Vote for the poem you feel is the best. Remember to adhere to the "Honor Code" when voting.
While it is understood there is no absolute means to monitor the intent of a vote, we ask each PRC participant to exercise integrity when voting out of respect for the contest:
- Please give each poetry submission an equal opportunity in attaining your vote.
- Please read, or at least skim, all the entries before voting.
- Please do not vote for your friends just because they're your friends.
The Poetry Running Contest puts good faith in its participants to act in an honorable manner.
Contestants, remember, you are required to vote (and you can't vote for yourself)! This policy is to help keep the PRC active.
Good Luck!
NOTE: I've decided to increase the max number of poems per round to 12 to alleviate the number of submissions withheld for being over the 10th each weak. I don't feel there are enough poems for drastic measures such as making two PRC rounds per week. Feel free to share your input on this change.
**Interested, new participants should submit their poems here.
Voted for Purple and Hilltop, though Pleasures Slightly Tweaked was a close third.
Purple was just such an...interesting poem. Very political, very hip-hop influenced, with some more direct poetic structuring towards the end. Somehow got a lot done with very few words, something I can appreciate.
Hilltop was my other vote. Vivid imagery, that paints an almost epic picture of stoners. The final line manages to cap off the story, criticize the establishment, and lighten the mood a bit while clarifying exactly what it's about. Very well executed.
Pleasure Slightly Tweaked is a poem I like for...well, I don't know exactly why. To me, it's an exploration of how poetry is almost masochistic; revealing and exploiting your innermost pain, fear and sorrow for the pleasure of yourself and others.
Like most of the time, I voted on imagery. kpaca's Purple and Darkwaterelemental's Labyrinthine caught my eye the most, although I also liked Madding's and Zelderex's poems.
I explained the context behind Hilltop in my thread, though it's pretty straight forward this time around.
I am not always a fan of kpaca's 'hiphop'-esque poetry, but this weeks really brought me back to remind me why he got a lot of my earlier votes. This might be my favorite kpaca piece yet.
I went for Paint the Town Red, out of all the poems this round its the one that angered me in it's truth. Just depends on whether you are the town, or the painter.
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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments
are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
It was more for the shot at society than letting people know what the poem is about. I could care less if someone doesn't understand and makes their own interpretation, but I saw no real reason to actively hide it.
I felt the poem would have been better if you didn't state what it was about at the end. I thought it was about marijuana when I read it at first and it's drawn me to read it multiple times. I really wish I had voted for it now because every reread it gets better
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I felt the poem would have been better if you didn't state what it was about at the end. I thought it was about marijuana when I read it at first and it's drawn me to read it multiple times. I really wish I had voted for it now because every reread it gets better
Does that mean sentimentG4X can ad-hoc a vote to me so I can tie with kpaca? XP
Does that mean sentimentG4X can ad-hoc a vote to me so I can tie with kpaca? XP
I'm glad you guys liked the poem
I would prefer if he did that.
Your poem was like Citizen Kane for me. I saw it the first time and didn't like it. I watched it a couple more times, and now it's my favorite movie.
If SentimentG4X would like to add a vote for you from me I would be perfectly fine as I wish I could have voted for your poem.
In the future I'll wait until Saturday to vote.
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I almost didn't read any of your posts. As a matter of fact, I only noticed them after I congratulated kpaca. (This was an edit.) I don't want to set a precedent for crazy vote swapping.
Also, sometimes people miss the deadline and want to write-in vote. I don't permit this either for obvious reasons. Yanni's re-vote was after the poll was closed.
Here are the poems we have for you this week.
Untitled by IcecreamMan80
Pleasures Slightly Tweaked by Guilan
"The smoldering fire..." by Urbanus
Paint the Town Red by Zelderex
Ignorant Puppet by WOXO
Purple by kpaca
Labyrinthine by DarkwaterElemental
Just Another Day by BlippyTheSlug
Merry Christmas by Yanni
Rupt by Madding
Hilltop by Talore
Nutshell by Zaph
Vote for the poem you feel is the best. Remember to adhere to the "Honor Code" when voting.
- Please give each poetry submission an equal opportunity in attaining your vote.
- Please read, or at least skim, all the entries before voting.
- Please do not vote for your friends just because they're your friends.
The Poetry Running Contest puts good faith in its participants to act in an honorable manner.
Good Luck!
NOTE: I've decided to increase the max number of poems per round to 12 to alleviate the number of submissions withheld for being over the 10th each weak. I don't feel there are enough poems for drastic measures such as making two PRC rounds per week. Feel free to share your input on this change.
**Interested, new participants should submit their poems here.
Purple was just such an...interesting poem. Very political, very hip-hop influenced, with some more direct poetic structuring towards the end. Somehow got a lot done with very few words, something I can appreciate.
Hilltop was my other vote. Vivid imagery, that paints an almost epic picture of stoners. The final line manages to cap off the story, criticize the establishment, and lighten the mood a bit while clarifying exactly what it's about. Very well executed.
Pleasure Slightly Tweaked is a poem I like for...well, I don't know exactly why. To me, it's an exploration of how poetry is almost masochistic; revealing and exploiting your innermost pain, fear and sorrow for the pleasure of yourself and others.
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I explained the context behind Hilltop in my thread, though it's pretty straight forward this time around.
out of the others I liked Zelderex's
Honorable Mention: Hilltop by Talore. I liked the content but not the structure.
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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments
are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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Does that mean sentimentG4X can ad-hoc a vote to me so I can tie with kpaca? XP
I'm glad you guys liked the poem
I would prefer if he did that.
Your poem was like Citizen Kane for me. I saw it the first time and didn't like it. I watched it a couple more times, and now it's my favorite movie.
If SentimentG4X would like to add a vote for you from me I would be perfectly fine as I wish I could have voted for your poem.
In the future I'll wait until Saturday to vote.
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I almost didn't read any of your posts. As a matter of fact, I only noticed them after I congratulated kpaca. (This was an edit.) I don't want to set a precedent for crazy vote swapping.
Also, sometimes people miss the deadline and want to write-in vote. I don't permit this either for obvious reasons. Yanni's re-vote was after the poll was closed.
Congratulations, kpaca!