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    Famous Quoted Line Poetry Contest

    I have an idea for another poetry contest. We will call it "Famous Line Quotes". The idea is to take a quoted line from a famous poet, and then weave your own poem around that line and idea. The prospects are endless, since you may spoof the famous writer or use any form and idea you may get.

    If anyone is interested, the first famous line will be from Edgar Allan Poe:

    "Quoth the raven, nevermore."

    Have fun. Contest will end April 20th.

    Pendragon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pendragon View Post
    I have an idea for another poetry contest. We will call it "Famous Line Quotes". The idea is to take a quoted line from a famous poet, and then weave your own poem around that line and idea. The prospects are endless, since you may spoof the famous writer or use any form and idea you may get.

    If anyone is interested, the first famous line will be from Edgar Allan Poe:

    "Quoth the raven, nevermore."

    Have fun. Contest will end April 20th.

    Pendragon
    I've tried my own parody of the Poe poem, which seems to beg to be parodied, and I will certainly give thought to this excellent proposal for a new contest.

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    “April is the cruellest month,”*
    though I could name you
    ten or eleven that run it
    a very close second!

    January tempts us
    with the taunt to remake ourselves
    once again, though every attempt
    seems to result in Myself.2,
    .3, &c.

    February dips precipitously
    towards the day when we’re compelled to feel love
    for someone or other
    and to announce it with a dopey
    rhyme or saccharine card
    that grows costlier and cheesier
    each year!

    Don’t even mention March, which,
    it is said “Comes in like a lion,”
    then sometimes seems to feed on us
    for thirty-one long, long days.

    And so on until December,
    when death beckons
    so invitingly...


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    *T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"

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    Sage of the Dead

    He sat perched upon his throne
    watching stoically across the barren
    landscape, with speculative black eyes,
    offering somewhere within them
    a taste of Lethe, those occultic
    occulurs in which one could become
    lost for countless infinities,
    there was his reflective answer:

    Nevermore.......Nevermore

    The old sage draped in his black cloak,
    his silence spoke depths of volume
    for upon his back rode the old souls
    of the dead to be carried away
    into worlds beyond and when one poor
    soul stopped beneath his tree,
    he said nothing, but gave the answer:

    Nevermore.......Nevermore

    Upon the bodies of the dead he made
    his feast, giving him the key
    to wander the skies like a shadow
    ill omened by the unenlightened,
    he carries the weight of wisdom
    untouched by living flesh and blood,
    so when one seeks to know
    what is beyond them,
    he only smiles grimly and responds:

    Nevermore........Nevermore

    Let the meaning define itself to those
    pilgrims that kneel beneath the crooked
    throne of an old feathered soul,
    that holds the truth within, while forever
    whispering into the wind, his cry:

    Nevermore.......Nevermore

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Good Good! Keep them coming!
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Nevermore

    as a child
    I cruelly split
    the raven's tongue

    to make his speech
    more soothing
    to my ear

    now a man
    I wonder
    at what I've done

    and rue my past
    although
    the voice is clear
    "Remember, we are all in this alone." - Lilly Tomlin

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    ^ i like this
    Last edited by Babyguile; 03-27-2010 at 04:47 PM.
    'Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
    And so shall starve with feeding.'
    Volumnia in Coriolanus

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    Come now. Surely there are others interested in submitting poems. Write, poets, write!
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Hack's poem was brilliant!

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    Contest now over.

    Prince-- I would have given this contest to you hands down, but "april is the cruelest month: was not the given quoted line. Wonderful poem, and a good leson in how to use another poet's quote.

    Dark Muse-- The line seemed to fit your poem writing to a t, and your poem was refreshingly good

    Hack-- What can I say? So much with so few words. A masterpiece!

    Hack is declared winner, and may post the next quoted line!
    Some of us laugh
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    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Thanks Pen,

    It was fun, I hope we get more entries.
    I liked yours, Dark Muse.

    The next line is Robert Frost's "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood."

    The deadline is May 10th
    "Remember, we are all in this alone." - Lilly Tomlin

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    Thank you, I quite liked yours as well.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    The Roads of East and West

    The sun sets in a burst of yellow
    flame upon the wood before me,
    and I contemplate the way
    which awaits

    like a serpent's tongue
    it splits apart, and I must
    divine the way to take.

    Falling under the shadow
    of a sinking sun, each
    road offers its own mystery,
    winding off into the unknown
    through trees standing sentinel,
    now appearing as looming shadows

    and no answer will come to me
    for the dilemma that I have to face,
    I must decide the road to take.

    To the east in the land where
    the sun will wake and bring
    morning shining again and I will
    feel greeted by the warmth of its
    touch in the soft glow of orange-red
    skies blushing in the new born day.

    To the west, where the sun lays
    its head down to sleep, and in these
    last diminishing hours, it will offer
    a guiding light in skies of bright
    deep crimson for the long good-bye,
    and I may whisper a soft goodnight
    before at last darkness descends

    there is no hand of fate to point
    to me the right choice to make
    so it is for me to discover
    the course for me.

    Before the fading yellow light
    with the yawning wood
    I found myself pondering
    upon two roads tempting me,
    and only one may I choose
    to take.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Choice

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
    One going right, one left
    One well-traveled, the other barely marked
    So I took the one less traveled
    I often wonder about my choice
    Would I have wound up in the same place
    If I took the road more traveled
    Would it really have made any difference...

    Pendragon
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    A long walk in the woods today
    found a hiccup in the system
    to scare any hiccup away

    The basest thorn of the rose stem
    a bubble of blood for my dare
    flesh wasted and worn, like women.

    The rose deserved to keep its where
    I left it there, not to be rude.
    Let someone else find beauty there.

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
    one deeper in, and one away.
    Had to take the greater good

    and forsake the greater good.
    A long walk through the woods today.

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