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!
Some are dreaming now about summer dreaming,oh How I would like to.
There doesn't seem to be much more to this than what is there. It's all telling and no showing. There needs to be an image to show, to reinforce the theme. This is only connected to the theme because it uses the words of the theme.
@lego12344: You missed the deadline that was posted in the title.
The current theme is Clickety Clack, due July 24th.
I hear him knocking at my back Clickety clack I hear mocking at my back Clickety clack I always sit here with this knack Clickety clack To do whats happ'ning only that. Clicket clack One and more we start to stack Clickety clack Side to side, and front to back. Played again like an endless track. One more time, and I fade to black. Clickety clack Clickety clack.
The men took up arms From lands afar They swore by their blood And steel their blades However as time fades There came a flood No man was left ajar as they died in open arms
All this for some land A small barren land Not a tree in sight It was a blight All those bodies Left for nobodie
a smile and step, and down the aisle a listless gaze and all the while youâd see the sun but not the dawn and by the time the red is gone that gaze has turned to milky glass gilded, turned to grey-black ash
One thing that I'd like to reiterate: I have stated before that I am bundling submissions to be judged later. I already have previous entries judged, but it looks like I won't be posting this last one until the end of the year. Individually, there really aren't enough submissions and the next round will be the last round and the last chance at the Quest for this. Only the Quest round has a guaranteed winner right now. Low submissions rounds may earn the Quest on the merit of the poem alone if it is at a quality where it likely would have won should there have been other submissions.
