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Poetry Contest
Well, we haven't had one of these in a while, have we? Time for a new one, I say! Welcome, resident poets!
The rules are pretty simple. I am the first judge. I will give you a theme, and you must write a poem relating to the theme. Be creative with your interpretations! I will then judge the entries by a set date, and the winner will then be the next judge, and set the next theme. And so on, and so forth.
The first theme will be... *dramatic drumroll*
Stars! Whether you chose to write about the kind of stars you wish on, or the kind that take the stage, I will be eagerly awaiting your sparkly, shiny, beautiful poems. Have them in by... Saturday, March 18. Two weeks. Sound fair?
I hope to see your poems soon!
~Booksy <3
submitted by Booksy Owly
(March 4, 2017 - 8:58 pm)
(March 4, 2017 - 8:58 pm)
Yay, third place! Congratulations to everyone, I loved all of your poems!
(May 29, 2017 - 2:56 pm)
I just wanted to say, I read your poem, Pheasant, and it was beautiful! And sad. I loved it, and am very sorry about your baby mule. :,-( I might enter the next round!
(May 29, 2017 - 7:38 pm)
YES!!!! I got second! I'm super happy right now and I love everyone else's poems and Pied Piper totally deserved to win. I'm fine with judging next if Pied Piper is okay with it.
(May 29, 2017 - 8:28 pm)
Thank you Bluebird, I'm not a very good poet so I did not really expect to win but I'm glad you guys liked it.
(May 29, 2017 - 11:14 pm)
Awesome, congrats to you all! Including to the ones who didn't win, I really loved the poems. Oohh, I wonder what the next theme will be!
(May 31, 2017 - 11:28 am)
@EF, could you give us a new topic now?
(June 1, 2017 - 12:24 pm)
Yes Leafy. I can post a new one now. I didn't have a chance earlier. The new topic is....Lonliness. Any kind of lonliness. Incorporated in any way, but it has to be there.
(June 1, 2017 - 6:24 pm)
Ooh, yay, I'm excited!
(June 1, 2017 - 8:42 pm)
Ah! I'm so sorry, I keep forgetting to check here! Thank you so much Bluebird and Epic Fangirl, your comments made my day! Congrats to everyone, your poems are ALL amazingly beautiful.
Thanks for the new theme, Epic Fangirl, I'm inspired already! (Sorry I checked back here too late to say anything, but I agree that it's definitely fair for you to be theme-picker and judge because I got to do it before!)
(June 1, 2017 - 8:40 pm)
Okay, I'm going to write this just now, and who knows if it will be good.
I'm a cicada
A lonely cicada
Encased in the ground
While you all live your lives
One year- I'm barely born
Two years- I'm still growing
Three, four, five
Why do I have to wait?
Six, seven, eight
Nothing to do
I'm burrowed in the ground
Waiting five more long years
To overcome
Loneliness
(June 2, 2017 - 10:34 am)
Fun! Loneliness! Fun!
Wait a minute....
Ack.
Anyway, I have poet's block (dudes, I've had it my whole life except for one glorious night) but I'll try anyway....
*This is awkward.
(June 2, 2017 - 11:56 am)
When's the deadline? Thanks!
(June 3, 2017 - 3:09 pm)
Tes, sorry, I meant to mention that but forgot. The deadline will be around the 16th or something like that.
(June 3, 2017 - 6:55 pm)
Here's mine. It's based off of my real life, from last year when I would've started 6th grade if I wasn't homeschooled.
i. there are cracks running through her heart.
ii. she used to spend her hours sitting
at the window, feeling her heart twinge every time she saw someone
walking home from school with their friends.
iii. what she didn't know was that with each figure she saw, another line shot through her heart.
iv. the cracks continued to travel toward the center of
her heart, but she still sat
by the window and mourned the
fact that she was alone.
v. over time, her heart began to crack apart from the
pain. she'd curl up and cry because
the loneliness of her isolated life was hurting her.
vi. but then she started closing her curtains
at 2:15. and slowly, her heart began to heal. the
cracks that had split her heart started
to knit back together.
it would still hurt, but don't we all feel pain sometimes?
(June 4, 2017 - 12:34 pm)
Oh Leafpool, that's beautiful. And so sad. i hope you don't feel like this. Love you Leafpool.
(June 4, 2017 - 3:08 pm)