That’s right. My last contest was all about titles and seeking good ones as prompts for this contest. I got some great ones, so pick one or more of the 137 listed and let your muse run wild!
Rules:
1. You MUST use the prompt as the title of your poem!
2. No Dirty Pretty. I just don’t get it……never have and never will.
3. nO tYpInG lIkE a MoRoN.
4. Any form is welcome!
5. Any genre, except dirty pretty, is allowed.
6. Tag ADULT appropriately.
7. Up to 3 entries allowed, but use different prompts!
HINT: I pay A LOT of attention to spelling, grammar and proper punctuation.
And now for the prompts:
1. Life, Love and Lithium
2. Illiteration Nation
3. Pom Pom’s and Bourbon
4. Loose Hairs and Forensics
5. Love in the Lion’s Den
6. The Ploughman’s Journey Home
7. A Poem in the Key of C
8. I Believe You Have My Seat
9. Frenetic Fun
10. Tomorrow is Yesterday’s Lies
11. Glance in the Rear View
12. Unfinished Lies
13. Picture Perfect Torment
14. Humanity is a Cancer
15. Initiation to Insanity
16. A Letdown That Split the Night Sky
17. Crippled Teardrops and the Lies They Told
18. Chasing Ashes
19. A Lovely Mistake
20. An Addiction Worth Breaking
21. Silence Hides My Wounds, But Never My Scars
22. Ignorant Daydreamers
23. Noisy Silence
24. Alabaster Dreams
25. The Color of Hue
26. How the Coyote Ate the Moon
27. Hibernating in Hell and Hunting the Heaths of Heaven
28. On Losing a Rigged Auction for Divinity
29. Shadows in a Darkened Room
30. Even Spiders Make Love
31. A Quiescent Dream
32. You Left a Footprint on My Heart
33. Whispering Aromas
34. A Writer’s Ecstasy
35. A Prelude of Tears
36. A Journey of Ends
37. Spitting Venom
38. A Child Lost at the Hands of Law
39. A Scandalous Act of Sanity
40. A Tangle of Threads
41. Whispers Staged by Stars
42. Beauty is an Understatement
43. Color Massacre
44. On the Verge of Heaven
45. I’ll Substitute Your Heart for Mine
46. Intransigent Desecration
47. A Child, a Rose and Endless Summer
48. Scythe on Broken Glass
49. Slow Walk Through Sympathy
50. Closer to Home With You
51. Tourist Season? We Can Shoot Them?
52. On Cloud Nine – Leave a Message
53. Old Lover, New Stranger
54. War Against Reality
55. Bracken and Awn
56. Breathe Life Into Me Once Again
57. I Had a Longing to go with My Dream
58. Be First, Best or Different
59. Forever Never Seems to be Wrong
60. Discreet Encounter
61. Another Day Without You, My Friend
62. Forever Never Comes; Never Lasts Forever
63. Math Nerd Love
64. The Earth Rushed Up to Me
65. Government Provided Heath Care
66. A Silenced Whore
67. Your Empty Smile, My Hungry Heart
68. Have You Met Love?
69. Huh? Say That Again
70. It Doesn’t Help That I’m Drifting
71. Please Tell Me I’m Fine
72. Spare Me Your Hatred; I Have My Own
73. Life Isn’t All Gooey Afterall
74. Tanzanite Dreams
75. Citrus Tears
76. Razor Kisses
77. Illusions of Reality
78. Souls Dancing in Rhyme
79. A King Without His Queen
80. Bleeding Rainbows
81. Life and Death are but a Dance
82. My Heart Needs not a Key
83. Falling into Heaven
84. Hell-Flavored
85. Born Inside a Coffin
86. Handle with Demise
87. Ale of Paradise
88. All in the Power of Love
89. Death is Calling
90. Is Freedom Really Free?
91. Death is a Journey
92. Parade of Tears
93. My Soul is Screaming
94. When Hope Comes Knocking
95. Animals of the Night
96. Fairy Tales are Made with Wishes
97. Someone Snuffed My Happiness
98. I Miss You When You're Here
99. Carnivorous Sheep
100. So Happy Apart
101. Fragile Deception
102. Diminutive Freedoms
103. Woven Glass
104. Editing Vast Time
105. Do to Me as You Will; Just Don't Hurt Me Again
106. So Long Troubles
107. Lost From Within
108. Crossing Paths
109. You Hold the Pen to My Soul
110. Corrupted Purity
111. If Love Were a Rock
112. Dancing With Angels
113. Stereotypical Abnormality
114. Drowning Isn't so Pitiful
115. We're not all Blessed
116. Attack of the Crows
117. Behind the Mirror
118. Calculated Kiss
119. Enshrined Desires
120. Bemused Heart
121. Lost to Iniquity
122. Shadowed Deceit
123. Rational Depression
124. Whispering Demons
125. Dangerous Thirst
126. Soothing Caress
127. Garden Dreams
128. Ideal Chaos
129. Tailored Promise
130. Rainbow Tears
131. The Price of Sanity
132. Unwelcomed Visions
133. Bathroom Mishap
134. You Laugh, but You're Dying
135. Dreaming is Nice Until You Wake Up
136. Lately It's Been Stiff
137. The Devil's Phone Rang
I will always comment on all poems!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on June 2
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 400, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 5 people
- Final notes: Excellent turn out! I wish I had more trophies to give. The finalists are excellent! Thank you all!
