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    Avant-Garde Poetry Contest

    Beware, poetry contest lovers! There's a new poetry contest in town. The first contest begins NOW and entries will be accepted for the next three weeks. I'll moderate the first contest, I guess, and the first winner can then take it from there.

    Let the poetry games begin.
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    The first entry:


    Far and Away

    a bottomless pit
    with a gentle slope
    a crow's prize
    a rusted bottle cap
    flicker of light
    neither sun or moon
    from ever blown
    the tempting breath
    against my ear
    what is death
    to a tombstone
    casting shadows at noon
    not left nor right
    caught in the gap
    none hear my cries
    my kingdom for a rope

    and still I slip

    Ianin Sparrow
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    Qimissung, the contest sounds interesting, but, uhm, is there a particular subject for the first round?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DieterM View Post
    Qimissung, the contest sounds interesting, but, uhm, is there a particular subject for the first round?
    Agreed.

    I'd love to take part, but a bit of guidance on how we're defining the 'avant-garde' would be helpful!
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    What? It's not obvious?

    Well, I will presume you know what avant-garde means. Do the best you can there (). The subject for this initial round is En garde! which could encompass the moment or whatever the outcome of the initial challenge was. Hope that helps.
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    Thumbs down

    Withdrawn. I refuse to compete with someone who calls me a "Ridiculous fool"
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    Some of us smoke
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    Thank you, Pen. That was a mighty challenge, indeed.
    "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
    "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai
    "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka

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    en arriere please

    unsure of the meaning of
    avant garde
    in poetry streeming
    I write this
    to arriere
    cast
    the meaning of ask
    and if I happen
    to last
    in this competive
    task
    i would have earned myself
    a pass
    that every
    effort is a worthy mast
    to think it's a
    gast
    legacy is a mind
    fast
    happy I enticed.
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    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Well, this is Avant-Garde for me. I'm sorry Qimi, but I've taken you at your word - here's my poem on a theme of En garde!.

    En Garde, World!

    World, you are my enemy,
    my nemesis.
    I challenge you to a duel - en garde!
    Let me be the Blofeld to your Bond,
    Fu Manchu to your Neyland Smith,
    Lex Luthor to your indomitable Superman.

    My evil plans are as follows:

    1. I shall
    leave DVDs of Midsomer Murders
    lying around to give people ideas.

    2. I shall
    have the music of Björk playing continuously
    on the London Underground.

    3. I shall
    make all bus drivers be over 75
    by law.

    4. I shall
    let any architect do
    whatever he likes.

    5. I shall
    vote LibDem.

    I don’t want to cause suicides,
    I just want to create the circumstances in which they are likely to happen.

    I remains yours, in agreeable supervillainy,

    A concerned citizen
    "I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche

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    The Poet

    They say his Mother's a whore
    of his Father we know little more
    but that he loathed his only son
    punished him for things he hadn't done
    Such was his circumstance he began to write
    unpleasant poetry by day and by night
    Whatever worse is hard to imagine
    that purple prose are not out of fashion
    He wrote of dark moods and horrible betrayals
    not a ray of sunshine was ever his tales
    Pictures he painted with verse most black
    Lions and tigers and bears, Oh my!
    the English language is under attack

    If all the words were turned to bullets
    I'd bless the day and all the dead poets

    Was it that you wanted to duel my friend...
    well then welcome to the Lion's Den.
    Last edited by Iain Sparrow; 04-21-2014 at 08:31 PM.

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    Excellent turnout! Iain, though, just one entry per contest. So choose which one you'd like to be in this one and save the other for another day.
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    EIGHT

    Look right, think right; talk right, act right;
    Live right, try right; know right, be right.
    Walking down this snowy middle
    way comes a lonely stranger on
    the shore not from here; this mythic
    gunslinger without a name or
    identity to call his own
    armed with a coffin behind him.

    A grand silence falls over the
    blank street of Eight, West Virginia;
    Unable to leave, without hope
    for escape and locked in a room
    together; eight hours of night
    must they wait while a pot of gold
    sits outside; who are these rotten
    eight names who all seek shelter here?

    Otto is first, with his trial
    for his crimes against Eight and her
    past lives; Agasti, next with his
    doubt about the one he thinks he
    is in love with; why cant i have
    my love, Sleepy Maggie? Is it
    me or is there another? Wait
    forever till nothing comes back.

    Who is this Ba, so full of pride?
    Returned from a road traveled by
    only one before; give me your
    stubborn love so i dont lose this
    map which leads the way to our gold.
    Lunasa full of ignorance
    without blissful knowledge; apples
    in winter, from little Eight girl.

    Octavius, before his
    empire came to his aid, he found
    glory in gluttony and lust.
    Last Awst is this, sitting in the
    corner saying nothing; what is
    there to hide Awst I can see a
    tree outside the window from my
    chair; somewhere i can see bodhi.

    After this blizzard passes the
    sun will peek through the grey clouds and
    a winner will come out of this
    tribulation as the victor;
    Only one is a knight and he
    already has a coffin in
    the room ready for his body
    to float down the river of souls.

    Six, including Eight are left here
    sitting and staring waiting for
    the snow to pass; only one of
    these hateful eight make it out
    alive; come and show me who and
    liberation will come to all.
    No one knows how to be alone.
    I see blue in the sky above.

    Snowy streets on a sunny day.
    Eight walks out on this middle way
    alone and unafraid; life is
    unending and deathless; i am
    going to live forever; I
    know the path through the snow towards light.
    Look right, think right; talk right, act right;
    Live right, try right; know right, be right.

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    Devant la Garde

    Je suis devant la garde.
    I know nothing of what is in front of the guard.
    The guards are wide, fat fellows
    They buy their clothes not from
    The Big & Tall shop but from
    The Short & Wide shop.
    Ceux qui sont en avance de la garde
    Shovel the snow and sweep the dust
    For those of us who follow.
    Et il ya une arrière-garde aussi.
    The ones behind who catch the brick bats.
    We, in the middle, are the important ones.
    Et la poésie n'a pas d'importance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by qimissung View Post
    Excellent turnout! Iain, though, just one entry per contest. So choose which one you'd like to be in this one and save the other for another day.

    I'll go with the second one, "The Poet"... it's just more fun, and less presumptuous than the first.

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    Watch out!

    Watch out cause
    Some think it's
    Enough to put words in weird
    Positions to forget about punc-
    Tuation to makes miss
    Takes be it grammar be
    It whatever who give's a f uck to
    repeat words
    To repeat words or
    Not to use words alto-
    Gether *|*
    /@/
    And it's bloody poe
    Tree
    It's darn avant-garde it's
    Modern its what you want
    It to be when more
    Often than not it's just pure brain
    Wanking and
    S hite
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