Rock in Opposition (also known as RIO) was a musical movement that went completely against the regular conventions of rock music. It was an exciting yet at the same time unknown cacophony of intelligent musicians deliberately making music that felt fresh and completely out of the ordinary.
So what's this got to do with anything Oliver? You just removed the word rock and replaced it with poetry you idiot!!!
What I want is to start a round contest to try and find the most unique and thought provoking poetry. (disclaimer: My opinion on it is not necessarily correct and seeing as my IQ is only approximately 127 you could probably slap me with a wet fish if you disagree) And depending on how many entries I acquire the final gold could be a giant point shrine for everyone to try and acquire.
This is how it will work:
Round 1: Maximum of 64 entries. Just do whatever you can to try and sway me of your insanity (I'll get on to what impresses me later.
Round 2: Half of you will get through lowering the number to 32. To which a surprise will be awaiting.
Round 3: Still with us? 16 of you left. There might be a prompt. There might not. Or I could start a crazy lottery system where...hmm...I'll have to think this through.
Round 4: 8 people left? Well aren't you a bunch of lucky pies in mags. Even this round is a surprise to me. I want to know what happens...but I do not know yet!!
Round 5: The grand finale. Four people left. One large prize for gold. No one else. It is possible that this one will be a music prompt.
Q: But Oliver oh mighty annoying one!! How on earth are we able to impress someone as stupid as you? I looked through your poetry and it was too long so I fell asleep.
A: When it comes to poetry my belief is that everything is poetry. But my perceptions of good and bad poetry come from pure sheer insanity to very subtle layered minimalism. If you were to write a one word poem that may get through the first round just through sheer controversy. Unless everyone does it. Then I'll have to burn this contest down.
Q: I know you for such unknown reason!! Can I tell you which poem is mine?
A: NO!!! NEVER EVER!!! And to ensure I'm not biased I will not be entering allpoetry via my home account page. So I can't see what my favourites have written.
Q: Are you the only judge?
A: That's an interesting question. If I know you well enough in allpoetry (note: writing me a message after reading this does NOT qualify as knowing you) then you are applicable for being a judge with me. Just message me and say "OI!!! OLIVER I WANT TO JUDGE THIS CONTEST WITH YOU OR I SHALL RUB YOU WITH THIS LEAF!!!"
Q: I'm upset and suicidal. I want to die.
A: If you kill yourself you will not get your prize. Simple as that. I'm sorry but that's just the rules.
Q: Any limits to how much or little we can write?
A: Nopey...write me 1000 lines or one word. Couldn't care less.
Q: All my poetry sounds really stereotypically emo. Is that different?
A: Now this genre of poetry does seem very overkilled in certain situations. And I would strongly advise if doing this genre to make sure that there is something that makes it unique to everyone elses. Otherwise I will have to ponder through it and disregard it.
Q: I'm scared you will give my poem a bad comment. So I'm leaving!!
A: I give every poem I comment three applause and try and look at the positives. Because I'm a pushover. But if you think your poem isn't crazy enough...you'll know...you'll know.
Q: Are you Simon Cowell?
A: Yes...that's exactly who I am. I am Simon Cowell who happens to be on allpoetry because I really have nothing better to do. You got me.
Q: I'm soooooo not committed to a rounds contest and I'm probably not going to write another poem for you if I get through, because I think you smell!!!
A: If you enter and get through you must be willing to continue. If I tell you to write a poem about fishmongering horses you do it!!! (no it'll probably something more different to that). I had a contest once where nobody entered, so I deemed myself the winner and took all the prizes!!!! Be warned: I have a very deranged taste in music.
...um...any more questions? No? None? Are you sure? Well then plug up your hypothalamus and find me something so enticing I will explode from my spinney chair.
So what's this got to do with anything Oliver? You just removed the word rock and replaced it with poetry you idiot!!!
