Post by Andorinha on Feb 13, 2009 10:29:55 GMT -6
September 2003 Poetry Contest
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From: rivers
Sent: 9/11/2003 12:47 AM
Ok Tolkienites now pitching the poetry contest in relief is Rivers! We are almost midway through the month so please participate right away. I will be filling in for our friend Olorie for a while as she has some real life issues that are pressing.My thoughts and prayers are with her. I wish her fair winds, blue skies and unconditional love the most wonderful gift of all.
This months contest topic is LOYALTY whether it be the standfast Sam or Gollum's nasty loyalty to the one ring. Any type of loyalty will do even Feanor's loyalty to his oath.
The usual conditions apply but with a few twists, I want the poems to be two quatrains long. (Quatrain- 4 line poem or stanza) That means you only have eight lines to get across an extremely difficult concept. I like to make it challenging so I also want you to use at least one onomatopoeia in you poems. (Onomatopoeia- figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds. i.e. buzz, hiss, tick-tock, and clippity-clop)
I hope this will be fun and educational please everyone participate as this is a popular contest and my fragile feelings will be devastated if you don't participate.(note- I traded all feelings in on two shots of tequila in 1987 at a bikini contest at the Flora-Bama so I am sure whoever has them will be upset so lets dont upset some stranger write some poems!)
Sit down and write
way late at night
and innersite clap-clap
will bring new light
Rivers
P.S The deadline is Tuesday the 30th of September 2003 at the stroke of the witching hour I will stop accepting entries. Time is of the essence so please write today and participate as much as you like its possible to sweep all awards. I am also going to give a prize for the winner something Tolkien related so sharpen your wits and get to rhyming.
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From: Fangorn
Sent: 9/11/2003 1:30 AM
OATH BREAKERS
How now oath-breakers are ye come
To Stone of Erech, the past undone
Oh Kings of Dunharrow how you plea
Your loyalty you give at need
Loyalty to Isildur once you pledged
But called upon you clearly hedged
Oh Dead Ones, now we hear ye wail
Fulfill the Oath, and do not fail
Fangorn 9/03
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From: Kendal
Sent: 9/29/2003 1:20 PM
This is very BAD, Rivers, are we really stuck with just two quatrains, rhymes, and some device of onomatopoeia? Sigh. So I cleverly concocted the following, got ready to post it and read that poetical fellow Fangorn's offering -- sigh, now how did he happen to hit upon the same theme, and even use the same word "wail!?"
Holding Fast
We gather in the glooms of Morthond Vale
each starless night, to raise our "howling" wail
and go tramping round the soul-cursed Stone
that Isildur planted in the ancient loam.
Tied by an oath of gripping fealty
and cursed by a binding loyalty
we mass, and march, and wait again
for a Returning King and a final end.
OK, so, admittedly, all "great" minds run gibbering down similar tracks of thought... Oh, well, I still have almost 24 hours to find another theme (and discard the use of "wail").
Hmmm, lessee, Aragorn's loyalty to Arwen has been over done... but there's Sam's loyalty to his grub? Smaug's loyalty to purloined gold? The loyalty of the rushing waters of the Baranduin to its own channel? Nope, too many Spring floods...
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From: Kendal
Sent: 9/29/2003 2:23 PM
OK... back again with my, like, totally original offering that has no mention of oaths, curses, or hemispherical, hulking stones jutting up from the mosses -- also not a single wail! So this one stands as my "official" entry:
Staying The Course
Just up from his sea foam bed in the eastern Ocean,
Moon rushed through the fields of the day-lit sky.
His Sun-faced Lady smiled at all this great commotion
and nodded warmly when she caught His yearning eye.
"Won't you stop for just a moment, or maybe even two?
Hold back the pace of your fast race til I come up with you?"
The "howling" Moon was shouting as he climbed up into the blue.
She answered, as their gap then grew, "To my constant orbit I am true."
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From: Majahsheart
Sent: 9/29/2003 10:48 PM
ok, it's not that i don't understand the rules but i wrote this last week on my trip and had forgotten about the loyalty theme...(sorry Rivers but in my defense i was traveling with a 3 and 4 year old?)
soooo i don't think this will count but i haven't time to re-do before tomorrow night!
i would say this poem is about faith so that is sorta close...eh?
Help from the Deep
Amid the dark...the damp...the slimey...
