PLEASE READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY:
IF YOU DO NOT IT IS AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION
Closes at MIDNIGHT
PREVIOUSLY POSTED POEMS Accepted (otherwise known as Prewrites)
Must be put through SPELL CHECK, any spelling errors will be cause for disqualification. NO FOREIGN COMPUTER POEMS
Very Simple
Send me up to 2 FREE VERSE POEMS dealing with a LOVE. NO EROTICA in this contest will be allowed.
Imagery
Metaphors
Similes
Alliteration
Internal and end rhymes
These are the five poetic techniques I will judge your poem on even if you love your guppy ‘SHOW ME’ Don’t Tell Me you love your guppy (but keep it clean)!
300 Points 1ST
150 2ND
75 3RD
5 HONORIA Mentions at 10 points
My Time Now: 10:00 pm Contest closes at 12:00 am my time
PREVIOUSLY POSTED POEMS Accepted (Formerly known as PREWRITES)
LIMIT: 2 Poems:
I HOLD THE RIGHT TO CRITIQUE
YOUR POEM IF I FEEL LIKE IT
(I will critique your poem individually when the
contest closes since it is a two hour contest)
MUST BE SPELL CHECKED
READY SET GO
PLEASE READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY:
IF YOU DO NOT IT IS AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION
Closes AT MIDNIGHT
For further information on entering my contests please read this link: it is also to your benefit to let you know where I stand on the merits of running my contests, so I would suggest you quickly glance at it.
allpoetry.com/Column/602304
Gregg Rowe,
Lord of the Rings
IF YOU DO NOT IT IS AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION
Closes at MIDNIGHT
PREVIOUSLY POSTED POEMS Accepted (otherwise known as Prewrites)
Must be put through SPELL CHECK, any spelling errors will be cause for disqualification. NO FOREIGN COMPUTER POEMS
Very Simple
Send me up to 2 FREE VERSE POEMS dealing with a LOVE. NO EROTICA in this contest will be allowed.
Imagery
Metaphors
Similes
Alliteration
Internal and end rhymes
These are the five poetic techniques I will judge your poem on even if you love your guppy ‘SHOW ME’ Don’t Tell Me you love your guppy (but keep it clean)!
300 Points 1ST
150 2ND
75 3RD
5 HONORIA Mentions at 10 points
My Time Now: 10:00 pm Contest closes at 12:00 am my time
PREVIOUSLY POSTED POEMS Accepted (Formerly known as PREWRITES)
LIMIT: 2 Poems:
I HOLD THE RIGHT TO CRITIQUE
YOUR POEM IF I FEEL LIKE IT
(I will critique your poem individually when the
contest closes since it is a two hour contest)
MUST BE SPELL CHECKED
READY SET GO
PLEASE READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY:
IF YOU DO NOT IT IS AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION
Closes AT MIDNIGHT
For further information on entering my contests please read this link: it is also to your benefit to let you know where I stand on the merits of running my contests, so I would suggest you quickly glance at it.
allpoetry.com/Column/602304
Gregg Rowe,
Lord of the Rings
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 2, 2004
- Rewards: Gold: 300
- Final notes: Another contest is over, and another time we go through the process of wondering if we made the cut.
Some of you did, and others did not, that is the name of the game in these contests. But I am not one to just leave everything with 3 winners and then split. But before we go and find out who they are and why they made the cut a few short notes.
I asked for five elements to be present in your poem: alliteration, similes, metaphors, internal/end rhyme and imagery. Whoever had the most imagery would get the most points because that is the first thing I lok for to draw me nto your poem (after a funtastic title that will intrigue me to read it).
Next was the spellingrule, which nearly everyone complained over, but were quick to reazct to be able to stay in. IT IS THE ONLY RULE I HAVE, SPELLING AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS(spaces between words, capitliazation, if required, apostrophes for possessiveness, and general grammer we all know).
I am like you, I write and I enter contests. Instead of flinging my points earned from the contests and hoarding them, I turn around and host one in return. So, I have worked hard to win the points in order to give them away, so in a way I ask that you respect that when entering, especially PREWRITES, which should be correct anyways.
I really enjoyed reading all the poetry that I received and now it is time to unveil the most difficult part of being the host, the winners. Please take a peek at them and see why I picked them out of the 43 entries I received.
