Keith Richards Dead Flowers live
THIS POEM IS YOUR PROMPT
choose any line or stanza or the entire poem for your prompt
by Night Hope
Beneath succulent soil lay nascent seeds,
garrulous with memory,
awaiting birth.
I sought freedom from roots
that tethered me in an unkempt region
which lacked wisdom or grace -
I tore loose from boundaries
imposed by impossible moments
and found a place to still my restless feet,
to grow beyond mere expectations.
How little we perceive,
how much we assume or admonish
without reason to aid our navigation
near such treacherous shores
without sounding for depth,
for there are courageous flowers rising
underneath waves nebulous with danger.
Our eyes deceive us when light recedes.
When the weary sun lifts itself into a vast and shuttered sky,
nothing else matters
but each evolution gained by dignified endurance,
each petal formed with halcyon guidance,
reverent missives
from earth to air.
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all alignments are welcome here
all forms of poetry are welcome here
I am not predisposed to prefer any type of poem over another
I will not give preference to nature poetry or romantic poetry
emerald trophies, if any, will each receive half the value of the bronze from me
I will choose a quote from the gold to be used as the prompt of my next 'Quotation Inspired' contest which will be posted soon after this contest has been judged.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on November 8
- Rewards: Gold: 800, Silver: 600, Bronze: 400, Honorable mention: 5 people
- Final notes: emerald trophies are by rank and will receive 300 points each from me for 'excellence in poetry' ... special kudos to Aqua Mossa's 'Under the streetlamp every Tuesday'
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5827099 ...
the judging wound up, again, being decided on the basis of ambition, beauty and power, as well as poetic expertise in formatting and line breaks where necessary for the poem to maintain its merit, all taken for granted, regardless of the prompt chosen from the poem used in this contest ... gold is simply enchantingly beautiful and overpowered all else with its simplicity most complex, ambitiousness being equal in all the first four places ... silver is powerful and beautiful with extraordinary imagry and almost won gold ... bronze is extraordinarily original with an unusual approach i must make myself familiar with, as I got a feeling of imagry and words tumbling at me, rolling and leaving traces of ideas ... first emerald was so beautiful as to draw tears from my eyes and almost won bronze ... the 5th through eighth place poems were all excellent and major works but were not as ambitious as the first three, although at times the effortlessness in several of them was profoundly powerful ... all the emeralds were significant poems and would have won gold in most contests on AP .... just not here, there was such a high standard set by the four top winners that I was intimidated after reading them.
thank you for making this my most difficult contest to judge yet
Danny
Contest Winners
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Have you seen her flowers beside you,
step softly, see what love might find• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
by Black Narcissus 22 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 20 3:30 AM. In Thoughts, Personal
Bronze trophy winner
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Beautiful birds are gone, surrendering this stunned forest
to raucous call of crows; those omen-bearing messengersby CarolDesjarlais 42 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 19 1:10 PM. In Spiritual, society, angst
Honorable mention
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I watched her walk through meadow-mind with seeds
scattering next year's wildflowers,• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
in the comfort of stone we whisper,
to the warmth that crawls from each careful• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
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Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Entries [17]
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Lack of imagination,
ignorance of self and soul,• Commented on by judge. -
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from a hill top view,
when I leftby ccawley 35 lines, 14 comments, on Oct 20 1:56 AM• Commented on by judge. -
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by Acqua Mossa 40 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 26 1:20 AM• Commented on by judge.
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Movement’s grace soars radiant across soul’s sky
as music captivates perception’s bounds• Commented on by judge.
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ahhh another one
i will write for this shortly.
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yay!!
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Ahhh, one of my favorite songs...and with Sanborn, too? Whoaa. Thank you, my Baby. Good luck to all who enter. I know you won't make it easy for Danny to judge, either. 
I'll be back to read the entries as time permits. Be well, Poets and Scribes. 
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yer welcome my baby
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Bookmarked!
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oh yeah
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I still have this bookmarked
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lol ... oaki doaki ... three days left
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Just a note to mention poem has been rewritten.
Thanks for patience,
Marlene -
Thanks so much for the contest, your comments and your wonderful summation. Congratulations to all the winners!
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Thanks so much and congrats to all the winners...
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Many thanks for the gold, Danny, and for all the support both you and Wanda have shown to my work to date. I struggled writing this one, to the point I almost didn't enter. Am pleased now that I did, lol! I have discovered one or two poets new to me through entering this contest, and for it my faves list has grown. Will come back to browse more of the entries and poets, I am sure. Congrats to everyone, for everyone's a winner at the day's end, for having created a new poem
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ty, Danny for the challenge and for the HM. Congratulations to all who entered.
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