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!
It was somewhat of an attempt to "influence" the reader into reading it in a choppy manner, although the poem is probably better without it.
Yeah, I transferred the slashes into notepad and corrected the transcriptional error although others may have remained. Either way I was unaware the choppiness was intentional, but there you go!
I wonder if there's a way to fix it such that a happy medium is achieved but we might have to ask the ASCII artists on that one...
Either way I was unaware the choppiness was intentional, but there you go!
Sometimes with something less formally structured (rhyme scheme, meter, and whatnot), outside of the obvious, it's hard to tell when something is intentional or unintentional. Although, intentionality cannot really be determined out of context and context is difficult to establish anyway.
Sometimes with something less formally structured (rhyme scheme, meter, and whatnot), outside of the obvious, it's hard to tell when something is intentional or unintentional. Although, intentionality cannot really be determined out of context and context is difficult to establish anyway.
Yeah, I went out on a limb already when commenting on the use of punctuation in parentheses. And then there's those schools of thought that intentionality counts for nothing to contend with...
Books books books, I'd rather eat a hook. Pages pages pages, I'd rather act courageous. But wait, I can, I can! With the help of books, I can be Peter Pan! What wondrous things they clutch, waiting to be discovered by humans and such! Oh, but books are amazing! Brilliant and superb! Heart breaking at times, but astonishingly good, you read on curbs!
Books books books, Now I see the looks! Pages pages pages, I'd rather them than wages!
Books books books, whoever doesn't read them, is a big huge crook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love books they've got me hooked! every time I look at a really good book I READ IT!! But when i'm done with my reading fun I THROW THE BOOK AWAY!!! so that's why my mom never buys......me.....books and because she HATES MODERN SOCIETY, SO SHE WON'T WALK INTO A BOOKSTORE!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Do people seriously have to rhyme with "book" constantly? I'm not bashing on the poems, but you don't have to use the word "book" in your poem for it to be about books...That and poems don't necessarily have to rhyme either.
