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The NeoGAF Poetry Corner - Challenge #27: Love, Happiness, Peace, Summer, & Pixar!

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The NeoGAF Poetry Corner - Challenge #27: Love, Happiness, Peace, Summer, or even Pixar!
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Theme: All that is Good or Makes You Smile!
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Use the theme as your starting point, or completely seal it in the envelope of everything that is good or makes you smile. Whether that be love, or peace, or summer, Pixar or even friendship.
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Secondary Objective: Couplets!
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Nice and easy eh? See I can play fair, and be nice. ;)

Couplets are two lines with a rhyme at the end of each sentence, like so:

Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are

And the poem can have more than one couplet; and even two couplets in one stanza!

The Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark.
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
How I wonder what you are.
How I wonder what you are.

Jane Taylor

Rhymes for the Nursery (1806)

Quick reminder: You are allowed a second entry if you complete the secondary objective.
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Bonus
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Another simple one this week. Make people laugh or tell a riddle. This is completely optional. Of course. :p


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Poetry thread Rules version 1.2:
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1. This thread is not merely for winning or losing, but for critiquing and improving your own craft.
2. This poetry thread 'contest' will end on a Friday, and voting will last until Sunday at midnight. You cannot win unless you vote. Although you don't have to submit a piece to vote.
3. The winner must then provide the next challenge theme for the following two week period. Some weeks like during E3, this may not be possible, so we will have an interim one week period until normality is resumed. As a general rule, we like to keep this on the alternate week to the Creative Writing Thread.
4. There are no word count limits, make it as long or as short as you want.
5. Optional secondary objectives are not mandatory, you can include them or not.
6. Further addition to rule five: you can also try the secondary objective as a secondary piece. Just make sure you label it as such.
7. Vote for your favourite poems. Voters should award first, second and third places to their favourite three poems. Don't vote for the same author twice. And watch out for pieces that are labeled ineligible - comments on these pieces labelled as such are welcome but you just can't vote for them. Incidentally, feel free to vote even if you haven't submitted a piece - the more the merrier :)
8. During the count, First place is allocated three points. Second place is allocated two points. And third place is allocated one point.
9. In the event of a tie, the tally will be counted again with first place being allocated three and half points. If it isn't resolved then, it will be up to the OP (most likely the previous winner) to decide to how to go about things.
10. Winner gets a round of applause and will have the records stating it as such. After which Rule 3 is in effect and we start a new thread.

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Submission Deadline: (PST)
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The submission deadline is 11:59 PST, Friday 10th June 2011

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Voting Deadline: (PST)
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The voting deadline is 11:59 PST, Sunday 12th May 2011

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The NeoGAF Poetry Society: Previous Challenges:
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Poetry Challenge #01: Reflection
Poetry Challenge #02: Making the Blind See (+ 5W poems)
Poetry Challenge #03: Interior (+ Incorporate a song or album title)
Poetry Challenge #04: History (+ Dream Song poems)
Poetry Challenge #05: A View From Afar or Within (+ Clerihew poems)
Poetry Challenge #06: The Surreal and the Fantastical (+ Haikus)
Poetry Challenge #07: Expectations versus Reality (+ Ode)
Poetry Challenge #08: Mirror's Edge (+ Rhymes)
Poetry Challenge #09: Look on the Bright Side (+ poem must end with _________________ as it's last line)
Poetry Challenge #10: Obsolete (+ Ink)
Poetry Challenge #11: Pride (+ Kanye West)
Poetry Challenge #12: Passing By (+ Allegory)
Poetry Challenge #13: Take this Society (+ Ballards)
Poetry Challenge #14: The Dark (+ Add Zombies to taste)
Poetry Challenge #15: The Great Winter (+ Elegy)
Poetry Challenge #16: What Nature Reclaims (+ Lay)
Poetry Challenge #17: Storm Clouds Rising (+ First Person)
Poetry Challenge #18: The Phoenix (+ Enjambment)
Poetry Challenge #19: Psychopomps (+ Assonance)
Poetry Challenge #20: Death in the Family (+ Limericks)
Poetry Challenge #21: A Night on the Town (+ Didactic Poems)
Poetry Challenge #22: A Letter to the World (+ Inside Outside Poetry)
Poetry Challenge #23: The Blues
Poetry Challenge #24: Space, Above & Beyond (+ Prose Poetry)
Poetry Challenge #25: Futurism (+ Avoid Technology)
Poetry Challenge #26: Prove You Exist (+ Lyrical Poetry)
 
