Here's what you have to do:
1. Enter up to 5 poems that I haven't commented on.
2. It has to be only poems. No prose, or the like - just poems.
3. If you're somehow able to enter my contest with me being on your ignore list - you will be automatically removed. I do not know if that's a possibility or not but if I can't comment on your work - bye!
If you wish to remove my comment after the Contest is over, feel free. I give a shit. If you need your ego stroked all the time, that's your business, not mine. However! if you do it during the Contest, your entry is automatically disqualified, and will be removed when I review your poem again in final judging.
Here's what I will do:
1. I will definitely comment on your work, even if it's the most generic comment ever, I will. I give you my word.
2. Remove any entry with or without a comment that isn't a "poem".
Here's what I won't do:
1. Praise your work if it isn't worth the praise.
2. Lie to you about your work.
Everything I state on your entry will be my opinion, and that's all it is. If you do not like my opinion, remove your entry, and place me on your ignore list. Simple as that. You'll never have to read a comment by me again. Lovely, ain't it?
Here's what my comments entail:
Mainly pointing out errors in spelling, things that I feel do not make sense, suggesting to you if another form is best, if you rhymed your poem, whether it's good or not, if it needs work etc.,
If your poem is riddled with errors, I may not comment on the message of the poem because I was distracted by the plethora of errors it had, and if I'm sitting there pointing them out to you, and you come back at me in an angry retort realize this: you're only making yourself look like an idiot, and not me. I'm not the one who had a poem up with a shitload of errors. This may not be "school" (as so many state to me when I point out such things) but this is a WRITING WEBSITE, YOU MORON! so at least present something that won't, or can not be ridiculed or what you perceive as ridicule by people like me who are glad to point out these errors.
However, also realize that if I point out these errors doesn't mean I didn't like your work, and I will come back to it later, so fix the errors and perhaps the improvement will garner a placement. The "Edit" button is there for a reason, have the sense to use it. Or don't have the sense, I don't care.
If you do not care for such comments, this is what you do: do not enter this contest. That's the sort of comments I make, and have always made.
So, up to 5 entries. Only 1 of your entries is a contender for a trophy at my choosing, however, all will be commented on.
Remember: only poems I HAVE NOT COMMENTED ON! ONLY and I CRITIQUE.
Have fun!
-Nam
1. Enter up to 5 poems that I haven't commented on.
2. It has to be only poems. No prose, or the like - just poems.
3. If you're somehow able to enter my contest with me being on your ignore list - you will be automatically removed. I do not know if that's a possibility or not but if I can't comment on your work - bye!
If you wish to remove my comment after the Contest is over, feel free. I give a shit. If you need your ego stroked all the time, that's your business, not mine. However! if you do it during the Contest, your entry is automatically disqualified, and will be removed when I review your poem again in final judging.
Here's what I will do:
1. I will definitely comment on your work, even if it's the most generic comment ever, I will. I give you my word.
2. Remove any entry with or without a comment that isn't a "poem".
Here's what I won't do:
1. Praise your work if it isn't worth the praise.
2. Lie to you about your work.
Everything I state on your entry will be my opinion, and that's all it is. If you do not like my opinion, remove your entry, and place me on your ignore list. Simple as that. You'll never have to read a comment by me again. Lovely, ain't it?
Here's what my comments entail:
Mainly pointing out errors in spelling, things that I feel do not make sense, suggesting to you if another form is best, if you rhymed your poem, whether it's good or not, if it needs work etc.,
If your poem is riddled with errors, I may not comment on the message of the poem because I was distracted by the plethora of errors it had, and if I'm sitting there pointing them out to you, and you come back at me in an angry retort realize this: you're only making yourself look like an idiot, and not me. I'm not the one who had a poem up with a shitload of errors. This may not be "school" (as so many state to me when I point out such things) but this is a WRITING WEBSITE, YOU MORON! so at least present something that won't, or can not be ridiculed or what you perceive as ridicule by people like me who are glad to point out these errors.
