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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)
greed in haiku
shoot for the shining stars
bring them down one by one
until all that glitters is ours
(April 28, 2019 - 8:52 pm)
Judging!
I'm not just saying this to be nice, because, for real, you all did amazing at this! I don't know what I was expecting, but this was far better than anything I could have imagined!
Fifth place: Rogue!
Nice job on making the emotions of this poem stand out! I can feel the narrator's longing for the other person. I would suggest adding literaray devices to add more description and interest to your poems. Good job!
Fourth place: The Girl Next Door!
You did a great job of putting together a story! Sometimes poems can feel like random words and phrases, but you did a nice job of going on with a small plot. You also added some really good descriptions of the sky! I feel like maybe the line breaks make the rhythm off a bit, however.
Third place: Kitten!
These descriptions are amazing! You really capture what it would feel like to be in the moment with this girl named Sky. Your ending is also very sweet, but doesn't quite fit with the vibe the rest of the poem gave, if you know what I mean. Overall, you did really great at this!
Second place: TIE for Blue Moon AND Stardust!
Blue Moon: whoa. You managed to capture so much in so few words. You gave me 20 syllables and I have a whole picture of people shooting off to the inky black sky, snatching stars, greed glossing over their dark eyes. Wow. Yeah. So amazing.
Starburst: What can I say? The ending was absolutely gorgeous. The way you add snippets of legends and history to your already stunning descriptions adds the perfect balance and beauty. This poem really makes you think.
And now, FIRST PLACE goes to... Leeli!!!
There is no denying that your poem was absolutely perfect. Your run-on sentences symbolizing the girl's intense emotion about the situation, the bits about the world turing upside-down that made my imagination sort of explode with happiness at the image, the way you see her attitude turn, and just ahhhhh. In the incredibly true words of Leafpool, you have created a masterpiece.
Well done, everyone! I hope you had fun writing. (Top!)
(May 3, 2019 - 5:26 pm)
*blinks* I won? Ahhhh! Thank you so much! I feel like a lot of my poetry isn’t great, so I’m really happy that you liked this particular poem. Congrats to everyone else—your poems were all so good!
The next theme is wanderlust. I’ll try to judge in two weeks, on the eighteenth, if everyone’s good with that. I can extend the deadline if needed.
(May 4, 2019 - 7:18 am)
Thank you so much! I really worked on that poem/shortening my poetry in general, so I'm really glad you like it!Thank you so much!
Now, for Leeli, a poem!
timers
it's a gen z reality we have limited time
it's our fate to die young
wanderlust that doesn't last
the river styx full of wishes unfufilled
the world is a ticking time bomb
and darling, you'll make a beautiful corpse
(May 5, 2019 - 2:29 am)
Wow, this is good! It's so... mysterious and creepy and everything.
Congratulations, Leeli! You totally deserved to win! So, wanderlust. Interesting theme... I'm not sure what I'll do with it.
(May 5, 2019 - 6:31 pm)
Yeah, this is really cool and it has a sort of.. aesthetic that I really like.
(May 5, 2019 - 7:15 pm)
dsafsdfsadf thank you!!
(May 17, 2019 - 8:36 pm)
Wow! Against such amazing poets, fourth place isn't bad at all.
Now for my wanderlust poem!
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She's in her geometry class
Learning to find the area of a trapezoid
Taking out her ruler and scribbling equations
Calculating, proving, studying
Hearing how knowing math will help her change the world
And still wanting more
She's in English
Reading the classics
Huck Finn and The Catcher in the Rye
Longing for a similar adventure
Feeling like Oliver Twist
Wanting to ask if she could (please sir, can I) somehow have more
Gym class
Jogging laps around the track
Gasping for breath but still pushing herself
Further! Faster!
One of these days, she'll go
Up and over the chain link fence
Running to where she knows there could be more
And never once looking back
Social Studies
Tapping her feet so she doesn't have to hear,
once again,
about how learning about the past will lead to a better future
She wants to scream
Sitting in a desk won't accomplish anything!
We need to do something more than that!
She tunes out the lessons in biology
Silently wondering when, if ever,
Her teachers will evolve
And see how she is more than numbers and chalk
And dirty gym shoes and history lessons
And just reading about adventure
She endures the lessons
The endless lessons, the mindless studies
Because she knows
She will go out and do something
She will be more.
(May 5, 2019 - 4:57 pm)
This is really interesting and it has a sort of "smart" feel to it. I also really love the line, "She tunes out the lessons in biology/ Silently wondering when, if ever,/ Her teachers will evolve
(May 5, 2019 - 7:18 pm)
Oh, cool! I can totally identify with that feeling. I'd never thought of it as wanderlust, though, so maybe it's something different? Or the same? Dunno... anyway, cool poem!
(May 10, 2019 - 11:00 pm)
Oooh, I love the theme! Wanderlust is such a good word.
(May 6, 2019 - 7:14 am)
(May 9, 2019 - 8:09 pm)
The truck is a patchwork quilt of red-and-blue-and-green and bits of duck tape where the windows are broken
Stuffing peels out of the old gray seats, hastily sewn back in before inevitably popping out again
Boxes and bags bounce around in the backseat, some coming open and spilling their contents onto the back of my head
The walls are layered with postcards and pictures from our travels
Somewhere in the back, an alarm clock moos
It’s been called a pigsty, a nasty mess, a disaster waiting to happen
It has also been called our home
(May 11, 2019 - 2:10 pm)
This isn't very good, but hey, it's something.
Halley’s Comet has Entered the Atmosphere
She was always like a Halley’s Comet-
No matter how hard she pulled away, a strange,
Irresistible force pulled her back.
Wanderlust, always there, a whisper through the trees,
Beckoned with a hand like a tendril of smoke
Curling around her middle, begging,
Tilting its head, singing follow me please,
I’ll show you the right path
and it did
But she went father, past where the path
Lead and into a thicket
Halley’s Comet became Icarus
And she crashed and burned
(Wanderlust took the blame)
Oh my gosh, I think Boo is trying to say a dirty inside joke my friends and I have. BOO YOU ARE TOO YOUNG TO KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
(May 11, 2019 - 3:15 pm)
(May 13, 2019 - 5:22 pm)