I want one of these era's;
-first world war
-second world war
-vietnam war; write me a 'hey hey LBJ' poem and you're getting a HM at least.
-reign of Henry Tudor
-great fire of London
-the french revolution
-cuban missile crisis
-reign of Queen Victoria
-irish potato famine
-american civil war
-occupation of poland
-cold war / assassination of JFK.
-roaring twenties / american depression
-Chernobyl
-British Women's suffrage movement
-discovery of America -Columbus
-Al Capone and alcatraz - would love at least one of these.
rules?;
-nothing adult
-if unspecified, write era in author notes
-nothing overly long
-PW are allowed
-imagery, metaphor, description please!
Please;
-Favourite me if you wanna!
-read mine for an idea of my style:
holocaust;
http://allpoetry.com/poem/4209237
anne frank;
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5713363
american depression;
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5619195
thanks for reading!
-first world war
-second world war
-vietnam war; write me a 'hey hey LBJ' poem and you're getting a HM at least.
-reign of Henry Tudor
-great fire of London
-the french revolution
-cuban missile crisis
-reign of Queen Victoria
-irish potato famine
-american civil war
-occupation of poland
-cold war / assassination of JFK.
-roaring twenties / american depression
-Chernobyl
-British Women's suffrage movement
-discovery of America -Columbus
-Al Capone and alcatraz - would love at least one of these.
rules?;
-nothing adult
-if unspecified, write era in author notes
-nothing overly long
-PW are allowed
-imagery, metaphor, description please!
Please;
-Favourite me if you wanna!
-read mine for an idea of my style:
holocaust;
http://allpoetry.com/poem/4209237
anne frank;
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5713363
american depression;
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5619195
thanks for reading!
Closed for judging
- Closed for judging on October 23
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Honorable mention: 5 people
Preliminary Finalists
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My days grow short like shadow’s
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by Fritz O skennick 50 lines, 16 comments, on Apr 26 3:43 PM. In Thoughts, Weird, Historical, Victorian, Tribute, Life
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Laying there in Flanders field
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by LittleAnn 24 lines, 26 comments, on Aug 3 3:41 PM 2008. In Vietnam War• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite
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The blades are stirring, spinning round.
The helicopters come.• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite -
A flowering olive branch lay
in a withering clutched handby BluesMan 38 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 21 1:54 PM
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by Vera Rich 15 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 22 10:50 AM 2008• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite
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by Vera Rich 80 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 29 11:41 PM 2008• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite
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She carried ‘Little Boy’ in her belly,
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by Writing0Freedom 64 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 22 11:36 PM• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite
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In 1989
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How many times will it take to get it right?
Why do you always have to put up a fight?by Blue-Rose Beauty 70 lines, 119 comments, on May 28 4:15 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Fishing through dead
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Now the uniform that won fair maid is worn, drawn fringes frayed, as if chip by chip the paint had torn from weather-worn façade.by Jonathan ROBIN 94 lines, 33 comments, on Jul 25 8:04 AM 2007. In Society• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Philosophical fall out of bounds, boundaries hurry can leap-frog
eye so topical currents hemispherical icy, tropical,
by Jonathan ROBIN 51 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 26 6:20 AM. In Society• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite -
my bald, soot covered sister
grabs my cold, clammy handby capetownlover 68 lines, on Oct 7 5:32 AM• Not viewed by judge. -
Like liberty and freedom's words
In English springs, forever greening:by ecrivain01 25 lines, 48 comments, on Nov 20 2:41 PM 2004. In Society• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Do you remember when bombs whistled / And hot shrapnel rattled roofs? / We sought shelter in a deep subway station. / On the platform people were packed in like herrings / On makeshift sleeping bags. / We found a cby williamstown 33 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 17 9:09 PM 2007• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Catherine of Aragon wed me,it was not so much a mystery.Chose to have Spain on my sideso Catherine became my bride.She never produced a malby williamstown 20 lines, 5 comments, on May 30 1:30 AM• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite
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On that April day
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In the summer of 1942, the Third Reich was at the height of it's power
Hitler ordered Paulus to seize the Volga river.by NeferMaatNetjer 67 lines, 22 comments, on Jun 4 1:49 PM 2004. In Other• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Mamaev Kurgan is a hill in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), where some of the bloodiest fighting of WWII took place. today, "Motherland" thby NeferMaatNetjer 25 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 15 10:46 PM 2007
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Majestic robes of spiked blue,
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Hunters and farmers
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by fairy princess k 28 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 26 3:30 PM. In Contest, marie antoinette, history, Fantasy• Commented on by judge.
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by Barry Hodges 32 lines, 58 comments, on Jun 27 8:11 PM 2007. In Angst, Dark, Fantasy, Hope, Humour, American History in all its HORROR, Adult• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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She hung like the tree
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Adolph Hitler and his German army
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MOM'S WAR
Strong tea and stiff upper lipby Judith Chandler 69 lines, 9 comments, on May 2 2:04 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I learned to know the voice
Of Walter Concrete• Not viewed by judge. Prewrite -
20 some odd men
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A little humorous ending to put it off.• Commented on by judge.
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Back in 63 in those days of the Cold War
a newly elected president came to fallby poetofda21stcentury 28 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 27 12:15 AM. In Society, Pain, Contemporary, Dark, Hope, Thoughts, Spiritual, Life, Assassinatio• Commented on by judge. -
On a cold and terrible night, In a field in Western France
while fingers twitched on triggers, waiting for the chanceby NeferMaatNetjer 36 lines, 31 comments, on Dec 11 12:52 AM 2005. In Society• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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may i enter one about Chernobyl? cheers lucy x
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Of course (:
I'll add it to the list.
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when you say henry tudor do you mean henry VII or henry VIII?
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what about about world war 1 life in the trenches?
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Anything, trench warfare to the development of the tank.
Surprise me (:
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Just a couple of pedantic points.
1) There were TWO Tudor kings called "Henry". I imagine you were referring to the much-married Henry VIII (baricularly as this year is the 300th anniversary of his accession). But his father, who founded the Tudor dynasty was Henry VII - and he also did a number of interesting things - putting an end to the Wars of the Roses (he is the "Richmond" of Shakespeare's "Richard III"), founding the "Yeoman-Warders" ("Beefeaters") - and - refilling the royal treasury which was virtually empty on his accession, and in so doing acquiring the reputation of a miser = he paid the Cabot brothers for their voyage to what would be known as "North America" and the discovery of "New-Found-Land" the sum of ... just 25 pounds sterling...
2) WHICH occupation of Poland? There have been a huge number of them, going back at least to the Tatars in the 13th century (an event still commemorated EVERY day on Polish state radio with the sounding of the "Hejnal" broken trumpet call - right up to WWII and its aftermath). -
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I know about Henry Tudor the VII and VIII, the point of my prompts is to see what I get from different people. This is the same with my Poland prompt. While personally I have only briefly studied the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany, I'm leaving my prompts open to interpretation, similarly to how vague the World War prompts are in that they are not specific to one aspect of the war. This competition is about reading a variety of historical poetry, even if my prompts get picked apart for it.
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I have one I would love to enter but because of graphic images and it being labeled as "adult" because of them It would not accept it.
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Hm.
I'll enable adult content then, I only use it to avoid erotica, but I'm pretty sure no one will enter any here (:
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oh no!
i just found this and it's too late to write something.
oh well,
hopefully you will have a contest like this in the near future?
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