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Ashes

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The NeoGAF Poetry Society: Alumni's Archive
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[*]AnkitT - Gray Areas, Point of View, I See, Internal Conflict, Sightsee, The Circlejerk, Be Pee, You Expected a Title? Really?, Development Hell, Cover Your Eyes, They Say I Talk in Obsoletes, Collective, Sensory Deprivation, Nuclear Winter, Deception, Cremation, Match Made in Heaven, Nobody Came to Mine, Hot Douche, Asylum, Deadbeat, Happenstance, It's Personal, Everyone becomes a philosopher after 40

[*]Alarif - Light Blue Reminds Her, Second Movement of Discordia Part 2, Uncanny, The Balloon, Untitled, A Game of Cat, Mouse & Fuck Bioware, Blessed

[*]Ashes1396 - Left and Right, Trouble Belongs to Me, The Head & Tails of it All, Blind Faith, The Brain, the Heart, the Kidneys, Mary Poppins vs. other classic musical sing-a-longs, Epoch encroaching mass atrocity: The Rwandan Genocide, und sex?, Golden Phoenix & River Thames, Nobody has time in the city of London for anyone else, Developers, or a poem written in one go in under ten minutes, Soft dreams treading on winter nights, Live, War Torn Machine, Taking Flight From the Nest, The Abominably Rich Man, Prison, A Pure Winter's Daughter, Mechanical Heart, Frightened Rabbits, The brevity of life, Valentines day is over; see you next year!, Don't be sad John., Speaking to the Bottom of a Bottle, Thief, High Seas, Why Believe in Hope?, Time, my best friend, What a Wonderful World

[*]Beelzebozo - Letters

[*]Bootaaay - Untitled, "Happy" I muttered, trying to pin the word down, November Rain, Vuvuzela & Untitled, Delirium Tremens & Gary Coleman, Nimbus Watching & Crocodile Tears, An Ode to Oscar (the former life of the party), Nerevarine, Trev & Bill's night out on the town, Bastogne, A Man Out of Time, A Dose of Reality, The Storm, The Tower, Smaug, Winter's Shroud, Gone to Ground, Live to Regret, The Sourceress & Current Affairs, Beneath the Waves, Morning Dew, Sea Spray, In the ink deep blackness of night-time's embrace., Ticker Tack, Vigil, Carousel, Death Rattle, Where the Wind Blows

[*]Botolf - I Heard Something, The Lights

[*]cory - I'm not that Fond of Ramen

[*]Cryptozoologist - Untitled

[*]Cyan - Goals, George Washington & Ashes1396, Adrian Brody, Untitled

[*]Dartastic - Untitled, Untitled #2, Within - "Fear"

[*]Davedough - Concious Babblings of a Frail Psyche

[*]disappeared - January 27th, maybe tomorrow., Ape Shit

[*]Dresden - Chipping Away at the Statue, Old Callisto, See-Through Lenses, It's always within you, Cristiano Ronaldo & They Call it the Vuvuzela, Alarif, Said the Monkey to the Monk, Galactic Trooper, Expectations, Orange Everywhere In This Bitch, High & Low, Scuttle, Ferry, Untitled

[*]Flink - Your Bed

[*]Freezie KO - My Flag

[*]goldlion054 - The Girl at the Grocery Store, The Abandonned Neighborhood, That Day

