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Give me your best (((Round One)))

Round one of a series of contests I'm plotting
This is just the qualifier round, so it's open to everyone. Just give me the poem that you feel is your best piece, pre-write or new. Seven people will be invited to the next round of the contest, and more point will be added for each round until the end which will be a veritable treasure.
So give me your best!

~Rules~
1. No cursing or innuendo- kids are on here too
2. No erotica please. Sensuality is fine, but nothing hardcore.
3. If you must utilize dirty-pretty, chatspeak, or sticky caps, use them in moderation.
4. Any form you want to use is absolutely fine.
5. Have fun with it! This is your time to shine and show me what you've got.

Go for it people Impress me!
<333, Kelly

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on June 25, 2007
  • Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 100, Bronze: 30
  • Final notes:
    GREAT JOB everyone I loved so many of these poems, it was hard to decide! Congratulations to the winners, and to the finalists, you can find the next round at: http://allpoetry.com/contest/show/2355696

Contest Winners

  1. It is long, but most of it is repetitive for a really good reason.
    by Dr. Cube 252 lines, 54 comments, on Jun 10 4:47 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Dark, Other, Pain, Weird
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. Why can I not be / As beautiful as she? / Her face is like an exquisite diamond, / Featured perfectly, with a nose no human could recreate,
    by grapefruite 28 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 9 9:21 PM 2007. In insanity
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. by liltandrhyme 20 lines, 39 comments, on May 11 10:53 AM 2005. In Society
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  4. Silly little sleepyhead / Rubbed his eyes, climbed out of bed / School, it starts in half an hour / Time to brush his teeth and shower. /
    by Eternallycurious 34 lines, 10 comments, on May 8 10:29 AM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  5. Sorrow is no longer the song I sing...
    by MJ Donnelly 30 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 19 6:18 AM 2007. In Spiritual, Inspirational, Personal
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

Entries [44]

1 - 44 of 44
  • The limelight has poisoned me
    But still, I love it
    by Lady Nightshade 43 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 18 4:56 PM 2007. In Lyrics, Life, Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Tired of all the lies / The drama that spreads like fireflies / Just because of the way I dress / Depressed aleady with more stress / Getting called gay / Everythings mixing becoming grey / Can't stand a
    by Harbinger of Death 17 lines, 14 comments, on Jun 6 8:12 PM 2007. In Emo, Angst, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Darkness falls on lonely hearts,
    by BadKharma 18 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 3 2:05 AM 2003. In Angst
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Its funny how things get taken for granted, / This precious life, so sweet, so sublime, / So simple, each second just fades away, / Yet all
    by Onionducks 73 lines, 15 comments, on May 22 1:31 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Life, Sad, Society, Gifts, Precious, Personal, Pain, Love, Lyrics, Other
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • '.'
    by loveisthemoment 38 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 2 12:42 AM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Your mind bogged down / everything out of focus / nothing makes sense / anymore. / The dreary day / goes on and on / with no sign / of giving in. / When a mystical sound / fills the senses / wa
    by loveisthemoment 24 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 19 12:42 AM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • A spark to light a thousand fires
    Of love, of lust, of black desire
    by Dreams27 25 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 18 12:44 PM 2006. In Love, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Lurking figures in the sallow airs of the field / Beasts in battlefield brushing leathery suits / Rattling noise blending in the settling dust / Particles dampened by toil-scattered sweat / Rumble-calmed laid, clawed
    by i write passion 16 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 19 2:56 PM 2007. In wild, dust
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • I called out to you
    But you never answered
    by MathiasThom 41 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 20 10:30 PM 2007. In Angst, Contemporary, Dark, Society, Personal, Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Upon the cliffs of Azarine / She stooped and glimpsed down / As she stood upon the bluffs / Upon their stormy crown / And stooping on the bluffs / She shuddered as she saw / As she saw the consuming waves
    by Aurora Calliope 29 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 18 3:33 AM 2007. In Dark, Sad, Pain
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • '.'
    by myriad-dark 21 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 5 11:33 PM 2007. In Lyrics, Nature, Spiritual, Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Knowing that you love me / But thinking of all the past / Past pain you've caused / And I stand here confused, / Confused of if
    by loves fading fast4me 21 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 19 5:53 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts, Love
    • Commented on by judge.
  • 9 / 11 Terrorist Attack / Silver streaking through the air / Screams resound everywhere /
    by MourningSun 17 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 2 11:21 AM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Strung up by violet angel hair
    and disillusioned dreams
    by Keikou Tenshin 29 lines, 6 comments, on May 22 8:42 PM 2007. In Abuse, Angst, Dark, Fantasy, Pain
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • The reason there's been no recent updates is because of this. A new form called 'individualtean'.
    by Wulfareika 23 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 2 12:05 PM 2006. In Other, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • His Lexis and his Mercedes Benz / His mansions and all upon which he depends / His Phd's and social status / His mountain tops and all his
    by 2lullabyhaven 66 lines, 83 comments, on Jun 9 9:03 AM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Fallen angels / Hear my cries
    by Roxy Riot 26 lines, 3 comments, on May 5 2:08 PM 2007. In Sad, Personal, Pain
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • The invitations had all been sent out
    All the garden gnomes were ready to play,<
    by Poetdontknowit 26 lines, 29 comments, on Sep 25 10:25 AM 2006. In Childrens
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Once upon a time, / There lived a girl / She had a lovely face, / but hid it from the world. / She had a burden to bear, / A secret to keep
    by DeadlyTurnip 43 lines, 24 comments, on Jun 14 3:56 PM 2007. In Love, Hope, Childrens
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Light no more / To shine through her eyes / Constantly clouded by salted water / Evermore she cries. / The silver, liquid lake / Spread in all its splendor / Holds the power to make her cry / Crawl to her c
    by TaintedBeauty 89 lines, 2 comments, on May 29 8:10 PM 2007. In Self image, Personal, Sad
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Your soulless solace and / disillusioned breathing rhythm / feels like martyr shadows / crawling through the smoggy night / Digging holes t
    by Hadji Murad 91 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 19 9:19 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge.
  • A deep phobia: inadequacy

