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Incinermyn
Biweekly Haiku & Short-Poem Contest IX
Rules and Entry Information
1.) Post here saying that you want to enter and you’ll be accepted. The cap for entries is slated at twenty contestants per round, and signups will end as soon as that number has been met, the deadline for entries has passed, or the thread sits for several days without any new entries (during which private submissions may be accepted via PM to me).
2.) Participation simply requires entrants to write a haiku (a poem with the alternating “Five-Seven-Five Syllables” per line format) or a similar length short poem and post it here as an entry, though submitting them via PM or Profile Message to me is fine too. All poems are due by the second Thursday (around noon, Central Standard Time) after this contest thread is announced and revealed. Voting begins once the deadline has passed or all entries are made. Submissions are final, but small revisions will be allowed so long as the writer informs me directly they're making them.
3.) Each poem for the contest must follow the selected theme for the competition. Due to artist’s having different interpretations of ideas, no haiku will be disqualified for writing about divergent topics so long as the theme is tied in somehow (if it isn’t, then you will be disqualified for the duration of this round). This contest’s theme is Winter.
4.) Voting will run for three days and be open to all members of PokéBeach. Each person will be allowed three votes for their favorites. All participants are required to vote, or you will be disqualified from the round. You are not allowed to vote for your own (if you are caught doing so, you will be docked a point).
Participant List
1.) Apollo
2.) Zorua
3.) BlastBurn
4.) mpain0
5.) Alvin SubClause
6.) CJBlazerX87
7.) Ice Arceus
8.) darkpoet
9.) The Yoshi
10.) Zyflair
Haiku List (in order authors entered)
1.) Blizzard
Cold winds blow, and snow
Piles up again like years past,
Marking autumn’s death.
2.) Winter Transformations
Trees wrapped in white
Days dark, holiday lights bright
Winter changes all
3.) Dashing through the snow,
As I head to grandma's house,
For some hot chocolate
4.) The fleeing snow
Escaping the grasp of warmth
It is Winter
5.) Winter
Its frosty tendrils
Splinter magnificently
Across the white world.
6.) Snow and Ice will come
to conquer and destroy all
When Drizleon wakes
7.) Freezing Winds
Freezing winds prevail
the warm temperatures of autumn.
Be sure to stay warm.
8.) The howling wolf,
Upon a late winters night-
I spring up awake.
9.) What do you See?
Look out the window,
can you tell me what you see?
Nothing but winter.
10.) Snow
Everywhere in sight,
On your tall hat, in your shoes,
Everything is white.
