Young Writers Society

The Neapolitan Games: WEEK TWO... April 8-April 14

Strawberry Challenge

- Time to add a little extra kick to your poetry, and try out new skills! Use The Poetic Element: Personification in your poem this week (between April 8-14) and post the link in this thread to claim the badge.

Personification - is a poetic element, that refers to the projection of human characteristics into inanimate objects or non-human things.

Vanilla Challenge

- Was your poem a "NaPo Classic"? If your poem used The Poetry Theme of... Astronomy or Eclipses between April 8-14 you can claim this badge. Just link to the poem, and quote the line that you think follows that theme/topic to claim the badge.

Chocolate Challenge

- Time to go out and read some sweet sweet poetry! Find the NaPo poem among the other threads from this week that uses These NaPo Lines: "The sun ascends, its warmth renewed / Melting ice and solitude. / Robins trill, their notes take wing, /Winter yields to gentle spring." posted between April 4 - April 8 and PM the answer to @alliyah to claim this badge. Try not to use the "search forums" option to locate it.



If you win a challenge, in addition to earning a cool badge, you also can get 25 points! Any questions? Ask below!

Also please pull up a new spot for week two claiming just so I can keep track of everything more easily. Thank you so much for participating!

Strawberry
11| How I Wish I weren't that pitful - Villanelle

When the sun smiled at me

Vanilla
10| I finally saw stars - Haiku

That I saw beyond the world
The beautiful stars

Chocolate
Sent it!

Week Two

Strawberry Challenge - 'tis the season to be cloudy (I personified the clouds)

Vanilla Challenge - eclipses cause apocalypses

Chocolate Challenge - PM sent!

My spot!!

Spot!

Strawberry:

Vanilla:
under the rain shadow
The entire poem XD but also this:

A poem for the eclipse
and its watchers.

Chocolate:

Vanilla challenge: it's more about not watching the eclipse but it's there...ink spilled on atrophied wings

Strawberry challenge: how about an emo mosquito? ink spilled on atrophied wings

Strawberry: on code and conlangs (it's a little abstract, but i was trying to personify a web page XD)

Vanilla: Even the moon is eclipsed by the earth's shadow (the title says it all xD) but a more specific set of lines:

Tes yeux sont ma lune.
¿Y quien necesita la tierra cuando tú estás aquí?

translated:

Your eyes are my moon.
And who needs the earth when you are here?

orrrr possibly this one: on code and conlangs

every day i send desperate thoughts into the universe,

Chocolate: PM sent!

Week Two

Strawberry Challenge:
Origami Hearts Shaped like Poetry
For the lines:

I asked the stars why we drifted apart, and they spoke in tongues I couldn't understand. But hypothetically, they told me everything I already knew.

Vanilla Challenge:
Origami Hearts Shaped like Poetry
For the lines:

Hypothetically, if I were Jupiter and you were Mars, we would be closer than we are right now.

And like the rest of the poem XDD

WEEK TWO: April 8 - April 14

Strawberry Challenge

Vanilla Challenge

astronomer's choice- "fickle things, these constellations. abstraction/must be my love language— i can speak to you only/in nebulous metaphors, and you do not understand/these signals of light that are lost in translation,/flickering out somewhere six feet above hoarded stars."

Chocolate Challenge

Half way through National Poetry Month? Hard to believe right? Here's our next sweet set of Neopolitan Winners!

Strawberry Challenge

@AmayaStatham
@herbalhour
@LuminescentAnt
@niteowl
@Spearmint
@WeepingWisteria
@Rose

Vanilla Challenge

@AmayaStatham
@herbalhour
@LuminescentAnt
@Que
@niteowl
@Spearmint
@WeepingWisteria
@SilverNight
@Rose

(please don't forget to quote me the line you are referring to please!)

Chocolate Challenge

The line came from a wonderful poem by @IcyFlame (The 4th Poem in their thread)
@WeepingWisteria (first to find!)
@herbalhour
@Que
@Spearmint
@AmayaStatham
@Rose
@LuminescentAnt

(points + badges will be sent momentarily, let me know if I missed you! And congratulations to all!)

The Neapolitan Games: WEEK THREE.. April 16-April 22

Strawberry Challenge

- Time to add a little extra kick to your poetry, and try out new skills! Use The Poetic Element: Paradox in your poem this week (between April 26-30) and post the link with a quote / explanation in this thread to claim the badge.

Paradox - is a poetic element, that refers to making a statement that is seemingly contradictory - by presenting two conflicting ideas together simultaneously (like peace and war) or linking two contradictory concepts together like an oxymoron of "awfully good," "deafening silence"... etc. A lot of times poems rely on making comparisons of similarity through metaphor - a paradox stretches the mind and your writing in a different way through contrast.

Vanilla Challenge

- Was your poem a "NaPo Classic"? If your poem used The Poetry Theme of... Underwater / Diving between April 16-22 you can claim this badge. Just link to the poem, and quote the line that you think follows that theme/topic to claim the badge.

Chocolate Challenge

- Time to go out and read some sweet sweet poetry! Find the NaPo poem among the other threads from this week that uses This NaPo Line: "all water looks shallow in the dark" posted between April 12-16 and PM the answer to @alliyah to claim this badge. Try not to use the "search forums" option to locate it.



If you win a challenge, in addition to earning a cool badge, you also can get 25 points! Any questions? Ask below!

Also please pull up a new spot for week two claiming just so I can keep track of everything more easily. Thank you so much for participating!

Strawberry
16| My Sour Happiness

You took all the oxygen
and left me on an unbreathable environment,
The last place I wished to be, Earth.
As you left for the habitable universe

Vanilla
17| Not My Time Yet

actually the entire poem is about underwater

I took a breath, bubbles escaping while
My lungs slowly filled with water
As I tried
to reach the surface again

Chocolate
Sent, but it was late...

Week Three

Strawberry Challenge - love is not caring ~ I think because love is considered something that is caring, “love is not caring” is a paradox??

Vanilla Challenge - oceanic paradise ~ The poem is about being underwater

Chocolate Challenge - Nope