Poetry competition CLOSED 8th December 2020 5:57pm
WINNER
LunaGreyhawk
LunaGreyhawk
RUNNERS-UP:
wallyroo92
and eswaller
She Walks in Beauty
Anonymous
We always appreciate your participation, Wally. One more Classic comp to go and then you can rest a bit before NaPo!
Congrats to Luna, Wally and Eswaller, your entries were truly Byron-inspired and crafted. This was a fun comp that was a real challenge to try and recreate Byron's intricate grammar and rhyming. This was a true lesson in grammar. Thanks, Johnny and Ahavati for the critique, it's really helpful though I'm still digesting it to make a few improvements.
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PoetsRevenge said:Congrats to Luna, Wally and Eswaller, your entries were truly Byron-inspired and crafted. This was a fun comp that was a real challenge to try and recreate Byron's intricate grammar and rhyming. This was a true lesson in grammar. Thanks, Johnny and Ahavati for the critique, it's really helpful though I'm still digesting it to make a few improvements.
Thank you for always giving these comps your all, PR.
I think in order to truly emulate the style in which Byron and other classic authors wrote, one has to study their works of prose or free form poetry.
Writing styles become modified when it comes to creating form poetry with counted syllables and syllable stressings; filler words are often added to complete a demanding form. It then becomes a distorted version of how they are accustomed to communicating with words. As much as they try to be efficient with their wording, word economy can still be tossed out the window.
Thank you for always giving these comps your all, PR.
I think in order to truly emulate the style in which Byron and other classic authors wrote, one has to study their works of prose or free form poetry.
Writing styles become modified when it comes to creating form poetry with counted syllables and syllable stressings; filler words are often added to complete a demanding form. It then becomes a distorted version of how they are accustomed to communicating with words. As much as they try to be efficient with their wording, word economy can still be tossed out the window.
Soul Of The Woods
To pluck the strings of wooded bliss,
I only know to summon this:
from ev'ry dale and crested tree
upon which lands each bird let free.
There -- a reason to sing and live
wherein, a song my heart can give
and ever true from me to you,
a friend once had not joy as you:
My pathless woods, my one true home --
to Thee I give my only poem.
Here, my last once as my first
within a past for better or worse.
Roaming free within your care
always to be and forever there;
fed as creatures well sustained
at every turn, my will be tamed.
But never will I walk away --
this everlasting soul will play
upon these strings, your music wild
as I, your never aging child.
.....
I only know to summon this:
from ev'ry dale and crested tree
upon which lands each bird let free.
There -- a reason to sing and live
wherein, a song my heart can give
and ever true from me to you,
a friend once had not joy as you:
My pathless woods, my one true home --
to Thee I give my only poem.
Here, my last once as my first
within a past for better or worse.
Roaming free within your care
always to be and forever there;
fed as creatures well sustained
at every turn, my will be tamed.
But never will I walk away --
this everlasting soul will play
upon these strings, your music wild
as I, your never aging child.
.....
Written by PoetsRevenge
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JohnnyBlaze said:
Thank you for always giving these comps your all, PR.
I think in order to truly emulate the style in which Byron and other classic authors wrote, one has to study their works of prose or free form poetry.
Writing styles become modified when it comes to creating form poetry with counted syllables and syllable stressings; filler words are often added to complete a demanding form. It then becomes a distorted version of how they are accustomed to communicating with words. As much as they try to be efficient with their wording, word economy can still be tossed out the window.
I actually wrote another poem that I didn't finish on time, and it is based on a simpler Byron poem that was less wordy, 'There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods' . I wrote it in memory of Souladareatease. I'll post it here even though the comp has ended
Thank you for always giving these comps your all, PR.
I think in order to truly emulate the style in which Byron and other classic authors wrote, one has to study their works of prose or free form poetry.
Writing styles become modified when it comes to creating form poetry with counted syllables and syllable stressings; filler words are often added to complete a demanding form. It then becomes a distorted version of how they are accustomed to communicating with words. As much as they try to be efficient with their wording, word economy can still be tossed out the window.
I actually wrote another poem that I didn't finish on time, and it is based on a simpler Byron poem that was less wordy, 'There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods' . I wrote it in memory of Souladareatease. I'll post it here even though the comp has ended
