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Incinermyn
Biweekly Haiku & Short-Poem Contest VII
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 that follows the alternating “Five-Seven-Five Syllables” per line format) or a similar-style 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 the second Thursday after this thread has been revealed, and voting begins once the deadline has passed or all entries are made. Submissions are final, but if I feel a poem should be revised slightly, I’ll do it with the writer’s consent.
3.) Each poem for the contest must follow the selected theme for the competition. Due to artists 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 Hardships/Bad Times.
4.) Voting will run for three days and be open to all members of PokéBeach. Each person will be allowed three votes for their favorites. All participants are expected but not required to vote as well; 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.) Apollo
2.) mpain0
3.) thefleeee
4.) Ice Arceus
5.) BlastBurn
6.) Darkvoid57
8.) Teal
9.) Chillarmy
11.) hipoke
12.) Zyflair
13.) Empoleafeon
14.) CJBlazerX87
15.) Syneptus
16.) Yoshidude10
17.) P0KEVORTEX
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Note: Disqualified contestants have had their names struck-through.
Haiku List (in order of authors entered)
1.) Broke
Oh, what a dire time!
Barely a cent to my name,
I have to make due.
2.) Heartbroken
She left me in tears
With no one to guide me now
Heartbroken, I was.
3.) Death
Why do you beat me?
My blood glistening on the floor
Fade into the dark
4.) As I walk alone
I remember the distress
Why endure so much pain?
5.) I'll hold your cold hand
And carry you through hardships
If you'll only say yes.
6.) Liquid Sadness
My tears are like raindrops
Weighing me down into a lake
Of fluid depression
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8.) a freezing wind squeals
winter, my cold fireside
no warmth from others
9.) Tsunami
The wall of water
Descending upon victims
Washed to certain doom
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11.) Laughter and smiles
Happiness, Joy, Warmth
I wish I had those.
12.) Futility
Effort, Practice, Time,
How we spend all to achieve,
How it never lasts!
13.) Death:
Nothing grasps and holds
Strangers' hearts it pulls like weeds
Careless, at random.
14.) I live for hardship
When I think I can't go on
That is when I soar
15.) Invisible
Shivering outside,
Only my thin coat to wear
No one notices.
16.) Invisibility
Do I get noticed?
I wish I could, just for once.
I'm invisible.
17.) A Haiku of Hardship
BOOM! Man down! Man down!
We all remember him, so
I wear a poppy.
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