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While it is understood there is no absolute means to monitor the intent of a vote, we ask each PRC participant to exercise integrity when voting out of respect for the contest:
- Please give each poetry submission an equal opportunity in attaining your vote.
- Please read, or at least skim, all the entries before voting.
- Please do not vote for your friends just because they're your friends.
The Poetry Running Contest puts good faith in its participants to act in an honorable manner.
Contestants, remember, you are required required to vote (and you can't vote for yourself)!
Happy voting!
*Interested new participants should submit their poems here.
Yeah, this messes with people's heads when they vote and they start to dislike my poem!
I demand $20 be sent to me because my feelings are hurt.
And I get 6 free votes.
Get on it, ole Zeldy.
You have six free votes, to be spent in no more than three weeks, with no more than two votes cast per thread. These votes do NOT stack with your normal allowance of two votes.
In news unrelated to the JHAM, finally voting. I really wish I didn't have to choose. Loved everything this week.
Ysyndyn has made such an impression that I'm actually spelling his name right. Which I wouldn't do if there were a Z, or another Y. But still, every word is polished and precise, and there's a certain beauty to such a focused, immaculately edited poem.
Blippy gets my other vote, out of sympathy.
iCwalzy: Try using the Indent feature, among others. I'm sure Preve has a better understanding of the code for ****ing with structure, I'd say you should ask him if you're ever struggling to get the format just right.
EDIT: Right as I post this, talking about spelling Ynysdyn's name right, I find out that I butchered it. Congratulations, you've joined Ilvaldi on the list of writers who don't know how to lose in the PRC, whose names I can't spell worth a damn. It probably took me a month to learn Ilvaldi's, I'll get there.
iCwalzy: Try using the Indent feature, among others. I'm sure Preve has a better understanding of the code for ****ing with structure, I'd say you should ask them if you're ever struggling to get the format just right.
you should use the code feature
if you want to preserve spacing
because it just works
like that just like that
but it uses monotype font
so you'll want to preview it too
and it might take some time
@ the poems: I don't get why people don't like my poetry lol.
Woodward Av - why isn't this Woodward Ave. ? Also lots of it was really ... not descriptive. i.e.:
I took that walk in canvas shoes
Not made for roads like that.
I walked it in a trail of smoke;
These lungs weren’t made for that
This all describes one real feeling and does it in the road metaphors but idk I thought it was clunky and didn't help me get pulled into the metaphor.
That said this was the only poem I really liked out of the group so you got my vote. [/that's my strategy! savage the poems I vote for.]
*edit*
OH GOD.
Zelderex I voted for my poem instead of ynysdyn . Please fix. Sorry about that. I honestly have no idea how that happened. Obviously voting at 5AM is a bad idea.
@ynysdyn: Oh this isn't me tearing you to pieces. lol. I reviewed every poem precisely once. People didn't like it. I, uh, stopped. That's not happening again.
One of my issues is that my taste/writing style/general everything is just not ... it fits within general writing theory but I don't tend to like the same things as other people to the point where my suggestions aren't relatable.
my mouth is full of winsome lies -
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Lol, well, Preve, considering my adviser all through the last half of my undergrad is the EIC of a small literary journal, and considering he is now my boss, and he has networked me into relationships with a number of published poets and authors, I think I've become very familiar with the concept of loving something enough to tear it to pieces, so I feel honored to be singled out for that
Thanks again to Zelderex for his kind words and for everyone else's support, too. I'm glad my name is becoming frustratingly memorable >_<
IceCreamMan80 had some wonderful wordplay going on that I couldn't help but love, and the lines flowed very well into one another in ways that I didn't always expect but that explained themselves through the reading. That just made it fun to go over again and again.
Zelderex, honestly, I glossed by yours at first but when I came back to it, I read it several times one after the other and was suddenly like, "Hey! I know that feel!" Actually, I've been feeling it for a while. You used less than twenty words and captured how it feels trying to write 20,000. Kudos.
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"Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is a far more vicious motivator." - Sherlock
Congratulations to Icecreamman80 and Ynysdyn, the winners of PRC Round 198!
This is a reminder, the final date to submit to "An Ode To the Runners," is March 10th (or any time on March 11th before I update the PRC). I've only got two submissions so far, counting my own! Come on people, show a little love. Three words, a single sentence, a haiku, whatever!
This is a reminder, the final date to submit to "An Ode To the Runners," is March 10th (or any time on March 11th before I update the PRC). I've only got two submissions so far, counting my own! Come on people, show a little love. Three words, a single sentence, a haiku, whatever!
