"Set your jaw towards the night.
Let the magma of your veins spill from your eyes, blazing truth.
Stand when you’ve fallen, brushing ashes from your Stars -and
set your jaw towards the night."
I want quality poetry about the Phoenix mentality. As humans, we go through crap and fire and depression constantly -but what makes the special ones, the extra-ordinary individuals, the real warrior poets is the fact that they stand back up. They live through the darkness that defined them for a time and become even more beautiful because of it.
Main Entry: ex·traor·di·nary
Pronunciation: \ik-ˈstrȯr-də-ˌner-ē, ˌek-strə-ˈȯr-\
Function: adjective
1 a : going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary b : exceptional to a very marked extent
Suggestions:
1) Capitalization, punctuation and spelling isn't important to me as long as you're using it wisely. I DoNt' wANT ToO SeA Th1S. If you're mis-using it to make a point, fine. Just not in excess or I'll DQ
2)I don't want cheesy rhymes. If you can rhyme and make it QUALITY without a bunch of random words picked because they end the same, fine. If I see any roses -are-red-violets-are-blue crap I won't even read through it.
3)I like vivid imagery and innovative styles.
4) Please put your username s p a c e d o u t < like this in your author notes.
5)I will be critical, and I will be honest. If you can't handle constructive suggestions than please don't enter.
If you need another example of what I'm looking for, you can read this poem (by me)
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5635825
Show me fire, honesty, rawness, pain, longing, dignity, genius and quality.
That is all.
Let the magma of your veins spill from your eyes, blazing truth.
Stand when you’ve fallen, brushing ashes from your Stars -and
set your jaw towards the night."
I want quality poetry about the Phoenix mentality. As humans, we go through crap and fire and depression constantly -but what makes the special ones, the extra-ordinary individuals, the real warrior poets is the fact that they stand back up. They live through the darkness that defined them for a time and become even more beautiful because of it.
Main Entry: ex·traor·di·nary
Pronunciation: \ik-ˈstrȯr-də-ˌner-ē, ˌek-strə-ˈȯr-\
Function: adjective
1 a : going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary b : exceptional to a very marked extent
Suggestions:
1) Capitalization, punctuation and spelling isn't important to me as long as you're using it wisely. I DoNt' wANT ToO SeA Th1S. If you're mis-using it to make a point, fine. Just not in excess or I'll DQ
2)I don't want cheesy rhymes. If you can rhyme and make it QUALITY without a bunch of random words picked because they end the same, fine. If I see any roses -are-red-violets-are-blue crap I won't even read through it.
3)I like vivid imagery and innovative styles.
4) Please put your username s p a c e d o u t < like this in your author notes.
5)I will be critical, and I will be honest. If you can't handle constructive suggestions than please don't enter.
If you need another example of what I'm looking for, you can read this poem (by me)
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5635825
Show me fire, honesty, rawness, pain, longing, dignity, genius and quality.
That is all.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on September 8
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 5 people
- Final notes: Thank you to all the contestants, it was really REALLY hard to judge... especially between the top three. I enjoyed reading them all.
Contest Winners
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Sweat, dew like, glistens
on taut flesh as eyes explode.• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
P I N E A P P L E - E Y E S• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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Between the Beats and sylvia
plath• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Honorable mention
Entries [14]
1 - 14 of 14
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Old visions of who I used to be,
a faded and jaded memoryby Shadow-walker 13 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 9 6:20 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
so many thoughts racing inside my head
its you its you.. all your faultby tarantulla81 38 lines, on Sep 7 5:43 AM. In Angst• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Woow!! I was just wondering if anyone will ever hold a contest such as this so I can write for. Thanks for the chance.
I bookmarked and shall write ASAP. -
I do not know what "cheesy" means in the context of your comment - but it seems to be negative.
I cannot agree with you with your stance on this. The folk-rhyme "Roses are red, violets are blue" is of considerable interest philologically, since it seems to date from a time when the word "violet" still applied only to the flower, and not to the colour. In a similar vein my grandmother used to sing a fragment of a song which had been handed down in the family from the 18th century, which referred to "a tiny piece of yellow orange peel"... i.e. the colour, at least in the popular imagination, was still "yellow", and only the fruit itself was called "orange".
Such fragments and survivals should be treasured by all writers as part of the heritage of their language...
And a really skilled writer can take such a fragment and use it to craft his/her poem... which would be far more to the point than some of the VERY strange "promps" that appear oo Allpoetry from time to time... -
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I'm sorry if I offended you. I personally can not stand when rhymes are used in that way, or when words that really do not fit with the poem and are completely random are placed in simply to keep with the rhyme scheme. The entry Mindset is an example of rhyme that I appreciate because it does not sacrifice its meaning to meaningless rhymes.
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