 7 points added to your score)
Do you have a lover's soul? When you have affection for another do you have a longing to write your feelings in rhyme and verse? If yes then write us a sonnet!
A sonnet is traditionally about love, and has 3 quatrains and an ending couplet. Each line must have 10 syllables. The rhyming pattern is 'abab' for each quatrain, and 'cc' for the couplet.
Leave the theme of your poem in your author notes.
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 10 points
Cohesion - maximum 10 points
Rhyme - maximum 20 points
Emotion - maximum 30 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 10 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 20 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 20 points
+ an automatic 7 points
which adds up to a potential 207 points with a perfect score.
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4. Traditional Haiku
(medium - worth an automatic 4 points added to your score)
Are you in-tune with nature? When you're outside looking at vast grassy pastures, or tree's covered in fresh snow, do you wish that you had with you a pen and paper? If yes then haiku's are right up your alley.
A haiku traditionally comments on nature, and has three lines with a '5,7,5' syllable length, respectively. This is what we want for this contest.
Make sure to leave your theme in your author notes.
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 10 points
Cohesion - maximum 20 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 30 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Imagery - maximum 20 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 20 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 20 points
+ an automatic 4 points
which adds up to a potential 104 points with a perfect score.
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5. Free Verse
(easy - worth an automatic 0 point added to your score)
Are you a free spirit? Do you think that form or rhyme shackles your creative soul? Do you often dream of galloping across an open field as a wild horse?? Then free verse is the choice for you.
But wait! Hold on there lil' horsey, don't go off riding into the sunset just yet. We have options inside of an option! Whoa, insane.. yea I know. You must pick one of the following inspirations, and use them to craft a poem. You must also leave which prompt you picked in your author notes.
Prompts:
1) http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=worldofthemushroomskg8.jpg
- Nickolds
2) We're not safe of dying kings with plastic knives
- Foals
3) "Now, in our culture, we’ve been trained for individual differences to stand out. So you look at each person and the immediate thought is; brighter, dumber; older, younger; richer, poorer; and we make all these dimensional distinctions and put them in categories and treat them that way. And we get so that we only see others as separate from ourselves and the ways that they’re separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you and not different from you. And experiencing the fact that which is essence in you and essence in me is indeed one. The understanding that there is no other. It is all one."
- unknown (from Zeitgeist)
4) Steve Graham points out that you and I are ourselves more like a wave than a permanent thing. He invites us, the reader, to think of an experience from your childhood, something that you can remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there, after all, you really were there at the time, how else can you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren't there. Not a single atom in your body today was there when that event took place. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are therefore, you are not the stuff from which you are made. If that doesn't make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, then read it again until it does, because it is important.
- Dawkins
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 10 points
Cohesion - maximum 10 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 20 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Imagery - maximum 10 points
Emotion - maximum 10 points
Metaphor - maximum 10 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 30 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 20 points
+ an automatic 0 points
which adds up to a potential 200 points with a perfect score.
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UPDATE: as all the entries so far are No e's please and Haikus, we are offering 5 extra automatic points to the first three poems for the palindrome, sonnet and freeverse options!
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Hello, thanks for stopping by. Now I'm sure you're wondering why you should enter our humble little contest. Well.. we offer challenges, fun, a butt-load of points, and in-depth critiques! Your hosts and judges, Wrinkling Mind and ElectricBloom, welcome you. All that we ask in return is that you write something to amaze and mystify us, to confound or enlighten us, to amuse us, to make us hoot and howl like monkey's on a summer night.
We have, in total, 5 options for you to choose. Each option has a particular difficulty level, and in relation to the difficulty, a different reward. If you choose the hardest, for example, then you'll receive an automatic 20 points added to your score. *very nice* says Borat.
ElectricBloom and I will score each entry out of 100 with the particular grading rubric we've attached with each option.
The poem that has the highest score will win 10,000 points, our accolades, and all the prestige and wealth that comes with it.
Each person is allowed to enter 5 times. No prewrites.
RULES
Plain background
Plain font
No pictures
Put the theme of your poem in your author notes.
Okay, good luck and have fun!!!
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1. Letter Palindrome Poem
(extra hard - worth an automatic 20 points added to your score)
So you've made up your mind and you're going to venture into the dragon's lair? Do you have what it takes to stare down the belly of the beast and come out twice as strong? The challenge will call for patience and perseverance, your opponent - a formidable one, but the reward is greater than all the rest.