Contest Winners
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Silence veils the trauma under the magicians cloak of darkness on stage at the Disney theater, but the scars shine out like beacons from the lighthouse at the top of the hill.by Poesing 10 lines, 3 comments, on May 27 2:39 PM. In Contest, 21. Silence Hides My Wounds, But Never My Scars
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#21 Sience hides my woulds, but never my scars. I see many every day that have scars from their past life . I have many of my own an• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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by DramaQueen469 25 lines, 31 comments, on May 25 9:09 PM. In Love, Pain, Sad, Individualtean
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Buzzing in my ears
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I am walking the road
Sky here is dim and yellowby wastebound 68 lines, 1 comment, on May 14 3:39 AM• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
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You sipped perfection from the veins of God; angel's jealousy
drips from sarcasm -by xxRainbowDawnxx 23 lines, 2 comments, on May 25 5:30 AM• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
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The forestry ..........• Commented on by judge.
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by Treasure 5 44 lines, 2 comments, on May 13 10:58 AM. In Nature• Commented on by judge.
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Videogames will never capture
the electricity of being in a race.by jamesbliss 12 lines, 4 comments, on May 13 11:08 AM• Commented on by judge. -
When I meditate with inner dance
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I gaze into the smokey mirror
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Devils phone rang
As he picked up the phoneby wastebound 102 lines, 1 comment, on May 13 3:22 PM• Commented on by judge. -
I'd rather be the one optimistic and proud
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They say that everyone you meet
Will leave some kind of impression.by fatality-rhymed77 34 lines, 1 comment, on May 13 6:21 PM• Commented on by judge. -
The sunrise sterilized my sanity,
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Hint of blood in western sky
left behind by posthumous sun.by wastebound 44 lines, 2 comments, on May 14 4:31 AM• Commented on by judge. -
The middle octave always rings true.
Middle C in poetry falls upon you.• Commented on by judge. -
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Rainbows melting in my tears,
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by WednesdayJade 19 lines, 3 comments, on May 16 2:34 PM. In Thoughts, Sad, Pain, Depression, Depressed, Noguest• Commented on by judge.
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by WednesdayJade 58 lines, 3 comments, on May 16 4:38 PM. In Personal, Thoughts, Sad, Pain, Depression, Hurt, Noguest• Commented on by judge.
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by owlish 17 lines, 2 comments, on May 16 6:10 PM• Commented on by judge.
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I'm fighting reality with all my might
I've got my gun and I'm holding it tightby jayzway 14 lines, 3 comments, on May 17 7:52 PM• Commented on by judge. -
Have you met love? and felt her touch
has she pressed her lips upon your faceby jayzway 16 lines, 1 comment, on May 17 8:54 PM• Commented on by judge. -
With my defeat
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by Walking Oxymoron 17 lines, 8 comments, on May 22 7:23 PM. In Thoughts, Contest, Contemporary, Society, Love• Commented on by judge.
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When you stumble in at 3 am,
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My heart soaring up to the heavens of the wings of a dove,
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I sit on my porch and watch...• Commented on by judge.
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I had a longing to go with my dream
but it refused to fade from fantasy and I was left alone.by As my last request 15 lines, 2 comments, on May 25 11:49 PM. In Love• Commented on by judge. -
A Child, A rose and endless summer.by Maybe Anastasia 53 lines, 2 comments, on May 26 9:55 AM• Commented on by judge.
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She hides the tears,
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From the purple mountain peaks
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Comments
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Bookmarked, will be back... probably three times
Maria
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137 Prompts
wow so many I will look at them there are many I like. How to I get back to enter my poem? -
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I'm not sure what you're asking.....Bookmark the contest to come back. Is that what you mean?
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Thanks for the invite sweetheart but I am a shocker with punctuation, that rules me out I'm afraid.
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Question... how much leeway to we get with titles? If I want to call mine "A Poem in the Key of C minor", would that be okay?
Sorry, getting all musically technical
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C Minor would be fine
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Hey sis
No yelling I'm in havent talked for quite some time how are you -
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Hi, Brother. I miss you!!!! I'm just fine. A little stressed, but okay! How are you, darling! Glad you entered! I'm sure it's a rhyming piece
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