I shiver and listen to the sounds around.
Drip, drip, drip overhead dribbles
Slop, slop, slop to the mud on the ground.
WAIT! My ears strain to catch another noise
Like someone singing, to my joy I hear.
"My precious...my beautiful precious...where are you?"
Alas! Someone to help me with my quest I am sure!
Majaheart 9/29/03
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From: Majahsheart
Sent: 9/29/2003 11:02 PM
by the way Rivers...i have been meaning to say...
for taking on the poetry thingie so willingly and so well!
M
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From: MSN NicknameMcDLT-777
Sent: 9/30/2003 7:40 PM
Dedication
Vowed to follow him into the greatest of horrors
Into the depths of the deepest unknown
Never to leave his side or turn away
Through it all and in battles will defend
Vowed to protect and serve his master
Breaking his own heart and snapping his will.
Encouraging, coaxing, with all his powers
Helping and carrying him through all circumstances.
By McDLT ~ September 30, 2003
(really don't like the title, but have gone brain dead trying to incorporate an Onomatopoeia in my poem - hoping that "snapping" is one.)
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From: sparrow
Sent: 10/1/2003 9:03 AM
Please Oh Please don't close the contest yet! I only need one more quatrain and that dratted onomotopoeia!
Hastily,
Sparrow
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From: sparrow
Sent: 10/1/2003 8:13 PM
Of Eowyn and Theoden
She called him uncle and loved him as father,
Their hearts endured common loss and grief,
While sustained by shared love and hope
that night would pass, their people see relief.
Together in the Golden Hall they dwelt.
She honored him even when madness reigned;
Secretly accompanied him to war;
Until he gasped his last she by her King remained.
~Sparrow
McDLT, I'll accept "snapping" if you'll accept "gasped". Deal?
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From: rivers
Sent: 10/1/2003 10:06 PM
Thank you for your wonderful entries I was afraid I had gotten too restrictive at the start. Turn out the lights the party's over, its time for all good things to end. (Dandy Don thanks for all the Mondays) The contest is over you guys really rule for posting I am impressed and happy. I have been having trouble with my hotmail address so please submit your vote to mrivers42@aol.com it is my alternate e-mail address. I will post October theme tomorrow because I want to give you time to create. Majah its my pleasure I like poetry it is snippet of emotion while it is written for everyone to see it is a personal snapshot of the authors emotions or ideas he is getting across and I like to ponder at meaning.
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From: Majahsheart
Sent: 10/8/2003 11:42 AM
ahem!...a special poem for Rivers
by Majah the incompetent bard (or is that bardess or just broad?)
a poem in 4/4 time
the mighty river roared
methinks he doth axe too much
(of me but not Fangorn!)
tap...tap...tap... goes my pencil on the desk
(i still write the old way before computers took over)
"Why do i do this to myelf, i am no poet!" I rail
it's cause i am another big time Tolkien Lover!!!
the end (thank goodness!)
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From: Majahsheart
Sent: 10/8/2003 11:34 PM
errrr that would be myself not my elf...that is a whole nuther story trust me?
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From: MSN NicknameStorrmrider
Sent: 10/9/2003 5:42 AM
Rivers:
How long are we voting for? When is the last day to submit our votes for the September contest? You did get my votes, right? If not, let me know because I sent them a few days ago!
Stormrider
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From: MSN NicknameStorrmrider
Sent: 10/19/2003 9:09 AM
Rivers:
Have the votes been counted yet? Who are the winners! I am sure the entrants are waiting (im)patiently to find out!
Stormrider
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From: rivers
Sent: 10/19/2003 10:37 PM
Storm and everyone else I had a contest in the small town of Russelville, Alabama this weekend which delayed my posting of the winners. I also hoped more people would vote anyway sorry I will try to post on the 15th of each month. The winners of the September poetry contest are Fang with Oath Breakers and Sparrow with Of Eowyn and Theoden, 2nd place goes to Kendal for Staying the Course and in 3rd place is Majah with Helm from the Deep. Thanks everyone for participating and voting I need Fang and Sparrow to email me so I can get thier snail mail and because I like to get e-mail from them. Please write poetry for the October contest.
Thank You
Rivers
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From: rivers
Sent: 9/11/2003 12:47 AM
Ok Tolkienites now pitching the poetry contest in relief is Rivers! We are almost midway through the month so please participate right away. I will be filling in for our friend Olorie for a while as she has some real life issues that are pressing.My thoughts and prayers are with her. I wish her fair winds, blue skies and unconditional love the most wonderful gift of all.
