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!
My best friend lost his mother two months ago. She was forty years old, in perfect health. Hit her head on the edge of her bathtub and drowned in the bath. She'll never see her son's eighteenth birthday. I guess this is a homage to her, and to my best friend. I realized only after I had begun writing it that I was basing myself on that experience to find inspiration.
If I remember correctly, you can't win the contest twice in a row - unless there are no other entries, or not enough to judge properly. Is that correct, @Gantic?
I've modified the original rule this way: If there are enough entries, there is a guaranteed winner, but the winner cannot be the same person as the one who won the previous theme. Anyone else can still win a merit based on quality alone. So if you're disqualified from winning or there really isn't enough entries to declare a winner, but you put something of great quality, you will still win a merit, but not first place.
Here is my General Poetry Submission for the theme of New Beginnings
(this is a part 2 of the last poem)
Sorrow lingers farther than the eye can see,
Knowing that you will never come back to me.
And every single day is a nightmare at bay,
But my love for you will never go away.
What will prevail on this life on derail?
I'm unsure of the outcome and I'm unsure of the trail.
What did I do, and what could it be?
Sad and confused, I move on reluctantly.
I go outside and I go for a run,
I take a different path then what I have usually done.
I ran on this path not even a block,
I was shocked to see he had left a note on a rock..
"Here is a note that I hope you will see,
If you really love me, why won't you tell me?"
I cried and cried until my tears started to bleed,
Then I read it again wondering "what did he mean?"
I told him I loved him, and we were happy,
I told him so much, how could he not see?
Then comes a woman who I was happy to meet
she says "I knew it all along, I knew he would cheat"
It was only now that I could finally see,
That all along he was never right for me.
Here I am now, alone and free,
I wonder what New Beginnings are in store for me.
My best friend lost his mother two months ago. She was forty years old, in perfect health. Hit her head on the edge of her bathtub and drowned in the bath. She'll never see her son's eighteenth birthday. I guess this is a homage to her, and to my best friend. I realized only after I had begun writing it that I was basing myself on that experience to find inspiration.
I am so sorry to hear this, hopefully everything turns out very well for your best friend, and his family
I search once again
for what I have lost
but I gave them away
And I don't remember the cost
I know not my name
my age nor my kind
for it was taken by a demon
I have now lost my mind
I know that it was for a reason
and that it meant all my family was safe
but I now know no longer the season
nor the time no, not even the date
for months on end I've been stuck here
Mocked, and hurt and betrayed
I have but two friends who're beside me
and for that and one more reason, I've stayed
But now my one chance has arrived here
My freedom at last is in hand
I sneak with them away, through the portal
and arrive on a beach and on sand.
It is here that I see what I'm meant for
I can travel throughout all of space
and time now will stand still before me
though still I don't know my own face.
My friend, Luke and I, then we parted
for our jobs now were not the same
mine was to heal, help and care for
his was to seek exposure through fame
and though now all was before me
I had skills of no imaj'ning or name
but still I felt nothing but empty
For I still had not yet regained my name
And so I began my beginning
A fresh start with me all on my own
with but just one friend, inside me
Nameless, and yet widely known
I abandoned my past and my future
I lived only for the now and the here
but what kind of life is it to live
to be close, and yet never near
And although I gained a new beginning
I can only feel empty inside
for I can remember no feelings,
not love, not hope, and not pride
I saw what life was without companions
with power, but lonely as a star
a small light that shines in the darkness
always watching, but always so far.
I no longer think much of new beginnings
For life will just follow the trend
and if I again must start over
next time, I wish just for a friend.
Why does the sun go down?
Why does the moon go up?
Why does the sky get dark?
And why do the stars light up?
Why do people die?
Where do they go when they do?
Why does it hurt when they die?
Do they sail on a boat with a heavenly crew?
Why do some doors close?
When other doors open?
Why don't they close properly,
When they are broken?
Where did the dinosaurs go?
Why didn't they leave a note?
Why didn't they let me know?
Or step on Noah's boat?
When somethings leave, and another dies too,
The world works this way to begin with something new.
There's a reason for everything, which will come soon,
But for now, just look up, and see the sun and the moon.
My best friend lost his mother two months ago. She was forty years old, in perfect health. Hit her head on the edge of her bathtub and drowned in the bath. She'll never see her son's eighteenth birthday. I guess this is a homage to her, and to my best friend. I realized only after I had begun writing it that I was basing myself on that experience to find inspiration.
I am so sorry to hear this, hopefully everything turns out very well for your best friend, and his family
Thank you. I hope so too. He's been doing better than most would have, ever since it happened.
