This is the new and improved version of both the Periodic Poetry Contest and the Haiku Contest. From this point out, both contests will be combined into one massive contest for everyone to enjoy! And as such, each user is allowed to enter is both contests with separate entries if they so desire, effectively doubling the odds of winning. Each contest (One being general poetry and the other exclusively haiku) will have one winner every month. Every month, two winners (one from each contest shall be chosen and receive a merit for all their hard work. Show it off to your friends, gloat about it to your enemies! Tell your parents about it and confuse them! It's a win-win-win-win-win scenario, folks.
Rules
General Poetry Contest: - It must fit the theme if the month (same theme as the Haiku Contest). - It must be submitted by the deadline. - It cannot have inappropriate language in it. - It cannot be stolen (if you plagiarize, we will find you). - The poem must be created for this contest - A user cannot win twice in a row (though everyone is welcome to submit every month!) - Only one submission per user will be accepted
Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go. The winner will then make a comment on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit. (Original idea by ubertuna, itemized rules by DragonMistress, modified by Devoidless)
Haiku Contest "A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons." Well, that said, here are the rules: - It must fit the theme of the month (same as General Poetry Contest) -The haiku must be original (no plagiarizing)! - It must be submitted before the deadline - It must be created for the contest (no using works previously written) - One submission per user - The same user cannot win twice in a row (but they are welcome to submit!)
Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go. The winner will then make a post on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit. (Original idea and itemized rules by Maverick4, modified by Devoidless) First Themes The first themes to kick off this contest shall be: - The theme for the General Poetry contest this run is "Touch of Truth".
- The theme for the Haiku contest is "Broken Bond". Submitting an entry Since there are two separate contests, users are required to mention in the post which contest they wish to use the entry for. Any entry without this is subject to not being entered into either contest. Examples of how to clarify which contest an entry is for: -
This poem is for the General Poetry contest
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-This is for the Haiku contest
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I'd like to enter this for the General Poetry/Haiku contest
Remember, each user is allowed to join both contests!
Alright! Looking forward to seeing what you all can create! Good luck, and have fun with it!
I delay because given three weeks, I'd expect submissions to be more polished, submitted later and not in the first several days with the first thing(s) that comes to mind.
I was typing a big thing about how I'm not very skilled at poetry and how I didn't think I could do much better, but typing that all out lead me to revise my haiku.
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Soldiers die in war. The war comes to an end. Soldier dies alone. _________________________________________
I'm not saying this recent entry is necessarily better than the first, but I personally like it more than the last. I'm not very skilled when it comes to poetry and that's probably why I like submitting entries to the contest. It allows me to see the flaws in my poems and haikus that I fail to see due to my lack of skill.
What stage are we on? The progress we've made On this unforgiving, unrelenting, unsatisfying, Platform of life with which we present ourselves, When do we stop? When do we keep going?
When do we get off this stage? Fatigued and exhausted, yes, But at nevertheless, we move To move on to the next stage. To see to the end our last performance, Despite our tiresome, aching bodies, This is the stage where we put our hearts and our souls. And, at the end, When we are cold, hungry, and weary We smile at the thought that we've created something good, Something worthwhile on this stage
Stars fall deep into midnight pools of ice. The snowy moon slices the night and white-hot frost spills free. Stars flow to embellish a world that swallows all sound and color.
I, a soliloquy, and of relish joyousness Bare on to thee, with finesse and restlessness The spectrum of colors to whom it surpasses A blunt form of knowledge and all of it's classes
Veraciously brought enlightenment, true Figuratively, overwhelmingly: blue Humbly crackled of gestures to hue I bring you back and lecture, so due
God never gave you the ability of sight You cannot see and this, this isn't alright But don't leave your mind a feint at night For there is nothing to love but the light,
