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Tons of Options.

So, I've recently gotten quite a few points from other contests and I don't like hoarding them. I like having contests instead, so I made this one and hopefully everyone gets inspired by it.

There are different types of options, you may enter 2 poems but make sure they are of a different option.

The Rules:
-No CAPS or StIcKy CaPs.
-No emo suicidal crap.
-Use spellcheck please.
-All forms are accepted except dirty pretty.
-You may rhyme, but do it tastefully.
-Erotica is allowed, just label it properly.
-No hard to read backgrounds.
-Put your option (the whole thing, not just the number) in the author's notes.
-If you use a picture, credit it in the author's notes.

Option Group 1: Titles
Please use one of these as the title of your poem.

And I Walk With Them
Wreckage of my Flesh
When Death Comes Sweeping Down (If you use this one, credit the band Armaros for the title, it's my friend's band)
Find Your Own Voice
Here Comes The Rain Again
Born In A Casket
Patterns In The Ivy
The Songless Bird
Together As One
By The Pain I See In Others
Echoes From A Hollow Soul


Option Group 2: One Word Prompts
This is NOT a word bank! Only use one word to prompt your whole poem, and do not use it as the title please!

Redemption
Vengeance
Regrets
Lucid
Touch
Apocalypse
Thoughts
Thunderstorm
Resist
Serenity

Option Group 3: Picture Prompts
Please credit the photos if you use them. You may only use 1 per poem. Do not just tell me about the picture, I can see that already.

http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/21/2112/CJ9ED00Z/frank-tusch-female-nude.jpg (ADULT LINK)
http://ftourini.deviantart.com/art/Emerald-sorrow-83213254
http://share.triangle.com/sites/share-uda.triangle.com/files/images/Cone%20Flowers.preview.jpg
http://www.freefoto.com/images/19/42/19_42_54---Autumn-Colour_web.jpg
http://blogs.sundaymercury.net/brummie-broad/thunderstorm/thunderstorm.jpg
http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199946/moonstars_noao.jpg
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/files/u45/regret.jpg

Option Group 4: Quotes & Lyrics
Do not place these into your poem. Instead, use them for your inspiration.

"In my own ashes I am standing without a soul..."
To Bid You Farewell by Opeth.

"I can feel nothing, nothing at all- except for the pain that hits me again..."
Instinct by Arch Enemy.

"What's your rush now, everyone will have his day to die..."
The Outsider by A Perfect Circle.

"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. we are eternal. All this pain is an illusion."
Parabol and Parabola by Tool.

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche.

"A life cannot be lived without a taint of innocence."
Myself (Zombie Vomit).


Okay, now get writing and have fun!

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on March 14
  • Rewards: Gold: 450, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 5 people
  • Final notes:
    Hi everyone! Sorry it took so long to judge this.

    Everyone on the finalist list deserved a gold in my eyes! Thanks so much for entering!

Contest Winners

  1. Sacrificed
    by Wandering Woodchuck 9 lines, 14 comments, on Feb 16 9:23 PM. In Thoughts, Society, Adult
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. The Wind And My Lament (silver)
    by AliceinPoetryLand 29 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 25 5:52 AM. In Contest, Picture Prompt, Thoughts
    Silver trophy winner
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]
  3. And I Walk With Them
    Mourning and loathing
    A portrait of misery
    by Sweetest-Maleficia 45 lines, on Mar 2 4:13 PM
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]
  4. The Songless Bird
    by VelvetWings 22 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 8 1:59 AM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  5. Intentsity
    In mind's purple fog,
    energies form,
    by islekine 18 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 16 3:08 PM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  6. Touches
    by Olivias Violin 13 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 16 3:44 PM. In Contest
    Honorable mention
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]
  7. Life's Field
    In fields of daises
    life grows in bountiful
    by Kathraina 15 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 16 5:25 PM. In Contest
    Honorable mention
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]
  8. here comes the rain again
    by lowercase prelude 17 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 4 9:12 PM. In Contest, Life, Pain, Other
    Honorable mention
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]

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  • Kathraina silver member
    February 16
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    Suh-weet prompts! I'll bookmark for sure!

  • Sweetest-Maleficia
    February 16
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    nice my dying bride and opeth, ill come back too this one

  • Asabouros.
    February 16
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    !

    I really hope I can write something for this one, such pretty little tool/apc prompts.


  • wohadreambig
    February 18
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    bookmarked this. will come back if i can come up with anything

  • Sweetest-Maleficia
    March 2
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    aww damn im to late


  • lowercase prelude gold member
    March 14
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    thank you for the HM


  • AliceinPoetryLand gold member
    March 14
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    Thank you ever so much for the silver. Congratulations to the other winners and thank you for hosting.
    Gaylene


  • Kathraina silver member
    March 14
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    Thankies for the shiny

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