YesNo I believe this is due :)
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YesNo I believe this is due :)
I guess the time is up. Thanks for the reminder, cacian.
I read through the list to see if I liked one better than the rest and I realized they were all pretty good. That makes it harder to judge, but it means you are all winners. So out of all the winners I need to pick one who will set up the next contest.
Dark Muse: I liked the last line with "descending" daylight.
MystyrMystyry: That is an unusual perspective of the setting sun like someone putting a coin in a slot machine and winning.
Jaked: A sunset reminds me that memory might be all that is left as well and helps the darkness remain tolerable.
Pendragon: Yes. The sunset colors are fit for a king or prince and we get to see them dressed up.
tailor STATELY: This was a very nice description of a sunset. I liked the inverted exclamation point and the use of the word "dematerialize" in the first stanza.
cacian: I liked your unexpected use of rhyme and also the word "tournesol" at the end.
blank|verse: Nice combination of two poems. Before Turner there's nothing. After Turner one gets something visible.
And the winner among all the winners who gets to set up the next contest is MystyrMystyry!
Congratulations!
Congrats, MystyrMystyry!
YesNo thank you.
congratulations Mystyr!!
Yes, well done, Mystyry.
Lots of good entries; I found Jaked's piece the most enjoyable. As for my own, the first is a bit of a literary in-joke: Oscar Wilde, when discussing how art transforms the ordinary, said something like: 'Before Turner there were no sunsets; before Dickens, there was no fog', so that provided the inspiration for the first very minimalist poem... and also meant I didn't have to write much!
Anyway - is there any chance of a new theme, Mystyry, to keep the competition rolling?
Thankyou YesNo :)
Amongst so many gems...
I've been in a rather existential frame of mind for the last few days - a transitional period if you will - so how about I theme the new contest The Here And Now?
The Here and Now--
Eternity--
Walk patiently,
Observing, see
All patiently,
Delightfully.
We talk about the here and now-
What if time itself is fractured
So that in the here and now
We are neither now nor here?
In the here and now,
I'm looking at a cow.
It's staring back at me,
I smile at it with glee.
2d or not 2d
Put away your 3D glasses
Exist -
(Eliminate the noise)
Dance
within the holographic
manifold of mind
8/27/2014 r.8/28/2014
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Looking good so far crew!
One week to go...
Excellent entries!
YesNo, a meditative approach no less. The use of the word 'eternity' in such a small space, and within the theme, has a striking impact of contrast, as does the repeated 'patience' - that life will flow and continue on.
Pendragon, your word play with final inversion is fun, with a philosophical element, what if time is indeed fractured?
mal4mac, brief and a rhyme, with perhaps more to it that at first seems - who is watching whom? Why not both?
tailor STATELY, captures the freedom from technological entrapment quite well I thought. We buy these toys of wizardry, but are they a substitute for life, or is life a substitute for them? Clever title too.
Tricky, and much a tie for first place, but after some consideration I'm drawn to Pendragon's submission for its self-containment, complete-within-itself aspect.
Ah they're all good, and in choosing a winner it means there won't be an entry from them until at least the end of the next round but the winner for this one is Pendragon! Congratulations!
Congratulations Pendragon ! and thank you MystyrMystyry !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Thanks, MystyrMystyry!
Let's try the word "twilight" cunningly describe in as few lines as possible. Deadline September 30. Good luck and God Bless
Twilight, not bright,
Not dark, just right.
Moonlight tonight
Calms sight: twilight.