You are going to take me to someplace I love. "How?" you say. By the awesome power of your pen! Yes, I've been on a trip around the world and through time and it is the poets of AP that have been taking me on this wonderful journey.
Now I'm ready to travel to the next fabulous location on my world tour. Are you?
The place you wll take me for this contest is Japan, the place of my birth. I want you to take me there with your poem. I want to feel it, see it, experience the emotions of it. It can be modern Japan or the Japan of antiquity or any other time in history. It can be the Japan of reality or the idealized, romanticized Japan of your imagination.
Just make me feel it. I'm giving you enough time to research it if you want. You have enough time to create something I can see, feel, experience. Just don't make it read like a school sociology or geography report. Make it poetry! Use imagery to write the emotions of being there.
Rules:
-Keep it clean please.
-Anonymous Contest: don't reply to or rate my comments until after the winners are awarded
-Line limit: at least 5 but may be more
-No prewrites
-One entry per poet
-HMs may be added
-Don't title your poem "Japan" (You are more creative than that!)
And now.....TAKE ME TO JAPAN!
Now I'm ready to travel to the next fabulous location on my world tour. Are you?
The place you wll take me for this contest is Japan, the place of my birth. I want you to take me there with your poem. I want to feel it, see it, experience the emotions of it. It can be modern Japan or the Japan of antiquity or any other time in history. It can be the Japan of reality or the idealized, romanticized Japan of your imagination.
Just make me feel it. I'm giving you enough time to research it if you want. You have enough time to create something I can see, feel, experience. Just don't make it read like a school sociology or geography report. Make it poetry! Use imagery to write the emotions of being there.
Rules:
-Keep it clean please.
-Anonymous Contest: don't reply to or rate my comments until after the winners are awarded
-Line limit: at least 5 but may be more
-No prewrites
-One entry per poet
-HMs may be added
-Don't title your poem "Japan" (You are more creative than that!)
And now.....TAKE ME TO JAPAN!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on September 10, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 350, Bronze: 150, Honorable mention: 1 people
- Final notes: I absolutely loved the entries of for this contest. You all touched my heart with your wonderful poems of the land of my birth. Thank you so very much.
I have been enjoying my trip around the world but I'm getting anxious to get back home. Please consider taking me to Hawaii for my next stop.
http://allpoetry.com/contest/show/2368758
Here are your winners.
Gold - Chado (The Way of Tea)
Silver - Land Of The Rising Sun
Bronze - Fushimi Inara Taisha
Honorable Mention - Liaison
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all.
Contest Winners
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Come to me
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Sunlight streams between
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Within me
my memory and genesby butterflywriter 30 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 26 5:49 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 3344842, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Honorable mention
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I added my piece...
title here still showing reserved, but it's there
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Wonderful. I'm so glad you entered a poem.
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can we enter more than once?
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Sorry, one entry per poet. Enter your best. Thanks.
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Thank you for the trophy, congrats to all the winners!
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Thank you for the HM and many congratulations to the Gold winner..Exquisite poem
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