[*]half a moon - Untitled

[*]H.B. - I've been tired for a year and ten days

[*]hey_monkey - Afterward, In Summer, Chiggers: A Dream Song, Cyan Hobbes, Just One, Untitled, For Monica, Jeddah is Drowning

[*]Igoritza - Untitled

[*]Irish - Faint, Down the Street & Journeyman, What Have I Done?, B Covers Bread As Well, Never Always, Live the Life, Lock, Mud, Lack of Focus, How It Is..., Ever, Continued, Cement, Went Out, The View

[*]Jangaroo - Tomorrow, Now

[*]John Dunbar - An Ordinary Chap, A Winter Wonderland

[*]kid ness - Me, Coin Flip, The Angry Man, Sandbox King, The Market, Somewhere a World, Lizard

[*]The Lamp - Melanoma

[*]MaxSteel - Poem #1, Interior

[*]Melchiah - Beneath the Flesh

[*]Mike Works - Desire

[*]Miri - Sheath, Entry With Ego, Saboteur. Society. Cycle, As the Sirens Sang in The Halls of He.

[*]Monocle - Untitled

[*]Mudkips - Interior

[*]Nightshade1765 - Reterning the key to the Rightful Gatekeeper

[*]PolarBearsClub - Forgetting Birthdays, Guest

[*]Plywood - The Masochist

[*]Plumbob - Untitled, The Witches Wade South, Control, Untitled

[*]Raguel - Untitled

[*]ronito - Vespers

[*]Salvor.Hardin - A Weathered Man, A Virgin Afternoon in the Arabian Desert, Of Jungles and Lights, Beyond the Horizon

[*]soul creator - Overanalyze

[*]Snowman Prophet - Indigestion, THE BOOK OF SEGA GENESIS

[*]Tim the Wiz - All We Humans

[*]Timedog - Waves Hitting Rocks (Godfuck), Nothing

[*]Trip Warhawkins - A Meaningless Affair, The Coward Says Goodbye

[*]Truth101 - Partings, Alone we wonder

[*]ULTROS! - Room

[*]umop_3pisdn - Untitled, Cellular Matrix

[*]WanderingWind - Untitled, Untitled

[*]Ward - Puffy Chicken Pickle Chips

[*]Zamorro - Time Well Spent

[*]Zapages - Prince & Farah Meeting in the Two Thrones

[*]ZephyrFate - Dislocation, ZephyrFate, Niche in the Canyon, Left Behind, Untitled
 
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AnkitT

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I’d rather be dead than happy
The sappy crap sack of hacky
I am the sickness
Sloppy seconds who put you out of business

Get on your knees and purse lip squeeze
Willfully ignore the falling trees
A game of change, pair-o-dice
Stare them twice and care at a price

Altruistic ruthless domestic disputes
Force brute recruit to shoot root truth
Delusion pureed and coated in happy dyes
Sever the ties and stop lapping lies

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I will change it when inspiration strikes :p
 
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ThoseDeafMutes

Member
"The poetry challenge?" asked Mister Curtain
"I would normally avoid it, to be certain.

But there is no such motivation
Quite like exam study procrastination.

It's a self aware entry, to be sure.
And why not? These things are usually quite a bore."

"Because true art is angsty," he said, biting into a scone.
And with that link, your evening is gone.
 
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Tim the Wiz

Banned
more love

what's the sunny-side worth
when you've got bacon on this earth?
take those eggs back to the pan,
fry me up a rich vein of elan.

let me transcend these throes of emotion
when a girl says she's flattered and seeing someone,
laughs and gives you her number anyway
only to say so sorry and no when you ask.
give me something up to the task.

carefree days, happiness, they fade away.
i need tenderness with iron underneath
like waves that lap babes and promise death.
what endures? carves itself into the universe,
doesn't tremble at a curse.
what's found in the eyes of a day-old prostitute?
and the heart of a doting wet-nurse?
 
