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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", and the 7-7 is called the shimo-no-ku ("lower phrase". 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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WHY DOES MY COMPUTER FAIL?!
T_T
I think my little brother does that on purpose... >,>
But it is also sad that I rely on the computer for the date.
TWO DAYS LEFT.
aha. aha.
I'm what you call a 'first-timer' in poetry. Well here's my tanka:
The undead amble
In a town were survival
Is a morbid gleam.
They will eventually
Find us, but we still affray.
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Submissions are closed!
Thank you to all who entered, judging will be given in an hour or two.
Or three.
Or four.
Maybe even five.
I could be cruel and say six.
Or even more cruel and say seven.
Let's go with evil for eight.
Evil like Plankton if I said nine.
I'm out of nifty things to say at ten.
You get the point, judging will be held today.
AND SO STARTS THE JUDGING.
Wolf1991
Vengeful Award
You thought it would be
Different now that you're dead.
It seems you were wrong.
You hunger for human flesh.
Aware that you are undead.
I think. It would suck to be the person you are describing. It radiates a twinge of anger and a batch of regret, I love it.
Ernie15
You just got an Award
You are outnumbered
You cannot stop the undead
The apocalypse
Is just beginning for you
Night is alive with the dead
I know I will not be going for a nightly stroll now, good job on using the doom to your advantage, Ernie.
SupaLegit
You screw up Award
A sickly mistake,
This time science went too far:
Demonic creatures
Now roam the deserted streets.
Who will survive the undead?
It gives a sense of gloom and doom, by far the most emotionally striking I've ever seen of your batch. Kudos.
TackyCrazyTNT
The Hopeless Award
The terrified shrieks
Of those fleeing from the dead,
Echo in the night air.
But help will not arrive now,
And the world will be ravaged.
Ahhhh I don't wanna live there. Great job though, Tacky.
GhostOfMatrix
The Never-thought-would-be-possible-scenario Award
Their vital signs ceased,
We believed that they were dead.
The solders from war,
Revived by a force unknown,
Time to seek retribution.
You scare me. I would be afraid. I am afraid. Don't kill me.
Deathopper
The Survival Award
The undead amble
In a town were survival
Is a morbid gleam.
They will eventually
Find us, but we still affray.
I quite like it, except I didn't enjoy the bump you made with "were" That confused the tar out of me, but still. Kudos to you.
OKIE DAY!
Now that that is out of the way, I will begin with Runner Up, Second Place, And First Place.
NOTE: This isn't merit worthy yet. Bit it could be if we have people that stick with this. LET'S GO!
Runner up!
TackyCrazyTNT
The terrified shrieks
Of those fleeing from the dead,
Echo in the night air.
But help will not arrive now,
And the world will be ravaged.
I really liked this one, but it wasn't on the same level as our top two. Keep it up, and
Second Place!
Ernie15
You are outnumbered
You cannot stop the undead
The apocalypse
Is just beginning for you
Night is alive with the dead
This one was great, and it was very close to beating the winner, Next week will definitely prove better outcomes, seeing as the winner can't win twice in a row.
First Place!
Wolf1991
You thought it would be
Different now that you're dead.
It seems you were wrong.
You hunger for human flesh.
Aware that you are undead.
I really really loved this one. It was worthy of first place, So congratulations Wolf.
The new theme is:
Eating Utensils
Have fun with that one!
SUBMISSIONS WILL BE CLOSED NEXT WEDNESDAY, April the 27th.
A new judge will take over while I'm gone, so you can anticipate an easier theme next next week :P
Yay!!!
I have no life outside of studying and writing, so here goes.
Shining spoon and fork,
Lying on the white place mat,
How I adore thee.
Without you, my food is lost.
May you always be near me.
Fork, what hast thou done?
To have mated with yonder
Spoon, is nost unheard of.
Now you do not call yourself
A fork, but a spoonfork. Spork.
HAHAHAHAHA Wolf, that made me laugh so much. xD
Spoonfork. Spork. Lol.
I shall cut with knives.
I shall pick up food with forks.
And to my delight
I shall scoop up soup with my
Trustworthy spoon. What a feast!
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I didn't enjoy the bump you made with "were"
Darn my grammatical fail. Darn it to heck!
Spoon, is nost unheard of.
6 syllables.
Darn my grammatical fail. Darn it to heck!
'tis fine, 'tis fine.
Vroom! Here comes the plane!
Chugga! Into the tunnel!
Hah, taste bud sighted!
Payload has been delivered!
Son, stop playing with your food.
I just did this one for laughs. I'll try to come up with a better one before the judging.
6 syllables
He knows:
I'm aware it isn't proper format but I needed to submit it.
Splinters on my tongue
From the cheap wooden chopsticks
At the Hunan Moon
I now know why fancy joints
Use plastic sticks for chopping
I'm actually having some trouble coming up with something for this theme.
I'll try to make something today or tomorrow so that you get another entry and makes judging for you more difficult because you'll have another poem to judge. :P
Swallowing these knives,
Rupturing my arteries,
Coughing up some blood,
Tossing in another knife,
Finishing off my last meal.
I'm not sure if that's the correct syllables since I figures everyone knows I can't count syllables. If that's not the right syllables, please notify me.
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