2010 Poetry Contest POLL! congratulations poem submitters

i placed a vote but good work all imo

no stanzas for me

I actually had a dream last night that the table is the table had written a brilliant collection of poetry. I can even still picture the cover.

I haven't actually read anyone's poem yet besides the short jokey poems

lol, I just misread something in Abbott's poem as "cosmic thong"

common mistake

also lolled at cosmic thong until I realized I misread

― (e_3) (Edward III), Friday, May 21, 2010 2:42 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

Acoleuthic, please post your other poem. I still want to read it. Heck, if anyone has a poem they want to share this is a better place than any

OK, as you asked...

Sips of Raki

tonight with lemonade
covenant love-coloured
steep to taste
then aniseed shard
sward-swarm of tender tongue

liquor your gift
my tonic bead together skin
salt-sweet once more I
throng myself your body
gridiron

from bubbled intercourse
reflecting geometry
shard invites more sips
you’re tasted nor
vibrantly recalled

its guile is time’s thud
on drunk knowledge
glass and lip
along aerial bond which
flights every lick of love

drinking to moisten
all that’s chapped
now chair-slumped man
whose fake leather clings
to your humidity

should next wind bring
slow-cooked juices
you slew yourself
gulf-kissed with a gusto
this raki is not

the above purely for ornamental purposes - please do not let it sway your vote ;)

That ornamental poem has prominent knucklebones.

Oh, and here's a nonsense poem I wrote, just by-the-by

JL ETOV

Rever of seo
Tru OY! Folort
Noces ol' L
Lah! Su OY!
JL ETOV! ton
Odu OY! FI!

It must have taken real fortitude to eschew rhyming that one.

tough decision here tbh

Bert Parks to thread! We need someone who can sing the theme to the Miss America pagent with suitable crooniferous stylings.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted - found it QUITE an easy decision in the end - there's a pool of about 5 from which to choose a serious winner IMO

i'm gonna vote when I can focus on reading better, but I better vote soon

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I broadly agree with the general trend of the results, except for my poem accidentally getting top billing, and acoleuthic's poem getting shut out.

nah it's fine, post 3 poems and nobody will vote; a lesson that has been learnt before (plus neither have been my best)

voted for table fwiw, dude has skillz

congrats to the triumverate

I agonized over table vs casual, glad I went with the darkhorse tho, poems about furries require care & recognition

Would have voted Hi Dere but for got #^_^#

oh hi everyone, thanks for many kind words said about my...er...words. fwiw, i didn't vote? reading over all of them again, i think i'd go with "We never go downtown." but my moods change a lot, thus explaining why i didn't vote in the first place.

i regret that i totally dropped the ball this year on the contest, but i only just recently finished a thing -- just wanted to throw a link to it here as i feel like sharing.

(i'm just posting a link because of gratuitous m/m non-consensual sexual content; consider yourself trigger warned)

SAINT SEBASTIAN, PRAY FOR US.

^^ please note that each line of the poem is an anagram of the title

strong work

That is fucking incredible.

Awesome. Am I correct in presuming that you only used letters that were in the title?

the lines (and title) are all anagrams of each other

so yes

!!!!!!!!!!

probably a good thing for purposes of vote-spread that you didn't submit that one

game = raised

is ilx user casual rigmarole a lurker? i like his one

also elmo is next level

That is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. And yes, I'm a lurker... most of the time! *slinks back to cave*