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 Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: October '07 Poetry Contest |
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Congratulations to our entrants from last month!
Winner: alleycat13
Runner-up: Jasmine Hart
Honorable Mention: Reyu
I will post all entries from last month at the bottom of this thread.
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Now, it's time for the next contest! Tercets!
Deadlines: All entries are due by 11:59pm EST on October 31st.
Rules:
All entries must be tercets (and just because it's a tercet does not mean you should just throw one together, spend some time with it!). For this particular month, each entry must be a SET of tercets (can't make it TOO easy) and we will choose the best set (but they do not have to be tied together). Please PM all entries directly to me in lieu of posting them here on the thread. Only one winner will be chosen and it will be by majority vote.
The Prize:
The Winner will receive three critiques from the poetry crew (one per crew member) on the poetry piece (or three separate pieces) of your choice. The winner will also receive a spotlight in the poetry forums as the featured member of the month.
Tercets:
If you have a couplet and add a third line with the same end rhyme, you wind up with a tercet.
Ex:
Kitchen crickets make a din,
Sending taunts to chilly kin,
“You’re outside, but we got in.”
-Joan Bransfield Graham
Good luck!
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Last Month's Entries:
alleycat13-
The earth is fresh, and life begins to run
to fields of green beneath a blazing sun.
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Like red and gold, the leaves are swirling down,
and in the white and ice they slowly drown.
Jasmine Hart-
I'm sick of all your sordid sense
Chaining me fast to Pretense.
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I will still idolize the stars,
Too far away to leave a scar.
Reyu-
To be and Ox and wonder...
Communism is China's sunder?
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A white gown enamored with lace?
Not I; a nobleman's fall from grace.
vampiressjeanie
A clean slate
One more chance to make your first mistake
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A fresh start
Another chance for things to fall apart
gadi
I stood among the olive trees
Branches waving in the breeze
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And watched as they lowered the casket down
The King of Israel has lost his crown!
Kyte
Haven't see the light in a while.
I've gone and blown out my style.
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I'm gonna reach for the highest star
Be it Capricorn, Pegasus or just Mars!
Evangelina
If life was a flower, just waiting to be picked
then the scent and the image, we surely would have nicked!
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Despite the thorns and weeds galore,
once we had one smell, we’d need much more! |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Oooh. I think I'm going to enter! Some questions for clarities sake: so it must be a set meaning more than one stanza, so to speak, but they don't have to be linked...? Basically meaning I have to write more than one poem (tercet) if they are not connected in some way?
Sorry, I just want to clear things up before I start thinking.  |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Lol yes, two poems (not two stanzas, but two seperate poems). |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Do they all have to rhyme??? |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, all three lines rhyme. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| So two poems will be enough for the set? |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, a total of six lines, each set of three rhyming. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hrrmm... there is much possibility of my entering this... hrrmm hehehe
Looks much interesting, although I hardly ever rhyme >.<
*Hearts* Le Penguin. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Wait --- So we can't post it in the forums before we send it to you? |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| No, because if you do that then there is a chance of bias in the judging based on who wrote it. |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, Via, you changed your name. (everyone is changing their name now  )
I wanted to know if previous winners of the monthy contest can/should enter in the next one?
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, go ahead and enter if you like! It's up to you. As I mentioned, no one who is voting (except me) will even know who wrote what so if you win two months in a row then you are just that good 
alleycat, please try to get back to me on which poems you would like critiqued so I can dish them out as soon as you can! Thanks. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Only 9 days left for those of you that still plan on entering!
We only have 4 entries so far, though I hope to get more! |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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Contest Officially Closed! ....9 hours and 26 minutes ago...
Yea haha.
I'll post who the winner is as soon as the votes are in! |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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Wait...
Did you get my entry or no? |
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