What I want is to start a round contest to try and find the most unique and thought provoking poetry. (disclaimer: My opinion on it is not necessarily correct and seeing as my IQ is only approximately 127 you could probably slap me with a wet fish if you disagree) And depending on how many entries I acquire the final gold could be a giant point shrine for everyone to try and acquire.
This is how it will work:
Round 1: Maximum of 64 entries. Just do whatever you can to try and sway me of your insanity (I'll get on to what impresses me later.
Round 2: Half of you will get through lowering the number to 32. To which a surprise will be awaiting.
Round 3: Still with us? 16 of you left. There might be a prompt. There might not. Or I could start a crazy lottery system where...hmm...I'll have to think this through.
Round 4: 8 people left? Well aren't you a bunch of lucky pies in mags. Even this round is a surprise to me. I want to know what happens...but I do not know yet!!
Round 5: The grand finale. Four people left. One large prize for gold. No one else. It is possible that this one will be a music prompt.
Q: But Oliver oh mighty annoying one!! How on earth are we able to impress someone as stupid as you? I looked through your poetry and it was too long so I fell asleep.
A: When it comes to poetry my belief is that everything is poetry. But my perceptions of good and bad poetry come from pure sheer insanity to very subtle layered minimalism. If you were to write a one word poem that may get through the first round just through sheer controversy. Unless everyone does it. Then I'll have to burn this contest down.
Q: I know you for such unknown reason!! Can I tell you which poem is mine?
A: NO!!! NEVER EVER!!! And to ensure I'm not biased I will not be entering allpoetry via my home account page. So I can't see what my favourites have written.
Q: Are you the only judge?
A: That's an interesting question. If I know you well enough in allpoetry (note: writing me a message after reading this does NOT qualify as knowing you) then you are applicable for being a judge with me. Just message me and say "OI!!! OLIVER I WANT TO JUDGE THIS CONTEST WITH YOU OR I SHALL RUB YOU WITH THIS LEAF!!!"
Q: I'm upset and suicidal. I want to die.
A: If you kill yourself you will not get your prize. Simple as that. I'm sorry but that's just the rules.
Q: Any limits to how much or little we can write?
A: Nopey...write me 1000 lines or one word. Couldn't care less.
Q: All my poetry sounds really stereotypically emo. Is that different?
A: Now this genre of poetry does seem very overkilled in certain situations. And I would strongly advise if doing this genre to make sure that there is something that makes it unique to everyone elses. Otherwise I will have to ponder through it and disregard it.
Q: I'm scared you will give my poem a bad comment. So I'm leaving!!
A: I give every poem I comment three applause and try and look at the positives. Because I'm a pushover. But if you think your poem isn't crazy enough...you'll know...you'll know.
Q: Are you Simon Cowell?
A: Yes...that's exactly who I am. I am Simon Cowell who happens to be on allpoetry because I really have nothing better to do. You got me.
Q: I'm soooooo not committed to a rounds contest and I'm probably not going to write another poem for you if I get through, because I think you smell!!!
A: If you enter and get through you must be willing to continue. If I tell you to write a poem about fishmongering horses you do it!!! (no it'll probably something more different to that). I had a contest once where nobody entered, so I deemed myself the winner and took all the prizes!!!! Be warned: I have a very deranged taste in music.
...um...any more questions? No? None? Are you sure? Well then plug up your hypothalamus and find me something so enticing I will explode from my spinney chair.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 10
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: ...well guess what happened? I lost all my time on my hands and had to scrape some off of the floor...but I found it...and here we go...
...I always feel bad at the end of contests when I don't let certain people win...so I'll say what I always say...anyone who thinks they have been unjustly removed can abuse me to their hearts content...and that includes giving all my poems comments that are like "This smells like a horse shoe" etc...
...the 16 in the finalists are through and will be e-mailed about the 2nd round when I get enough points...at this point in time I have just under 300 points...so you're going to have to wait a wee while...
P.S. If you want to drop out of the rounds contest then SAY IT NOW!!! I'm not going to have people steal my sand and throw it back in my face...ish not nice at all...also my prompts may be rather awkward in the next rounds...so be prepared...
