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Incinermyn
Biweekly Haiku & Short-Poem Contest XI
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, January 12, 2012 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 New Year’s Resolutions or New Year Outlooks.
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; 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.) Ice Arceus
2.) TyphloWolf
3.) DNA
4.) Zyflair
5.) The Fallen One
6.) Lucky Fire
7.) Dark Void
8.) Inconceivable
9.) The Yoshi
10.) darkpoet
11.) Non Sequitur
12.) Nightmane
Haiku List (in order authors entered)
1.) Hope
I struggle to keep goals alive.
Reverting back to resolutions is
one way to give oneself hope.
2.) Opportunities
Opportunities,
rising on an eagle's wings,
things never same again.
3.) No Resolve
New Year's resolutions
are hasty decisions, and
never last for long.
4.) Resolve
See a rolling stone
Gather no moss, yet see it
Obtain a polish!
5.) Horizons
The horizon breaks,
A new and glorious dawn.
The new age begins.
6.) Decisions
It's that new year again-
What should I gain by this?
To reach my promise's peak, of course!
7.) I'm resolving to
End war, poverty, hunger
And resolutions
8.) To Define
To resolve is to
Acknowledge your weaknessess
To highlight problems.
9.) Resolution
Resolution is,
when you decide to change, and
never be the same.
10.) -TIME TO GROW UP-
side door, im smoking
wile all of my childish fears-
knock at the froint door...
11.) I see a new me
with all I ever wanted
fading in the mist
12.) What to change?
A Resolution,
what shall I change this new year
Besides who I am?
