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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).
i long for the haven
of being clean shaven
it bursts my bubble
at seeing the slightest amount of stuble
the people who dont care
about unruly hair
need to be covered in nair
i think that would be fair
pft! You should try writing with only 5 hours of sleep. Now that's an adventure!
Can...can i still enter?? is this okay?? well, I'll find out soon...
HAIRY
There once was a man named Harry,
He had a chest so hairy.
When he took his shirt off, t'was quite scary!
I still can't believe he got married,
I wouldn't want to live in his armpits!
All right, since it's officially the end of Wednesday per AG time, entries are officially closed! Judging will be coming promptly tomorrow, so just sit tight.
Before that secondary tab failure, I was going to say.
You can't sit tight and wait for tomorrow dude.
You tell them when you are about to judge. Not "wait till tomorrow."
Work on your crowd persuasion skills!
Don't be silly. I posted that at November 11 AG time, and now it's November 12 AG time. Your judging will be forthcoming.
The hardest thing about being a judge is making self-imposed deadlines. Once you pop out of the honeymoon stage, it's definitely the hardest. Well, not this time. This time, the hardest thing about judging was actually doing the judging. Three outstanding poems by three outstanding poets...and only one merit to give out. Times like these when I know I love and hate judging the competition at the same time.
It also provides a test for the judging criteria I use, by which I look at the four elements of poetry: prosody, form, diction, and meaning. I'd like to explain this in a further post, but I'll just say that this is the basis by which I judge, not by the first gut feeling I get (oftentimes I actually end up changing my mind from my original feeling!).
So...our finalists are (in order of submission):
wolf1991
Ruffled by the chill wind,
I begin to run.
Slipping through the air
Almost effortlessly.
It pulls and flattens
The coat that I wear,
That keeps me warm
On this winter night.
Fur is ever the best way
To keep warm. Especially
For a wolf.
Ever delicate even in its sting
Churned by the littlest breeze
Erratic yet elegant in its swaying
Whimsical and always at ease
That's how you were my good friend
Uncontrollable in your majesty
A passionate soul, ever fiery
Carried by the winds and prone to bend
You never cared enough about manners
Compulsively barging in as would a snoop
Always with pride you lost your feathers
You made an art of arriving like a hair on soup
Bereavement.
A park bench cradles the lost man.
Hands in his head.
Head in his hands.
The wispy wind an enemy.
Emissions of omission.
A fluttering age spirals to the concrete.
A passer-by leaves currency.
Can they not see the wealth pouring out of this man?
Only the time.
*blinks* I should write with five hours of sleep more often. I'm actually shocked I won. Thanks.
Caffeine pills + Coca-Cola = A writer's best friend
Who needs sleep anyway?
If you follow guys like Coleridge, some opium also goes a long way too.
If you follow guys like Coleridge, some opium also goes a long way too.
My quote is- "Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy."- Benjamin Franklin
Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.
Made from the grains which are quite quite strong.
To much beer will make you act batty.
Beer may make you act crazy but it makes a good song.
lostsage: Hmm...it says on your profile that you're 13 years old. Bit young for an American to start imbibing, hmm?
hahaha theres a brewers by were i live that my father gets beer from and brings me along for free rootbeer. its awesome. and along the wall is that quote and it stuck :P ive never actually had any beer though.
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