ForumsArt, Music, and WritingPeriodic Poetry Contest - Theme: Touch of Truth (Page 390, due Jan. 28)

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DragonMistress
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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).


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!
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FallenSky
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Little revision

The third Stanza's first line should go like this:

''And when will come the departure''

It echoes through from lands unknown
A lavish malice well ingrown
That scars the pink and younger flesh
With rope and cable and string and mesh

Consuming thoughts from deluded urges
It strikes at dawn with violent surges
Billowing feeling of missing something
In which to indulge your rapid aging

And when will come the departure
To soils more accomplished and mature
To lands unbeknown to the younger mind
It comes in time, at night, you'll find

No matter how you sway and sail
You'll come to one day quench the wail
Of your body's blood to discover
Travelling while under the cover

Typo fixed, et voila.

dudeguy45
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*haiku about Nathan Drake*

the horizon blurs
this forlorn land is now mine
I don't need a map

Kyouzou
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Opportunities

Alien Familiarity

A virgin beauty,
Brimming with life.
Everything is possible,
Yet nothing is known.

A land of valleys and mountains,
Lush forest, vast deserts,
Hidden rivers, and fathomless oceans.
An expanse bridging the world.

Birthplace of legends,
Foundation for stories unwritten,
Home to heroes and villains alike.
A land of opportunity.

Incomparable yet identical.

dudeguy45
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Oops, thought this was haiku contest.

zakyman
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Today's the due date if you want to submit!

Quirinus1
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Shepherd

I'm submitting. Something shall be composed in no time...

Quirinus1
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Paradise

It has been seventy days since
I last saw my beloved Spain.
I lost forty men already:
three-quarters by indians, devilish ingrates.

I will take my three-hundred men
and bring them to their city,
destroying all that is in our way.
And we will take their King.

Eaters of menhearts, hidious
filthy dogs. They must be put down.
This is our land now! God wills it!
Why would he have led us here otherwise?

Thirty of my men are sick, all are tired.
It is the rain, you see. It never stops,
infecting everything that is around us.
If this is Paradise, I'd rather go to hell.

EmperorPalpatine
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The Sailor's Bounty

An endless journey across the seas,
The cold ocean breeze shivers my knees.
As the horizon begins to near,
I stare upon the unknown frontier.

These grand unseen skies and shores of lore,
Never witnessed by a man before,
Have been traversed by my tired feet:
My expedition is now complete.

I wonder what this new land will hold:
Gold? Or greater riches unfortold?
Perhaps the journey was the true prize;
My plunder was the sea and the skies.

wolf1991
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Submissions are closed! Judging UNKNOWN! You may have to wait until Friday or so, I am EXTREMELY busy this week. That is all.

EmperorPalpatine
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Friday or so

As long as it's not "November or so" then we can wait.
zakyman
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You may have to wait until Friday or so


Are we allowed to act like irritable toddlers while we wait?
wolf1991
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Farmer

Are we allowed to act like irritable toddlers while we wait?


Only if I can disqualify anyone who does.
Kyouzou
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Isn't it traditional to whine like an irritable toddler while waiting the fairly short time required to judge? Don't destroy tradition Wolf.

EnterOrion
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Isn't it traditional to whine like an irritable toddler while waiting the fairly short time required to judge? Don't destroy tradition Wolf.


That just makes it more fun. Now it takes bigger metaphoric balls to act like a four year old.
zakyman
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Now it takes bigger metaphoric balls to act like a four year old.


Lol. it's funny because a four year old wouldn't...never mind.


*sneaks out the back door*
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