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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: New Poetry Contest |
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Hey everyone! Announcing a new poetry contest judged by no other than...me! lol  The poem must center around the theme of umbrellas. (Yeah, random object, but as they say, creativity is inspired in the unlikeliest places!) There's also a couple of rules to follow:
1. No profanity.
2. No explicit sexual content.
3. Have fun!
Besides these, make sure you follow the YWS rules, and you're good to go! Just post your entries here in this thread. The deadline is Friday, August 18, 2006. I'll announce the winner on Sunday, August 20. The prize is one week of crits for any of your work you'd like me to crit. If you have any questions just post them here! This is just a fun little contest I felt like doing, so hope lots of people enter! Good luck!
EDIT: Multiple entries are welcome.  |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Where do you post the entries, Wiggy? I suppose there's a line limit, then? |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Post em in this thread. Umm, I'm not going to make an actual limit, just don't have like a hundred lines or something! lol Just a stanza or a couple of stanzas is good. |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:59 am Post subject: |
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here i come:
After Dark
After dark on a moonless night,
When no stars shined and nothing was bright
I saw someone climbing through my window
More followed him all lined in a row.
They were tiny, they were lean.
On their faces were smiles so mean.
One frightened with his very ugly face.
One opened my cupboard and tore some lace.
Few broke the handle of my door,
Others shattered the mirror and much much more.
One sawed off the legs of my chair,
Few said bad words and fouled the air.
They ate all the cookies and the entire cake,
They threw my poem which had taken weeks to make,
They shouted in my ear and made me sick,
They sprang in my bed and gave me a kick.
Yet one I found sitting there so blue,
As if he was unwell and had not a clue.
He looked at me with a tearful eye;
A face so sad that it made one cry.
He caught my eye and tried say,
To stop them he would find a way.
His friends-maybe foes teased him a lot
For sitting still and breaking a thing a not.
All night they stayed and stole my sleep.
They stole my dreams and made me weep.
But when the sky showed signs of dawn
They scampered off across the lawn.
My room was a mess-a frightening one,
Everything broken and some things gone.
I tried to fix them but all in vain
It saddened me so and gave me pain.
After dark on a cloudless night,
When heaven was starry and the moon so bright,
I saw someone coming into my room
I knew what lay ahead and waited for doom.
Strangely enough only one did come
The one who had sat and had been mum.
He came with a flute in his small hand
With that he wove music heard in no land.
Throughout my room his music flowed,
As if by magic the dark wall glowed.
The broken things stirred and moved
As if to the music they danced and grooved.
After the very last notes were played,
My things were fixed-all new they lay.
The music joined then in minutes so few.
Outside the night sky was changing her hue.
Amazed was I at this enchanting charm
I thanked him for mending all of the harm.
Then as the first rays of morn did pour,
He scampered off and they came no more. |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:10 am Post subject: |
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The Umbrella
An overly taut piece of night,
so dark, cool and lovely,
flowed above and about my head
atop a sliver of bone
that shone and glimmered
A delicate tracery of brilliant silver,
stretched out and captured the darkness.
Immaculate, pristine
it nurtured and protected.
Closer inspection,
shore away the lie;
miniscule cracks ran up
the pure silver,
crumbling in my hand;
a fractured reflection of perfection.
The seamless shadow splintered,
letting in the cold,
a feeling of numbness
of despair and isolation;
I was no longer protected
but suddenly alone.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| Wow guys-awesome job! Sohini, I just have one question-what does yours have to do with umbrellas? I can sort of see it, but I'm just wondering. Thanks! And awesome poems both of you. I loved the bouncy tone of yours, sohini, and jig, what awesome descriptions! You both are definitely in. lol Keep the entries coming! |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| oh dear!! i missed the theme completely. sorry, so am i disqualified? |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| No...if you can write another poem by then that's great. And because your poem has to do with water and stuff, I guess it counts...but in order to really be "fair" you prolly need to write another poem (even though this one was really good too! ) |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| thanks but i suppose i won' be able to compose another one. sorry again. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't worry. I still consider it an entry. Nice job again! |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Contest is being extended to Sunday, August 20. Only 2 entries so far! Come on peeps! Winners will be announced on Tuesday. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh, I wanted to write an epic! The Ballad of Monsieur Umbrella or some such thing. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Go ahead! Just make sure you get it in by the deadline or pm it to me. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Contest is officially closed. I'll announce the winner tomorrow. Thanks to all that entered! |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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And the winner is...Jiggity!!!! Your poem was beautifully written, and I liked the uniqueness of it. Sohini, you did a fantastic job too. Thanks to both of you for entering, and jiggity, please pm me if you want anything critted. Thanks all!
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