Read • Contests • Groups • Learn • Forums • Store • Help
 

Freedom Rounds

I've been waiting for a while to decide what type of contest I would like to do. I have right now 4515 points, and while I considered the idea of putting all of those into one contest and getting a large amount of points as the Gold- I didn't have an idea that I felt was worthy of all my hard earned points. So I'm going to do a rounds contest- depending on how many good entries I get, somewhere between 5- 10 will move on. The number will increase depending on how many entries I get.

I will comment on every poem- I'd prefer new writes but prewrites are ok. Message me though about the prewrite first- and tell me how it really fits the prompt or picture really well so I know you did put thought into entering in my contest.

I want a lot of entries- the preliminary finalists will move on- along with the gold winner. The rounds will change each time and you might have to write prose, or a style you don't normally because I want to challenge you and see what your adaptability is.
There are two ways I will decide whether you are a finalist , and you can choose which one you want me to use to judge your poem. A rubric, or just personal opinion- and if there is a tie between poems , the personal opinion score and my thoughts on a poem will be the determining factor.
If you want to see how my mind works, then look at my page and see what I write, and what styles I like.

The Rubric will be this: out of 100

title /5
relation to prompt /8
spelling\grammar /5
personal oppinion /20
rythmn /12
imagery /20
emotion /10
Diction /10
Originality /10


Rules-
1) Spelling and grammar - you won't place in Prelims if there are a lot of spelling and grammer issues
2) Put your option or picture in your AN- if you don't you won't move up to prelims- and I will message you twice, and comment until you do- but if you still haven't after that I won't consider you for Prelims.
3)Show Not Tell
4) For now no line limit- but if I can't get through it all the way then you won't place in Prelims.
5) Ask before entering PWs

Prompts


Children
http://ssuunnddeeww.deviantart.com/art/children-part-3-94560964


Lakeside children
http://loveinelevator.deviantart.com/art/children-108511624


Stranded beneath the pier
http://ssuunnddeeww.deviantart.com/art/my-children-94172728


innocence Signing for peace.
http://shutterblade.deviantart.com/art/Children-Unposed-12-18251512



http://Dance-Macabre.deviantart.com/art/the-world-and-the-children-92537442


Handstand in childish hope
http://shutterblade.deviantart.com/art/Children-Unposed-2-18249059


http://yaseenshani.deviantart.com/art/Children-2605721

Carrying share of burdens
http://mis-minum.deviantart.com/art/Children-69987311


Tears
http://LonelyPierot.deviantart.com/art/city-tears-73516396


http://islandtime.deviantart.com/art/Fix-You-100999056




Trail of tears
http://AceRoyale86.deviantart.com/art/The-Trail-Of-Tears-Realized-102056566






Ferris wheel away into the sky
http://vividlight.deviantart.com/art/As-Tears-Go-By-46775101




cultural
Native American
http://cheramour.deviantart.com/art/I-Dare-you-110122649


http://Draconius13.deviantart.com/art/Hidden-Village-86639783


http://shell4art.deviantart.com/art/Yosemite-Icicles-60321225



drowning

http://khos-prinz.deviantart.com/art/drowning-62709094



http://DesertShadow.deviantart.com/art/Innocence-11615848



train bridge
http://seisephiroth.deviantart.com/art/Bridges-44755420

http://hres.deviantart.com/art/Stolen-Innocence-2764733


Word Prompts

1)Carousel
2) Dreams
3) treehouses
4) ravished
5) immortal
6) Lightening
7) ash
8) shot glass
9) acidic love
10) Boarding Passes
11) Sanguine
12) freedom cages

Use the images of these words
Church Pew
Swing set wings
Cerulean dominos
Best friends and Fairy Godmothers
Kneeling in gravel
Orange helicopters
Mandarin fruit souls
Plum cake sorrow
Frosted banana hopes
Silenced bristle voices
Lonely morning songs


For now all I have may add more
message me if there's nothing you can work with I'll send you something

Edit) tell me which way of judging you want, if you don't I'll just use rubric
And I'd love for my favorites to enter this
Especially- Aanika, Angela, and Candy Morphine and Color Me Silent


Just btw- I have actually almost 8000 points right now- the individual rounds are going to start with just 400 and prelims, but as it gets closer to end, there will be a lot of points.
The final will probably be like 3000 points for gold or something like that.

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on June 22
  • Rewards: Gold: 400
  • Final notes:
    I'm not doing gold silver etc, just gold. If you are a finalist you move on, Innocence Jaded and I will be judging the future rounds, and I may ask some others to help if they want. The next round most likely, you will be assigned three or four questions off myspace quizzes or so, and you will have to answer them poetically. It will be up in the next couple days, though not today.

    I was dissapointed ,many of you didn't follow the rules, and didn't really give me emotion, or imagery. My comments were the same for many of you, you have good ideas and potential but you have to put effort and create that imagery and other world for your reader otherwise its just boring. Also if you can't rhyme really well, don't, start with free verse, if it doesn't come it doesn't.
    Many of you should keep writing and keep trying, enter my future contests, I want to see your progress, but my finalist all blew me away or I saw potential in their piece and want to see how they develop.

