Prismatic Words # 2 - Christianity

______________________Welcome___________________________

Welcome to the Prismatic Words (PmW) series!!
My Name is Zach, and I will be your host,
though if anybody would like to co-host these contests with me, they are more than welcome to drop me an instant message.


__________________What is PmW?___________________________

Glad you asked! I'm taking a class (actually several classes) with @Epistomolus, the new Dean of AllPoetry's school; preparing to be a teacher myself. I suggest anybody who doesn't know about the school try out a class or two (even if you've tried classes in the past, many of them are new and much more student-friendly!).

Anyway, one of the lessons in teacher training was commenting, and providing deep, insightful feedback, and I would like an opportunity to do that.

Thus, the PmW series will allow me to give you deeper feedback. Each contest, I will provide you with a prompt, and you may write in the style of your choice in response to that prompt.

I will leave you feedback, and I will grade your poem on a hundred point rubric. For more about the rubric, please see the rules section below. Highest score wins. Period.


_________________________Prompt__________________________________

Write a poem in any form, including free verse and prose, on the following quote:

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen:
not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
-- C.S. Lewis


__________________________rules____________________________

All of my contests have these rules, which are pretty simple, but I do insist upon them, as they seem to make life easier for me.

1) Please space out your name in the author's note (like this: z a c h P). I usually go crazier than hell trying to figure out who's who. Knowing who you are doesn't make me more or less likely to select your poem, I promise.

2) I will use a rubric to score your poems; whoever has the most points will win. I will NOT make this rubric public unless you specifically ask me to do so in your author's notes or via personal message. If you wait until after the contest, chances are, they will be deleted.

3) I will not tolerate either homophobia or Christophobia in my contests. As a child of Christ, I promote love and peace wherever possible. This doesn't mean that I won't run a risque contest every now and then, or I won't drop an F-bomb, but it means that I won't tolerate stupid, blatant disrespect or outright HATRED from anybody. You will be reported, and barred from entering any of my contests.

4) Please enter accordingly. If writing for a form poetry contest, don't enter a prose poem. Everything has a place, but it might not be this contest.

5) Please feel free to reserve a space and return. This helps me know that people are interested in the contest at hand; and thus, whether or not I should keep it open.

6) If I have under five entries in any contest, I will delete the contest. All entrants will be notified thus when I comment their poems.

7) Please have fun. That's why we are here.



Love and Blessings,
Zach Estel.