I've come to you with yet another odd contest for your writing pleasure. The idea is simple, and I feel we will get some splendid work out of the deal.
Here's the plan:
Phase 1 - Open up your media player (or look at your cd/tape/vinyl/8-track collection) and pick 10 albums that either mean a lot to you, or have somehow made an impact on your life. Got them? OK, you may proceed.
Phase 2 - Write down the names of those ten albums and the artist of each. your list should look something like this:
All Ages - Bad Religion
Back to basics - Billy Bragg
Battle Hymns - The Suicide Machines
Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones - Swingin Utters
Deconstructed - Bush
etc.
(Please don't use my list, this is about the music that influences you)
Phase 3 - Paste said list in your author's note.
Phase 4 - Use the ten album titles in your list as word bank words. Please keep phrases together. And signify your words in your poem with italics, bold, or some way.
Mine may sound something like:
"Sunday morning sings a song,
like battle hymns that never end,
they shatter like deconstructed discotheques
that take men of all ages back to basics
and they swell in gutters of dead flowers,
bottles, bluegrass and bones."
Phase 5 - please make sure to check your spelling.
I will comment on each entry, and prizes may go up if I get real quality entries.
Have fun and be clever.
Here's the plan:
Phase 1 - Open up your media player (or look at your cd/tape/vinyl/8-track collection) and pick 10 albums that either mean a lot to you, or have somehow made an impact on your life. Got them? OK, you may proceed.
Phase 2 - Write down the names of those ten albums and the artist of each. your list should look something like this:
All Ages - Bad Religion
Back to basics - Billy Bragg
Battle Hymns - The Suicide Machines
Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones - Swingin Utters
Deconstructed - Bush
etc.
(Please don't use my list, this is about the music that influences you)
Phase 3 - Paste said list in your author's note.
Phase 4 - Use the ten album titles in your list as word bank words. Please keep phrases together. And signify your words in your poem with italics, bold, or some way.
Mine may sound something like:
"Sunday morning sings a song,
like battle hymns that never end,
they shatter like deconstructed discotheques
that take men of all ages back to basics
and they swell in gutters of dead flowers,
bottles, bluegrass and bones."
Phase 5 - please make sure to check your spelling.
I will comment on each entry, and prizes may go up if I get real quality entries.
Have fun and be clever.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on November 7
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 300, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: I am tickled at the response I got to this contest. I truly expected to get 3 entries at the most, but you all surprised me. Thank you for entering and congratulations to the winners.
A few of the pieces have artists as inspirations that I have not ever heard of, so I will be looking into those artists.
Thanks again to all who entered.
Contest Winners
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by AliceinPoetryLand 37 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 27 5:48 AM. In Contest, Thoughts
Gold trophy winner
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I don't belong
I have forever been a failure to those• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
This Blood Stained Love Story is stunting my elemental growth,
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there's a hum in the air that isn't quite silence and isn't quite static, but I can feel it getting louder now as it creeps through the s• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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I sigh as the blackened sky draws back
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Bronze trophy winner
Honorable mention
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how would we do this in the style of a musical?
most of my favorites are -
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You would use the title of the musical as the album title.
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this looks like so much fun, I'm working on it now! (:
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Thanks for the honourable mention. great contest.
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Woohoo
and wow! Thank yopu so much for the honour of gold. It means a lot! I wasn't expectinb anything here. This is the furst cobtest of yours I think I have placed in. So I am tickled pink too
Congratulations to the other winners and thank you for hosting.
Gaylene
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Thank you, very much. I hope you enjoy the music of those who featured in my piece. I highly recommend Paradise Lost, and their albums In Requiem and Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us. Awesome.
Yours,
Kain
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