poetry showdown
 

nominate your poetry gladiators

the nomination period is 1 week starting now. after this week, all nominated parties will be entered into a tournament grid by undertoad based on his personal ranking. he took some poetry class in college or something, and i think he'd be good at seeding....plus, with his field of 64 experience....he's a shoe in.

we have this week to argue about judging, scoring, and wether it's single or double elimination.

i'll nominate brianna...cuz i think she's got power.


and it's my 11,111th post....so she'd better fucking win.

I am happy to do this but we won't get 64 to do it with!

Gee, Lj, thanks--but I can't begin to compete with some of these people!


Or, is this like some sort of joke like when they voted Carrie for Homecoming Queen and then poured pig's blood all over her? Coz if it is this sort of sick joke, I'm totally in. What should I wear? :D


For class I wrote another silly poem. It was supposed to be a "list of things you like" a la Gerard Manley Hopkins. It's my "oh, a 2nd grader wrote this!!" poem, but the class (filled with those not too far removed from 2nd grade) liked it.

I like the dark things, Halloween things,
Gleeful grins and voodoo queens;
Tarot decks and green moonbeams.

I like the pansy, fearful face and back,
Growling up at me from the bushpack
Poison mushroom cap, magic brick-a-brack.

I like the room beneath the Tree,
Cauldrons and witches, three by three
I like the unseen, silly world
That just might bite a careless girl.

Wait for the showdown!

doesnt matter how many are in.....

lets start nominating, though.

brainna
giant salamander
sundae girl

LJ.

For some reason I think you are a poet. Or maybe I remember you quoting shakesphere and I am confused.
* shrug* My recollection is vauge but I stand by my nomination.

Bless you Jim
I'll be in, but I have to know the parameters

If it's free verse, all well and good
but if we are given a form (my preference) then I would like it in advance
no extra points for form adhered to if not specified!

what's that sucking sound?
oh I appear to be disappearing up my own anus!!!

I nominate Shawnee to take part before I go

Don't put it down. Someone has got to write for children. I've been in alot of school libraries and it fits in so well. Now all you need is an illustrator. Yeah your poem totally sends a person back to the classroom and was there any more magical time than the anticipation of Halloween when your in the 2nd grade? :) I think not! ;)

I nominate Flint.

i think there should be no rules about verse, meter or length.

i think it should be head to head:
two people are paired, and have 1 day to post a poem (24 hours from the announcement of the match)
then we somehow decide who won, a winner advances
but thats just what I think.


how has dana not been nominated yet? too obvious? UT..you too

also!
self nominations are acceptable!

who else feels froggy?

Danac is our poet laureate

I nominate TW. It would be interesting to see him take his 500 word essays and move to a shorter form.

M B A psychos
Greed abuses quality
Americas loss

I second it.

Third-ed!

Ha...no one nominated the slam poet. plbbt.

whozzat? Flint?

I'll nominate (or second?) DanaC, for Manchester Dreaming.

Sun_Sparkz had some pretty good poetry, but I don't think she's posted anything lately.

I'm out.


couldn't last a night.

Brianna, look ... 7,000 posts.

You can't back out. You're a great poetess.

what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

if you're out, I'll toss the whole thing. and give the award to aliantha.

I don't think it should be a nomination thread but a participation thread.

I write only for fun. It's nothing, none of it. I write for 2nd graders, which is fine and fun, but it's no great art. It's only to get them to think. I have a prof that I actually LOATHE; he's a published, accomplished poet and I hate everything he's written. He was there when SS boots threatened his family but yet....he still makes the poem motherfucking boring. His poems suck. a lot.

we were going over a really sexy stanza in a poem (Cherrylog Road) where the guy, who wants to score with the girl, says:

I held her and held her and held her,
Convoyed at terrific speed
By the stalled, dreaming traffic around us,
So the blacksnake, stiff
With inaction, curved back
Into life, and hunted the mouse

And Professor,in his sixties, well aquainted with sex, refused to discuss this stanza as he was "afraid' mothers, fathers, and faculity would find it "offensive." what-a-douche.

he shouldn't be teaching poetry let alone write it.

end rant.

Yeah, I really like Cherrylog Road. But I always thought it was about racing cars on back roads.

nevermind this nonsense. wouldnt have been that much fun anyway

Lj, I have an unimaginable fear of rejection. I can only write stuff if it doesn't matter. that's my big secret (that everyone knows, anyway). I think it WOULD be fun but I can't compete with others. I have a very fragile sense of self as it is!! I do poems for fun--coz they make me smile or laugh, not because I can 'write' them. I didn't mean to piss on your parade. that's two for me with you---just ignore me. I'll get better.

meh.....
competetive poetry is probably a bad concept.

competitive poetry is NOT a bad idea. it's what keeps poetry alive.

I think we need rules:

a poet must make use of the according: cunnilingus, french kissing, rimjob.

make THAT into a poem, you godless amatuers, and then we will talk!! :)

the omission of 'felatio' from that list is quietly shrieking in my mind's ear.

Mmmph slup urmph fmumph phlamf phlamf plamf slup
aaaahhhh
slurplr slup slup slurple
ew, you have a pube in your teeth
Oh, OH :eek: oooh uh uh uh uh.........

Though you have no eyes
And your face is a slit,
You do have thighs
And epic pink lips

We'll lay here for days,
My tongue planted deep
In the swamp-like haze
That swells as you weep

When juices run out,
Your caverns well fed,
I'll move to the mouth
On the back of your head


:)

:(

Oh I thought the best slam poets talked about their pussy for 10 minutes. (instant win I've seen it too many times)

Competitive poetry is also performance based. We'll need vids., a timer, and 3 judges.

I used to run open mic poetry and slam competitions on my own dime for fun. I will never get those years back, or that money back, so don't let me know how this turns out! lol!

Amateur!!!! *actually a compliment*

;)