This months contest topic is LOYALTY whether it be the standfast Sam or Gollum's nasty loyalty to the one ring. Any type of loyalty will do even Feanor's loyalty to his oath.
The usual conditions apply but with a few twists, I want the poems to be two quatrains long. (Quatrain- 4 line poem or stanza) That means you only have eight lines to get across an extremely difficult concept. I like to make it challenging so I also want you to use at least one onomatopoeia in you poems. (Onomatopoeia- figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds. i.e. buzz, hiss, tick-tock, and clippity-clop)
I hope this will be fun and educational please everyone participate as this is a popular contest and my fragile feelings will be devastated if you don't participate.(note- I traded all feelings in on two shots of tequila in 1987 at a bikini contest at the Flora-Bama so I am sure whoever has them will be upset so lets dont upset some stranger write some poems!)
Sit down and write
way late at night
and innersite clap-clap
will bring new light
Rivers
P.S The deadline is Tuesday the 30th of September 2003 at the stroke of the witching hour I will stop accepting entries. Time is of the essence so please write today and participate as much as you like its possible to sweep all awards. I am also going to give a prize for the winner something Tolkien related so sharpen your wits and get to rhyming.
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From: Fangorn
Sent: 9/11/2003 1:30 AM
OATH BREAKERS
How now oath-breakers are ye come
To Stone of Erech, the past undone
Oh Kings of Dunharrow how you plea
Your loyalty you give at need
Loyalty to Isildur once you pledged
But called upon you clearly hedged
Oh Dead Ones, now we hear ye wail
Fulfill the Oath, and do not fail
Fangorn 9/03
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Message 3 of 21 in Discussion
From: Kendal
Sent: 9/29/2003 1:20 PM
This is very BAD, Rivers, are we really stuck with just two quatrains, rhymes, and some device of onomatopoeia? Sigh. So I cleverly concocted the following, got ready to post it and read that poetical fellow Fangorn's offering -- sigh, now how did he happen to hit upon the same theme, and even use the same word "wail!?"
Holding Fast
We gather in the glooms of Morthond Vale
each starless night, to raise our "howling" wail
and go tramping round the soul-cursed Stone
that Isildur planted in the ancient loam.
Tied by an oath of gripping fealty
and cursed by a binding loyalty
we mass, and march, and wait again
for a Returning King and a final end.
OK, so, admittedly, all "great" minds run gibbering down similar tracks of thought... Oh, well, I still have almost 24 hours to find another theme (and discard the use of "wail").
Hmmm, lessee, Aragorn's loyalty to Arwen has been over done... but there's Sam's loyalty to his grub? Smaug's loyalty to purloined gold? The loyalty of the rushing waters of the Baranduin to its own channel? Nope, too many Spring floods...
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Message 4 of 21 in Discussion
From: Kendal
Sent: 9/29/2003 2:23 PM
OK... back again with my, like, totally original offering that has no mention of oaths, curses, or hemispherical, hulking stones jutting up from the mosses -- also not a single wail! So this one stands as my "official" entry:
Staying The Course
Just up from his sea foam bed in the eastern Ocean,
Moon rushed through the fields of the day-lit sky.
His Sun-faced Lady smiled at all this great commotion
and nodded warmly when she caught His yearning eye.
"Won't you stop for just a moment, or maybe even two?
Hold back the pace of your fast race til I come up with you?"
The "howling" Moon was shouting as he climbed up into the blue.
She answered, as their gap then grew, "To my constant orbit I am true."
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Message 5 of 21 in Discussion
From: Majahsheart
Sent: 9/29/2003 10:48 PM
ok, it's not that i don't understand the rules but i wrote this last week on my trip and had forgotten about the loyalty theme...(sorry Rivers but in my defense i was traveling with a 3 and 4 year old?)
soooo i don't think this will count but i haven't time to re-do before tomorrow night!
i would say this poem is about faith so that is sorta close...eh?
Help from the Deep
Amid the dark...the damp...the slimey...
I shiver and listen to the sounds around.
Drip, drip, drip overhead dribbles
Slop, slop, slop to the mud on the ground.
WAIT! My ears strain to catch another noise
Like someone singing, to my joy I hear.
