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The Poetry Bowl! VOTING NOW CLOSED! Congrats to Minus9 for Winning! | |
Dr. Acula Senior Forum Moderator  User ID: 87848  United States02/04/2013 01:24 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | EDIT: Voting Closed! Congrats to Minus9 for winning! Your upgrade has already been gave issued to you  *2nd Place goes to Handle Moniker! *3rd Place goes to fellowearthling! Your trial upgrade has been awarded! I want to thank EVERYONE for joining in with your poems and your votes!  A BIG round of applause to everyone!  If you didnt win... there is always next year! Below is the Official Winning Screen Shot! :)  :acula2013poetryb: The poll above has the 10 poems that was selected to win the upgrade prizes. They are in no order, as they are equally wonderful. I have posted links to the poems at the bottom... Please check them out and vote. Even if your poem doesn’t appear in the above 10… that doesn’t mean you didn’t share with us an amazing piece of art. You all are winners in my eye!!! Your talent is clear and the amazing minds that are present here are unlike any other group I have been associated with online... or offline for that matter! But (sadly) there is only one first place prize… That means somebody has to win! 1st Place = 'Free FULL upgrade for 1 month’ 2nd Place = 'Free TRIAL upgrade for 1 month' And as a bonus! There will be a 3rd place prize = 'Free TRIAL upgrade for 1 month' There was such an amazing response that I wanted to step up my offer of 2 prizes… to 3 prizes. I am had my wife assist me in picking the 10… She doesn’t know any of you, she is a non member and her suggestions were based on the poem and the poem alone. It hasn’t been easy picking the 10!!!!!!!! It’s been damn right hard! We have spent the better part of the day reading, considering, comparing, biting our nails, pulling our own hair. But this is our 10 picks. "Words of Mass Detritus" by fellowearthling Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! 'A Winter Poem' by I am he that is I Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 2) "Of Seven, Eleven, and One" by King Felix Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 3) "Winter to Spring" by Handle Moniker Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 3) "The Dog is Dead" by waterman Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 4) "Welcome Home" by AgnosticDeity Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 4) "I Gave up Everything to Gain it All" by ELNATHAN APOLLYON Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 6) "DO YOU KNOW ME ????" by Yes I Did !!!! Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 6) "Need some help dad?" by Minus9 Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 5) "GLP Stroll" by Snarf Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! (Page 2) This poll will be open for 24 hours. It ends at 2am EST February 5th 2013 So vote for your favorite poem! Last Edited by Dr. Acula on 02/05/2013 02:22 AM _______________________  |
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| fellowearthling User ID: 33647615  New Zealand02/04/2013 02:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Best wishes to my fellow selectee's and the threads MC! "If you do not go within You WILL go without." A wiser man than I "Standing on truth Ensures eternal support." "There is a perfectly logical explanation for everything and a logically perfect everything for explanations." A phellow earthling |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 28903961 United States02/04/2013 02:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I bet you look even better with me in between I keep my mind on my money, money on my mind But yous a hell of a distraction when you shake your behind I got j.o. on my right side pourin some cups My whole hood is to my left and they ain't giving a fuck So feel free to get loose and get carried away So by tomorrow you forgot what you was saying today But don't forget about this feeling that I'm making you get And all the calories you burn from me making you sweat The mile high points you earn when we taking my jet And how everywhere you turn I'll be making you wet.. |
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| Handle_Moniker User ID: 28995945 United States02/04/2013 02:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I feel quite honored Dr Acula, thank you, and please thank the Mrs. for me too. Best wishes to all contestants! If I could vote more than once I'd vote for you all, magnificent work. :-) Last Edited by Handy Monkey on 02/04/2013 02:55 AM mhmmmmm |
| Dr. Acula (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 87848 United States02/04/2013 03:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I feel quite honored Dr Acula, thank you, and please thank the Mrs. for me too. Best wishes to all contestants! If I could vote more than once I'd vote for you all, magnificent work. Quoting: Handle_Moniker :-) congrats on the spot in the contest. I wish you all the luck and so does the wife :) the same everyone else too o course  Last Edited by Dr. Acula on 02/04/2013 03:04 AM _______________________ |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 33643450  Australia02/04/2013 04:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i cant vote. if i do ill make a hypocrite out of myself because of the argument i had with a highschool art teacher about art not being able to be marked or graded due to the preferences of the viewer-or reader in this case.lol i gave you 5 twinkly thingys though. |
| Dr. Acula (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 60396 United States02/04/2013 04:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i cant vote. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33643450 if i do ill make a hypocrite out of myself because of the argument i had with a highschool art teacher about art not being able to be marked or graded due to the preferences of the viewer-or reader in this case.lol i gave you 5 twinkly thingys though.  