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.:. Take My Breath Away .:.

Ohkay, contest time.

Look, I'll be quite honest here in the fact that I don't feel I've read something REALLY exceptional for a long while. Something that really touched my heart.

So, I challenge all willing participants to do this:

Submit me a poem that you believe will really stun me.

We're talking high-calibre poems here, nothing so-so.

** I encourage my favourites to enter but don't tell me you've entered, I want to judge this as fairly as possible! **

Show me whichever form you wish, I don't mind, but nothing that's TOO far over 100ish lines. Unless of course you think that I MUST read it, then go ahead.

I have opened this to prewrites as I understand that it's difficult to just pull brilliance out of nowhere for most but I would appreciate poems that are specifically for this contest.

There's also a maximum of just one entry per person.

Quick Rules:
1) Label label LABEL! I need to have an idea of what I'm reading!
2) Please don't reply to my comments until the contest has finished, I really want to make this as fair as I possible can!
3) Legible backgrounds (but you can align it wherever you like!!)
4) No hardcore erotica, I'm only fifteen.
5) Try to spellcheck. I don't wanna spend the whole time wanting to leap in there with my red pen correction things and then throw a dictionary at you XP
6) Don't molest your shift key, it has feelings too

Basically to sum it up, I'm looking for beauty and excellence.

Please give me faith in the poetry world.

 


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EDIT: The stakes have just gone up - I've added some more points in because of quality entries. Keep them coming!! EDIT 2: More entries now, because the stuff I'm getting is just so good!! I'll have lots of time to comment on everyones still though, don't worry!! EDIT 3: I have a LOT of entries so I'm getting Oliver (Progandother) to help me out with the judging. Keep them coming!! Oliver's edition:...wow...I just realised I can add on to the description of this contest...I feel super powerful like...those green giants...my judging methods (unlike my previous contests) will be to pick titles that stick out to me...as people may know I enjoy poems that are different and most likely those that make no sense...HOWEVER!!! Do not do that unless you think it will impress the penultimate judge as I have as much power as a shoe box...the real power is with the shoe...

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on April 14
  • Rewards: Gold: 800, Silver: 400, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 5 people
  • Final notes:
    Thank you all for entering this contest, once I had my final eight I found this an intensely hard competition to judge. So many wonderful entries...
    All the finalists were amazing and I'm afraid there just weren't enough gold trophies to go around.
    Thanks for presenting such quality entries and making this competiton a pleasure to judge.

    --Katie

Contest Winners

  1. The Mansuetude of Caliginous Moonlight
    Written for a contest.
    by Lime Ocarina 36 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 4 5:19 AM. In Contest
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. Kissing the bathroom mirror with your eyes (no tongue please).
    by Progandother 139 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 3 7:33 AM
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. Tectonic Love
    She.
    She is sunrise kisses and guitar-string wishes. Sometimes she thumbs through old photo albums just to be sure she actually exists. Sh
    by TabbyJoy 34 lines, 45 comments, on Dec 9 5:09 PM 2008. In Personal
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  4. Tramlines
    I want to hold what I believed
    was there, your grey eyes
    by NaughtonP 26 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 24 10:03 PM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  5. Mourning Music
    When broken dreams discordantly play
    like a merry-go-round in the head
    by A-muse-in-writer 14 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 4 5:11 AM. In Contest, Sad, Pain
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  6. it seems so cliche, but...
    by Shya 28 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 4 9:36 PM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  7. the honor of being runner-up.
    My mind is sending out warning flares
    that I couldn't see and you didn't care
    by thegirlsafaultline. 47 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 2 7:19 PM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  8. Slowly neon fades, then the pastel drains. There's white though.
    by Candy Morphine 31 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 31 9:19 PM
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

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  • JustBe gold member
    April 10
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    Ah, how heartening....

    It really does my heart good to see there is at least one teenager on this website who not only doesn't care more about werewolves than about poetry, but actually knows what the latter looks like. All of your preliminary finalists are actually worth reading, and I'll just bet the poems you award trophies will actually deserve them. Do you know how rare that is around here these days? Maybe this place hasn't become myspace yet, afterall. If you bring some friends to this website, maybe someday entering poems in contests will morph back into a reliable way to generate insightful critiques. A tip of my hat to you, whoever you are.