This is the new and improved version of both the Periodic Poetry Contest and the Haiku Contest. From this point out, both contests will be combined into one massive contest for everyone to enjoy! And as such, each user is allowed to enter is both contests with separate entries if they so desire, effectively doubling the odds of winning. Each contest (One being general poetry and the other exclusively haiku) will have one winner every month. Every month, two winners (one from each contest shall be chosen and receive a merit for all their hard work. Show it off to your friends, gloat about it to your enemies! Tell your parents about it and confuse them! It's a win-win-win-win-win scenario, folks.
Rules
General Poetry Contest: - It must fit the theme if the month (same theme as the Haiku Contest). - It must be submitted by the deadline. - It cannot have inappropriate language in it. - It cannot be stolen (if you plagiarize, we will find you). - The poem must be created for this contest - A user cannot win twice in a row (though everyone is welcome to submit every month!) - Only one submission per user will be accepted
Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go. The winner will then make a comment on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit. (Original idea by ubertuna, itemized rules by DragonMistress, modified by Devoidless)
Haiku Contest "A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons." Well, that said, here are the rules: - It must fit the theme of the month (same as General Poetry Contest) -The haiku must be original (no plagiarizing)! - It must be submitted before the deadline - It must be created for the contest (no using works previously written) - One submission per user - The same user cannot win twice in a row (but they are welcome to submit!)
Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go. The winner will then make a post on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit. (Original idea and itemized rules by Maverick4, modified by Devoidless) First Themes The first themes to kick off this contest shall be: - The theme for the General Poetry contest this run is "Touch of Truth".
- The theme for the Haiku contest is "Broken Bond". Submitting an entry Since there are two separate contests, users are required to mention in the post which contest they wish to use the entry for. Any entry without this is subject to not being entered into either contest. Examples of how to clarify which contest an entry is for: -
This poem is for the General Poetry contest
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-This is for the Haiku contest
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I'd like to enter this for the General Poetry/Haiku contest
Remember, each user is allowed to join both contests!
Alright! Looking forward to seeing what you all can create! Good luck, and have fun with it!
Touch of Truth This poem is for the General Poetry contest:
Touch of Truth
I love you (When you stroke my hair) I love you (When you show you care) I love you (When you laugh out loud) I love you (When you leave the crowd) I love you (When you hug me tight) I love you (When we dance in the night) I love you (When you say, "You're mine" I love you (But only some of the time)
Running, Jumping, Killing myself..... Flying, Buying, Pooping Pastries on a shelf.... I do this all for the achieves... But when i get it all....What will i be? I'm Just an elephant.... Why am i Blue? Trying to Escape Im not done here.... That feels....Too true Using WASD as controls.... Teleporting....with no control Running on my wheel.... Stop.... Backwards I spin...... What will happen.... When i win? Will I go and turn to Dust? Will You keep playing, Till I must?
For Haiku
Death is a chaser You run from him, Your Whole Life..... Everyone does
When You run too Long You are suddenly Alone Everyone got caught
When does the Chase Stop? When will you open your eyes? All of your friends died
Death becomes a friend, For, Everyone else is gone. Then you stop running
This is for the general poetry contest :P ---------------------------------------------------
Once a lie within my face, The pain at a constant pace. Now it haunts me in my place. Killing me without a trace. Tell me, my child Why does this seem so wild. Please stop right now Before it gets around How an opposing act of truth you may say Something not only used in May Truth is a blessing I have to admit Doesn't it just like to tick? Please give it a try my son For your lesson may have just begun A touch a truth is not a statement Its even something that is pretty ancient Now you get it, I was getting quite impatient. ------------------------------------------------------
[/b] Haiku Contest How Winter Has Been Good winter has been, spring i hope is to be great, yet spring is to come.
General Contest: How Winter Passes: Summer was hot and dry, Spring was so nice I could cry, Fall had some wonderful leaves, But Winter was more than I could believe. Still it went quite fast, Oh, how I wish it would last. Oh, how winter passes.
sorry what that mean :do i writ a song or a poem or i draw a picture? and what the theme or the subject that i will do these ? whats the prize? what we do in haiku contest? when is the last time i will submit?
For the general poetry contest with the theme of "touch of truth":
Where Life Met Death A terza rima sonnet Dedicated to all affected by the AIDS epidemic in Africa Based on a true story
In cells both dank and dark I made my stay Among the lepers of this day and age. They told us not to touch them, lest we lay Bedridden as they did from deadly phage. But in those dim lit eyes I saw the depths Of loveless pain that grew from former rage. Living life was labor, like his breaths Which barely seemed to hold his soul in place. He could have died a myriad deaths Before I finished sharing of God's grace And touched his head, for something seized my hand To court my death. Instead his crying face And life eternal God had fully planned, That selfless love he'd finally understand.
I don't normally do this sort of thing, but I'm fresh out of blue elephants. I'm sure you know how it is. This is for the general poetry contest.
Pedant's Lament -D. Joseph Holmes
âTis better one should live in darkness unheedingly Than ever once realise he walks in nightâs sombre cloud It is a greater blessing that man should not see That sweet Illusionâs mantle his sense and passions shroud For what is there to be won with a mere Touch of Truth? What prize in stark virtue? What hero will see the world stripped bare And not from then live that day to rue? O, reader! O, my intimate, heed me well! Quit your quest for that poisnâd Pierian brook! Hold for truth only this lesson I tell, And consign to flame every other book. There is no glory in knowledge, naught To be learned but will shackle and chain thee. Therefore, my friend, refuse to be taught And leave this hell to lonely men like me.
This is slightly based off Naruto so.... yeah (but totatally original Haiku, unless somehow is exact same to another XP)
My Haiku
We were like brothers But we walked different paths Now I must save you
My G. Poem
They say the truth will set you free but sometimes it's hard to see I know it's really painful But lying is truly shameful But sometimes you must Be someone people can trust Because bending what's true Hurts no one but you