"My precious...my beautiful precious...where are you?"
Alas! Someone to help me with my quest I am sure!
Majaheart 9/29/03
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Sent: 9/29/2003 10:52 PM
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From: Majahsheart
Sent: 9/29/2003 11:02 PM
by the way Rivers...i have been meaning to say...
for taking on the poetry thingie so willingly and so well!
M
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Message 8 of 21 in Discussion
From: MSN NicknameMcDLT-777
Sent: 9/30/2003 7:40 PM
Dedication
Vowed to follow him into the greatest of horrors
Into the depths of the deepest unknown
Never to leave his side or turn away
Through it all and in battles will defend
Vowed to protect and serve his master
Breaking his own heart and snapping his will.
Encouraging, coaxing, with all his powers
Helping and carrying him through all circumstances.
By McDLT ~ September 30, 2003
(really don't like the title, but have gone brain dead trying to incorporate an Onomatopoeia in my poem - hoping that "snapping" is one.)
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Message 9 of 21 in Discussion
From: sparrow
Sent: 10/1/2003 9:03 AM
Please Oh Please don't close the contest yet! I only need one more quatrain and that dratted onomotopoeia!
Hastily,
Sparrow
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Message 10 of 21 in Discussion
From: sparrow
Sent: 10/1/2003 8:13 PM
Of Eowyn and Theoden
She called him uncle and loved him as father,
Their hearts endured common loss and grief,
While sustained by shared love and hope
that night would pass, their people see relief.
Together in the Golden Hall they dwelt.
She honored him even when madness reigned;
Secretly accompanied him to war;
Until he gasped his last she by her King remained.
~Sparrow
McDLT, I'll accept "snapping" if you'll accept "gasped". Deal?
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Message 11 of 21 in Discussion
From: rivers
Sent: 10/1/2003 10:06 PM
Thank you for your wonderful entries I was afraid I had gotten too restrictive at the start. Turn out the lights the party's over, its time for all good things to end. (Dandy Don thanks for all the Mondays) The contest is over you guys really rule for posting I am impressed and happy. I have been having trouble with my hotmail address so please submit your vote to mrivers42@aol.com it is my alternate e-mail address. I will post October theme tomorrow because I want to give you time to create. Majah its my pleasure I like poetry it is snippet of emotion while it is written for everyone to see it is a personal snapshot of the authors emotions or ideas he is getting across and I like to ponder at meaning.
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Message 12 of 21 in Discussion
From: Majahsheart
Sent: 10/8/2003 11:42 AM
ahem!...a special poem for Rivers
by Majah the incompetent bard (or is that bardess or just broad?)
a poem in 4/4 time
the mighty river roared
methinks he doth axe too much
(of me but not Fangorn!)
tap...tap...tap... goes my pencil on the desk
(i still write the old way before computers took over)
"Why do i do this to myelf, i am no poet!" I rail
it's cause i am another big time Tolkien Lover!!!
the end (thank goodness!)
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From: Majahsheart
Sent: 10/8/2003 11:34 PM
errrr that would be myself not my elf...that is a whole nuther story trust me?
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Message 14 of 21 in Discussion
From: MSN NicknameStorrmrider
Sent: 10/9/2003 5:42 AM
Rivers:
How long are we voting for? When is the last day to submit our votes for the September contest? You did get my votes, right? If not, let me know because I sent them a few days ago!
Stormrider
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Message 15 of 21 in Discussion
From: MSN NicknameStorrmrider
Sent: 10/19/2003 9:09 AM
Rivers:
Have the votes been counted yet? Who are the winners! I am sure the entrants are waiting (im)patiently to find out!
Stormrider
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Message 16 of 21 in Discussion
From: rivers
Sent: 10/19/2003 10:37 PM
Storm and everyone else I had a contest in the small town of Russelville, Alabama this weekend which delayed my posting of the winners. I also hoped more people would vote anyway sorry I will try to post on the 15th of each month. The winners of the September poetry contest are Fang with Oath Breakers and Sparrow with Of Eowyn and Theoden, 2nd place goes to Kendal for Staying the Course and in 3rd place is Majah with Helm from the Deep. Thanks everyone for participating and voting I need Fang and Sparrow to email me so I can get thier snail mail and because I like to get e-mail from them. Please write poetry for the October contest.
Thank You
Rivers