A palindrome is a collection of symbols that can be interpreted the same whether read forward or backward. For this contest we'll be using letters.
example: Do geese see God?
Except we want a poem:
Turn in urge,
bare no gut,
tug on era, beg,
run in rut.
So 'n rut' = 'turn' read backwards.
So, to clarify, we want the entire poem to be a letter palindrome. Not line by line.
The poem must have a theme and meaning which you must explain in your author notes.
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 20 points
Cohesion - maximum 20 points
Length - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 20 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 10 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 30 points
+ an automatic 20 points
which comes to a potential 220 points with a perfect score.
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2. No E's Please
(hard - worth an automatic 12 points added to your score)
Do you love the fun in a challenge that others might not bother with? Then this is the option for you. A challenging, fun, and doable option.
Basically what we want is a poem that completely excludes the letter 'E'. No where in the TITLE or the POEM itself should there be one of those pesky letter E's. You might want to double check as well because they always seem to slip by the eye.
Make sure to leave the theme of your poem in your author notes.
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 20 points
Cohesion - maximum 20 points
Length - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 20 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 20 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 20 points
+ an automatic 12 points
which comes to a potential 212 with a perfect score.
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3. Traditional Sonnet
(medium - worth an automatic 7 points added to your score)
Do you have a lover's soul? When you have affection for another do you have a longing to write your feelings in rhyme and verse? If yes then write us a sonnet!
A sonnet is traditionally about love, and has 3 quatrains and an ending couplet. Each line must have 10 syllables. The rhyming pattern is 'abab' for each quatrain, and 'cc' for the couplet.
Leave the theme of your poem in your author notes.
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 10 points
Cohesion - maximum 10 points
Rhyme - maximum 20 points
Emotion - maximum 30 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 10 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 20 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 20 points
+ an automatic 7 points
which adds up to a potential 207 points with a perfect score.
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4. Traditional Haiku
(medium - worth an automatic 4 points added to your score)
Are you in-tune with nature? When you're outside looking at vast grassy pastures, or tree's covered in fresh snow, do you wish that you had with you a pen and paper? If yes then haiku's are right up your alley.
A haiku traditionally comments on nature, and has three lines with a '5,7,5' syllable length, respectively. This is what we want for this contest.
Make sure to leave your theme in your author notes.
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 10 points
Cohesion - maximum 20 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 30 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Imagery - maximum 20 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 20 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 20 points
+ an automatic 4 points
which adds up to a potential 104 points with a perfect score.
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5. Free Verse
(easy - worth an automatic 0 point added to your score)
Are you a free spirit? Do you think that form or rhyme shackles your creative soul? Do you often dream of galloping across an open field as a wild horse?? Then free verse is the choice for you.
But wait! Hold on there lil' horsey, don't go off riding into the sunset just yet. We have options inside of an option! Whoa, insane.. yea I know. You must pick one of the following inspirations, and use them to craft a poem. You must also leave which prompt you picked in your author notes.
Prompts:
1) http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=worldofthemushroomskg8.jpg
- Nickolds
2) We're not safe of dying kings with plastic knives
- Foals
3) "Now, in our culture, we’ve been trained for individual differences to stand out. So you look at each person and the immediate thought is; brighter, dumber; older, younger; richer, poorer; and we make all these dimensional distinctions and put them in categories and treat them that way. And we get so that we only see others as separate from ourselves and the ways that they’re separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you and not different from you. And experiencing the fact that which is essence in you and essence in me is indeed one. The understanding that there is no other. It is all one."
- unknown (from Zeitgeist)
4) Steve Graham points out that you and I are ourselves more like a wave than a permanent thing. He invites us, the reader, to think of an experience from your childhood, something that you can remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there, after all, you really were there at the time, how else can you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren't there. Not a single atom in your body today was there when that event took place. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are therefore, you are not the stuff from which you are made. If that doesn't make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, then read it again until it does, because it is important.
- Dawkins
Scoring Sheet
Correct Format - maximum 30 points
Rules - maximum 10 points
Clarity - maximum 10 points
Cohesion - maximum 10 points
Flow - maximum 20 points
Theme - maximum 20 points
Originality of theme - maximum 10 points
Imagery - maximum 10 points
Emotion - maximum 10 points
Metaphor - maximum 10 points
Title - maximum 10 points
Vocabulary/Grammar - maximum 30 points
Personal Opinion - maximum 20 points
+ an automatic 0 points
which adds up to a potential 200 points with a perfect score.
