UPDATE:
I lost my wireless connection again. It was because of my service; they changed servers without notifying their customers - well, that's not true. They did notify their members on the day they changed servers by e-mail. Yeah, whoever thought that up was really smart, huh?
Anyway, I'll get to the "judging" soon.
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I lost my wireless connection, and haven't been on since I lost it, (2 weeks ago, I believe) and will commence judging either today or tomorrow.
I will try to get this done asap.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
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I lost my wireless connection again. It was because of my service; they changed servers without notifying their customers - well, that's not true. They did notify their members on the day they changed servers by e-mail. Yeah, whoever thought that up was really smart, huh?
Anyway, I'll get to the "judging" soon.
-Nam
I lost my wireless connection, and haven't been on since I lost it, (2 weeks ago, I believe) and will commence judging either today or tomorrow.
I will try to get this done asap.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
-Nam
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 25, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100
- Final notes: I made a list for "Finalists", this is minus the three which placed:
(in order of what I liked most to least)
Proof
resuscitation
Butterfly Dance
Revolution
Nostalgia
Red-Taped Destruction
Reverie
Catalyst
There were five other poems on the list. I couldn't locate 4 of them, and I removed one from the list because, though I really liked their piece, they didn't make the effort to correct an obvious spelling error.
Those 5 poems aren't listed above.
My apologies that it took so long to judge, I lost my connection for about a month. It happens.
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Contest Winners
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by Blkwidow77 138 lines, 78 comments, on May 26 8:44 PM 2006. In Adult, Humor, Contemporary
Gold trophy winner
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Put the plaid into perspective, put the girl
inside her boxby Blkwidow77 95 lines, 51 comments, on Jul 30 1:15 AM 2006. In Personal, Dark, Contemporary
Silver trophy winner
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I lay awake, / early in the morn / wondering why / you left me so torn / with the knowledge that / there's nothing I can do, / nothing I caby lexie like woah 18 lines, 19 comments, on May 20 8:19 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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When I hear your voice, / chills go up my spine, / my stomach goes up my throat, / I am afraid of it / When I see you, / the hardness in yo• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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In all the tales of love / many Romeo have lived / many Juliet were separated / many tales have been said / on graves of love, but none / S• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Hold me as I climb to the top, / don't let me fall, / and if I do, / will you catch me? / I feel a hand push me off, / I plummet downward. / Was it you who pushed me? / Icy hands catch me,by killerxwishes 38 lines, on Jul 20 5:07 PM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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Deep swam the souls in the darkness, of course
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The pen flows / The eyes follow / Indetining beautiful flowing words / A story of adventure / Of princes and princesses / A story of dangerby liduen 29 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 18 3:49 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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The place where sky and land meet / The place where your goals reach / The place where the sun begins and ends / The place where your hopes extend / Border of the world / Sunrise and sunset / They say a water• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Let the earth come alive, / Show its colors and thrive. / Let the Winter chill recede, / green grass and warmth proceed. / Let the butterflies leave its cocoons, / feel its wings beat soft tu• Viewed by judge.
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O incestuous beast thou eats my flesh. / A pestilence immune / That sleeps with snakes. / I have seen the lifeless eyes of the human farmer and was unscathed. / Yet your eyes are mine own. / A porthby nerd42189 21 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 20 7:02 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Well I am looking for a "critique" for a poem of mine However it has recently won gold.. can i enter it?? Or I can enter it and u remove it if u don't like it or if u don't like the idea of having a poem that has won before..
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I am a masochist, and I don't expect to place.
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I bet you have a better chance than 95% of those who posted already.
of course, in an "anonymous" contest: you never know.
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I logged out and looked, and I've heard of or read before, at least 9 of thsoe who entered.
See, the thing with those people (at least a few of them) I wish they'd enter the ones that I actually take time to think up. But, no, "they" are getting just as lazy as the rest of the idiots on here.
This is why I stopped reading/commenting on peoples work. Because if you GIVE lazy, you're going to GET back lazy, from me.
It's too bad, too. I used to come up with really good "contests". But, it seems people are just too lazy for those.
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Lazy is boring in art of any form. I'm with you on that one.
Mine aren't lazy, they're all first drafts, though and that's why I put them here. I figured at best, you'd point out what I've missed and at best, I'd place. It's a win-win for me.
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my 3 entrys
i am wanting a critigue on my pieces...thank you!!..its been a while since i wrote any new poems..i seemed to have lost something..i love poetry...i hope to start writing again..thnk you for any critgue you have for me . -
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Well, before I get to them, it's spelled: critique - with a "q" not a "g".
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Regardless of how I do at the end of this mess, I hope you find a few that make it worth the reading. (hands you a paddle).
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Am I to spank you with the paddle?
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It was actually to help you wade through the bullshit, but whatever works.
