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- 8 poets
- freeverse
- left align
- less than 80 words
- 1 hour to write once prompt is posted
- prompt will be posted when all places are filled

NB: I don't give a flying fluck what you write, you are NOT above the rules.

Matt E. Smith will be my co-judge and he is sleepy so write something that will wake him up

 



PROMPTS

1.

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
      Not shaking the grass

~ Ezra Pound


2.

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

~ Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand


Gogogo

 

P.S. If these prompts are good then I chose them; if they are bad then Matt chose them

 

 

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on November 8
  • Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 250, Bronze: 100
  • Final notes:
    Allyce: Matt, is there anything you want to say? Did the poems wake you up?

    Matt: Woke me up with a boner. I digged 'em real big.

Contest Winners

  1. Collared
    by February Moon 68 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 8 9:17 PM
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. When I hear my reflection mutter
    by Naridill 30 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 8 8:57 PM
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. This is food for your thought;
    by Tzipora 32 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 8 8:57 PM. In personal. contest.
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

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  • whyspr gold member
    November 8
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    Allyce, what is NB?


  • Genevieve79
    November 8
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    Wow... those prompts are amazing actually


  • Naridill
    November 8
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    I'm glad my poem came of some use to Matt's "morning glory"


  • February Moon gold member
    November 8
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    Thanks for the gold.


  • Peteskid gold member
    November 8
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    I like these prompts, neither is an earth shaking revelation, but they give the writer an opportunity to make one... well done...PK


  • girl shaman
    November 9
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    im so mad i didn't get to enter this but i love the people that won, their amazing! great contest


  • Cannonsfire
    November 9
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    Ooh was just reading a book on Pound lol damn missing this


  • e s h a.
    November 9
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    oh toss! me missed it :/ oh boo hoo.

  • Virgoan
    November 9
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    I just dropped by and read the winning poems including Heather's work. The poem by Strand is actually one of my all time personal favorite poems.


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