Remember guys, the topic has to be related to sound or music!
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Remember guys, the topic has to be related to sound or music!
The three Magi at my door
Why are they singing
so coyly?
The Harpist
I watch your fingers dancing,
on harp or heart strings?
Will you play?
Ensemble
I listen to leaves and rain.
Is it melody?
Or silence?
I admire that you wrote two, but I have to ask which one of the two do you want to count for the contest? I do not think two entries is fair towards the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
sure go for the second one :)Quote:
Originally Posted by EvoWarrior5
bump :)
grind ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by PeterL
Whoops, I'd forgotten.
I am glad that there were a couple more entries, exactly what I was aiming for!
Pendragon, unfortunately your poem did not conform to the topic of sound. It was quite a good piece, but I cannot grade it for the contest.
YesNo, your work was pretty much what I expected beforehand. It's catchy and well composed. Good job!
Cacian, a fast and catchy piece. It sounds nice although the meaning is unclear. That also adds to the mystery.
Barbara, good piece; sounds quite eerie.
Dark Muse, I like how you spoke to somebody else in your poem. The only one of the contestants who did it this way. Nicely done.
Miyako, I find the question that you ask.. striking. A bit hard to try to answer, as well.
Well wow, I find it hard to declare a winner from these.. They are all unique in their own way. I'm going to give this one to YesNo, because I like the wording and the feel to it. I would call Miyako a close second because your question was the most striking.
Well done everyone!
Evo thanks!! and YesNo well done :)
Thank you, EvoWarrior5! And thanks, cacian!
The next form I've never tried. It is called a Cinqku, but there was a whole thread on it that Paulclem started so there are plenty of examples here: http://www.online-literature.com/for...e-for-December
Deadline: February 14th, Valentine's Day
i missed that requirement, Evo. I need to learn to finish reading instructions! Thanks anyway. :)
don't we all :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
It looks like I will have to extend this a couple weeks. I'm willing to change the form. Any suggestions?
New deadline is the end of February.
I will nae
hae mair to do
w'these contests
they hae
gane sour...
Pen
valent
short for love
red roses or
dinner date under faith
spoilt
Pendragon where is your cinqku?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
How does one enter this contest? Just post the entry?
Lustful
Sans woman
With cacao
And bed ready for her
Hopeful
Thanks for all the entries so far! More! More!
All you need to do, PeterL, is just to post it as you have done. If you win, then you get to select the next form and do the judging for the next round.
Your voice
so distant
silence keeps me
there comes a whisper in
my ear
That's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
Sub Urbane No. 5
Crafty
squirrels get past
barriers, robbing seeds
for feathered friends. A new approach;
shotgun.
(24682)
I think the time is up for this one. Thank you for all the contributions!
Pendragon: Nice accent. Sometimes these contests get a little slow. I use them as motivation to write something.
cacian: lovely valentine cinqku with a sense that something bad is going to happen.
PeterL: Another lovely valentine.
Dark Muse: Nice contrast between "silence" and "whisper".
Gilliatt Gurgle: I guess if the squirrel can't take a hint, one has to be more direct.
Again, they were all good. I am amazed that people can actually say something with this form, but they can.
I am left with wondering should it be cacian's valentine or Gilliat Gurgle's anti-valentine (at least toward squirrels) or Dark Muse's use of silence or PeterL's "sans woman" or Pendragon's accent.
Since Valentine's day is past, the winner is Gilliatt Gurgle.
Congratulations!
Thanks
I have to be honest, the valentines day theme completely slipped my mind as I gazed out the window only to find that one of those tree rats figured a way around the sheet metal barrier I had painstakingly fabricated.
The cinqku offered the perfect medium to express my anger and to you small varmint lovers, you can rest easy, the shotgun was not employed.
I suppose the theme could be twisted around to suit my rant.
Moving on... give me a moment and I'll have the next form.
So you expressed a suitable love for treerats. That is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Haha, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by PeterL
My apologies for the delay.
After a brief search, I stumbled on Ottava Rima, a rhyming stanza originating from Italy.
8 lines, 11 syllables/ line using ABABABCC rhyming pattern.
Given the origins of the form let's make the subject Italy, anything Italian.
Dean Martin, the boot, leaning tower of pizza, St. Francis, Sophia Loren, Shakespeare's Italian heritage, Chianti, Italian renaissance,etc.
Deadline...let's shoot for end of March.
For good or ill you are the only one for me.
I will be with you, even through Pluto’s realm.
Like Virgil, through the Cave at Cumae, yes for thee.
When you take ferry with Charon at the helm,
You won’t be stranded; the obol, Charon’s fee
I’ll put in place and bring a sack for those short.
We’ll do much more after we reach Pluto’s port.
A driver back in Italy was thinking,
"Damn tourists!" Hey! Does he think that he's better?
He got so close I saw his mad eyes blinking.
With mountains north and southern water wetter
I hoped that my exhaust pipe's black and stinking.
A demon's darting through my head. Forget her:
We humans are capricious, jeering creatures,
Without Italian, mocking foreign features.
Love in Italy
I still recall your smile in Roma's moonlight
Sweet Florence where I took your hand within mine
taste of your lips lingers on a Tuscan night
and the way Venice waters made your eyes shine,
Verona - passion flared, crescending delight
secret caresses in Naples while sipping wine
your scent beckons like perfume in Milan air
in Bologna our love is a whispered prayer.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
The end of March has passed. Let us move along.
Don't know where GG is, and he isn't accepting private messages. Shall I declare a winner or would someone else like that job?
God Bless
Pen
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Sure, why not? It may be best to move on.
Very well. Then I declare PeterL with his wonderful mixture of mondern and mythology to be winner. You're up, Pete!
I'll have the next form up within twelve hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
The next form is Nonnet.
A Nonnet is a type of poem which has the following requirements:
It has nine lines
The first line has 9 syllables, the second 8 syllables, the third 7 syllables until the ninth line which has one syllable.
Has an iambic meter (stress every other syllable)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonnet
Have a merry time. The contest will end when April will end, at midnight on the 30th, and the winner will be announced at Noon on May Day.
Come on. We need entries.
The toddler with her Easter bonnet
did not want her auntie's arms, but
when her mother stood beside
her, there was no surprise.
Their bonds are stronger,
mother-infant,
To help the
young girl
rise.
Withdrawn
Remember, you can't win if you don't enter.