FLASH: it might help you to read questions and answers that were in comments to this contest for it explains in detail for some things that might be confusing!
This contest will now close tonight, but will be judged at my leisure to allow everyone to correct any mistakes that i might find. i wasn't going to notify people, but this is a hard contest for i even need to count 3-5 times in the poem to make sure the requirements are met and that's not including reading it once i know the requirements are met.
if you are notified that the correct count is not there, don't fret you will have time to fix. i just want to be notified either as a comment on my start page or a comment to this contest so i know that you have corrected what was pointed out. once everyone has had a chance to correct and bring their entry to standards, then i will judge the contest.
like i said, i normally would not do this...but itz even tough for me to get an accurate count each time i am looking at the poem for what i have asked to be achieved. so this is indeed a challenging contest for poet and host alike.
welcome to my 17th contest!
my last contest was based on emotions and this one will be the same but a little different.
many things come and go in our life just like the people we love, the days that we live, the things that we share and the list is infinite like numbers and time (even though time will stand still one day).
the last contest was a free for all where the rules were not restrictive which was a great success.
i am now returning back to the roots of my contests where i will make you think while enforcing you to put certain items in the poem you submit.
the thing i do allow is to still have your own style whatever that style may be as well as any form you wish to write it in.
i recently made a mistake by suggesting a DARK farewell for the emotions i was feeling about some personal things in my life. but it wasn't easy come and easy go as i thought it might have appeared to be. i was using a comment that i could care less about, but was going to allow it to be my out. it was wrong for me to do as i was taking advantage of a person that made a comment that was not too nice and i fronted it to try to solve my problems (which was not a nice thing to do). i think many people can learn a lesson from what i tried to do with myself included.
the following list of words will have to appear in your poem (the body) and you may have them in your title and the author's comments, but the count must be met in the body to meet the requirement:
1 time -- lesson
2 times- feelings
3 times- heal
4 times- emotions
5 times- DARK (this must be in caps no matter where itz used)
6 times- love
7 times- heart
the above list must be met if you want to be a challenger for the trophy (i will not not remind anyone, but will make sure the requirement is met).
guess itz time for some rules.
1. no pre-writes (if i did this, it wouldn't be a personal invitation to a contest from theDARK1).
2. one entry per poet.
3. any style/any form (length is not a problem...do what you want to do and how you want to do it...as long as you comply with the other rules too).
4. you must meet the requirement of the list of words and the number of times they are to appear (don't forget to make one particular word in all caps as directed).
5. this will be a quick contest for me which will close sometime on friday!
as itz always my custom to wish everyone luck here as i will not do it in the comments to rouy writes! have fun and i hope that many can learn and/or teach a lesson.
by the way, the title is a play on my last name in actual life and i thought it fitting as i was playing around with leaving and decided to keep DARK here. there is nothing more to the title than what i just stated. this is not a contest if DARK is to stay or not (just wanted to erase any doubts from the title used).
This contest will now close tonight, but will be judged at my leisure to allow everyone to correct any mistakes that i might find. i wasn't going to notify people, but this is a hard contest for i even need to count 3-5 times in the poem to make sure the requirements are met and that's not including reading it once i know the requirements are met.
if you are notified that the correct count is not there, don't fret you will have time to fix. i just want to be notified either as a comment on my start page or a comment to this contest so i know that you have corrected what was pointed out. once everyone has had a chance to correct and bring their entry to standards, then i will judge the contest.
like i said, i normally would not do this...but itz even tough for me to get an accurate count each time i am looking at the poem for what i have asked to be achieved. so this is indeed a challenging contest for poet and host alike.
welcome to my 17th contest!
my last contest was based on emotions and this one will be the same but a little different.
many things come and go in our life just like the people we love, the days that we live, the things that we share and the list is infinite like numbers and time (even though time will stand still one day).
the last contest was a free for all where the rules were not restrictive which was a great success.
i am now returning back to the roots of my contests where i will make you think while enforcing you to put certain items in the poem you submit.
the thing i do allow is to still have your own style whatever that style may be as well as any form you wish to write it in.
i recently made a mistake by suggesting a DARK farewell for the emotions i was feeling about some personal things in my life. but it wasn't easy come and easy go as i thought it might have appeared to be. i was using a comment that i could care less about, but was going to allow it to be my out. it was wrong for me to do as i was taking advantage of a person that made a comment that was not too nice and i fronted it to try to solve my problems (which was not a nice thing to do). i think many people can learn a lesson from what i tried to do with myself included.
the following list of words will have to appear in your poem (the body) and you may have them in your title and the author's comments, but the count must be met in the body to meet the requirement:
1 time -- lesson
2 times- feelings
3 times- heal
4 times- emotions
5 times- DARK (this must be in caps no matter where itz used)
6 times- love
7 times- heart
the above list must be met if you want to be a challenger for the trophy (i will not not remind anyone, but will make sure the requirement is met).
guess itz time for some rules.
