2019 ILX Poetry Competition: VOTE HERE

Going with Fred's Danish poem, even though it's not a language I speak. I like the way it sounds in my head and the snippets of cognate meaning it emits.

And before I forget: thank you, Aimless!

I like all of it but will probably go for Aimless' poem about his daughter. It makes me think of late Gary Snyder in its willingness to look things in the face.

This is so banal and obvious, but it's making me think so much more about poetry as form and needing the discipline of form to do some of the work. Like what Maximus said, I have had to learn the simplest things last.

picking favourites is so cruel to the ones who aren't mentioned, really, but contests are cruel so my putative too three of poems not written by my own household are: aimless II, chinaski, deems I, in some order I am yet to determine

too three! top three obv

wow thats incredibly harsh on deems ii imo

(next year's entry, i swear, will actually be about my teasing lj about his vote)

picking favourites is so cruel to the ones who aren't mentioned, really, but contests are cruel

right you are. happily this can be fixed in the next ILX Poetry Invitational thread, by expanding the number of entries allowed from each poet and eliminating the second step of voting. the most successful post-your-poetry thread in ILX history operated on this principle, using alternative inducements to poetize and post.

But that can wait. Our serious-minded poets need their rest and recreation. The best option atm seems to me a revival of the Appalling Poetry COmpetition concept. Fun for the whole family! Maybe in January?

Thankful that what can only be hinted at as a divine intervention stopped my sorry ass from participating this year, I will languorously digest all of these tonight.

wonderful to read everyones work...!

a small bump, in case anyone wants to read poetry today

i want to submit poetry today :'(

i'll save it for next year

I've seen Mordy's poems they're well good

i will reread all these and vote today tho that's a good idea

so many of these are good hard to choose btwn them

but you MUST choose! lucky for all of us, there is no need to choose wisely. choosing impulsively works just as well.

Sunday bump. Poll closes Tuesday.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

My fondest hope for these polls is always the same: that the numbers of votes cast exceeds the number of poets submitting poems. In this case, more than eleven votes.

i tried to stuff the ballot but You have already voted in this poll and cannot vote again.

Last call. The bar will be closing soon.

i tried to stuff the ballot but You have already voted in this poll and cannot vote again.

― Mordy, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:41 AM (nineteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I too ran into this.

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

A vote total of fifteen! Success! (btw, a 'thank you' to the kindly 4)

well done that man

Guess I should’ve voted for myself, huh. Good job, all!

The vote for one's own brainchild doesn't automatically register in the ILX polling results, but may be understood as a given. This frees us to cast a vote for our second choice.