Poetry competition CLOSED 7th July 2018 1:11am
WINNER
Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
RUNNERS-UP:
wallyroo92
and LunasChild8
Daze of Twilight
Anonymous
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Thank you all for your entries and participation in the “Daze of Twilight” Competition!
First and foremost, I congratulate Jade-Pandora for her spine-chilling prose poetry, titled “Groomed!” I found “Groomed” to be captivatingly suspenseful as I read. “Groomed” definitely detailed some peculiar (odd) chain of events that one could ONLY imagine watching and happening ONLY in a “Twilight Zone Episode.” Very well written and a BRILLIANT ICON, which was so fitting-in my opinion and judgment- to this comp, no doubt at all!
The part where the statue comes to life....is PRICELESS! It would make me jump so far back, the wall would have to break my fall....if watching your entry visually on a REAL “Twilight Zone Episode.” Your entry is EXACTLY what any viewer would CRAVE a “Twilight Zone Episode” to be, but they fell short b/c they didn’t have you in their script team!!!!
Many congrats to you as you take LEAD-winner of this competition!
LunaChild: Your entry poem, titled, “Dreamy Tree” has honored you Runner-Up of this competition! While many may associate “Twilight Zone” with a bit of “horror,” you knew that, for a Twilight Zone Episode, it did NOT have to necessarily be one of horror when you submitted your entry.
Your entry was of “somewhat similar” nature to “Willoughby,” a filmed and official Twilight Zone Episode, about a man who rides a train that stops in the new town of Willoughby, where all the people were happy, worry-free, no problems foreseen. Well, the man returns home to only lose his job, his wife, his home....and he rides that train to find and stay in that “strange” new town of Willoughby.
While your poem, of course, takes a different toll than the “Willoughby” Episode, it proves that Twilight Zone, though always “STRANGE,” sometimes, it CAN BE a place to call HOME! You prove this by stating in your last line, “If this is a dream, then DON’T wake me up!” Brilliant!
Wallyroo: You, also, may take a bow as you, too, have made Runner-Up of this comp! Your “Twilight Daze” was DEFINITELY a DAZE! What other (unlucky or less fortunate) souls would do to walk in “Your Twilight Daze” with ALLLL that sexual attention and opportunities, it was MOST DEFINITELY “strange” how “out of the blue” on a typical, ordinary day, you step out of your home to THIS!
You brought to this competition the proven fact that “Too much of a good thing CAN actually be NOT so good after all.” And to all those wishers wishing out there in today’s ordinary world that “Careful what you wish for....you just might get it and NOT want it anymore!”
Grace: Making an Honorable Mention place for your entry, titled “Twilight Memories” only in this comp, as I have never, in previous comps, selected an Honorable Mention entry before. However, anyone who knows someone who suffers or suffers himself/herself with Schizophrenia know how they or their loved ones can UNEXPECTEDLY and SUDDENLY without warning “switch” into a “Daze of Twilight” at ANY given time or day! Your poem truly conveyed this TRUTH!
Congrats! Congrats! Congrats!
I thank you all for your participation and encourage you all to join other comps! Take advantage of the comps, at the very least, to challenge yourselves while aiming for the gold!
First and foremost, I congratulate Jade-Pandora for her spine-chilling prose poetry, titled “Groomed!” I found “Groomed” to be captivatingly suspenseful as I read. “Groomed” definitely detailed some peculiar (odd) chain of events that one could ONLY imagine watching and happening ONLY in a “Twilight Zone Episode.” Very well written and a BRILLIANT ICON, which was so fitting-in my opinion and judgment- to this comp, no doubt at all!
The part where the statue comes to life....is PRICELESS! It would make me jump so far back, the wall would have to break my fall....if watching your entry visually on a REAL “Twilight Zone Episode.” Your entry is EXACTLY what any viewer would CRAVE a “Twilight Zone Episode” to be, but they fell short b/c they didn’t have you in their script team!!!!
Many congrats to you as you take LEAD-winner of this competition!
LunaChild: Your entry poem, titled, “Dreamy Tree” has honored you Runner-Up of this competition! While many may associate “Twilight Zone” with a bit of “horror,” you knew that, for a Twilight Zone Episode, it did NOT have to necessarily be one of horror when you submitted your entry.