1. no pre-writes (if i did this, it wouldn't be a personal invitation to a contest from theDARK1).
2. one entry per poet.
3. any style/any form (length is not a problem...do what you want to do and how you want to do it...as long as you comply with the other rules too).
4. you must meet the requirement of the list of words and the number of times they are to appear (don't forget to make one particular word in all caps as directed).
5. this will be a quick contest for me which will close sometime on friday!
as itz always my custom to wish everyone luck here as i will not do it in the comments to rouy writes! have fun and i hope that many can learn and/or teach a lesson.
by the way, the title is a play on my last name in actual life and i thought it fitting as i was playing around with leaving and decided to keep DARK here. there is nothing more to the title than what i just stated. this is not a contest if DARK is to stay or not (just wanted to erase any doubts from the title used).
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on February 21, 2004
- Rewards: Gold: 307
- Final notes: no matter if you are a fan of theDARK1 or not, you chose to enter this challenging contest. when i created this contest, it was an extension of an emotional occurrence happening in my life. little did i know i would face even more tragic news losing a blessed family member. i changed the date of the contest to extend it out for awhile. i could not sleep and my mind wandered through memories that was keeping the pain fresh from losing my step mom. then i came back to this contest. it was more theraputic than i realised. i buried myself in all of your entries, not once, not twice but many times. this has been the toughest and challenging contest to date. it has been challenging to me with every entry there was. i have to admit this is the first contest i wish i could let someone else judge for the entries were that GREAT!
i have literally invested hours reading and evaluating each entry. were not just talking about a couple of hours either. i can't remember the last time i spent about 10-13 hours on ten poems in one place. each of you deserve a first place trophy (this is not trying to make you feel good, i mean it)! this is why the trophies are going to be done a little different in this contest. each entry effected me deeply. crucifix's "A lovers tiff..." was just as amazing to me as the other entries (and in her authors comments she was thinking it wasn't so good). i do wish i could award everyone a trophy.
since it was so hard for me to award the trophies, i went to everyone's page to see who did not have trophies. i know this might not seem to be a fair way to give the trophies out, but when i feel that each entry was beyond the standards placed and the quality of work that was submitted by each poet exceeded my expectations, i really do not know of another way to do it except maybe draw straws, hehehe!
this will be how the trophies are awarded along with applause for the remaining entries:
Entries
Left Alone by SubXConscious Posted 3 days ago. Categories: Other. Critical. SILVER TROPHY
Growing Up by mendee86 Posted 3 days ago. Categories: Hope, Love, Personal. Critical. APPLAUSE
Given By The Light Soul by viciouszr Posted 3 days ago. Categories: Other. Critical. GOLD TROPHY
Never Ending DARKness by LadyWiccae Posted 3 days ago. Categories: Angst, Personal. Critical. APPLAUSE
A Peculiar Emptiness by spreadingdark Posted 3 days ago. Categories: Angst, Horror, Love. Critical. APPLAUSE
The End of the Day by meesa p Posted 3 days ago. Categories: Hope. Critical. APPLAUSE
Destroyed In The Fall by twistedpisces Posted 3 days ago. Categories: Love, Other, Personal. Critical. APPLAUSE
To Heal A Heart by Samplette Posted 2 days ago. Categories: Other. BRONZE TROPHY
A lovers tiff... by crucifix Posted 1 day ago. Categories: Horror, Other. Critical. APPLAUSE
A DARK heart to heal by johnrdavies Posted 18 hours ago. Categories: Angst, Hope. Critical. APPLAUSE
don't think if you didn't get a trophy that your entry was not as good as the people receiving trophies. like i said, every entry was equivalent for the gold. i decided to give the trophies to the poets that didn't have anything on their mantles for ALL entries were that great to me. then i had to decide between the other seven with trophies that would get the bronze. this by itself was not even an easy task. all i can ask you do is review all of the poems and see if you think the judging was easy. personally, i think i would have liked to hired out the judging for this one for it has been quite time consuming. as soon as the results are posted, i will go and award the applause to the poems that was not able to come away with the hardware.
i thank each and every one of you once again for accepting this challenge and exceeding the standards. hope you will entertain the idea of entering future contests that i may present. can't guarantee that it will be easier than this one, but that's something we will never know until it happens. good luck to all with your writing and future contests.