...but alas I have universities to ponder upon so...well done winners and round advancers and everyone...you are definitely more interesting then a sandwich...
Oliver
Contest Winners
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by crivanea 24 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 21 12:42 PM. In Society, Personal, Contemporary
Silver trophy winner
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by MJ Donnelly 29 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 4 1:36 AM 2008. In Fantasy, Thoughts, Weird
Honorable mention
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A shot in the dark
A try and a guessby JohnThePoet 51 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 5 12:32 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 5519503, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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cadaverous light from the skeletal sun
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Not for the faint of heart• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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Hear The heartbeat
Feel the soundby Tigger-Belle 19 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 23 9:19 AM• Commented on by judge. -
Ok for those who dont know "Urusai" in Japanese means Noisy and noisy it gets in this one, read on to find out...by Danzy007 20 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 19 8:58 PM 2008. In Personal, Weird, Humor, My own style, My life, Lost in thought, Blokes• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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It's nature, right? And nature killsby Obani 14 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 28 3:26 PM. In Killer, Serial Killer, Evil, Insanity, Insane Thoughts, Dark• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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We live in a life that is pure
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a leaf falls...
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I'm at my favorite coffee house
the coffee I'm drinking fuels my brain and tells me that I'm hungry.by AudreyEvans 24 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 5 6:38 PM. In Sexual Sensum, Love, Personal, Hope, Relationship• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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If I was a nut...my job would be to make sure the other nuts didn't steal the chickens. Tis sheer evil!!!
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im envious of your job.
How funky, i pictured you as a 40 yr old.
I look at your pic, and you dont pass for 18.
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All are envious of my job. For at the end of the day I bring home fresh syrup for all the nuts of nuttleton.
Maybe I'm a time traveler? Hmmm? I always thought my toaster looked at me funnily.
I fear I don't pass for 18, for I am only 17. But my page is annoying. Whenever I try and load it, it originally comes up as pink with white writing and then suddenly this yellow picture thingy appears and I'm like "OH MY GUINEA PIGS!!" and run away. -
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zomg. Your so fun, you make me look boring...!
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The only boring thing in the world is diet cellos. They're like cellos only they have no sugar. They disgust me!! The whole point of a cello is that it has sugar!!!
Thank you very much though. Because this is the perfect procrastination to even looking at the poems that have entered yet. My personal favourite method is to wait until the last minute and watch the mods shout at me and be like "IF YOU DON'T JUDGE THIS CONTEST I WILL!!!" But they never ever do. I think they have an underlying infatuation with me.
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1. what are cellous ?? im from australia
2. all diet stuff sucks, we all know that --> theres no sub. for sugar!
3. i once wrote a good poem for a contest that was never judged. I felt like throwing pumpkin sauce all over the contest judger... i was also annoyed at the fact that AP didnt judge it. " if you dont judge this contest we will " my chicken butts...
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A cello is a musical instrument of the string family. Lower than a viola higher than a contrabass (so you know a diet cello is going to sound terrible). I'm from England. It's that little island where people have to drink tea or they get fed crumpets all day long.
I once put diet coke and coke zero together to create "diet coke zero" Basically it was brown water. So I poured it into a public toilet and blamed it on the ducks near by.
I wrote a poem of 120 lines for a contest once. I got into the finalists and they were like "I like it apparently yada yada" and then...three weeks later. The contest DISAPPEARED!!! It's like reading a book only to find that the very last pages of the book have been turned into Koalas. Then again a part of me wonders if I'd prefer the koala.
COOKIES ARE THE FOOD OF KINGS!!! And little people, tall people, fat people, skinny people, oak trees, beech trees, maple trees, birch trees, tea trees, tea pots, chicken pot pies, apple pies, bananas, tomatoes, broccoli, and of course...COOKIE CANNIBALS!!! -
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do you come in bite size?