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I just got home from work and it seems I've offended someone. They left me 5 IM's saying the basics:
"I have [number here] books that says my poetry is good [I bet it's all self-publishing] and you do not know what you're talking about."
Then she said in the same breath with many misspellings and all in capital letters (all her IM's were CAPPED) "God bless you."
The next IM said:
"Perhaps you just do not understand "my" poetry. Perhaps you just do not understand who I am. And I really do not care [...even though I left you 5 IM's that obviously states I do] but who died and made you [sic] President?"
That last part: never heard that one before, I must place that on my list (I don't have a list).
The next IM said:
"You write your poetry, and I'll write mine."
And the one thing I mentioned above:
"..if you do not have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all!"
She didn't say it like that but I cleaned it up.
The next IM said:
"You're just jealous!"
Misspellings in that one line she said with extentions of exclamation marks. I cleaned it up.
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Well, maybe it was 4 and not 5. Still, that's a lot for nothing.
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hahahahahhaahahahahahahahah.
I'm so going to do that when you critique mine. hahahahhahahahah.
Because I KNOW you don't understand my poetry or who I am. I also know you're jealous of me. How could you not desperately want to be a five foot tall female with the writing abilities I have?
I also know you're super mean and personal in your critiques, my feelings will get hurt, and it will take months for me to put up more bad poetry and get REAL critiques like, "Nice rite! Keep pemming" before I feel good about myself again.
Hurry up and get down the list so I can do that!
Oh yeah- fuk dixshunaries!!!!
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I just read a piece that received a gold trophy in another contest. If the judge of that contest based her/his judgement solely on the emotional impact of the piece then perhaps it's deserving of a bronze - but not a gold.
It's the 5th poem I've read in this Contest that is not very good poetry and it has received a gold trophy. Sort of makes me think that "anyone" shouldn't hold a Contest, don't care whether it's for fun or not.
I say this 'cause there are people here, mainly the "bad writers" who take winning any sort of trophy as recognition that they are a good writer and will showcase it on their myspace or other websites etc., as being an achievement when it really isn't. A pixelated icon means nothing to publishers outside the e-world, and to some in the e-world that are serious publishers - it means nothing to them either.
It just makes the website that allows such idiocy to become a joke to the rest of the so-called "serious" literature websites out there.
At least that's what I'm thinking right now.
I think judging this contest will be longer and more strenious on my brain than I thought.
I do not care if it takes me a year, the other Contests I hold will be of a more stricter accord and if I get zero entries or just 5 entries it'll be better than seeing people with badly written poems with gold trophies.
I can stand badly written poems (to a point, I have removed 3 already that I just couldn't stand at all) but with a gold trophy attached to them - that's just too much.
I mean, I've had bad poetry of mine win trophies, but, they were purely out of sarcasm on my part and sarcasm on the judges part.
This place is seeming more like a joke than anything else.
Anyway ..
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Five feet tall? Maybe in 5 inch heels
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2 inch heels.
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I guess I didn't comment on any of your submissions. If I didn't find anything that I felt was in error or I just didn't care for at all, then there most-likely isn't anything wrong with it.
I noticed you and onerios13 didn't place in my final list (or perhaps one of those missing 4 I couldn't find belong to you two?) - that's weird.
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Nostalgia is mine. I made it to the "nod in your direction" list which is good.
I always take no comment as a good sign. It at least means I didn't fuck up the grammar or spelling.
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Well, see, there ya go.
If Morgan (JustBe) didn't remove his two pieces "Yellowed" and "Spin Cycle", they probably would have taken 2 of the 3 trophies above.
I really liked "Yellowed". That would have taken 2nd and "Spin Cycle" probably would have taken 3rd.
Eh, that's how it goes.
I removed 19 entries myself, 14 of which were just "shoot me in the head" bad.
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REALLY??? TRULY??? OH My!
I won a trophy? Dancing and thinking I am so lucky because look how many entries there are here! Thank you! 
And hey everybody, you are so cool, everyone! 
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I rarely care for rhyme by contemporary writers. But, there were a few in this Contest that didn't make me want to gouge out my eyes.
And your piece was the first piece I've read in a really long time that used Middle English well.
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I thought you'd never judge, so I removed my entries. That saved you the trouble from removing them...
Great pick though!
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Then if I didn't view them before you removed them. You didn't make the list.
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Hmm... I am glad?! *eyes rolling*
Yeah you didn't. I removed them a few days back.
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Okay, I found out who wrote "Yellowed" and "Spin Cycle". They were written by JustBe (Morgan). He removed them because he entered them in for publication.
The person who wrote the other one must have changed its name or deleted it from the website - I can't find that one anywhere.
Oh well.
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I don't remember being removed But I remember removing two of my poems which you didn't view.
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Ah. Thank you for the nod.
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