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This was too hard:(• Commented on by judge.
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A lesson brought on by the pain of feelings and in hope to heal a heart that has been DARK and annulled of love. These emotions are still tender from the stab o• Commented on by judge.
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Love gives me no reason to live.
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The End of the Day
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Well, you know I will take this challenge, a little later today, as procrastination has given me some regrets in the past. I will be back my friend.
Renee
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renee, i figured that you would seek out this challenge which was partly influenced by the current event in your life as it went hand in hand with the message i wanted to convey. see you in the contest, luvya, DARK
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NOTE: this is for everyone that was thinking about using the list of words more than what the minimum requirements suggest, please do not do that! i was going to allow that, but i decided to make it a little tougher by restricting the exact count just the way the list is stated. you also need to make sure the particular word that is suppose to be in caps happens for that is also a requirement that will cost you a trophy!
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Hey there hon!
I'll probably enter this, just right now my brain is muddled from my vicidine and stuff @_@ But great contest! I think you'd like mine too 
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r we aloud to write the words and add prefixes and suffixes? like heal-healing kind of thing?
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ladywiccae, i am too on medicine and i am home this week from being sick as i am starting to feel better. i will check out your contest and i have not been creative lately but maybe i can soon. look forward to your entry but remember that it will close anytime friday which could be 1am, just never know with me.
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viciouszr, no you may not add prefixes or suffixes, but you still have some time if you need to change your poem for i will be looking at them in order and always review them at least one more time before i judge (which will be on friday and could be as early as 1am, so you have until tomorrow night to make any changes).
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viciouszr, i will clarify that you can use a form of these words with prefixes and/or suffixes and it will not count against you for it will not count towards the word count, but the specific word must appear throughout the body of the poem the number of times called for. if you want to use 'healing' or 'heartless' which will not count for or against you it will be alright. just wanted to clarify further for you and others.
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kk. thanks for clearing that up for me ^^
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Okay...I must of missed the 7 "love"'s in my poem. I fixed it and I hope you'll accept my poem. Good luck judging.
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also make sure that if a word is singular that it remains singular and if itz plural that it stays plural. thats not to say that you can't make that word singular or plural, but it will not go towards the word count on the list and will not count against you for using it either, but the right count has to be in the poem that is on the list. if you happen to use one of the words on the list in the title, that's ok, but it won't count towards the list for the body requirements.
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Of course I will have get my brain in motion and try to come up with something for this contest. I have a busy day tomorrow but I am sure by the evening I can come up with something. My poems recenetly have all pretty much been about the same thing and I have been looking for inspiration and this sounds great!
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i have three more poems to review and evaluate and will pick up with samplette's poem. i am totally impressed by all of the entries so far and i can only imagine that the remaining three will be just as brilliant. i got side tracked and i want to be focused when i go back in and look at the remaining poems. this is as hard a contest to evaluate and judge as it was for you poets to write for it. i didn't expect to work this hard on this contest myself, but as it turns out it has been very theraputic in a time that i so needed for something to be. i am glad to all that decided to write for this contest. i will get it judged as quick as possible so this will be DARK history in the making!
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The entries were great and the contest itself was a hard one. I would have liked a trophy, saying otherwise would be a lie, but I do find satisfaction in knowing that you liked my piece enough 2 comment 3 times and qualify it for applause. That you put that much effort in to this as far as judging makes grateful for your judgement. And win lose or draw or win in a different way I entered for the challenge of it not for the trophy.
~JayLynn
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Wow...thank you for somehow chosing my piece for the bronze.
I know how hard it is to judge. That is the reason I am so late checking the winners in your contest. The one hour contest I ran today had amazing entries....the last two were the toughest and I cried out...I dont' want to do this! and my hubby thought I was nuts.
THank you so much for the bronze.
Sam
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Thanks for picking me for gold ^^ i didn't think i would win lol. thank u sooooo much!
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