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iavi

Member
The "Oh Lordy Lordy Few Forties & an Oz" Sex Mind.

This is the:

Oh lordy, lordy,
Just fuck this whole party.
I really shouldn’t have downed all those forties,
After burning up that O.Z,
Cause it’s when those directions clash,
That we get this little-ol-me,
Those upside-down-turd-looking horror stories,
Not fun, hun.

These guts run, meaning: I’m probably going to shit myself,
Almost one hundred percent certain,
Cause I’m a 99% hurtin, barely crossfaded mess;
One that is oddly blessed, however, I can’t digress,
With the ability to try and tolerate the initial hurlings,
Of the galactic tempests swirling within my lustful chest,
As I’ll slowly mess upon the initially ignored fact,
That... Yeah, I really shouldn’t be here.
Staring at myself in some random bedroom’s mirror,
Over the convulsing back of some woman named… Sarah?
I think…

God bless her, whoever this woman is.
Cause I’m… Fuck it, I’m gonna do it.
For her, I’m gonna go full steam ahead on this,
And try to release some pressure,
On my very merry journey to the top of Eldaradosexher,
Cause nobody like her,
Is gonna be in the mood to reach,
The glorious release of that golden peak,
If this stallion has to pull off this path that’s getting beat,
And admit that he’s in the bathroom,
Curled up,
Shit…


Sex mind...
 
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iavi

Member
Hey, Bootaaay! if you don't mind, when you do up the templates for the next thread, could you change the title of my entry for the "Prove you Exist" challenge to "As The Sirens Sang in The Halls of He."?

It took me a while to come down to a final name on that one, and that obnoxious one was more of a place holder because of my horrible indecision, lol.
 
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Ashes

Banned
OK folks it's E3 week, so OT might go down. Ain't nothing we can really do, apart from waiting for it reopen.

In the event that deadlines are affected... you know what, we'll extend it as we normally do anyway.. if need be. :)

Whilst still retaining the difference between the poetry and creative writing thread weeks...


Wow.. that was easy... :p
 
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Ashes

Banned
Well folks, it doesn't look like the servers are going down this year. We did have a server upgrade a couple of weeks/months ago, so that might have something to do with it. And it not being a worldcup year must have helped with that.
 
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iavi

Member
Ashes1396 said:
Is the 'as' part correct as well? I've edited it in the 2nd post at least..
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Yeah, that's perfect. Thanks!

I don't know if it's the summer air, or the fact that I've been a bit broke, but I've been in super super super output mode. It's almost as if I'm finding inspiration in everything.
 
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Ashes

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Miri said:
Yeah, that's perfect. Thanks!

I don't know if it's the summer air, or the fact that I've been a bit broke, but I've been in super super super output mode. It's almost as if I'm finding inspiration in everything.
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no probs.

We're a happy lot by the sound of the early entries aren't we? :p
 
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Ashes

Banned
From the youtube videos that deserve more views thread:

Naked Snake said:
This definitely deserves more views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rCS8qpq20

It's a song in Arabic, here's my attempt at a translation:

[Rah kol eli kan fbali]

All that was on my mind is gone

[Lama ebtasamtili mawlai]

When you smiled to me, your majesty

[Kash'artini lama hakaity]

You gave me goosebumps when you spoke

[Ma'gool t'hebi zayi insan]

Is it possible, that you would love a human like me?

[Yaa baay yaa'aaa baay...]

Ooh myy, oo'oh my...

[Hati edek ta a'teeki]

Give me your hand so that I give you
[Galbi eli mwagef min zaman]

My heart that was frozen long ago

[Majnoon ana majnoon fekee]

Crazy, I am crazy about you

[Ma'gool en'eesh zay el aflam]

Is it possible, that we live like the movies?

[Ya baaay yaa'aa bay]

Oh my, oo'oh myyy..

