I believe this is my 7th contest (can't remember) and I seem to be having bad luck with getting people to join. I'm hoping to get a much bigger crowd on this one.
I will add more points later in the contest, when I know that more people have joined. I plan on adding quite a few Honorable Mentions.
So here's the deal:
I've made a list of lyrics, two from each song that I chose.
Pick a lyric and let it inspire your poem.
For "extra credit", pick a song and write 2 poems. One for each of the lines given for that song. I will most likely choose a winner who does two poems, though only one of their poems will recieve points.
I will comment on all poems.
Ruls
1. No chat speak or sticky cap.
2. Keep it clean. This is an all-ages contest.
3. Name the SONG and LYRIC # in the author's notes.
4. Put YOUR NAME at the bottom of your work so I can identify if you entered one or two poems.
Songs
Inside Out (Eve 6)
1. The tick tock of the clock is painful, all sane and logical. I want to tear it off the wall.
2. I'm not as ugly, sad as you.
Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
1. I look inside myself and see my heart is black.
2. If I look hard enough into the settin' sun, my love will laugh with me before the mornin' comes.
You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette)
1. And I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away.
2. 'Cause the joke that you laid in the bed that was me, and I'm not gonna fade as soon as you close your eyes .
Slept So Long (Orgy)
1. I see hell in your eyes.
2. I've killed a million petty souls, but I could't kill you.
The Masterplan (Oasis)
1. Take the time to make some sense of what you want to say and cast your words away upon the waves.
2. Dance if you want to dance.
Gone Away (Offspring)
1. It feels like the world has grown cold, now that you've gone away.
2. I reach to the sky and call out your name. And if I could trade, I would.
Round Here (Counting Crows)
1. In between the moon and you, angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
2. She looks up at the building, says she's thinking of jumping. She says she's tired of life. She must be tired of something.
When You Were Young (The Killers)
1. And sometimes you close your eyes and see the place where you used to live when you were young.
2. You sit there in your heartache, waiting on some beautiful boy to save you from your old ways.
Across The Universe (The Beatles)
1. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.
2. Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
they call me on and on across the universe.
When You're Evil (Voltaire)
1. It's so easy when you're evil. This is the life, you see; the Devil tips his hat to me.
2. I pledge my allegiance to all things dark, and I promise on my damned soul to do as I am told.
Pepper (Butthole Surfers)
1. I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows.
2. I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes.
Embraceable You (Frank Sinatra)
1. Just one look at you, my heart grew tipsy in me.
2. I love all the many charms about you. Above all, I want these arms about you.
Best Of You (Foo Fighters)
1. I was too weak to give in, too strong to lose.
2. Its real, the pain you feel, the life, the love, you'd die to heal.
Lucky (Bif Naked)
1. How could i ever get over you, when i'd give my life for yours.
2. I thank god for you in each and every single way.
The Thin Ice (Pink Floyd)
1. The sea may look warm to you babe and the sky may look blue.
2. You slip out of your depth and out of your mind with your fear flowing out behind you as you claw the thin ice.
I will add more points later in the contest, when I know that more people have joined. I plan on adding quite a few Honorable Mentions.
So here's the deal:
I've made a list of lyrics, two from each song that I chose.
Pick a lyric and let it inspire your poem.
For "extra credit", pick a song and write 2 poems. One for each of the lines given for that song. I will most likely choose a winner who does two poems, though only one of their poems will recieve points.
I will comment on all poems.
Ruls
1. No chat speak or sticky cap.
2. Keep it clean. This is an all-ages contest.
3. Name the SONG and LYRIC # in the author's notes.
4. Put YOUR NAME at the bottom of your work so I can identify if you entered one or two poems.
Songs
Inside Out (Eve 6)
1. The tick tock of the clock is painful, all sane and logical. I want to tear it off the wall.
2. I'm not as ugly, sad as you.
Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
1. I look inside myself and see my heart is black.
2. If I look hard enough into the settin' sun, my love will laugh with me before the mornin' comes.
You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette)
1. And I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away.
2. 'Cause the joke that you laid in the bed that was me, and I'm not gonna fade as soon as you close your eyes .
Slept So Long (Orgy)
1. I see hell in your eyes.
2. I've killed a million petty souls, but I could't kill you.
The Masterplan (Oasis)
1. Take the time to make some sense of what you want to say and cast your words away upon the waves.
2. Dance if you want to dance.
Gone Away (Offspring)
1. It feels like the world has grown cold, now that you've gone away.
2. I reach to the sky and call out your name. And if I could trade, I would.
Round Here (Counting Crows)
1. In between the moon and you, angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
2. She looks up at the building, says she's thinking of jumping. She says she's tired of life. She must be tired of something.
When You Were Young (The Killers)
1. And sometimes you close your eyes and see the place where you used to live when you were young.
2. You sit there in your heartache, waiting on some beautiful boy to save you from your old ways.
Across The Universe (The Beatles)
1. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.
2. Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
they call me on and on across the universe.
When You're Evil (Voltaire)
1. It's so easy when you're evil. This is the life, you see; the Devil tips his hat to me.
2. I pledge my allegiance to all things dark, and I promise on my damned soul to do as I am told.
Pepper (Butthole Surfers)
1. I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows.
2. I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes.
Embraceable You (Frank Sinatra)
1. Just one look at you, my heart grew tipsy in me.
2. I love all the many charms about you. Above all, I want these arms about you.
Best Of You (Foo Fighters)
1. I was too weak to give in, too strong to lose.
2. Its real, the pain you feel, the life, the love, you'd die to heal.
Lucky (Bif Naked)
1. How could i ever get over you, when i'd give my life for yours.
2. I thank god for you in each and every single way.
The Thin Ice (Pink Floyd)
1. The sea may look warm to you babe and the sky may look blue.
2. You slip out of your depth and out of your mind with your fear flowing out behind you as you claw the thin ice.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 31, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 150, Bronze: 75, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: Wow, great entries. Sorry it took so long to end this. I had a few requests for extensions and ended up giving it somewhere around 4 weeks for entries. Thank you all so much for entering. I hope you had fun with the writing prompts, that's why I do contests. Look for more by me in the future.
Love, Morrigan Trinity.....Yeah, I said "Love."
Contest Winners
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This Life, This Heart Wont Last Forever
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Bodies laid before me
a million facesby Eire Go Brach 14 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 16 6:10 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
If I stare into the sun
mama always saidby Eire Go Brach 16 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 16 6:01 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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so does that mean we submit two different poems or put them in one entry?
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I just found this contest and think I can come come up with a couple entries but only if there is a deadline extension. Is there any likelihood of that?
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Hey great lyrics! I'd love to write at least two poems for this...but in one day? Any chance the comp will go longer?
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I've had terrible writers' block for weeks. 24hrs and I hope to be finished. Please?
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Thanks for hosting and providing great lyrics to work with and for awarding mine an HM,
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