Your entry was of “somewhat similar” nature to “Willoughby,” a filmed and official Twilight Zone Episode, about a man who rides a train that stops in the new town of Willoughby, where all the people were happy, worry-free, no problems foreseen. Well, the man returns home to only lose his job, his wife, his home....and he rides that train to find and stay in that “strange” new town of Willoughby.
While your poem, of course, takes a different toll than the “Willoughby” Episode, it proves that Twilight Zone, though always “STRANGE,” sometimes, it CAN BE a place to call HOME! You prove this by stating in your last line, “If this is a dream, then DON’T wake me up!” Brilliant!
Wallyroo: You, also, may take a bow as you, too, have made Runner-Up of this comp! Your “Twilight Daze” was DEFINITELY a DAZE! What other (unlucky or less fortunate) souls would do to walk in “Your Twilight Daze” with ALLLL that sexual attention and opportunities, it was MOST DEFINITELY “strange” how “out of the blue” on a typical, ordinary day, you step out of your home to THIS!
You brought to this competition the proven fact that “Too much of a good thing CAN actually be NOT so good after all.” And to all those wishers wishing out there in today’s ordinary world that “Careful what you wish for....you just might get it and NOT want it anymore!”
Grace: Making an Honorable Mention place for your entry, titled “Twilight Memories” only in this comp, as I have never, in previous comps, selected an Honorable Mention entry before. However, anyone who knows someone who suffers or suffers himself/herself with Schizophrenia know how they or their loved ones can UNEXPECTEDLY and SUDDENLY without warning “switch” into a “Daze of Twilight” at ANY given time or day! Your poem truly conveyed this TRUTH!
Congrats! Congrats! Congrats!
I thank you all for your participation and encourage you all to join other comps! Take advantage of the comps, at the very least, to challenge yourselves while aiming for the gold!
*finally returns after having been in a total power black-out during a day that sizzled southern California...*
Oh my gosh... I got here, grateful to be here at all, worn out but finally basking in the cool of my air-conditioner. I thought aaahhh... a quiet evening here on site as so many are now probably in their beds, while here I settle in to catch up on events and poets I follow with their new writes...
And look what happened! Our lovely host with this detailed write-up now that she has taken such care & time to critique and address many of us who are Twilight Zone fans - I always was, that's for sure! When I recall when I was just a little squirt, I'd be on the floor between my dad's slipper'd feet as Friday night I was allowed to stay up late (if I'd had a nap earlier), to watch reruns of reruns of that iconic series. I'd get chills just hearing Rod Serling's intro to the next otherworldly episode. I'd always curl up and try to hide from the final scene but of course I'd peek between my pudgy fingers as I tried to hide my face - don't look!
And now, my love of spooky things that seemed even more so in black & white has come to fruition - and I thank you, host Miss Moone, for the honor of place for what I've loved so much!
Of course, it was delicious knowing this competition would grow in its collection of other shivery entries to sate my palate, and I congratulate every one of you for such tributes!
Until next time in the field of friendly (yet murderous *giggles*) competition, may you have pretty dreams tonight... pretty dreams filled with big eyes and sweet voices to seduce you into a false sense of security! Muahahaaa!
~Jadey
Oh my gosh... I got here, grateful to be here at all, worn out but finally basking in the cool of my air-conditioner. I thought aaahhh... a quiet evening here on site as so many are now probably in their beds, while here I settle in to catch up on events and poets I follow with their new writes...
And look what happened! Our lovely host with this detailed write-up now that she has taken such care & time to critique and address many of us who are Twilight Zone fans - I always was, that's for sure! When I recall when I was just a little squirt, I'd be on the floor between my dad's slipper'd feet as Friday night I was allowed to stay up late (if I'd had a nap earlier), to watch reruns of reruns of that iconic series. I'd get chills just hearing Rod Serling's intro to the next otherworldly episode. I'd always curl up and try to hide from the final scene but of course I'd peek between my pudgy fingers as I tried to hide my face - don't look!
And now, my love of spooky things that seemed even more so in black & white has come to fruition - and I thank you, host Miss Moone, for the honor of place for what I've loved so much!