TOP 5 HONORARIES 20 POINTS EACH
Spoons by bademalname
Dancer of the Wind by MagicLady
Meant To Be byNJSem
Midnight Flame by fleetingshadows
Butterflies Within - Collab with Zez by mystysaint
Honorary Mentions -- 10 POINTS EACH
Another Swim by ColourBlind
Heaven With You by Midnite Mourning
The Reason for Contentment by Haythina
Truest Love by TheRain King
Entries [18]
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Two hearts beat along the path of life
Sharing and caring,• Commented on by judge. -
I look at that picture of us,
And remember the reason for contentment.• Commented on by judge. -
I made spoons with your pillow• Commented on by judge.
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As long as you love me
I'll be here for you..• Commented on by judge. -
But then I found you,
The love of my life.• Commented on by judge. -
I spun circles• Commented on by judge.
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Have you ever been to heaven?
I have.• Commented on by judge. -
Butterflies fill me from head to toe
I can't get you off my mind• Commented on by judge. -
I don't need to believe in miracles
to know they exist, and it starts to rain.• Commented on by judge. -
A gray cloud you make-
Only when it’s cold outside.by ColourBlind 35 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 26 8:42 PM 2004. In Love• Commented on by judge. -
All around me I see pretty flowers and bees
waving to the breeze• Commented on by judge. -
Your eyes shine through the darkest of night,
Your gentle touch always excites me so much,• Commented on by judge. -
by certifiablyinsane 18 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 26 9:45 PM 2004. In Love• Commented on by judge.
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My secret love
Better kept a secret• Commented on by judge.
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I entered twice only because it's a bit difficult to read the graphic version
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I won a gold with my epic poem that is why I can do one contest now 1000 points so I will be spending on this one and get ready for another one if not tonight than soon but I won GOLD i am so happy spread the love around what am I going to do with 1000 points
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Hmmmmm.... you say you judge on internal and end rhyme, but you want a free verse poem?... End rhyme does rather defeat the purpose of free verse, does it not? Ah well, I've entered already anyway. Hopefully what I gave you is all right - I prefer not to write your stereotypical love poetry.
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Masculine/feminine end rhyme is possible in free verse, just as long as the whole poem does not rhyme, in Angels in Disguise Series 1 my Refrain end-rhymes but the rest of the epic is done in free verse as well as the stanza of the refrain, it holds no form in the stanza, one line may be iambic trimeter and the next line a iambic dimeter
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awww...this is a great contest...im sure you will have alot of good enties...ive i hadnt just broken up with a long time boyfriend and hate love like i do right now...i would enter...but sorry...good luck with your contest!
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You must have a Previously Posted poem there that you could enter, just for rememberance sake, or a ritual that you could maybe use right now to help you!
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I better get to work! Running out of time! I'll go find my two best love poems be right back. Jason
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Good luck!
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So, if I were to enter, would I have to whore myself to the American version of 'English'? Or would the more traditional English spelling of words such as flavour, fantasise, and colour be acceptable?
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Well first a quick comment so as to qualify for the extra three points - and to clutter up your screen with yet another extraneous note - now I must run along to see what I have to enter in this competition.
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well i'm sure my entries don't fit your rules gregg
i'm sure at one time i would have understood
the five poetic techniques...but at this point in my life
i'm lucky if i remember to take my meds (dang...that reminds me...forgot to take the coumadin at dinnertime...arrggggghhhh)
despite my current ignorance, i entered two anyway.
now, a challenge for you. do you know "blushfulmoon" susan? well, she's in the hospital right now with pneumonia...i'm holding a 'get well' contest for her...so how about entering??
here is the link: allpoetry.com/Contest/603287
if you don't have the time to enter, how about dropping by and leaving a get well message for susan. by the way...how goes the ringing? hope it's better...and once again, congrats on the gold!
hugs,
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It says NO COMPUTER LANGUAGE like smileys and happy faces wasting my page
so no you won't be whoring yourself but uyour misspelling must be in the context of the poem and not just out of carelessness, which I get to be the judge of
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It's a very interesting poem, but I have a question about the rules, or rather your wording of them. How would one not write cleanly about the love one bears ones guppy? Best of luck to those who enter.
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There are some kinky little inds out there so I was preventing an embarrassment
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It also says "any spelling errors will be cause for disqualification". Since I'm always being corrected for using the correct English spelling of words by American poets- I just wanted to make sure it wouldn't come into it.