However, also realize that if I point out these errors doesn't mean I didn't like your work, and I will come back to it later, so fix the errors and perhaps the improvement will garner a placement. The "Edit" button is there for a reason, have the sense to use it. Or don't have the sense, I don't care.
If you do not care for such comments, this is what you do: do not enter this contest. That's the sort of comments I make, and have always made.
So, up to 5 entries. Only 1 of your entries is a contender for a trophy at my choosing, however, all will be commented on.
Remember: only poems I HAVE NOT COMMENTED ON! ONLY and I CRITIQUE.
Have fun!
-Nam
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on April 14
- Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 500, Bronze: 250, Honorable mention: 5 people
- Final notes: If I didn't comment on your poem, I didn't do it on purpose, just so many.
I removed 2 poems. One poem that was a short story, and another poem for deleting my comment. Which for the latter was too bad because it was a finalist.
"The Worm and the Wren" and "Inspire Your Muse" were both finalists, as well, but the authors of those two poems must have withdrawn their entries 'cause I couldn't find them. Too bad.
The order of the entries are the order I kept in the list I had offline from the one I liked the best to the one I liked the least (but still being a good entry 'cause it made the finalist list).
There were more entries that made the finalist list; about 30 total but mainly they were by the same individual authors who made the list so I had to pick the one I liked the best and discard the rest.
Thanks for entering, and being patient, and to those who didn't read the rules for this contest, if you enter my next one, read the rules.
-Nam
Contest Winners
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No reaction to light, crossing path with pupil.
No steam on the mirror, placed beneath nose.by BluesMan 19 lines, 34 comments, on Mar 6 11:11 AM. In Contest, Death, Friendship, Love, Life, Sad Personal Painful Thoughts, Acceptance
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My soldiers sit
in a circle, around meby Matt E. Smith 16 lines, 16 comments, on Mar 10 4:36 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Sara didn't get me a key chain,
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My little devil in my house,
stirring up some trouble.by Miss Chievous 26 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 15 3:56 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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Contented, stifled MotherLanders staggering throughby dericlee 43 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 14 2:01 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Just that gentle, just that soft. Just that much like Down-Home Folk.
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The granite façade next to me, remained
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I would be raised from dust and grass,
From your tree’s branches of embrace,by shiratikva 14 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 14 4:10 PM. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Dark, Hope, Message to the nature• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Oh muse, a poetry spirit
Existence in the air and soul!by shiratikva 24 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 25 6:39 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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Listen to the sound
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Words
They're just wordsby Neo.Love.Soul 35 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 10 6:26 PM. In Contemporary• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Broken limbs
Knarled and knottedby Neo.Love.Soul 42 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 11 9:45 PM. In Contemporary• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Cover your face.....• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Forbidden love; it's not that cute; you're deceiving the ones that believe in you to tell the truth. You're living in a lie thinking you'llby Blue-Rose Beauty 39 lines, 17 comments, on Mar 27 3:24 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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pain and blackness, swirlingby dericlee 106 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 29 2:45 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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In the days of McKinley,
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Is the girl blind? Why can’t she see?
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I tried to write
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As the rain poured down and darkness fell
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Mirror, mirror on the wall
who's the fairest of them all?• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I can sit right here
In my easy chairby jimek 57 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 13 12:58 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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I'm going back
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Mc can Mc you believe
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I am sitting here
On the balcony of my refuge apartmentby Echos in Silence 53 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 24 4:48 PM 2008. In Life, Society, Thoughts, Humanity, Teenage thinking, Lost in thought, Sadness, Other• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
just thoughts typed up...please comment, i'd like feedback on this...
by Echos in Silence 174 lines, 10 comments, on Jan 26 4:27 PM. In Angst, Pain, Sad, Life, Thoughts, Love, Weird, Lost in thought, Teenage thinking• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
‘hello, sunshine’
Said heby Echos in Silence 59 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 18 11:55 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I believe
That there will beby Echos in Silence 62 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 1 1:41 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Where the warbler whistles quick and bright
Singing as they flyby TheCrimsonPetal 28 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 29 1:40 PM 2006• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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The sun’s brilliant rays
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by TheCrimsonPetal 45 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 13 6:21 PM. In Adult• Commented on by judge.