What is this? What is this even a reminder for? I haven't heard of this at all.
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my mouth is full of winsome lies -
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Thanks. Bah, lol, I guess I could write something.
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my mouth is full of winsome lies -
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
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Here are the Poetry submissions for this week:
Thought Dam by Guilan
Feel by Preve
Cage Locked by iCwalzy
Phoning it In by Blippytheslug
I Hate Pencils by Zelderex
WOODWARD AVENUE by Ynysdyn
The Disenfranchised by IceCreamMan80
Vote for the poem(s) you feel is the best (up to two). Remember to adhere to the "Honor Code" when voting.
While it is understood there is no absolute means to monitor the intent of a vote, we ask each PRC participant to exercise integrity when voting out of respect for the contest:
- Please give each poetry submission an equal opportunity in attaining your vote.
- Please read, or at least skim, all the entries before voting.
- Please do not vote for your friends just because they're your friends.
The Poetry Running Contest puts good faith in its participants to act in an honorable manner.
Contestants, remember, you are required required to vote (and you can't vote for yourself)!
Happy voting!
*Interested new participants should submit their poems here.
Join the Poetry Running Contest!
The wrong title shows in the poll options, though;
As usual, It will take me some time to read and digest the works, to cast my vote.
special thanks to sentimentgx4 for the sig
Pourquoi?
Yeah, this messes with people's heads when they vote and they start to dislike my poem!
I demand $20 be sent to me because my feelings are hurt.
And I get 6 free votes.
Get on it, ole Zeldy.
You have six free votes, to be spent in no more than three weeks, with no more than two votes cast per thread. These votes do NOT stack with your normal allowance of two votes.
Join the Poetry Running Contest!
Join the Poetry Running Contest!
Ysyndyn has made such an impression that I'm actually spelling his name right. Which I wouldn't do if there were a Z, or another Y. But still, every word is polished and precise, and there's a certain beauty to such a focused, immaculately edited poem.
Blippy gets my other vote, out of sympathy.
iCwalzy: Try using the Indent feature, among others. I'm sure Preve has a better understanding of the code for ****ing with structure, I'd say you should ask him if you're ever struggling to get the format just right.
EDIT: Right as I post this, talking about spelling Ynysdyn's name right, I find out that I butchered it. Congratulations, you've joined Ilvaldi on the list of writers who don't know how to lose in the PRC, whose names I can't spell worth a damn. It probably took me a month to learn Ilvaldi's, I'll get there.
Join the Poetry Running Contest!
you should use the code feature if you want to preserve spacing because it just works like that just like that but it uses monotype font so you'll want to preview it too and it might take some time@ the poems: I don't get why people don't like my poetry lol.Woodward Av - why isn't this Woodward Ave. ? Also lots of it was really ... not descriptive. i.e.:
I took that walk in canvas shoes
Not made for roads like that.
I walked it in a trail of smoke;
These lungs weren’t made for that
This all describes one real feeling and does it in the road metaphors but idk I thought it was clunky and didn't help me get pulled into the metaphor.
That said this was the only poem I really liked out of the group so you got my vote. [/that's my strategy! savage the poems I vote for.]
*edit*
OH GOD.
Zelderex I voted for my poem instead of ynysdyn . Please fix.
@ynysdyn: Oh this isn't me tearing you to pieces. lol. I reviewed every poem precisely once. People didn't like it. I, uh, stopped. That's not happening again.
One of my issues is that my taste/writing style/general everything is just not ... it fits within general writing theory but I don't tend to like the same things as other people to the point where my suggestions aren't relatable.
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Join the Poetry Running Contest!
Thanks again to Zelderex for his kind words and for everyone else's support, too. I'm glad my name is becoming frustratingly memorable >_<
IceCreamMan80 had some wonderful wordplay going on that I couldn't help but love, and the lines flowed very well into one another in ways that I didn't always expect but that explained themselves through the reading. That just made it fun to go over again and again.
Zelderex, honestly, I glossed by yours at first but when I came back to it, I read it several times one after the other and was suddenly like, "Hey! I know that feel!" Actually, I've been feeling it for a while. You used less than twenty words and captured how it feels trying to write 20,000. Kudos.
URW Delversnipe (Modern)
This is a reminder, the final date to submit to "An Ode To the Runners," is March 10th (or any time on March 11th before I update the PRC). I've only got two submissions so far, counting my own! Come on people, show a little love. Three words, a single sentence, a haiku, whatever!
Join the Poetry Running Contest!
What is this? What is this even a reminder for? I haven't heard of this at all.
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Thanks. Bah, lol, I guess I could write something.
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan