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!
what is true, what is a lie? is there really a heaven in the sky? what if heaven is a lie? we will know the truth the time we die and then we will see if there is nothing or a heaven and a hell. well, may i suggest, that it does not matter that life is maybe a test to see who will get into heaven or hell if they exist... i do not want to shatter your view and belief. but what if they are not real and we insist that they are real. can we not all coexist does it matter if heaven and hell do or do not exist? maybe the religions are all together a fragment of a greater trhuth or they they are neither true nor a lie... so, do not cry, when someone dies. who knows, maybe we can meet them and see our beloved ones again or we reincarnate. who knows the truth...
what is true, what is a lie? is there really a heaven in the sky? what if heaven is a lie? we will know the truth the time we die and then we will see if there is nothing or a heaven and a hell. well, may i suggest, that it does not matter that life is maybe a test to see who will get into heaven or hell if they exist... i do not want to shatter your view and belief. but what if they are not real and we insist that they are real. can we not all coexist does it matter if heaven and hell do or do not exist? maybe the religions are all together a fragment of a greater trhuth or they they are neither true nor a lie... so, do not cry, when someone dies. who knows, maybe we can meet them and see our beloved ones again or we reincarnate. who knows the truth...
aahhh, sorry for the double post but i forgot something!
Death is the only touch that's true, Don't listen to her gleaming eyes Red lips will always fade to blue.
The high and low, the middle too, Ignore the sound of their own cries. Death is the only touch that's true.
Measuring their bloody words to chew, Spitting them through weary lives. But red lips will always fade to blue.
They try to hide (as cowards do), Building their castles scraping high, But Death is the only touch that's true.
It comes to them, no better than you, Buries them under dirt and sky-- Red lips will always fade to blue.
The bards will still sing as if they knew, That until still tongues forever lie. Death is the only touch that's true, And Red lips will always fade to blue.
Dovakiin must you act like a spriggan All spry and a wigglin' How dare you go about And do nothing but shout What a fool you are To be be a master of guitar Or as we call it the lute Such an unreliable boot When they cat even fly Like a vampire that is so spry Like a Fus Ro Da to the soul Or a butterfly that is as cold as the south pole We must now drink the nigh away through these flagons To be ready to fight some evil dragons
There is my nerdy amateur poem based on Skyrim hope you like it, 50k
@Devoidless: May I get a ruling on the syllable count for the word "every"? This is one of the many English words that have dropped syllables--also known as syncope.
Other examples are "favorite"(pronounced fave-writ as opposed to fave-o-writ) and "interest" (in-trest as opposed to in-ter-est). I wasn't sure because after checking a few dictionary entries, they all listed "every" as two syllables (ev-ree as opposed to ev-e-ree). Thanks for your time.
