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Incinermyn
Biweekly Haiku & Short-Poem Contest X
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 Thursday, December 29, 2011, and voting begins once the deadline has passed or all entries are made. Submissions are final, but if I feel that a poem should be revised slightly, I will do it with the writer’s consent.
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 Christmastime or Winter Holidays.
4.) Voting will run for three days and be open to all members of PokéBeach. Everyone will be allowed to vote for up to three of their favorites. All participants are required to vote for at least one entry; however, you are not allowed to vote for your own (if I catch you doing so, you’ll be docked a point).
Participant List
1.) Zyflair
2.) Alvin SubClause
3.) Ice Arceus
4.) darkpoet
5.) CJBlazerX87
6.) Lucky Fire
7.) The Yoshi
8.) Apollo
9.) DNA
10.) WujiKyurem
Haiku List (in order authors entered)
1.) Christmas
Presents, grand dinners,
None I had, but our love said,
Best Christmas ever.
2.) Christmas Tree
A verdant rocket,
Its bright spheres cascading down,
Shoots up to the stars.
3.) Holidays
Family, love, and presents
are all part of the holidays.
I look outside and see a world filled with lights.
4.) -A NOTE FOR SANTA-
Dear Santa, thank you-
for all that darn coal last year.
GO DIE! warm regards-
5.) No Joy in the Holidays
Christmas is the time
where joy is supposed to reign
but why don't I feel it?
6.) White Christmas
'Round the window,
I see Rudolph's red glow in the starry sky;
now the Christmas magic begins at midnight!
7.) In The Manger
In a small manger,
A baby sits there cutely,
Unaware of himself.
8.) Gratefulness
My thanks be to God,
for good friends and loving family,
with whom I share this holy day.
9.) The Star
From the eastern land
Wise men come seeking the One
Born King of the Jews
10.) Joys of Winter
It is a cold day;
yet heat eminates from me;
my heart is the source.
