Happy Naw Ruz everyone! (persian and Bah'a'i new year!) To celebrate this most joyous of events in your life, I'm hosting my second contest in as many years (only periodically active), and to make it less contrived than most, there's only one rule:
It's not allowed to suck! Put in your most original, un-cliche' pieces, any topic or form is fine, but keep in mind that if it's a haiku, or love song involving the words 'lift me up', 'dove', 'strawberry kisses', 'unicorn' etc, than it's probably inclined to suck.
Sticky caps, bashing, facism, odes to kleptomania etc are perfectly legal, but as probably goes without saying, everyone will think you're a nob and refuse to share their luch with you. Duh. Oh, and Homeresque epics will usually win over dirty pretty, even though I'll probably just read the sparknotes chapter breakdown.
Have fun! (Or I'll hunt you down and slaughter you with an apricot...)
It's not allowed to suck! Put in your most original, un-cliche' pieces, any topic or form is fine, but keep in mind that if it's a haiku, or love song involving the words 'lift me up', 'dove', 'strawberry kisses', 'unicorn' etc, than it's probably inclined to suck.
Sticky caps, bashing, facism, odes to kleptomania etc are perfectly legal, but as probably goes without saying, everyone will think you're a nob and refuse to share their luch with you. Duh. Oh, and Homeresque epics will usually win over dirty pretty, even though I'll probably just read the sparknotes chapter breakdown.
Have fun! (Or I'll hunt you down and slaughter you with an apricot...)
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on April 8
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 10, Bronze: 5
- Final notes: Hey, it finally got judged, yippy yi yoh etc etc, If you won then you're free to go, if you came second give yourself a good spanking, if you came third remove a minor limb etc etc. Actually, the finalists were quite good, even disregarding the low standard. It seems that the more trophies a poem has, the more likely it's a piece of pretentious twat written by a thesaurus-reading git. A hypothesis that entering several little-know pieces of acclaimed poetic genius into contests unknown, and recieving negative feedback, has supported. By which I mean, all you fine people, that you go on to write brilliant masterpieces, which most likely won't be aknowledged until after you've died alone of mothoism and living on dog food tins, (the tins, not the dog food. The dog food is for the important people.) Or not, whatever!Congratulations!
Contest Winners
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You bring the birthday cake,
and I’ll bring my party dress,by theroseofbattle 79 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 10 11:44 PM. In contest, Contemporary, Thoughts, Life, Love, Sad, Pain, Other
Gold trophy winner
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Oh dear, what can the matter be? / Of all people he / Who loved her dearly / And braved the wrath of his parents / Depended solely on his friends / To get married / But now in a manner so hurried• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
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a pudding cup is never just a pudding cup.by AllThatRemains 3 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 14 10:19 PM. In Other• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Two minutes to midnight
Heat shimmers rise from sidewalks, neathby gray2020 beard 19 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 28 8:26 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Crawling, grasping loose dirt,
Blood soaked soil long forgotten;by Jason-R-Britt 21 lines, 17 comments, on Feb 6 2:18 AM. In Life, Death, Lost in thought, Sadness, Depression• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
We have a dance in the brothels of Buenos Aires;
tells the story of prostitution, and the man who falls in loveby libel - 120 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 20 2:44 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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not allowed 2 suck, wow, that's kinda brutal. lol
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I love the slaughtering of people with apricots bit. Very funny.
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NOT THE APRICOT!! -hides-
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Hmm. Laugh, you should, while you stil can. "An apricot is not so funny when used by a master of ninjitsu"- Herbert Freeman, Allied war hero (1948)
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Heh, I hope you meant that bit about Homeric epics literally cause I just dumped a verifiable epic length poem on you.
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Yes, especially the bit where I said I'm very unlikely to actually read the whole thing, being easily distracted and quite busy. But I'll be sure to read the last paragraph, and if it ends with "then i woke up and it was all a dream", I'll be sure to award accordingly!
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