Of course, it was delicious knowing this competition would grow in its collection of other shivery entries to sate my palate, and I congratulate every one of you for such tributes!
Until next time in the field of friendly (yet murderous *giggles*) competition, may you have pretty dreams tonight... pretty dreams filled with big eyes and sweet voices to seduce you into a false sense of security! Muahahaaa!
~Jadey
Thank you for the runner-up position, for hosting this great competition, and for providing such detailed feedback! Congratulations to my fellow runner-up, wallyroo92, and of course to the talented Jade for winner the prize.
Kudos to everyone else for participating. May you always be filled with imagination!
Kudos to everyone else for participating. May you always be filled with imagination!
LunasChild8 said:Thank you for the runner-up position, for hosting this great competition, and for providing such detailed feedback! Congratulations to my fellow runner-up, wallyroo92, and of course to the talented Jade for winner the prize.
Kudos to everyone else for participating. May you always be filled with imagination!
Please let it be known that I felt strongly about providing and sharing, publicly, details about the lead-winning entries to demonstrate how I came to terms with selecting the LEAD-winners of this comp. It details how and why I picked whom I did based on my sole judgment and thought-process.
For this comp, we had thriller-based, pleasant-dream-based, fantasy-based poems, not to forget to mention fact-based poems as well....ALL whose categorical genres make up “Twilight Zone.” How else to judge fairly than to select one from a variety of genres available than to just make all winning entries “thriller-based” only; it wouldn’t captivate the FULL “Twilight Zone” experience.
While I enjoy hosting comps, I don’t find it easy at all to judge them, especially when I KNOW entries entered are such EXCELLENT pieces. On the other hand, I don’t like to place comps on PUBLIC VOTE, though I have for few comps in the past, because I don’t like cluttering DUP Servers nor for participants to wait longer than necessary for the LEAD winners to be announced. I also like to be sensitive to each poet who enters my comps, which is why I inquired your wishes on how LEAD winners should be determined. Majority ruled HOST TO JUDGE for this comp and I wanted to fill you all in to how I made my judgment rather than just announcing winners leaving anyone in question.
My absolute apologies: By nature, I think and over-think and over-analyze EVERYTHING!!
Thank you for all participation and as I learned a while back: ALL entries are award-worthy! They are your thoughts, your feelings, your imaginations....and that makes them award-winning all on its own! For myself, when someone adds my poem to their RL, I feel I have brought home the gold, even without entering a comp or making it even as a Runner-Up in a comp! May ALL be proud and stay proud of ALL your work!
Write on.....fellow poets! Write-on!
Kudos to everyone else for participating. May you always be filled with imagination!
Please let it be known that I felt strongly about providing and sharing, publicly, details about the lead-winning entries to demonstrate how I came to terms with selecting the LEAD-winners of this comp. It details how and why I picked whom I did based on my sole judgment and thought-process.
For this comp, we had thriller-based, pleasant-dream-based, fantasy-based poems, not to forget to mention fact-based poems as well....ALL whose categorical genres make up “Twilight Zone.” How else to judge fairly than to select one from a variety of genres available than to just make all winning entries “thriller-based” only; it wouldn’t captivate the FULL “Twilight Zone” experience.
While I enjoy hosting comps, I don’t find it easy at all to judge them, especially when I KNOW entries entered are such EXCELLENT pieces. On the other hand, I don’t like to place comps on PUBLIC VOTE, though I have for few comps in the past, because I don’t like cluttering DUP Servers nor for participants to wait longer than necessary for the LEAD winners to be announced. I also like to be sensitive to each poet who enters my comps, which is why I inquired your wishes on how LEAD winners should be determined. Majority ruled HOST TO JUDGE for this comp and I wanted to fill you all in to how I made my judgment rather than just announcing winners leaving anyone in question.
My absolute apologies: By nature, I think and over-think and over-analyze EVERYTHING!!
Thank you for all participation and as I learned a while back: ALL entries are award-worthy! They are your thoughts, your feelings, your imaginations....and that makes them award-winning all on its own! For myself, when someone adds my poem to their RL, I feel I have brought home the gold, even without entering a comp or making it even as a Runner-Up in a comp! May ALL be proud and stay proud of ALL your work!
Write on.....fellow poets! Write-on!
