This is for poems of ten lines or less.
Enter as often as you like.
Enter all your short poems if you like. If you don't have any, you can write some new ones.
The one and only rule is: If I have already commented on your poem, you can not enter it.
I promise to comment on every poem that is entered, but I do give honest comments. If I don't like it, I will tell you that I don't like it. If you can't handle that, then don't enter.
Now, let's have some fun.
How many entries can we get? Let's go for the record.
Enter as often as you like.
Enter all your short poems if you like. If you don't have any, you can write some new ones.
The one and only rule is: If I have already commented on your poem, you can not enter it.
I promise to comment on every poem that is entered, but I do give honest comments. If I don't like it, I will tell you that I don't like it. If you can't handle that, then don't enter.
Now, let's have some fun.
How many entries can we get? Let's go for the record.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 26, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50, Honorable mention: 14 people
- Final notes: Thank you all for entering my contest. There were 358 entries. I was slightly overwhelmed. I think I commented on every poem entered. I know that I read every one. This was very hard to judge because there were so many excellent writes entered. The HMs are in no particular order and probably would have won a trophy in many of my other contests. It was very hard to narrow it down to three winners, but I did the best that I could.
Contest Winners
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Call me irreverent for I flout the rules
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There once was a guy named McCain Whose policies were quite insane.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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Caged by light white bars,
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I didn't remember
leaving the book behindby Blankscreen2222 6 lines, 15 comments, on Sep 28 8:38 PM 2007. In What the sky did.
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the now-solitary soprano finds a quiet cloister
of age-worn stone.by Amazon Huntress 12 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 24 7:26 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Life Honorable mention
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Sometimes silence can be too heavy a cost to pay...
by Fourthaxis 24 lines, 11 comments, on Feb 15 12:04 PM 2008. In Sad, Weird, Contemporary, My own style, Contest Honorable mention
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Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
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Did I not say that you could never escape? Even love cannot save you, this time around.• Commented on by judge.
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Destruction is nothing I haven’t perceived. Seduction is your heart warm smiles.by heavenskyy 9 lines, 2 comments, on May 24 10:54 PM 2008. In other• Commented on by judge.
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I want to kiss that rise on your throat. The pronounced larynx that creates your voice,by HinsleyFord 10 lines, 1 comment, on May 24 10:22 PM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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Please dont give up on me Dont die...I wont let youby DeathByFault 4 lines, 3 comments, on May 17 8:01 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Awake elements
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Fearing the journey not quite paved.
Guilded reflections of pleasures past.by workingharleylady 5 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 13 11:05 AM 2008. In http://allpoetry.com/contest/2385846, Contest• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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this garden pathby workingharleylady 4 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 8 5:48 PM 2008. In Cinquain, Contest, Picture inspired• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Seasons change doth ebbs Wilst yon ye long years journey• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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My love, I'm so sorry I could do nothing to save you.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The ocean roars deep inside of me
It tells me all is not lost nor foundby creativlyinsane 9 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 22 9:30 PM 2007. In personal• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Static cognizance vacillates Coalescing perspectives obscureby crewsaouya 6 lines, 2 comments, on May 22 3:19 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Sinking into you
touching a tenderness I never knew existed.by AudreyEvans 14 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 16 7:04 AM 2008. In Sexual Sensum, Love, Contemporary, Beauty• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Life has been put on hold
Just for one nightby scars-of-yesterday 11 lines, 6 comments, on May 23 6:52 PM 2008. In Life• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
It's a fool who tries - to subdue her mind
a cigarette - tossed in the grassby lechap 8 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 29 11:25 AM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Pour out the white sand and climb up real high.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The stream of all my consciousness flows by• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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wasp-nest night... what does it matter to meby Bitter Irony 4 lines, 2 comments, on May 24 8:16 PM 2008. In tanka• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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seaside we talk about resumingby Bitter Irony 4 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 13 4:27 PM 2008. In tanka• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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18 entries already?
thats gonna be hard to beat...
but ima enter anyways
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wow over 100 entries??? Thats a lot!!! Good luck with the contest.
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*cannot is one word
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These are excerpts from online dictionaries:
Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.
Cannot is sometimes also spelled can not. The one-word spelling is by far the more common: Interest rates simply cannot continue at their present level.
Many dictionaries define cannot as: as a contraction for can not.
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'Cannot' has always looked better to me...personal pet peeve I guess. Still, good to know that both are valid.
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How can you possibly judge a contest with this many entries? Lordy!
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