[Ra7 kl eli kan fbali]

All that was on my mind is gone.
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I think I'm gonna put this on in the background whilst I brainstorm. I already have the basic skeleton of the poem done. Now on to drafts and redrafts...
 
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Neutrality

Member
12 in the morning is never a good time to just think of an idea, write it in a minute, and post it.
But I'll do it anyway.

Goodbyes

Underneath the ocean blue
I took a trip to visit you
The boat ride out took just one day
It was the least that I could do.

I guessed the spot and threw out the anchor
But leaned too far and nearly sank her
I donned my gear and out slipped a pray
It really was the least that I could do.

With flippers just a size too big
And my fathers very first scuba rig
I felt the harsh cold ocean spray
As I dove down below the ocean blue.

At last I finally saw your face
Smiling still in your resting place
I'm sorry it had to go this way
That with bullet holes, and concrete shoes.





So yeah, grammatical and other errors I'll look at once I wake up.
Probably might even scrap it.
I don't know, made me smile.
 
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Ashes

Banned
Neutrality said:
So yeah, grammatical and other errors I'll look at once I wake up.
Probably might even scrap it.
I don't know, made me smile.
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Why would you scrap it dude? :p

Although for archive purposes, you could just edit out everything but poem... oh, welcome on board by the way... ;)

Reminder of the submission deadline:

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Submission Deadline: (PST)
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The submission deadline is 11:59 PST, Friday 10th June 2011

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This week has really flown by!
 
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ThoseDeafMutes

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Is this like the writing challenges where we're all supposed to critique each other? Because I wouldn't even know the first thing about critiquing poetry :/
 
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British Monsoon

Member
ThoseDeafMutes said:
Is this like the writing challenges where we're all supposed to critique each other? Because I wouldn't even know the first thing about critiquing poetry :/
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Yeah, critiques are welcome, although you can just vote if you want to. But it doesn't really matter if you don't know the first thing about poetry, I personally just try and explain what I liked and what I didn't like about the pieces, looking at things like the rhythm, the structure and the imagery of the piece.
 
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Ashes

Banned
ThoseDeafMutes said:
Is this like the writing challenges where we're all supposed to critique each other? Because I wouldn't even know the first thing about critiquing poetry :/
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Pretty much what Bootaaay said. And to be honest, the poetry thread is so much easier to read, vote, crit for just cause of how short the poems are. I make a cup of tea, read the poems and I'm done.

We had one thread where there was like 20+ poems. And still that took less then fifteen minutes..

It's an easier life over here man... :p
 
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British Monsoon

Member
The Road Yet Travelled

It wasn't at all special, the road,
stretching off, far into the distance,
disappearing beyond the far horizon.
Like many of it's brothers it was tar black
and shimmered in the hazy afternoon heat.
Painted with lines and posted with signs
that marked the little towns that sat
like fat spiders in their black asphalt webs,
sprawling threads of silk across the land.
Those places were special, for certain,
but although they were the destination
they lacked that same intoxicating allure
of the journey itself along a road yet travelled.

A Summer Death

He limps heavily into the warm summer glade,
blood dripping from at his side and his blade.
The birds scattering from up in the trees
as he falls by the pool, down to his knees.

The water, crystal cool, quenching his thirst,
lending him vigour and quelling his hurts
just for a while, as he knows he is to die,
with the wind on his brow, beneath the sky.

Not long now, he feels it in his bones.
Death in this realm and into the unknown,
to meet his makers and have his sins weighed
before his ancestors and the lords of fate.

He senses the grasp of their hands, even now
as his body succumbs beneath tree and bough,
with the suns rays beating upon his cheek
and the grass swaying as above branches creek.

Birds in rainbow splendour, flit to and fro,
singing a sweet dirge as his body lets go.
And with their song his spirit soars high.
Yes, he supposed, there were far worse places to die.
 