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If nature is the inkless scribe
who writes the poems in our heartsby Aedara-Wren 16 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 2 4:31 PM 2006. In Other• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Empty, led by my hand, empty
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Please hold me closer and promise me this,"
She asked of him through dying lips.by AlittleWrong 44 lines, 65 comments, on Nov 24 6:58 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
by BehindTheShadow 32 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 14 11:49 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by BehindTheShadow 133 lines, 23 comments, on Jan 1 1:52 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by BehindTheShadow 74 lines, 10 comments, on Jan 26 8:14 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The long wooden pier
looms before meby pinksnowboots 31 lines, 19 comments, on Jan 20 6:16 PM. In Dark, Pain, Other, Sad, Life, Depression, Escape• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Teriyaki Geisha,
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by BehindTheShadow 48 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 26 9:06 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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half a step from innocence,
you stole my morality in anby thegirlsafaultline. 18 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 12 6:07 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
we spent the entire night mocking
half-hearted stars and luggage-proneby thegirlsafaultline. 28 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 12 6:05 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
he lived in a world of glass
mannequins dipped in tintedby thegirlsafaultline. 18 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 23 7:34 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
The young lady sits at her dressing table
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Lying in your bed at night.
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The words are hanging from your lips
Spitefully sugar sweetby Barbara 21 lines, 15 comments, on Mar 18 3:19 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Was in a swinger site but with limited social skill,
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With five entries 'guaranteed' a comment, reckon you're gonna have to talk to me eventually, huh?
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Are we not talking to each other?
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Not for any reason I know of...but the last few times I've seen you on my sidebar, you haven't shown up in the Pub, so I decided to try to "provoke a confrontation".
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Well, I'm not in the Discussion area that much anymore for many reasons however I did make a few posts there today. But I don't recognize a lot of the names in there, and a lot of the topics seem lame, so, I see no reason to go in there for that reason. I mainly spend my time at another discussion forum but it's not really too active right now so I'm here, wanting to do something. Thus the Contest, and the few comments in the discussion area.
You know how I've been called an "Asshole" here many times? Well, at the other website, they've dubbed me the "Resident Asshole". When I joined that website last January (surprisingly many have been banned but not me, weird) I jokingly said in my introduction: I'll be your resident asshole...etc., etc., and then last month the site owner gave me the honorary title of "Resident Asshole". lol! I feel so special.
I like it there. I can openly discuss things without the Administration editing or threatening to ban me. And, when you call a mod out there, they don't come after you for arguing with them sometimes, especially if you're correct, a mod there will actually side with you. Which has happened a couple of times. They have karma or what they call IQ (smarter/dumber) and mine is +258/-168. I like it there. I liked it here but I kept on getting banned for speaking my mind, there, I don't.
Anyway...
-Nam
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You might be surprised how many n00bs here have been accused of being Nam undercover lately...
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I feel so loved that people still think I log under one of my plethora of usernames and frequent the discussion boards. But, none of them are me.
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I never thought so.
For one thing, none of them have the class.
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Is this only for rhyme?
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lol(:
Okay, thanks.
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The contest is anonymous and only one of someone's entries is a contender. Don't you need their username in the author notes, so you don't give more that one trophy to the same person?
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No. It's called logging out. You can see everyone's names then. It's also easier to judge, as well. Don't have to deal with unnecessary things.
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That is clever.
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ya same....
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wow you've gotta have a lot of time on your hands to comment on all of these! it's nice of you to do that for people...
lol i entered some of my shorter poems
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wow you've gotta have a lot of time on your hands!!
i entered some of my shorter poems...lol
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Dude, I'm gone for less than a day and I get over 40 entries. I knew I should've closed this last night.
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I entered 'Young Lovers' and I don't see it here. But you did comment! So anyways...hmph!
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Holy crud! I'm totally honored to have received the silver cup amongst so many awesome entries! Thank you so much for the privilege! Congratulations to the winners and to the other fine entrants
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thank you for the honor to be placed. congratulations to all.
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