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UPDATE: as all the entries so far are No e's please and Haikus, we are offering 5 extra automatic points to the first three poems for the palindrome, sonnet and freeverse options!
q
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on March 22
- Rewards: Gold: 10000, Silver: 1000, Bronze: 458
- Final notes: Hello, I'm sorry this took such a long time to judge, and I'm sorry that some of you didn't get a comment at all. I did read and appreciate each entry. I didn't follow the original scoring sheet in judging, but rather my own personal opinion. I'm leaving allpoetry and I didn't want to leave without judging this for you guys. Have a good one.
Contest Winners
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I fell in love beneath the silver moon,
As she lay on that Polynesian beach.• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [20]
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willow wrenches my heart
birth of tender feotus green
by Judith Chandler 3 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 2 4:43 PM. In Contest• Commented on by judge. -
Flowing across a sunny sky,
clouds of billowing light• Commented on by judge. -
crammed & cluttered,
i'm heavily breathing.by wondering.willow 10 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 25 4:18 PM• Commented on by judge. -
I gt a nw fn 2day,
I luvd ma brillnt fn• Commented on by judge. -
mystical eyes seen through imperfections
beauty releases from the inside out• Commented on by judge. -
Undo this world
Simplify this box• Commented on by judge. -
A song of love is what I breathe to you,
Emotional riches flow through my flute.by Keirii 14 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 8 12:03 AM• Commented on by judge. -
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Whilst you sigh
Not knowing whyby Janice M Pickett 19 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 7 11:09 PM• Viewed by judge. -
An elegy sings
As the forest weeps for youby Sweetest-Maleficia 40 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 2 3:16 PM• Viewed by judge.
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haha wow
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Tough stuff!
Well, darn... Free verse has always been my thing, but it's also the lowest on the difficulty scale! XD I also like haiku, but dislike the 5-7-5 rule. Sigh. I will, however, try (note: *try*) the no e's option. It certainly looks like an interesting challenge! -
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That's the spirit! Yeah give it a try. (=
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question.... does everything have to be proper english??
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I'm not sure that I understand the question.. but if you think that what you have in mind has a shot at winning, then by all means go ahead and enter it. There are no rules besides the one's that are posted. Good luck.
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complicated isnt the word haha
ill see what i can do
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yay ^.^
i hope you enter!
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Seems like a lot of rules...
Too many for me... good luck and have fun!! 
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There are only 4 standard rules apart from option 5 which has 5.
I would love to see an entry from you.
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I understand what a Palindrome is, but I don't understand what you mean in wanting a "letter" palindrome.
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"A palindrome is a collection of symbols that can be interpreted the same whether read forward or backward. For this contest we'll be using letters"
well we say a plaindrome is a collection of symbols,
we would like letters as the symbols
so basically words.
gosh I think I explained that really badly,
but i hope that makes sense?
if not I hope the examples on the page can help.
i'm sure Wrinkling Mind will be able to explain it better than me, he's the Palindrome expert.
I hope I helped a little bit.
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Basically the 1st letter of the poem should match the last letter of the poem, the 2nd letter of them poem should match the 2nd to last letter of the poem, and so on.
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makes sense when I look back at the example
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goodgood.
we hope you enter!
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Looks Like An Imaginative Contest!!
I would love to enter, but my muse is on vacation. Maybe next time...
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If I work this hard, I want to get benefits such as health insurance or a salary. Hee hee Good luck to all who enter for perseverence will be needed.
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wow... very beautiful contest name...
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Wow. What a well thought out contest. And so many entries, too. I'm impressed.
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intriguing
you've obviously put a lot of work into this contest! a lot of time and effort into each part and parcel . . . and i'm veri impressed. The scoring sheets are a great way to keep a contest this complicated fair. I'm realli thinking about giving this one a try . . . that is . . . if i get five minutes to myself apart from classes and work! Good luck and I hope that the contest entries are everything you hoped for and more! -
i really hope you like my entry
this is a wonderful contest!
i hope you find what your looking for.
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Well I don't remember ever seeing a contest as well thought out as this beauty! I will try my hardest to find the words to enter. Thank you for featuring the contest as I would probably have never stumbled across it.
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This was a difficult one! And even if I don't win, I'm proud of entering because it certainly stretched my brain's limits!
Thanks for that.
~Sparrow
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