    -WritingFree

Contest Winners

  1. Error: Unable to find finalist item 5430843, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  2. requiem of a dying galaxy.
    by heavenbird 256 lines, 24 comments, on Mar 31 9:25 PM
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. streamer.
    Left behind in underwater poverty
    by libel - 51 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 1 4:37 PM
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  4. Wishes of eyes that have yet to lose their lashes.
    by Candy Morphine 13 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 1 5:51 PM
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  5. Iodine Deficiency
    When his lips touched mine, I thought Chloroform;
    my eyes begun to spin and from then, until break point
    by xxRainbowDawnxx 36 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 7 1:29 PM
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  6. in hopes of slipping away
    bound up and tangled,
    lost in the vines,
    by iamlost 21 lines, 2 comments, on May 15 3:52 PM. In thoughts, nature, weird, other
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  7. Error: Unable to find finalist item 5375288, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  8. Her Tree House
    Nestled among the dancing boughs,
    Among the dewy green canopies of youth.
    by EmbraceTheJourney 26 lines, 23 comments, on May 26 10:33 PM
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  9. City Tears
    Lights are fulgent through these city tears,
    emotions from years of pain and holding on
    by AllexisReed 32 lines, 8 comments, on May 30 12:30 PM. In Contest
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  10. carousel
    we never really stopped spinning and i'll tell you in lilting tones about how done i am.
    by xmiasmatik 14 lines, 4 comments, on May 30 5:47 PM
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  11. Bitter reflection
    We had hopes, dreams that fused themselves to our palms.
    by HollyLouise 17 lines, 2 comments, on May 31 8:35 AM
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  12. sanguine
    the iron taste of blood in my mouth reminds why I never used to bite my tongue.
    by aestival 41 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 11 11:02 AM
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  13. A Boarding Past
    by Gloriouswings 33 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 12 11:11 PM. In Personal, Pain, Life, childhood
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  14. Error: Unable to find finalist item 5442469, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  15. Ashes
    Ashes to ashes dust to dust
    by SHadowHex666 30 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 4 1:18 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  16. Diamonds
    Corrosive and sweet,
    It is the best type of poison.
    by rainbows. 25 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 20 4:30 AM. In angst, dark, diamonds
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  17. Error: Unable to find finalist item 5458587, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  18. Haunted Carousel
    A soft gentle whisper
    a spectre of the long night.
    by trekkergirl 18 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 22 4:07 PM. In Contest, arounds contest
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

Entries [50]

1 - 50 of 50

Add a comment

    : Comment:

Comments

1 - 18 of 18

  • AllThatRemains
    April 1
    Edit | Reply
    I will be back! MUAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!


  • heavenbird
    April 1
    Edit | Reply
    aw, I feel so special to be specially mentioned.


  • heavenbird
    April 1
    Edit | Reply
    prewrite okay for now?
    I haven't been able to write good this last week. xP
    i'm also leaving for 5 days starting tomorrow, so I won't have much time to try to get something new in for this round.
    pretty please? :]


  • stasis
    April 1
    Edit | Reply
    I'll try

  • HollyLouise
    May 4
    Edit | Reply
    bookmarked, in english class right now.


  • JadalaStar
    May 21
    Edit | Reply
    I'm having fun reading the other entries. Noticed you haven't commented or viewed them alkl yet. I wish you luck in finding the time!


    -me


  • new born
    May 28
    Edit | Reply
    it's closed. o.o

  • HollyLouise
    June 2
    Edit | Reply
    entered after a while deciding what prompt to use


  • alaska.
    June 8
    Edit | Reply
    can i enter a prewrite?


  • innocence jaded.xx
    June 9
    Edit | Reply
    i'd enter this buuuut
    arent i helping you judge one of these in the near future !?!


  • aestival
    June 10
    Edit | Reply
    question: i have another poem for this contest that started off with the prompt sanguine [love that word!] and ended up not really being about sanguine at all, more about contrasts -- because sanguine intrigues me as it means both cheerful and bloody... would it be all right if I entered that? since it only has a tangential relationship to the actual prompt...


  • dieu.
    June 21
    Edit | Reply
    i saw the 'multiple entries' thing and decided to enter again.
    is that a crime?

  • dieu.
    June 21
    Edit | Reply
    i really don't want to abuse the prewrite button.
    i want to submit a new write. honest, i do.
    it's just that my muse is drowning,
    and all i can write is the water-blocked gargles it's coughing up.

    maybe i will tonight. (:


  • dieu.
    June 22
    Edit | Reply
    thanks for gold, love. <33


  • poetryality silver member
    June 22
    Edit | Reply
    Congratulations to all the winners here. I will be keeping an eye on the Rounds to see how things go. Good luck to all those who remain.

    Renee

1 - 18 of 18