Poetry competition CLOSED 18th October 2013 8:53pm
WINNER
anna_grin (ANNAN)
anna_grin (ANNAN)
RUNNER-UP:
LunaObscura
The Exquisite Corpse -Surrealistic Poetry Challenge
Poetry Contest Description
Well,nothing necrophilic about the comp: It’s a surrealistic poetry techniqiue as many may be aware of ..
Myself a big-time lover of Surrealistic Poetry & Poets, thought how the fantastic dup minds might take up this highly creative & collaborative challenge!
It is a serially-running chain of poetry, letting to open your mind-your psyche of conscious & unconscious stream.
The rules are simple enough :
1) The contributor writes a 5 –liner poetry, posts it but highlight your last liner, which needs to be ignored by next taker.
2) The consecutive poet takes off from the fourth line of the previous post (the one before highlighted last line) & does the same thing, writes 5 lines & posts, highlighting fifth-liner that need to be ignored. so it continues likewise.
3) The style could be anything-free verse/ lyrical/micro or improvised forms
4) The word limit is 40 +/- 5 ( for the first 4 liners), means it necessarily has to be within 35 to 45 words
5) A bit (..or more) of constraint to your creativity here....All the contributions should revolve around any one/more of the following themes:
a) heart dungeons
b) bleeding rainbows
c) brain-freeze
d) screaming nights
Hope I made the points clear.
Message me right away if any doubts pls.
Winner would be selected based on how tactfully he/she continues the thread & excels in creativity.
and, finally, you have got a great one month's time..and, it all depends on your poetry to be the basis for next one ..so hope u all make it a busy running thread:)
some references that might be of help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_techniques
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse
http://www.pusanweb.com/poetryplus/poetryplus16/corpse/exquisite.htm
happy surrealistic moments dup!!
It is a serially-running chain of poetry, letting to open your mind-your psyche of conscious & unconscious stream.
The rules are simple enough :
1) The contributor writes a 5 –liner poetry, posts it but highlight your last liner, which needs to be ignored by next taker.
2) The consecutive poet takes off from the fourth line of the previous post (the one before highlighted last line) & does the same thing, writes 5 lines & posts, highlighting fifth-liner that need to be ignored. so it continues likewise.
3) The style could be anything-free verse/ lyrical/micro or improvised forms
4) The word limit is 40 +/- 5 ( for the first 4 liners), means it necessarily has to be within 35 to 45 words
5) A bit (..or more) of constraint to your creativity here....All the contributions should revolve around any one/more of the following themes:
a) heart dungeons
b) bleeding rainbows
c) brain-freeze
d) screaming nights
Hope I made the points clear.
Message me right away if any doubts pls.
Winner would be selected based on how tactfully he/she continues the thread & excels in creativity.
and, finally, you have got a great one month's time..and, it all depends on your poetry to be the basis for next one ..so hope u all make it a busy running thread:)
some references that might be of help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_techniques
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse
http://www.pusanweb.com/poetryplus/poetryplus16/corpse/exquisite.htm
happy surrealistic moments dup!!
Anonymous
Uma, Not sure if this is what you mean?
The red walls of my heart,
screams when it sees rainbows,
Forget,from where do I start ?
Why of course, from the beginning
it became an ancient affliction,
when Teddy stomped Maria,
it was not a spring shower, was
no gold to be found at her end
The red walls of my heart,
screams when it sees rainbows,
Forget,from where do I start ?
Why of course, from the beginning
it became an ancient affliction,
when Teddy stomped Maria,
it was not a spring shower, was
no gold to be found at her end
Funeral night
That night,it rained to fill sin onto dark,
could feel throb of my heart spilling cold ill
lament covered moon like mosses screaming night's musk,
sting into eyes ghastly,aging light
and all i could smell was fever,heat.
word count-40
That night,it rained to fill sin onto dark,
could feel throb of my heart spilling cold ill
lament covered moon like mosses screaming night's musk,
sting into eyes ghastly,aging light
and all i could smell was fever,heat.
word count-40
"The Embalmers Slab"
So frigid and damp with creepy legged unmentionable
creatures. So many leg's that scurry atop it's pad.
The storm's roaring spirit thunderously aglow band's of color!
Multi-colored lightning with a huge blood red moon.
As the coldest air crept forth in the wind's like a demons secret lie.
So frigid and damp with creepy legged unmentionable
creatures. So many leg's that scurry atop it's pad.
The storm's roaring spirit thunderously aglow band's of color!
Multi-colored lightning with a huge blood red moon.
As the coldest air crept forth in the wind's like a demons secret lie.
Strider said:Uma, Not sure if this is what you mean?
The red walls of my heart,
screams when it sees rainbows,
Forget,from where do I start ?
Why of course, from the beginning
it became an ancient affliction,
when Teddy stomped Maria,
it was not a spring shower, was
no gold to be found at her end
Hi Sirius Strider, thanxx for the entry.
would like to add again, plz. Write a five liner poetry with above said rules & taking the cue from last liner of the previous post....but make sure to post only 4 lines of 35 to 45 word limit..thus your post looks incompleted...which is meant to trigger openended creativity for the next poet...
Am I making it clear...could see many posts here with completed looks..
The red walls of my heart,
screams when it sees rainbows,
Forget,from where do I start ?
Why of course, from the beginning
it became an ancient affliction,
when Teddy stomped Maria,
it was not a spring shower, was
no gold to be found at her end
Hi Sirius Strider, thanxx for the entry.
would like to add again, plz. Write a five liner poetry with above said rules & taking the cue from last liner of the previous post....but make sure to post only 4 lines of 35 to 45 word limit..thus your post looks incompleted...which is meant to trigger openended creativity for the next poet...
Am I making it clear...could see many posts here with completed looks..
bump
again a sweet reminder:|
plz. Write a five liner poetry with thread-rules detailed & taking the cue from last liner of the previous post. But make sure to post only 4 lines of 35 to 45 word limit, thus your post look incomplete...which is meant to trigger open-ended creativity for the next poet.
Am I making it clear...could see many posts here with completed looks..
last post is Vortexman's, though not in the prescribed format, I would consider his entry & his last liner as below is the lead for next entry...
vortexman said:
As the coldest air crept forth in the wind's like a demons secret lie.
looking forward for some disruptive creativity here dups', Can I?
again a sweet reminder:|
plz. Write a five liner poetry with thread-rules detailed & taking the cue from last liner of the previous post. But make sure to post only 4 lines of 35 to 45 word limit, thus your post look incomplete...which is meant to trigger open-ended creativity for the next poet.
Am I making it clear...could see many posts here with completed looks..
last post is Vortexman's, though not in the prescribed format, I would consider his entry & his last liner as below is the lead for next entry...
vortexman said:
As the coldest air crept forth in the wind's like a demons secret lie.
looking forward for some disruptive creativity here dups', Can I?