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Now this, this is a contest I can get into ... heh.
I used to write nothing but love poetry. I'm glad I got out of that phase, though - I started writing about other stuff, and then came back to the whole idea of the "love" poem. Now there is much more to be said other than "roses are red, yackety schmackety"
Best of luck in judging this contest; I hope you get nothing entries you want to read, so the contest becomes that much more difficult!
Respectfully,
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eep I am sorry Gregg. I just broke my contest fast. See, I been protesting the right the unfair rights that some contest holder have being using to spread hatred on. EEP So, Please don't tell anybody that I enter. I forgot that when I enter two. hides in shame and holds her head down
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The 'spelling issue' that is brought up all the time: I have spell check from every country and language in the world, so I look at your author's page and find where you reside and run your poem through your Englsih and not the Canadian or US spelling of words. I also am not keen on cyber symbols, there are too many beautiful words in all languages that can enhance the feeling, we don't need to become lazy and complacent with our writing and emotion by using those pests...that is for chat and I have not asked for a 'chat' poem, I live those contests for tohers to run.
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wow thats... a lot of poems.. *feels like she has no chance* woot well a lot of em are really good! This is a very good contest ya gots plenty to work with! Have fun! *nods*
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Do they ever post a maximum number of entries for a contest? It seems like a contest with sixty plus poems in it could turn out to be pretty hard to judge, I was just wondering if anyone ever has contests with limited entries. But then again, if you win the gold out of sixty poems verus out of five or ten, I guess you're making a bigger accomplishment. Well, no contest entry for me here...I'm just not in the persona to write about love.
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C'mon enter, go for the gutso you never know there are subsidary prizes and appluses to be awarded so go for it (actually I'm trying for fifty for the song, fifty ways to leave your lover)
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i keep seeing this pop in and out of the promo box 2 hours eh.
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sorry. just wasn't really intrigued by it. I didn't know clicking on it forced me to enter.
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Wow, plenty of entries here. And in only two hours! Congrats on such a successful contest!
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woohoo! I doubt I will win, but hey, what the hell? As for this contest, this is nice. Good luck on reading fifty bazillion love poems. I bet you can do it though.
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A very interesting contest all about love. I like your style. I am going to enter and I will allow you to do as you chose as it is your contest and I respect that.
God is blessing you!
With Christan Love,
Dawn -
For those who turned into pumpkins at midnight, I am sorry you misssed the entry deadline...it was a two hour contest to give your best. Not to worry I will be running others for you to join and hope to see you submit an entry.
All those who were lucky to get in, while I am off and reading them please check out my column 'entering A Lord of the Rings Contest' for further explanations on the rules in detail.
A lot of people have commented on my strictness...I am holding these contests to help choose the best of the best on this site for our yearly allpoetry.com where I send the winning poem to the editorial committee to put in a stack for decisions down the road. Good luck to everyone and thank you for entering.
Remember my Golden Rule: No IMs until the 7th day has passed in judging! (I don,t take that long, but I don,t want to be answering IMs instead of reading.)
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im not sure what i wrote was what you wanted..i read your rules but i still entered hoping my poem followed atleast some of your guidlines..i just wrote what i could..i did the best i could on this one since i dont usually write love poems..so i hope you atleast enjoyed reading it,even if i dont win anything....Aida
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hi gregg,
i read your comment, as well as your column, and have decided that my pieces are not up to your standards. therefore, i have decided to withdraw both from your contest. in hindsight, not sure why i entered...probably because i consider you an ap friend, and it was late!
so, no hard feelings on either side?
thanks hun...do hope you are feeling better,
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Don't you dare please don,t go pretty please
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To all the entrants of my Contest
I’M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
There was one rule that was capitalized in the outline last night for my contest. Does anyone remember what it was? I would like everyone, yes, that means you, to go back to your entry and double, - triple check for spelling, spacing, and punctuation including your Author’s Comment if you have any.
You may find this rule strict and miniscule, but should we not be proud of what we write and present it like a true work of art that it is? I would say so. So this is giving everyone a break because there are just too many poems with even one mistake on it, and maybe you were tired and missed it, or the spell check here doesn’t catch (yes I have checked every poem on two spell checks, the one here and on my PC from your country of origin in the English language). I have even visited each and everyone of your websites here from last night to present time. (As mentioned last night – this does not include purposely using slang in your poem – I am an intelligent man and can differentiate between a spelling mistake and diction/dialect in poetry.
