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- 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.
Guilan rocked my world with his wonderful syllabic flow. I have no clue what the poem was about, nor do I care. All I know is that it melted beautifully in my brain, and in my eyes. Nothing else even came close.
Just now realizing how hard I slept on that "which formaldehyde is better" line. Dropped the ball a wee bit.
For some reason, I didn't like titles this time around.
@Zelderex: Thanks. It wasn't! Basically I've just been yelling at the page for the last year at this point, haha
Also you should probably officially stop the round/start the next round in the other poem thread.
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
Christ, I'm slipping harder and harder. I was kind of hoping to tough it out till my 1 year mark of running this thing, but ****, at this rate I'll be lucky to make it two more weeks before Blippy launches a Coup. I'll probably retire on something like 6/3, end my tenure as host on the (almost) anniversary of the beginning of my reign of ****ups and errors.
Christ, I'm slipping harder and harder. I was kind of hoping to tough it out till my 1 year mark of running this thing, but ****, at this rate I'll be lucky to make it two more weeks before Blippy launches a Coup. I'll probably retire on something like 6/3, end my tenure as host on the (almost) anniversary of the beginning of my reign of ****ups and errors.
There's no need to be so hard on yourself, man.
For this week, Zelderex's poem was the one that really caught my eye. I'm in love with that third stanza.
Blippys poem kinda creeped me out.... i realize that's subject matter, but subject matter is half the battle in poetry....
My vote was for Z, i'm finding it really hard not to be drawn to poetry that really feels like something i could read in a book... i appreciate the amateur attempts at it, but for some reason (in past competitions) the use of cursing in poetry kinda turns me off completely. I mean in life i curse all the time, in poetry the curse has to really MATTER for me to allow it as acceptable... of course these are the ramblings of a classic english nazi (other than spelling, i'm forgiving on that considering my lack of talent in the area :p), so what's my opinion really?
...the use of cursing in poetry kinda turns me off completely...
I almost don't have the heart to tell you that I once submitted a poem titled "****," wherein almost every line featured the titular profanity, sometimes multiple times. It was very cathartic to write, for sure.
I like to use the profane, as well. As a nihilist, nothing is sacred. Which is why my thread is where it is.
Sometimes the only way I can express myself is with something profane.
Sometimes I want to shock.
Sometimes **** is the only word that works.
I am all for the curse words too, but the ****'s break up the flow and look of a poem so much that I really don't like them in this setting. Also "****" out of context could be any number of words, and that can cause accidental ambiguity.
Yay cursing, Boo asterisks
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I used to be very proper and never curse. then I stopped. it didn't seem worth it, and decorum really falls to the wayside sometimes.
@zelderex: seriously, it doesn't really matter. don't be that hard on yourself
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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
Shout Softly had great flow in my opinion, and Sporogenesis made my skin crawl which is actually good, because stirring something in the audience is part of the goal of poetry.
All good poems this week though.
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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments
are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Congratulations to Blippy and Zelderex (myslef), the winners of this week's PRC!
Quick heads-up, I won't be opening the new thread until tomorrow. Got swamped tonight, just can't make it happen, so I'll be making the updates at about 5 PM Pacific time tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
Here are the Poetry submissions for this week:
Shout Softly Your Name by Condoms
Take Care by 4thdimensionalbubble
Untitled by Guilan
Alone by Preve
Untitled by Talore
Sporogenesis by Crusible
Rambles from a Dirty Old Man by Blippytheslug
Time Enough At Last by Zelderex
Vote for the poem(s) you feel is the best (up to two). Remember to adhere to the "Honor Code" when voting.
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- 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.
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Preve; well crafted, inspired and honest in a way that felt almost too sincere to have ever been edited.
Blippy: Crude, funny and better built than the finest of mousetraps.
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Just now realizing how hard I slept on that "which formaldehyde is better" line. Dropped the ball a wee bit.
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@Zelderex: Thanks. It wasn't! Basically I've just been yelling at the page for the last year at this point, haha
Also you should probably officially stop the round/start the next round in the other poem thread.
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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Kudos and cookies to Blip and Talore, I enjoyed those words as well.
like pen pencil computer
sometimes prolific
sometimes a neuter
There's no need to be so hard on yourself, man.
For this week, Zelderex's poem was the one that really caught my eye. I'm in love with that third stanza.
My vote was for Z, i'm finding it really hard not to be drawn to poetry that really feels like something i could read in a book... i appreciate the amateur attempts at it, but for some reason (in past competitions) the use of cursing in poetry kinda turns me off completely. I mean in life i curse all the time, in poetry the curse has to really MATTER for me to allow it as acceptable... of course these are the ramblings of a classic english nazi (other than spelling, i'm forgiving on that considering my lack of talent in the area :p), so what's my opinion really?
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I almost don't have the heart to tell you that I once submitted a poem titled "****," wherein almost every line featured the titular profanity, sometimes multiple times. It was very cathartic to write, for sure.
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Pourquoi?
I am all for the curse words too, but the ****'s break up the flow and look of a poem so much that I really don't like them in this setting. Also "****" out of context could be any number of words, and that can cause accidental ambiguity.
Yay cursing, Boo asterisks
like pen pencil computer
sometimes prolific
sometimes a neuter
@zelderex: seriously, it doesn't really matter. don't be that hard on yourself
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
Shout Softly had great flow in my opinion, and Sporogenesis made my skin crawl which is actually good, because stirring something in the audience is part of the goal of poetry.
All good poems this week though.
Thanks to Xenphire @ Inkfox for the amazing new sig
“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments
are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
It's whatever. I probably will retire sometime this summer though, for sure.
Just a quick aside: I'm really pleased with all the discussion this week
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Quick heads-up, I won't be opening the new thread until tomorrow. Got swamped tonight, just can't make it happen, so I'll be making the updates at about 5 PM Pacific time tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
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