Hello everyone!!!
Basically, I just felt like having a contest and I'm brain-dead for good topics. So...I thought I'd let you choose that. I'm looking for any poems (good or bad, long or short, rhyming or free-verse, trophy-winner or not, WHATEVER!) that you feel like entering.
I'll put this warning up now though: I may not get around to judging for a while - it really all depends on how much free time I get. With my last contest, I hardly had any free time when it came for judging time, and I felt really bad about it, so this is a fair warning. I repeat: I MAY NOT GET AROUND TO JUDGING AS QUICKLY AS YOU MIGHT LIKE.
Anyway, now that that's said, here are the:
Rules:
1) nO sTiCkY cApS
2) No txt spk (unless trying to get a point across with it in the poem)
3) No erotica - that's the only genre I won't take
4) No bashing of other poets/poems
5) Author's Notes are not required, but I like having them to read just to get a better feel for why you wrote the poem
6) Any genre (other than erotica) is accepted - that means suicide, love, cutting, emo, gory (blood and guts), anything. Sad, happy, I don't really have a preference.
7) HAVE FUN!
PS: I comment on each poem formally, so that's why it may take a while and if I get enough entries (and therefore, more points by commenting) I'll raise the prizes and add more HM's.
And because everyone is wondering and I forgot to include it here: YOU MAY ONLY ENTER ONE TIME. This is to avoid one person winning all or multiple prizes and it also lets everyone have an equal chance at winning. Thanks!
Basically, I just felt like having a contest and I'm brain-dead for good topics. So...I thought I'd let you choose that. I'm looking for any poems (good or bad, long or short, rhyming or free-verse, trophy-winner or not, WHATEVER!) that you feel like entering.
I'll put this warning up now though: I may not get around to judging for a while - it really all depends on how much free time I get. With my last contest, I hardly had any free time when it came for judging time, and I felt really bad about it, so this is a fair warning. I repeat: I MAY NOT GET AROUND TO JUDGING AS QUICKLY AS YOU MIGHT LIKE.
Anyway, now that that's said, here are the:
Rules:
1) nO sTiCkY cApS
2) No txt spk (unless trying to get a point across with it in the poem)
3) No erotica - that's the only genre I won't take
4) No bashing of other poets/poems
5) Author's Notes are not required, but I like having them to read just to get a better feel for why you wrote the poem
6) Any genre (other than erotica) is accepted - that means suicide, love, cutting, emo, gory (blood and guts), anything. Sad, happy, I don't really have a preference.
7) HAVE FUN!
PS: I comment on each poem formally, so that's why it may take a while and if I get enough entries (and therefore, more points by commenting) I'll raise the prizes and add more HM's.
And because everyone is wondering and I forgot to include it here: YOU MAY ONLY ENTER ONE TIME. This is to avoid one person winning all or multiple prizes and it also lets everyone have an equal chance at winning. Thanks!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on July 18, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 100, Bronze: 75, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: Thank you all for taking the time to enter this contest. It was a hard decision. Congrats to all.
Contest Winners
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by whits end 15 lines, 1 comment, on May 30 1:27 PM 2008. In Life, Other, Thoughts, Adult, Lost in thought, Friendship, Longing
Bronze trophy winner
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"You ask me if I want to score?
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She sits right there
She stares into nowhere• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
'http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p177/MiZZ_AmAyA/Contest%20One/7.gif'• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 4285501, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 4268202, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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as Love's potent poison flows through mine veins
i pray thee Love poison me again• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Honorable mention
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Minutes later he flickers, then blinks outby ClaustrophobicJoy 20 lines, 16 comments, on Jun 18 4:53 PM 2008• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
you kissed my lips so passionately you held my hand so tightby paperbackwriter 32 lines, 8 comments, on May 27 5:39 PM 2008• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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The pain it hurts in so many different ways I feel like I’m broken on the insideby XxemohatexX 21 lines, on May 30 3:48 PM 2008• Viewed by judge.
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Please take plenty of time over your judging... I have discovered a way of circumventing the horribly brief 3 week limit that Allpoetry considers is sufficient for judging... You just open the competition again for a few minutes and alter the closing date to whatever is currently your "yesterday".
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Alright, thank you for the tip!
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How many times can we enter
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how many could we enter?
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ok, i just found out. thx!
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Sorry about that, I forgot to include it. You may only enter once, that way nobody ends up winning all or multiple prizes and everyone gets the same chance at winning.
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how many timaes can i enter
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Boy am I confused o.o It says I have a poem in your contest, on my poem page, but I looked through your whole list and my poem isn't there.
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