MTG Salvation

Welcome to the Poetry Running Contest!

Here are the poems we have for you this week.

#OccupyModern by Zelderex
American Cheese on White Bread w/Mayo by BlippyTheSlug
A poem about the miraculous abilities for abstract thought that one has when under the influence of a certain illegal substance that can also be made into butter; not necessarily the type of butter you want to spread on bread but a good butter nonetheless, a good butter indeed. by kpaca
Noctournal Rose by DarkwaterElemental
Wangsta Raps - Second Coming(MC Mime) by Hallucination
Drop Kick by tezzeret12
014 by mafteechr
Walls by Sam111111

Vote for the poem you feel is the best. Contestants, remember, you are required to vote (and you can't vote for yourself)! This policy is to help keep the PRC active.

Have fun!



EDIT: Sorry about the truncated title, kpaca. There is a 100 character limit on poll options. -.-

Drop Kick was easily the best poem in this contest. Great job man. And no I'm not being sarcastic, you took a really taboo, twisted, and messed up topic and maybe it extremely entertaining to read.

kpaca's did nothing for me. Kinda disappointed actually; I was hoping he'd do a rant about The Gutter.

Just really not my style to rant in poetry. Usually I want it to be more thought provoking than "look how angry kpaca is". I do a good job of ranting throughout the forums without placing it into poetry.

Quote from Yanni

Wangsta Raps felt very unpolished and was a pain to read.

That's doesn't surprise me. I actually rapped it out loud to an instrumental beat then typed it down. Thanks for honest feedback.

I wanted to like Kpaca's piece, I really did, but something felt missing. I would have preferred something about the gutter. I thought I saw a sense of frustration in the poem, which was nice.

Wangsta Raps was a lot better this week, but still feels...well, weak. Wordplay is always good in Rap.

I liked Walls and 014 for the same reasons, and I liked Blippy's piece and Tezz's piece for the same reasons. Tough to call, but I gave it to Tezz and Sam.

Walls just felt right to me. Even the structure helped convey the sense of...well, the sense of dull frustration.

Dead Baby Drop Kick was pretty funny, and definitely a bold piece. Blippy's piece wasn't quite as funny, but it was an amusing satire.

I wanted to like Rose, but it was a much cooler visual than a poem.

mafteechr: please less spaces. I don't personally like raps or poems about magic cards or impossible to read pictures. And such, my vote.
I did like the poem, too, though [the large title, which I won't elucidate with here]. Clever, at least.

It's not impossible to read; ya'll just aren't trying hard enough.

Voted 014 as it's one of few that didn't make me groan.

Quote from DarkwaterElemental

It's not impossible to read; ya'll just aren't trying hard enough.

Voted 014 as it's one of few that didn't make me groan.

It wasn't impossible to read, but I felt like more effort went into the formatting than the actual content.

Quote from Sam111111

mafteechr: please less spaces.

It's formatted that way so the words at the end of each line have a rhyming pattern (ABABCDCDEFEFGG), BUT it is supposed to be read at the natural pauses (by which I mean do not pause at the end of each line).

My vote is for "walls."

Is this for real? A 5 way tie as is? Damn good week indeed.

Congratulations, Sam111111!