We Want To Know What Happened!
Tell us about it! We want to know what went down. Choose any historical event or person or thing from at least one hundred years ago or more and write a poem about it! Not too hard, right? You know you love a bunch of stuff about the past and you like talking about it to others who will listen to you do so, that you're passionate about it, about that person, about that war, about that King or Queen, about that tragedy, about that uprising, about that structure, about that village, about that culture, about this or that empire, about so much that you are already thinking of many examples, images are flashing through your mind...catch them with your quill, let them spill, share the thrill, when you've time to kill.
You needn't cite your sources because if you're like me you have many many sources and couldn't even think of them all anyway, and if you're not, oh well, some people are and I'm not gonna expect those people to cite their sources, or the other people, and because all one needs to do is verify the claims made in the poem for oneself online or via other mediums, but keep this in mind, some of the voting readers may just do that; I sure plan to, like truth-seekers do, and this contest doesn't have many rules but that you tell the truth about the past is one of them, and or that you at least mention in the author's notes if you took liberties and where, to keep the record straight, at least as best as any of us can using any source, you get the point.
Lincoln was rubbing an aching tooth
when he was clubbed by James Wilkes Booth
(If Booth used a gun, that speaks NOT the truth,
and where is there evidence to show
Lincoln wasn't picking his nose
instead, or clapping, or handing a rose
to...wait, James?!)
Poem can be of any length, doesn't have to rhyme, and happy or sad endings are optional, or other kinds of endings, but not ending it is not an option for you, and not because there's a rule against it, but because you don't know how to not end it, unless of course you imply in your heart it goes on, or that you plan to finish it later, and stuff like that, which I would do before I'd agree with me that I "have to" end it. In fact, go ahead and don't end it if you prefer I spose, why not, but post it at least partially done....
Anyway, dazzle your readers with a gloriously poetic gleaming glimpse into yesterday, at least a century ago or more, and who knows, depending on how you string the words together, you just may make history in the common sense of the phrase, since indeed we all make history all the time...go us.
What doesn't get enough attention from the past?
pics in the author's notes might be a nice touch, but it also might get some people so upset they'll chew through their tongues and stomp on their kittens, so your call. wild world. prove it with poetry.
The contest winner will win half of the prize pool which is based on the number of entries. The second and third place winners will each share the remaining prize pool. The prize pool is currently 20.00 member dollars. There are 8 spots still open. If all open spots are used the prize pool will be 36.00 member dollars. In this contest at least 5 submissions must be made for the vote to begin.
Deadline: Contest is closed. Deadline was Saturday, October 11, 2014.
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You needn't cite your sources because if you're like me you have many many sources and couldn't even think of them all anyway, and if you're not, oh well, some people are and I'm not gonna expect those people to cite their sources, or the other people, and because all one needs to do is verify the claims made in the poem for oneself online or via other mediums, but keep this in mind, some of the voting readers may just do that; I sure plan to, like truth-seekers do, and this contest doesn't have many rules but that you tell the truth about the past is one of them, and or that you at least mention in the author's notes if you took liberties and where, to keep the record straight, at least as best as any of us can using any source, you get the point.
Lincoln was rubbing an aching tooth
when he was clubbed by James Wilkes Booth
(If Booth used a gun, that speaks NOT the truth,
and where is there evidence to show
Lincoln wasn't picking his nose
instead, or clapping, or handing a rose
to...wait, James?!)
Poem can be of any length, doesn't have to rhyme, and happy or sad endings are optional, or other kinds of endings, but not ending it is not an option for you, and not because there's a rule against it, but because you don't know how to not end it, unless of course you imply in your heart it goes on, or that you plan to finish it later, and stuff like that, which I would do before I'd agree with me that I "have to" end it. In fact, go ahead and don't end it if you prefer I spose, why not, but post it at least partially done....
Anyway, dazzle your readers with a gloriously poetic gleaming glimpse into yesterday, at least a century ago or more, and who knows, depending on how you string the words together, you just may make history in the common sense of the phrase, since indeed we all make history all the time...go us.
What doesn't get enough attention from the past?
pics in the author's notes might be a nice touch, but it also might get some people so upset they'll chew through their tongues and stomp on their kittens, so your call. wild world. prove it with poetry.
The contest winner will win half of the prize pool which is based on the number of entries. The second and third place winners will each share the remaining prize pool. The prize pool is currently 20.00 member dollars. There are 8 spots still open. If all open spots are used the prize pool will be 36.00 member dollars. In this contest at least 5 submissions must be made for the vote to begin.
Deadline: Contest is closed. Deadline was Saturday, October 11, 2014.
