A-RoN Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Hi! After a long hiatus from this site, I think I've found a place to submit some of my own works of poetry/spoken word which I've been using in my own music lately. Here's one for submission for this round: Twenty-eight years on the planet Earth, One simple mind that never strayed since birth! My fingers have channeled many ideas through tools of creation, Sketches, pianos, computers revolved 'round my vocation. The crowd used to be my motivation, Novelty was my only book of innovation, After facing its fiestiness, a PA's sytem shutdown after broadcast, Failing schoolwork and a youth that wouldn't last, To hell and back for me was handcuffs to salvation, Calvinism was my root while Hobbes checked my plantation, Prideful piety challenged the service under a name, The score used to be fun until my best friend added his own rules to the game. I turn to new hope dodging what Koopa shells bring, After a favoured jewel accepted someone else's ring. It won't be just another year with distractions lurking, After tasting every dish, I now feast on cold turkey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evory Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Not sure if there's going to be a competition in the end, and this is terribly rough, but here goes. I was stumped as to what to write about, so I decided to write about writing, and it somehow became a poem about the magic of books, revolving around a rather lame pun on the word 'spellbound' (you know, the physical binding on the book? Bind? Bound? Nevermind). Anyway. Spellbound There’s a sort of magic in a book From that slight crease in the spine As gentle as folded linen or skip of velvet To aspirations of Japanese art Where each and every touch marks a sculpture A vehement proclamation An almost animalistic urge to mark One’s territory, the boundaries of knowledge As proof of claim to the secrets within Masked in the ridges of living ink A strip of gloss and paper that connects Imagination to reality, a dialogue between one A link that defies the stamps and clichés Almost as if it were forged from magic We lie entranced, spellbound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmightyArceus Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 So here's one of my original poems, entered for this month's competition. I'm new to the competition so I don't know how everything goes down, but hopefully this submission suffices. Monochrome Would you be able to touch shadows or fade into the sunlight? Would you be able to sit back and watch the color fade from your life? Would you try to touch the world, expecting your hand to melt, and come out unscathed? Would you touch the wall and fall right through, or would the wall keep you in place? There is much to observe in that time between evening and night where all is grey, and color becomes a thing of the past, not the future. For in monotone chromes we see the truth set before us in the most vivid and gaudy arrangement ever to be created before. Color is a hinderance. Color distracts. Color takes the forms of you and turns it into something different. Color makes the odd things matter and throws the important things to the grey space. Color is the difference between us all. Would you be able to live without pain? Would you see lies as colors? Would you be able to embrace the monochrome or just fade into the facade of color? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Mandrake Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 (Lack of) Original Thought I spend a lot of time thinking these days. There isn't much else to occupy my time or mind. What thinking I do is not my own. There is plenty to stimulate reaction, but rarely is that reaction more than a tired joke, and that joke was often written or spoken by someone else. I am a semi-sentient cross-reference of humour. (Debate amongst yourselves the truth of this statement.) What emerges from my mouth, whether or not my brain has seen fit to deem it appropriate, would, had it been typed, be accompanied by the name of somebody who thought of it before me. Sometimes I do not know the reference's origin, though it is clear that it is not my own thought I express. Once in a while I think of something that I want to believe is original, and perhaps it is, but I do not pretend that I really am that clever. I find my eyes rolling deep into my skull in response to one of the myriad television ads obviously designed to enthrall the stupid, which I refer to as "dummercials." (This is an example of my attempt at original thought, which I cling to because someone else already came up with "badvertisements.") I realize quickly that any sarcastic comment I could cough up is just a poorly-modified quip from the likes of Dennis Miller or George Carlin. Strangely, I'm rarely clever enough to keep my mouth shut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalcyonSpirit Posted December 17, 2011 Author Share Posted December 17, 2011 Voting period has begun! Got a bunch of last-minuters this time: Unnamed Limerick by Mirby Unnamed Poem by A-RoN Spellbound by evory Monochrome by AlmightyArceus (Lack of) Original Thought by Jax Mandrake Get your votes in by the end of the 30th. I mean it. You submitted, so vote, dagnabbit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalcyonSpirit Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Huh? My post from earlier this week is gone... Odd. Well, anyway, I'll repost what it was. Basically, no one voted last month aside from me. Can't have a competition without votes, so I have no results to post. All you people submitting need to vote, or else there's little point in having the competition. I'm disappointed. It's a new year, and that means FREEFORM submissions are open. Please, submit AND vote in this one. Dates for the submission and voting periods are in the first post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modus Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Are you going to re-do freeform submissions? I have something I want to submit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalcyonSpirit Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 I'm contemplating an overhaul of the competition, currently, due to lack of submissions as of late. I'm not really helping with fixing the absence of submissions by submitting stuff myself, but getting my life in order is of higher priority than writing. Anyway, keep an eye on the thread for details. And if you have any suggestions for changes, feel free to voice them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modus Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Only thing off the top of my head is to extend the submission duration. Bi or tri-monthly, maybe. In regards to bringing excitement back to the competition? I'm not really sure. I wish there was more participation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorax Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 In regards to bringing excitement back to the competition? I'm not really sure. I wish there was more participation. Free imaginary candy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modus Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Hold on... I'm seeing... songs. We take OCR songs... we write stories inspired by them... or narrate stories on top of them... ok, more visions... oh, this is a strong one... $20 Denny's gift cards Bam, contest revived. You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalcyonSpirit Posted February 21, 2012 Author Share Posted February 21, 2012 Actual prizes is something that crossed my mind today, but I wouldn't be able to do much in the way of that until I got a job and money to burn. Also, I'm thinking through some fundamental format changes. More on that later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 So... we can't really let this die can we? D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalcyonSpirit Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 I don't intend on letting this die, but I also have gotten the feeling that it's been needing a hiatus regardless. Participation had been terrible for probably a year or so. I think it needs to go off the radar for a while and then come back with a new format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Ah, well I have a friend who would probably love this, so I hope it's not on hiatus for too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modus Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 You don't have to search far for other communities that do writing contests. http://www.writingforums.org/ is a site I think is well-run. Contests, peer critiques, everything you need until WCT goes back online. I never participated in this competition before, but I really want to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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