ForumsArt, Music, and WritingTanka Contest Theme: Miracles Pg 19. Due: 29th

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MoonFairy
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As most of us know, the last Tanka Contest died. This is the new Tanka Contest! Ta-daaaaa!

Tanka consists of five units (often treated as separate lines when Romanized or translated) usually with the following mora pattern:
5-7-5-7-7.
The 5-7-5 is called the kami-no-ku ("upper phrase&quot, and the 7-7 is called the shimo-no-ku ("lower phrase&quot. Tanka is a much older form of Japanese poetry than haiku.

Rules
1) Must be original. NO PLAGARIZING ALLOWED!
2) Has to fit the Theme.
3) Submition deadline will be inforced.
4) Only one submission per user
5) The winner cannot win twice in a row.
6) The Tanka MUST be created for this contest.

Easy enough? And If you are questioning Rule #5, it is because some people may be Beastly at any type of poetry and have really good submissions every week, and I am sure that you would want to win too right? See? Fairness makes the world go round. (not really) And if you are questioning Rule #6, it is on here because if you made something beforehand, that is giving you a better chance at winning, and it isn't fair to the other participants *if any)
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Music! Deadline is the May 29th, 2010 Judging will be Either the 30th or 31st.

Also, Me and Thepossum will be the judges. I am the first judge, Next week will be possums. Good Luck to all!

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deathopper
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The great feeling of 
Soda rushing down my throat
Brings me happiness
But I drank to much sugar
After the pop. What sadness!

Oh the irony!

I'm not diabetic by the way.

jacksonghuntington
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This looks fun.

POPPOPSIZZLEPOP

Pop, snap, sizzle, crack
opening up the soda
So many noises
I can name so many once
I open that can of pop

Seems rushed... oh well. hope i win!

MoonFairy
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Alright! Two more days till it is time for judging! Woo!
Let's get some more entries, people D:

MoonFairy
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IT'S FRIDAY, FRIDAY, GOTTA START JUDGING ON FRIIIIIIDAY! EVERYBODY'S LOOKING FOR THE RESULTS!
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Okay yeah I'm bored!
But hey! Time to judge!
Woo!
SUBMISSIONS BE CLOSED, BRO

MoonFairy
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Yeah. Moon forgot about this. Sheesh.
Quick judging tiiiiiiime!
The winner is!
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.Tacky!
Congrats my good (wo)man!
Next week will be better my dears, bear with me please.

New theme!
SUMMER
In celebration of no more schoooooooool! For me, anyways. XD

Have fun darlings!

TackyCrazyTNT
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Oo. I am liking the due date on this thread, Moon.

I long to bask there,
Where the blue sky meets the green,
To breath in fresh air,
Have no worries for a while.
Close my tired eyes and smile.

MoonFairy
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Aha, aha, Moon did not forget about her own contest!

*bows and whispers to Tacky* Thank you dearie, thank you.

StormDragon
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Eighties, nineties, hot!
I wait for the seventies
and winter and fall
but in Florida it looks
and feels like summer all year

deathopper
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The sun so bright shines.
Shines down the stagnant waters.
Blue becomes silver.
The sun carresing my skin.
Heats the yellow sand so bright.

I spent a day in the a resort near the sea, sovif you hadn't guess it by now I'm talking about the beach.

TackyCrazyTNT
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I hope that Moon won't mind if I judge, because a few people have been asking to revive this thing.

Tacky

I long to bask there,
Where the blue sky meets the green,
To breath in fresh air,
Have no worries for a while.
Close my tired eyes and smile.


FIRST PLACE. Just kidding, third, because just reading it over makes me cringe.

Storm
Eighties, nineties, hot!
I wait for the seventies
and winter and fall
but in Florida it looks
and feels like summer all year


Second place! Not first because frankly, it confuses me a little. Are you saying that it's in the seventies in winter and fall? That's insanity!

deathopper
The sun so bright shines.
Shines down the stagnant waters.
Blue becomes silver.
The sun carresing my skin.
Heats the yellow sand so bright.


First! I like the imagery, though I don't like the sentence fragments. -twitches-

Next topic, Miracles.

Knock yourselves out.
nichodemus
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Oh, weezo, the thread is back up!

Alexistigerspice
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WOOO! I LIKE WRITING WORDS!

Not breathing, I came
Entering the world, broken
Unlikely to live,
And yet I am here today.
My life is a miracle.

TackyCrazyTNT
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Oh yeah, the deadline. I've never been good with deadlines. How about the 29th?

nichodemus
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29th would be fine I guess. I don't really like too long contests.

waluigi
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The world, lifeless, dark
no sign of a change in pace,
but a spark, then light
encompass the world, bright'ning,
a world created, sheer luck.

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