If I can take this time to meet the entrant then one extra second of your time to facilitate easy reading of 60 pages of poetry is not difficult to ask. At the same time, they were all PREWRITES, which meant that they should have been spell checked before and error free.
Your Author’s Comment is also part of the poem, so make sure it is free of the same grammatical errors I mentioned above.
For those who are correct in the entry, you may think that this is unfair but it is only my third contest and I can’t eliminate 75% of the poems on a error. I am giving a break here. As I hold more contests I will not be lenient because as you re-enter mine (and hopefully you will) you will know that it is only one of my standards.
Be proud of your work…Be SPELL ERROR FREE
Show that you got some kind of education even if you raised out beyond the barn like I was.
WHEN YOU HAVE THINK THAT YOU ARE SPELL ERROR FREE WRITE ON YOUR PAGE:
I HAVE CHECKED IT AGAIN SO
WHEN I AM READY TO CLOSE THE CONTEST I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN THE TIME TO IMPROVE YOUR WORK
Gregg Rowe
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Well, I really apologize for such a controversy as asking writers to spell check their works before entering my contest. Such a fuss over a minute's work performed by the creation of man, instead of flipping pages and actually using a brain to see the words surrounding it. I am deeply hurt by this because it is the only bloody, friggin rule I have to enter a contest, the rest are variations on form of what I am requesting to make the contest interesting. I don't ask for notes in Author's Comments, or ask you to read other people work's and leave a comment (we should be automatically doing that anyway), and I don’t ask you to write me tributes to host a contest. I hope that I am hosting interesting ones.
So what do you want me to say on the form. I am a person living with a medical condition and taking enough meds to fill a cereal bowl that all I ask is that the poems you send me are error free so I can read them faster while medicated to the gills, is that what you want me to say to get us to use the spell check. After this contest maybe I will just sit back and suffocate on the hypocrisy of being a true writer!
I'm into the second reading now and will be checking in later tonight to see if my request has been partially fulfilled. Third reading will be completed by tomorrow and then maybe I will decide if I will post them! If everyone follows my request promptly then we should be able to close on time, perhaps sooner.
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If you no longer have that long letter on your poetry page, it means that your poem has reached the potentiality of acceptance for this contest.
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First thank you everyone who responded to the letter and now the tables have turned back the way a contest should be run. Maybe you find it a tad sticky what I am doing here, but you wouldn't tell an editor to correct it for you, it’s not their job...maybe you won't be submitting manuscripts or poems to magazines, but we can still be proud of our work and it is easier to read 100 pages of err0r free pages than 85 with errors, so I really appreciate how you went back and took that extra step to remain in this contest.
I am down to the third reading, but must wait until the rest have answered or the time to have answered for corrections because perhaps they do not come on as regularly as others, so the contest will end on time.
I have also posted up some columns that might interest you on my library page go to 'Dear Uni and Winnie' link and investigate what is inside there.
See you in a few days with results, I will be checking this page continuously to see if there are any updates.
Gregg
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Attaboy!
It is good that you expect certain criteria to be met for your contests. When I look at some of the communications I receive on a daily basis it is INCREDIBLE how many errors there are with spelling and grammar. People(most) just don't take the time to make sure they proof their work.It is not too much to ask at all. Just stick to your guns! You are absolutely right. Thanks -
thank you for the applause dear gregg! i applaud your choices...and agree!
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Now I realize that there are a few mistakes in the final notes, well, I am a little exhausted right now and my computer kept crashing while I was in the process of entering this data. When you have forty-one comments to make and your computer crashes, after working from three o'clock this afternoon until midnight to get this in, could I please be excused for the spelling mistakes this time around, I would rather have put the mistakes through before the crash, then have to restart typing everything over again.
There was also a 5th HONORARY MENTION for 10 points and it goes to 'GHOSTS CAN'T CRY' by Dawnknight
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I would like to thank you for my bronze trophy. I wasn't even expecting to place in this contest, and I thought my entry was far from the choice to be chosen for trophy. But then again, I am usually wrong.
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Thank you Gregg, for honoring me with a win in your contest. I appreciate the honor, but more than that, I appreciate the help you give me with my poetry. Thanks so very much! Cheryl
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