Thanks for the 5 twinkly thingys! I totally agree with your argument with your art teacher.... There isnt any right or wrong in art. Art is from the soul, and everyone sees something different... And since its from the soul... one may see echos of their own soul in the art piece... What I may not like, someone else might stare at for hours in awe. Thats the beauty of art... its about accepting the piece... and as well as yourself. ...or not accepting it Its about looking into the message the artist was trying to tell us... its about the secrets the artist hidden... its about finding the similarities embedded within... that is reflections of our own self.. Art is complicated :) So how can one grade an art piece? ...but one can chose what their favorites are ;) lol dont vote if you dont want thanks for stopping by! :) _______________________ |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19484311  Denmark02/04/2013 05:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I could drown in the drought of my own desire, but I choose now to lift my love up higher. I will go with the tide, I will ride the wave, no more wading in ebb I got my soul to save. My life sometimes feels like an ocean of doubt, and passion will choke me if I dont let it out. So I'll throw myself upon the wrath of the sea, in the midst of this chaos I'll set my heart free. I will dive to the deepest most colourful reef and there i will cleanse all the anger and grief. Then when I surface, for that reviving breath, I'll no longer doubt what is life and what's death. F |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 33533932 United States02/04/2013 05:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I could drown in the drought of my own desire, Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19484311 but I choose now to lift my love up higher. I will go with the tide, I will ride the wave, no more wading in ebb I got my soul to save. My life sometimes feels like an ocean of doubt, and passion will choke me if I dont let it out. So I'll throw myself upon the wrath of the sea, in the midst of this chaos I'll set my heart free. I will dive to the deepest most colourful reef and there i will cleanse all the anger and grief. Then when I surface, for that reviving breath, I'll no longer doubt what is life and what's death. F I think you let the intrusion of rhyming play to much a part in the story of your poem. This is not a limerick contest. |
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| Isis One User ID: 14343270 United States02/04/2013 05:54 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is the original thread if anyone wants to go through and read all the poems. Dr. A, it might make sense to add this in you OP here at top of page, IDK, maybe not, you decide. Thread: Dr. Acula's Poetry Contest! Contest Ended. Click for Link to Poll Thread, Vote For Your Favorite! Spread the word, change the collective conscious...... THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING TO GO AROUND When you are undisciplined, the universe is extremely forgiving and when you are disciplined, the universe is extremely generous. Me One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. Andre Gide [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
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| LostReality33 User ID: 4154893 United States02/04/2013 06:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | GLP stroll -_- got my vote! Last Edited by LostReality33 on 02/04/2013 06:21 AM "I never act without a purpose." -Duke Austerberry "It's a bad time for the world if you're a boy or a girl or maybe something in between, it doesn't matter; we all gotta go green and trust everything the authorities tell us, because they love us and they only want the best for us..." ~Lance Hardcore If you click this thread you can hear Maynard James Keenan of TOOL sing "THE WORLD MUST FEEL THIS SEPTEMBER ELEVEN" 4 months before 9/11 Thread: TOOL The Patient 9/11 REVERSED MUSIC VIDEO "THE WORLD MUST FEEL THIS SEPTEMBER ELEVEN" <---4 MONTHS BEFORE 9/11 I've now got a website up and running exploring this new discovery of the Dark Speech, reversed secrets now revealed NO PERSONAL ADVERTISING to ULTRASONIC REVERSE SPEECH ANALYSIS CHANNEL: [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Subscribe to DARK SPEECH DECODER CHANNEL: [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Subscribe to the JOHNNY DARK SPEAK CHANNEL: [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Get in on The Extreme Reality Puppet Show! [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] "This videocast offers unique and never-before-heard information coming to you direct from ONE EPIC NAME on the INWO scene; David Eager. The Extreme Reality Puppet Show is the FIRST, BEST & ONLY Conspiracy Puppet Show IN THE WORLD! TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!" The time is NOW! |
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| AgnosticDeity User ID: 25592549 United States02/04/2013 08:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow thank you for your inclusion of my poem! I feel like a winner already Wish I could vote for all of the submissions, as in my opinion all of them deserve to win. A lot of great art was shared because of this contest, and my life has been enriched because of it.Good luck to everyone! There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. |
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| King Felix User ID: 23986863 United States02/04/2013 09:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's another nugget I dug up around dawn. All Roads "A shadow shrouded shaman in a hyper-hypnagogic state, stumbled upon Brahman in a single point; one, none, & great. He did not ask for holy proof or that knowledge be unfurled. He desired instead that a reign of truth Be offered to the world. Well Brahman grinned a formless grin which all the Aeons knew; 'My son, the veils are growing thin, and pierced by radiant hue. The stage is set, the pieces placed, In time you all shall know. Open hearts must seek with haste the reversal of the flow.' Then the shaman woke to a setting sun, all his fear and pain diminished, and realizing we'd already won, sighed softly 'It is finished'." Happy Monday! VALIS |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14392840 United States02/04/2013 09:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dr Acula. I think that posting it all here would make it easier ! Heres mine thats in the running. Thank you for this contest ! I Gave up Everything to Gain it All. That "All" was to Know your Embrace I will not Listen to Them. For They do Not Know Love. I Knew How the Universe was made. In Her Heavenly Abode, I was There when the First Stars Shone I was Light in the Darkness I was Before the Moon, and the Tides, Before the Creatures Crawled Forth From when the Oceans Sent Forth Life I Could See from an Eye Within, The Spark in my Mind knew Everything. Without Words I could Speak, Without Hands I could Levitate With Just my Thoughts Could Create. And my Soul Lit my Spine When I Asked for Love to Burn my Heart. To Know your Smaller Hands To Protect You from Man's Existence That Could Extinguish in an Instant. You are Beauty Personified, And I Called you My Creation, To Claim the Abandoned Bride, When You were all Alone, I Promised You Would not be Alone Again Even When the Sun Aged, And a New Sun Would Form, Lighting up the Ages, Extending to the Universe They Marry in their Passions To Where the Womb is To its Scattered Seed, Children Come Forth from the Clouds Sons from the Sky, Daughters from the Earth, The Veil Breaks Free, The Wings Fall and Tear, The Sky Lets Down Rain The Elements, Fire, The Shooting Star and a Serpent And I am Bound in Chains :angelsea23: |
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