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Ashes

Banned
The path of the hitch hiker who doesn't give a f**k! (yes that is the title... :p)

Once every blue moon,
he comes out of his cocoon.
the king of the magicians,
the mad little Prussian.

The stars, they embrace the lake,
the effects, they last till daybreak.
The glassy water renders shimmers,
the boats become alike the swimmers.

The Gypsys they wait,
everyone else hesitates.
Everyone thinks he is evil,
I think he is unbeliveable.

I can't see him, for I am blind,
but you don't need eyes to see kindness,
you don't need ears either to hear music devine.

I may only be just words on paper,
or a drawing come to life,
but this is magic, not dust, not vapour.

Only the people can give me life,
I'm driven by imagination, rife,
the king of the magicians he said,
or at least that's what he said,
before going back to bed.

So walk on Time with me,
shed a leaf from the worrying tree,
you, your undefined grief, and me, the terribe three,
be my friend, and I'll help you in your steed.

Put misery in a box marked unwanted,
chase after the princess,
she is in another castle, jaunted.

That is, my friend the path of the hitch-hiker who doesn't give a fuck!
He pulls the middle finger at life, he makes his own random path, he makes his own damn luck!

He is like Mario, who stops mid-jump, and says, no, I'm taking a five minute break,
Whilst I ponder what I'm doing with my life, go have a coffee, add in a chocolate flake.

Why do I got to jump when you tell me to jump?
Why do I got to sit around moaning, and chase after a hump!?

Next time the bane of my life makes his move,
I'll be there before him, ha! bitch please think of something new!

This ain't a level by Nintendo,
This is LBP style, user-made, Super Mario Bros!

This starts in one story, ends in the next,
And there's not a middle, I guess,
And in all fairness, it just ends,
on a whimsical whim, a fluttery flutter... a messy mess!

... ;)
 
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iavi

Member
Oh... these are good. This choice is going to be tough.

Due to the whimsical nature of theme, I'm wondering if I should vote using my usual criteria of how strong a poem resonates emotion.
 
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iavi

Member
My votes

Bootaaay (2) - Back in form, bud. A positive spin on the melancholy with a whole heaping of image. I absolutely loved this one.

Tim the Wiz - This was fun to read. I actually can't think of much to say past that, but I did enjoy it quite a bit.

Neutrality - I lol'd. The twist at the end really captured the quirkiness of the theme, imo. I had no idea what exactly you were going for till that last line, but then I was like "oh... oh! That's tight as hell." Haha!

(In no particular order) Hm:

Ashes - Yours was alright, and I could see that you were going for something deeper, but most of its effect was lost with the needless rambling.

Ankit... you attacked the theme, literally. And it was needlessly wordy. I can't give you to many props this time, man, but it seems like you expected this.

Those Deaf Mutes- It felt pointless. Yours was actually the one I had the most trouble deciding on, as it was a lot of fun to read, but in the end it was too pointless to consider. That is me though. Good luck!
 
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ThoseDeafMutes

Member
Oh crap. Deadline has already passed, I assumed this would have been bumped by more people voting :/


1st. The path of the hitch hiker who doesn't give a f**k! by Ashes1396
2nd. Untitled by AnkitT
3rd. A Summer Death by Bootaaay
 
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Tim the Wiz

Banned
1) "A Summer Death" by Bootaaay
2) "Goodbyes" by Neutrality
3) "The "Oh Lordy Lordy Few Forties & an Oz" Sex Mind" by Miri

HM: "The Road Yet Travelled" by Bootaaay
 
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British Monsoon

Member
Whoops, sorry for the lateness guys, I fell asleep.

Damn, this is a tough choice this week :|

1. Miri - The "Oh Lordy Lordy Few Forties & an Oz" Sex Mind - you paint the picture well and I thoroughly enjoyed this piece, it has a great flow and I liked the abruptness of the ending.
2. Ashes1396 - The Path of the hitch hiker who doesn't give a fuck! - I really liked this one, it has a nice whimsical nature that shines through with your use of language, although I agree with Miri that it could've been a bit tighter in places
3. Neutrality - Goodbyes - wonderful imagery and I loved the ending.

