Wow! Thank you Wolf! And thanks to everyone who competed, all the poems were definitely pretty interesting and avant-garde!
Alright, I guess we'll continue the contest in this thread. So, the style will continue to be 'avant-garde' (a term I'll define as being "in a style unusual enough to be surprising and even shocking"), and the theme will be:
emotionless motion.
Good luck! The deadline is set to be September 16th, a month from today. I will do my best to judge it on time.
what is emotionless motion?
a movement without a feeling??
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
That's it! But, this being a rebellious, avant-garde contest, you can really write about whatever you please.
thank you Lykren.Originally Posted by Lykren
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Emotion Motion, What a Notion...
Heartbeat of American, emotionless machine
Nightly rides the Nightmare crushing hope and dreams
A mirage in the desert, photographed and still unreal
Emotions move through motions like a carnival barker's spiel
Emotion moves within concrete canyons, chased by bogus words
Sand, fantasy, and moonbeams, shiny but unheard
The rhythm of emotion moves along a winding stream
Reflections in a mirrored glass, illusion always on the scene
Dark thoughts and darker voices, spiel of vicious hate
Tongues seared by flaming words loose all sense of taste
Animated skeletons pretending emotion sets them free
Beneath the shroud is emptiness, emotion sets its teeth
Vision blinded by bitter memory, wishing one could forget
Emotion still in motion spinning tires in slick grass
We dig our graves with our tongues, dunce cap on upon a stool
Emotion is a heartless b***h, draining life and making fools...
Pendragon
(C) 8/17/2014
Last edited by Pendragon; 09-03-2014 at 06:28 AM.
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...
We have some time left, but we need a lot more competitors, please!
Going south on I-65 north of Lowell I pointed out to Alice a billboard
with white letters on a black background reminding us that “HELL
IS REAL” but she was more interested in why I refused to put
a period in my poetry except at the very end and I told her it’s
because I didn’t want to and since I was the one writing it I could
do what I wanted and she reminded me that she was the only
one reading it and if she wanted a period every now and then I
better give her periods and she said I was making her mad and
I got the silent treatment alternated with unsilent hell and I figured
since we were on a long trip we might as well get along and so
I put one in just like this . and asked her if she was happy now.
Last edited by YesNo; 08-31-2014 at 09:07 AM.
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Thanks YesNo! But we still need more.
Eh, I'll see if the spirit moves me. Although I don't think I have an avant garde bone in my body, sadly. BTW, congrats, Lykren, on winning the last contest! It was a great poem.
"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
what is avant garde
if not a bard
initiating
hard
a spin on a poet's
card?
a sudden motion
soft but
sullen
emotionless
solo
against
the torrid
devotion
of connotative
versus debilitation
words
speak
the litterateur
breach
but does not
concern
and
the message
emerge:
write as you
stir or spur
and the rest
should myrrh.
Last edited by cacian; 09-10-2014 at 04:26 AM.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Okay, time's up! Thank you all for competing, though *ahem* I wish you more of you had. Although maybe that speaks more to my skill as an organizer than anything else. Anyways, I will now announce the winner! And the winner is
...
YesNo! Whose poem had a quiet humor to it. Thank you very much for the honor of judging, folks. Looking forward to the contest hosted by YesNo. Here is the winning poem once again:
Now:
Going south on I-65 north of Lowell I pointed out to Alice a billboard
with white letters on a black background reminding us that “HELL
IS REAL” but she was more interested in why I refused to put
a period in my poetry except at the very end and I told her it’s
because I didn’t want to and since I was the one writing it I could
do what I wanted and she reminded me that she was the only
one reading it and if she wanted a period every now and then I
better give her periods and she said I was making her mad and
I got the silent treatment alternated with unsilent hell and I figured
since we were on a long trip we might as well get along and so
I put one in just like this . and asked her if she was happy now.
Congrats, YesNo! I liked your poem.
I did write one, Lykren, I just didn't think it fit very well in this contest. I'm looking forward to the next one.
"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
Thank you, Lykren! And thanks, qimissung!
I hesitate to add a theme, because I don't want to restrict any entries. So, any theme will do. The only requirement is that it be "avant-garde".
Deadline: October 8th, 3 weeks from now.
Last edited by YesNo; 09-17-2014 at 08:52 AM.
My blog: https://frankhubeny.blog/
Ha ha. Congratulations Yes/No.
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
Thanks, Delta40. I think you should be able to write some pretty good avant-garde poetry, whatever avant-garde poetry is.
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