I want to have you stuffed in a box. Fed ex'd to me in a red box with a massive ribbiion. And then have you jump up out of the box and say " IM HERE , MarshMellow , AND I BROUGHT COOKIES FOR THE little people, tall people, fat people, skinny people, oak trees, beech trees, maple trees, birch trees, tea trees, tea pots, chicken pot pies, apple pies, bananas, tomatoes, broccoli, and of course...COOKIE CANNIBALS ...oh i forgot THE KINGS.
i drink zero. Duck pee is yellow.
well im from australia ( a huge island next to new zeland and Antarctia ) and we eat coffee and tim tims all day long.
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eat coffee and tim tams?
phuck.
drink coffee and eat tim tams.
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If I came in bitesize that would be...SUPER AMAZING MEGA MADNESS!!!
I could frollick with the worms and ride them through the wilderness hopping along and ask the spiders how their day went and watch them try to eat my toes!!! I would love to live in this magical land.
You must find a shrinking machine. If a washing machine can shrink clothes. Perhaps a washing "person" can shrink people. It all makes sense now!!
But if they have zero, then they should also have negative one. I demand they release negative one!! If not I shall protest outside their head office until 5pm today!!!
There are no koalas here sadly. But I imagine one every day in my dreams. I call him slom-slom and he combs my hair with a leaf. The twist to the story is it's not really a leaf. It's a GREEN SOCK!!! -
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Maybe hop into the washing machine?
They should call it negative 18 ...get it...funny I know,right?! NEGATIVE ATE TEEN.
Ill send you koala... hows that! dont say i dont do anything for u.
i wanna green sock. i have all the colours. but green...
I have to get me into bed
Good Night Sunflower, cupcake, marshmellow , pumpkin pie, pwincess? prince ^^.
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I hopped into a washing machine. All it did was take me to a parallel universe where sugar was sour and flowers smelt like lamps!! It didn't shrink me I'm afraid to say.
Negative 18? Hahahahaha it's because seven eight nine. Those lovable scamps can't stop trying to devour each other.
Can you make the koala wear a kilt? For some reason I think this would give it super human powers.
I had green socks until someone told me they were on fire. But they were not on fire. They just had twenty cats on them. There's a difference between fire and cat saturation!!!
Enjoy your bed sleepsies. Make sure the gruffallo doesn't appear. I hear he wants to high five people that are very tired.
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after reading the contest, and the comments, i gotta get to know you! you seem too cool and too smart (127? lies. its higher. it takes a genius to come up with some of your lines) for me to not know.
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yea well, people are idiots.
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do you like trees?
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define crazy ? you seem really cool, and awesome but I don't know if I hav anything that would fit this.
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Well google defines crazy as this: "Crazy" is the third single from Sydney band Expatriate's debut album In the Midst of This. It came in at #4 most played song at Australia radio on the 26/03/07 chart. Promo CDs were issued of the song to radio stations however a physical single was never issued."
Which answers my question. Craziness is entirely subjective...I couldn't really define crazy exactly for you. The challenge is to truly find it (but in general defying the laws of conventional poetry does help).
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XD you're amazing!
I would love to be a part of this, give me a couple of days to put some thought into it, k? -
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Take your time chainsaw. But make sure to acquire a spot before they all disappear. I've honestly never had a contest where so many people enter in around twenty-four hours.
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Will it upset my anonymity if I reserve?
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...it may somewhat...just do it very anonymously so I don't notice...
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I'd start judging this soon...or you'll end up like me, with no motivation at all.
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...oh believe me I've started...but I like doing it at night when all the creative juices are flowing and I automatically think everything is brilliant even if someone just crapped on the page...
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Wouldn't you say that's dishonest though?
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...no no...I still have an internal hierarchy of preferences towards certain poetry...I'm just more willing to be optimistic about poetry I have a certain...distaste for at night...when the hyperness juice activates...
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I'm still not happy with my entry.
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...would you like to alter it? I don't intend to judge anything for another good few hours when the boredom kicks in...
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I'm going to write you something new.
Here's what I had entered (though I've removed it now).
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5572555
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I shalt...but it may take time.
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