First, I will post the overall rules, and then I will post the specifics about this week.
Original rules, as stated by Ubertuna:
It must fit the week's theme. 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).
Also:
The poem must be created for this contest A user cannot win two weeks in a row (though everyone is welcome to submit every week!) Only one submission per user will be accepted
As we all know, the winner will recieve a merit, and their poem will be featured on the _Poetry_ page.
OK, on to this week's topic...Again, we are having a style instead of a theme. Also, this week we are having TWO WEEKS to do it, instead of the usual one. Why? Because this will be an EPIC poem. Or, rather, a parody of an epic poem. Generally, epic poetry is very long, and tells the serious story of a heroic figure. Well, this week, the epic figure is YOU! Write a long poem (I'll leave the definition of 'long' up to you, but give it a good go) about the heroic story of you! It can be silly, serious, whatever... just have fun with it. You have two weeks, so have a great time!
I like broad themes too, you get such diversity in poems. When its a more one subject theme all the poems seem so much a like its like they blend into each other.
ALT!! I read your poem and it was beautiful. I'm sorry, I can't comment it as well as more experienced people. All I can say is it had words I don't know. . . and it was very attractive in a way that made me want to read more and more. It ended abruptly, which I thought actually made the poem that much better. ^-^
JereN, yours is spectacular, especially scince it's your first poem!! I loved the use of old english. . . or. . . whatever style that is. . . I'm not good at these kinds of things. T-T
@JereN, it was good, but the flow was somewhat sing-songy in comparison to the rather dark themes in it, and the last line of the last stanza doesn't really fit in with the rest of the premise. It had good rhymes though, and it manifests a great image into your mind.
Normally I'm not such a great fan of free verse, but this time it was done correctly. The synonyms and simpler vocabulary give the poem a sort of impact that would otherwise be lost. Somehow it manages to be minimal and yet substantive at the same time. I like it.
you do? Cool. It was just sorta a spur of the moment thingy. Our teacher was talking about imagery, and she passed around some pictures. We each had to write a poem about the picture we got. Mine was a woodpecker on a tree with a red head. Growing next to him were some berries and there was snow on them.
it's pretty much the purpose but I don't really think I succeeded in it If you could any Finnish I could recommend a song for you so you could understand what I mean.
One band in Finland has few songs where, if you listen only to the music, it sounds quite happy and so, but when you listen to the words so they are somewhat dark
it is a really nice contrast you get and I like it
