Site Contest: The Poets - In their own Words, Round One

New Site Contest

RULES: Round One

TYPE
Must be a formed Poem - any formed poem found on the following site:
<http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html>

Title your poem & add the form type with a hyphen; for examples:
"The Witch's Words - Etheree"
"O Mine Abandoned Soul - Diamante"
"Sucks to Be You - Looped Poem"

SUBSTANCE
The topic must be your relationship to poetry.
It can be how you feel about this site, or about poetry itself, either your own or others, or why you choose to write poetry, what you hope comes of it, how it makes you a better person, how it releases your inner demons and helps you survive, how disappointed you are in others not reading or not getting your poetry, how amazed you are when someone finds you in your poetry, your angst at suffering from writer's block.

SCORING
- conformity to the rules for the form you choose (30%)
- subjective appreciation and analysis (70%)
Being insightful, self-revelatory, or candid enhances the subjective points.

TIMING
12 June 2014, Thursday: Start time
22 June 2014, Sunday anytime: SUBMISSION dead line - PM to me, do not post anywhere
23 June 2014, Monday: Submissions will be posted
27 June 2014, Friday: Scoring and comments will be posted
27 June 2014, Friday: Second Round will be announced

Now open for challenges, clarifications & general discussion

I love this, I'm eager to read everyone's poems... I think each person has a unique relationship with poetry and that it can be personal or reveal a part of who they are. This will give us all a chance to reflect :]

Great idea!
It has been a while since I have entered a site contest so I will join! :)

Can't wait to read everyone's poems!

Good luck to all who enter

Ohhh Snap! Larry I love this!!!

First entry already in!

EDIT: WOW, day one has not even ended and two entries are in.

So, can anyone jump in anytime, or is there a specific list of poets that have signed up? I have been MIA lately.

Open to the world of PnQ
Plenty of time to enter

This is a great challenge and I am going to put a lot of effort into it and hope I make the dead line

People are asking about Free Verse, which I did not realize was listed in ShadowPoetry.

No, it is not Form Poetry.
However, there are dozens of others to choose from!

Still 8 days to get the poems in.

Sorry Larry, too much formed poetry fear for me to do this. Good luck everyone!

Aww, Narph :(. I was seriously looking forward to your entry.

Holy... This seems tough.

Formed poetry is super fun. :).

Psht, Narph, do an acrostic. :P

Etheree
Senryu
Acrostic

There are several forms that are easy to do.

Hellon, Hellon, Hellon, Hellon, Hellon!

Interesting factoid: out of the six entries so far there are seven different forms used.

5 days left!

This Is really interesting and only means that one of them used two form in one entry. hahaha I really love to read that one!!

Interesting - 7 in & no duplicate forms yet

4 days to go

Last day to enter!

I've gotten free verse due to the type being listed on Shadow Poetry

I will publish it but how can it be judged for form?
I'm all ears
My initial response would be to apportion the 3" points for form to the level of difficulty & excellence of execution.
Sort of like competitive diving.

BY REQUEST & because I'm still at my family reunion in the woods of Virginia, entries are accepted through Tuesday - NO LATER!

Ps: if you don't enter I may hit on you to judge
:8-)

Larry I do believe that a free verse is a"form",
free verse isn't just collecting words aside.
No word count and such but still, it is a form not a plain text; there is a really failing free verse and a really well written one.

could be judged for the flow, for the spelling, for the word choice, for the form of listing thoughts, for the ideas, for the beauty, for the coherence ...just as any other form poetry.

So in essence, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY you're discriminating it :P lol

^ lol Nana... it's because free verse is free, there's no way to see if it's correct or not because there is no correct way to write free verse... maybe also because it wouldn't be fair to judge someone who wrote a haiku for syllables and come to free verse and count the form correct no matter what because it's free verse.

Larry I think for the free verse you can judge on punctuation, spelling and capitalization in addition to the shape of the poem... some free verse poems look like a story or just someone talking and rambling about in comparison to poems which have stanzas and are organized in a way that you can tell by sight that it is a poem.

Free verse can be judged on rhythm. If it has no rhythm then it is prose. It can also be judged on imagery. Plus there is diction, the tone of the piece. Is it correct for the subject matter or atmosphere that was attempted. Maybe free verse is harder. Because you have to convince us all it is still a poem despite the obvious absence of poetic boundaries.

Thanks for the feed back on Free Verse, I am pretty sure I know how to deal with it.

TODAY is the dead line!
We have some great poems in, lots of angst and writer's joy of creation.

DON'T MISS OUT!

I said I'd participate and I didn't, not for lack of attempts. Sat down to write a few times and nothing. What's up with that? Some of you guys are oozing with creative juices, while I'm all dried up :(

Excited to read submissions. Props for getting this thing going, Larr.
Props to all who participated and didn't give a weak excuse not to ;) *coughisuckcough

Are you by any chance stressed out? I cannot write if I am stressed out. Though form poetry usually takes away my writers block as puzzles tend to relax me. May be listening to music? Mozart? Beethoven? Or any other?