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April Madness 2017



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Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:28 pm
Gravity says...



I'd like to drop my place in the line-up. I have so much going on right now, I don't even know what I was thinking when I signed up for this. I'm sorry.
And the heart is hard to translate
It has a language of its own
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs,
And prayers and proclamations

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Thu Mar 30, 2017 8:02 pm
LMJRayner says...



Sign me up as a replacement! Damn shame I saw this too late :( but nevermind I'll wait pen in hand in the shadows.
  





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Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:05 pm
Gravity says...



@LMJRayner, luckily for you I just dropped out so... :) I was just saving your spot for you I guess XD
And the heart is hard to translate
It has a language of its own
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs,
And prayers and proclamations

-Florence + The Machine (All This and Heaven Too)
  





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Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:16 pm
LMJRayner says...



Wicked, thanks for keeping it warm haha!
  





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Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:42 am
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Big Brother says...



No problem @Gravity and yes that makes room for you @LMJRayner so welcome to the tournament!

Submissions open in less than 10 hours and you will then have 48 hours to submit your first poem!

The pairings for round 1 are as follows (teams have been randomly generated using team generator https://www.randomlists.com/team-generator)

Group 1

@Hannah
@steam1244
@Sheyren

Group 2

@PrincessInk
@fortis
@Meshugenah

Group 3

@Aley
@alliyah
@Nikayla

Group 4

@Lumi
@Casanova
@Willard

Group 5

@TheSilverFox
@silverhanded
@LMJRayner

Group 6

@niteowl
@Rydia
@Audy

This can be seen in image format here - http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk93 ... hgp61r.jpg

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Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:05 pm
LMJRayner says...



Do you post the poem as normal? Or is there a separate place to send them?
  





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Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:18 am
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Willard says...



Submission

Spoiler! :

i've started star gazing in church parking lots
to spot Ursa Minor and trace the shape
with two fingers and blind precision.
Occasionally I'll skip a beat
and the Little Dipper becomes
the Little Dipper with a birth defect.

For every star,
I calculate how long ago they died
and if they were there
for when Marilyn Monroe died,
the Manson murders occurred,
or when I spilled all to someone
over bad phone connection
about how I was afraid
of the future.

I miss you.
Well, at least I used to.

When anxiety takes over
and I can no longer see
which stars make the tail
of Ursa Minor,
I think of you.

I think of the last time
the rhythm of my heart
made me sick,
how I ruined a friendship
and pondered the ways
to pull your ship
back onto my waves,
eventually pondering the ways
how to capsize your ship,
then excessively apologizing.

i'm sorry
I'm not.
I'm happy
Only nostalgic.
Last edited by Willard on Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:25 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:41 am
Virgil says...



Question: Would I be able to use a poem that I wrote on March 31st my time, a couple of hours before April 1st for me for the contest, or does the 2 days before rule not count there? I'm considering it, but I don't know if I'm allowed or not--I wrote it for my Number Zero poem for NaPo, but it was around three hours from April 1st at the time.

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Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:46 am
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Rydia says...



@LMJRayner Post it in this thread please.

@Nikayla I'm afraid not! The nature of the contest is NaPo so it has to be written in April so the 2 day rule doesn't apply in this round.
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Sun Apr 02, 2017 4:06 pm
Virgil says...



That's okay! I'll just have to find another poem to use, which I surely will have, haha.

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Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:38 pm
LMJRayner says...



Submission

Spoiler! :

You are the wind,
you are beneath my feet,
you can carry me far,
and yet you drop me so.

You are the storm,
you can rip the roof off our home,
you can whistle and whisper,
and yet you roar at me so.

You are the summer,
you are red and warm,
you are the brightest light,
and yet you burn me so.

You are fire in the dark,
you are hope when hope is lost,
you are always there,
and yet you ignore me so.

You are poison,
you disguise and lie,
you hurt and break,
and yet I love you so
  





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Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:23 am
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silverhanded says...



submission

Spoiler! :
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Last edited by silverhanded on Fri May 11, 2018 4:04 am, edited 1 time in total.
  





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Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:36 am
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Audy says...



Spoiler! :

Grieves the sun thumbing
the plumbs of my belly
an egg carton in its naked contours,
molded pulp ridges, deliberately barren.
And needs little done to scatter that fever
of broken-shelled conscience.

Monster is
part of forgiving myself for my ambivalence
sitting here with hunger-fatigue for those mothers,
those button-eyed children and cherub wonders.
I cannot envy when I am empty.

Monster, not mother,
when only I could think of wanting a world,
despite the moons of pain
the feel of craving a deep, deep yearning
for mothercraft, for the rites of the mythical,
the balance, the semblance of a challenge.

Monster, the exiled
so hard to believe the world wants for us
sisters and brothers and friends in our other,
when one morning I grew up
and remained a child.
  





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Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:40 am
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Meshugenah says...



Spoiler! :

drought, n.
    1. abnormally low rainfall
    2. a prolonged absence
    3. thirst
    4. california in the summertime
we wish for lack of certain things - bugs, sunshine, and the sense that cold is a construct we collectively hallucinate to justify why we live where you can fry an egg on the sidewalk at three and still burn your feet on cement at midnight.
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Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:40 am
Aley says...



Spoiler! :
RAINDROPS

Rapping on my roof drips
And drops little lifegiving grains
Into the soil below. I love it
Now, after learning all it
Does for us, all it creates,
Revives, and supports.
Oh, if only I could be as
Productive as the rain
Steeping our world in life.
  








Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
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