    by renizzle 9 lines, 14 comments, on May 29 11:07 PM 2007. In Acrostic, Life, Pain, Personal, Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • call him up and say goodbye
    hang up before you hear him cry
    by BlackWolfRose 33 lines, 13 comments, on Mar 4 8:43 PM 2007. In Escape, Pain, Sadness, Sad
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Struggling through one day at a time / Defeating those who offended us with crime / Reading the letters that bring us to tears / Seeing their photos help with the fears / Longing to hear the last words that
    by Jayjaythepoet 27 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 18 12:00 AM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • I just really need to write / traveled highways are innersecting / something my soul has in sight / going forward from retrospecting / Whe
    by Roaddog Wolf 69 lines, 18 comments, on Jun 11 4:25 AM 2007. In Personal, Spiritual, Life, Love, Pain
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • I remember growing up,
    back when I was just a boy,
    by James R 28 lines, 24 comments, on Jun 10 9:27 AM 2006. In Other
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Traveling the world in just one day
    On those clouds floating my way
    by acegreat 32 lines, 76 comments, on May 30 10:10 AM 2006. In Childrens
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • and the other man
    by zillion 14 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 13 9:55 PM 2007. In Life, society
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • Sweet hopes / Rest on faulty dreams, / Which sleep on the naive wishes / Of hideous longing.
    by Aralyn Leighanna 3 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 18 12:42 AM 2007. In Life
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • How do you love someone? / When all you have been is hurt / each time it hurts more and more / I fell like I've been stabbed in my heart each time / deeper and deeper the knife goes / I don't know how to love / So
    by cali951 31 lines, 3 comments, on May 11 2:50 PM 2007. In Love, Life, Pain, Society
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • But I can not touch your soft hands,
    because you do not exist, you never did.
    by Sabir Abdus Samee 28 lines, 46 comments, on Jan 20 6:00 AM 2007. In Dark, Thoughts, Sad
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • The days come and go, / Emotionless tears fall from my eyes, / The pain in my stomach is like a / Thousands knives, / Twist and turn, / sto
    by Foxydaze14 30 lines, 11 comments, on May 28 3:11 PM 2007. In dark, abuse, pain
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Fire set ablaze my eyes
    Feed the fire and let it rise
    by iamthebeatles 23 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 1 9:09 PM 2007. In Pain, Personal, Dark
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • She's just antoher / Ballroom beauty / Breaking down / In the presence of inteligence / Beauty is only so deep / Anything moree && it would
    by Heartbeatsxfading 54 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 19 2:24 PM 2007
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • Hush, close your eyes, were alone on the floor,
    by jesseramsey 15 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 19 2:09 PM 2007
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • The Parable of the Weeds / Matt. 13: 24 – 30 / W. Peter Sanci June 21 / 2007 / I chose this particular reading today, because I have been t
    by Pietro789 28 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 21 6:58 PM 2007. In Spiritual
    • Viewed by judge.
  • If you've never lost, how do you no when you’ve won,
    If you’ve never done wrong, then how do you know when right is done,
    by cumber 17 lines, 34 comments, on Jun 22 5:23 AM 2007. In life, Sad, Society, Life, Love, Personal, Thoughts
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • Walking around lost, / Wondering with thousands. / Through shop are people around me, / Looking at me up and down. / I feel devastated by t
    by XXDarkness-DecayXX 35 lines, 13 comments, on Jun 23 11:08 PM 2007
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite

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