HM: Tim the Wiz
 
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Ashes

Banned
1. Bootaaay - "A Summer Death". Very beautifully drawn out. I really like when you capture moments. The only thing between this one and the first was that the first was so much more intricately laden out. I think on technical merit, roads yet travelled is the better poem, but this has something about it that I may remember come next summer. Going with heart, instead of head, this time. Having said that, there were some great lines, especially the roads as webs and brothers in the first poem.

2. Miri - The "Oh Lordy Lordy. Few Forties & an Oz" Sex Mind. I preferred this to the second piece, and in fact both were very quirky and out there. This stood out more in terms of creativity and originality.

3. Neutrality - Goodbyes. Simple and elegant. Though you could have told it better with more time I think. You remind me of a more mature kid ness.

HM. Bootaaay the first, & Those Deaf Mutes.

AnkitT - I like this a fair bit, though I thought, with a little bit of work, this could work a whole lot better.

Tim the wiz - The first stanza was really good. It's the second one that felt off. Maybe you should have worked on the beat, rhythm or the meter or something.

Those Deaf Mutes - I liked this a lot, and indeed, about twenty minutes later, I realised I'm on tropes again. ha ha. I like how you worked in procrastination in the beginning, middle and end parts. Nothing like a lazy summer. And boy do I not miss doing exams...
 
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iavi

Member
Weird, I spent a whole lot more time on the second, thinking that it would be more popular. I did go into the first one thinking that I'm letting go of all preconceived notions of what's "good" though. I just had a lot of fun writing it.

In the end, yeah... That's a lesson, for sure.

Anways, ashes, it looks like all the contestants have put their word in. Time?
 
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Ashes

Banned
Yeah, pretty sure, what the results are. But I've already pm'd Neutrality. Give it till the end of the day, and if we don't have any more votes, then we can call it fair and square.


edit: though, actually we could probably call time on it now. Meh, I said the end of the day, let's just get there now. It'll also gives time for somebody to think up new thread ideas if you know what I mean... allowing for seamless jumping from one thread to the next. ;)
 
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iavi

Member
Ashes1396 said:
Yeah, pretty sure, what the results are. But I've already pm'd Neutrality. Give it till the end of the day, and if we don't have any more votes, then we can call it fair and square.


edit: though, actually we could probably call time on it now. Meh, I said the end of the day, let's just get there now. It'll also gives time for somebody to think up new thread ideas if you know what I mean... allowing for seamless jumping from one thread to the next. ;)
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Ah I didn't realize that Neutrality hadn't voted. We can wait for him to, if you want.
 
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Ashes

Banned
The Results:

1. "A Summer Death"² - 10 pts
By Bootaaay

2. "The "Oh Lordy Lordy Few Forties & an Oz" Sex Mind." - 6 pts
By Miri

3. "The path of the hitch hiker who doesn't give a f**k!" - 5 pts
By Ashes1396

3. "Goodbyes" - 5 pts
By Neutrality

4. "Untitled" - 2 pts
By AnkitT

4. "More Love" - 2pts
By Tim the Wiz


Congratulations to Bootaaay! & well done to the rest of us! :p

Thank you to everyone who entered & voted. And with that another thread gets packed, and posted, ready for the archives...

See ya'll in the next thread. So What'll it be Bootaaay?
 
I

iavi

Member
Congrats Bootaaay! That piece was incredible.

Have you thought about having any of your stuff published?
 
N

Neutrality

Member
Sorry I was visiting friends.
:/
Stupid friends.

Wont miss voting for the next one!
And congrats Bootaaay!
Can't believe I even got votes!
Woo woo!
 
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