woooo bringing another one home.
In all fairness though, most of the complaints against my poem are legit.
It IS anachronistic, it IS a bit pretentious, but that's why I wrote it. I tend to poke fun of my more serious pieces with their "old school holier-than-thou" attitude myself. One of my older winning pieces was entitled with tongue in cheek, "Waxing Eloquent".
But on the other hand, they generally take a good bit of work and effort to get going. I do it more for the artistry of it then to get any super meaning out of it. Yes, the topic of the poem was cliche, but that wasn't the point. The point was for me to work with flowery language with an established rhyme scheme and meter. (I failed at certain points tbh, this is not the finished version of this poem. I'm still revising it.)
But yah, I LIKE old school poetry more than I like new school poetry. There is something to be said for people who were really MASTERS of the english language. I'm no master, but things like this that I write on my own with my own personal rhyme scheme and an established meter are experiments that I hope will bring me closer to doing exactly what I want to do with poetry, and that is saying exactly what I want to say. Most people have no idea exactly how hard that is to do.
Anyway, great turnout folks! Lets hope the competition keeps growing