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"Short Poem Competition"

I really don’t know why we don’t have one of these in the Life forum, so this is why I’ve decided to create one. For a while now, I’ve being following the SSC and I was hoping to have a go myself – but when I tried to put my thoughts on paper I wasn’t going to happen. Then I decided to make a poem – something I really enjoy, and something that I excelled at in my scholar youth. So hopefully, those creative people who write SSC may want to have a pop at the new and exciting SPC too.

We can use similar rules to the SSC; the winner gets to pick a subject, a closing date and gets to judge the entries – as well as adding their own personals rule, if applicable.
I think 300 words would be enough to compose a decent poem – my Tramp poem may look long, but in actual fact its only about 230 words. But we will have to see about the word limit, expectations may be made. And remember, its not quantity – its quality !

I will try and organize some sort of SPC website – or I’ll talk to Ashman about the situation, seem as he has made a good job of the SSC site – but we will have to see if this takes off first.

So then, onto the Poem!
This Poems topic should be based around a Horse it doesn’t sound like anything exciting, but rest assured if you think about it you could come up with some interesting things – make your own title and post it in this thread. The closing date will be two weeks from Today – The 7th of august giving most people a good chance to get their entries in.

I really do hope that this can catch on, but if it doesn’t then no hard feelings – its just something that I’ve had on my mind for some time. Please give the Short Poem Competition a chance!

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We have a winner!

I read through them all last night, I couldn’t really decide – because most of them were quite good. Although I think that Paradoxes poem took the biscuit. It wasn’t really about a horse – but he mentioned the word hoarse, I didn’t say it had to be about a horse.

I really liked his rhyming style – although it was short it was defiantly sweet. Like a small chocolate killer cake from Thornton’s. I’d rather have a small cake from there, than a big cake from somewhere like Tesco. Enough of my cake fantasies though.

So I here by crown Paradox the winner, for bringing a smile to my face with his unique poem. If you would, please start a new topic ; Short Poem Competition 2 and explain your set of rules – a closing date – and the topic… And please, try to choose a better topic than I did!

Ok, well I have to go – thanks to everybody who entered. And sorry I’m sorry that judged late ; I hope you can find it in your hoarse heart to forgive me.

Memo wins, because it was actually good.

The Horse's Wang

Have you ever
Looked underneath a horse?

Have you ever
Contemplated an excited horse?

Riding through the fields one day
Atop my grand horse called Gay
We came across another horse opposite
In the fields of hay.

The other horse galloped at speed
Through the field into the reeds
"Oh no!" I shouted,
"That horse is deed".

We went to investigate
And there we found
The Horse was not dead
But very much sound.

It had attracted my lovely horse Gay
With its giant wang
Like all horses have.

I stepped off Gay and let him go over
To the other horse, called "three-leaf clover"

They then mounted each other,
As horses do.
And they did.
It.

Oh no.

ooops...

sposed to post it in here

um
SPC - The night rider
Into the distance of the black of the night
A fellow Knight ride to the moon
His sword by his side ‘tis clattering clattering
His shadow cast by the dune

The tale as it’s told in the winter’s cold
When the air is frozen on tongue
He rides on the winds teeth chattering chattering
On a stallion in which he is hung

It cuts through the tides and the mountains high
In the dark of the midnight hour
The sound of strong hooves ‘a pattering pattering
Makes the fox and the night owl cower

Crystal clear eyes, shines from the skies
The knight coaxes it faster
At the speed of light above in flight
It obeys the gold cladded master

Higher he rises
Rises
On hind legs boldly rises to the cliffs edge
Sea roaring, waves snoring

Into the distance of the black of the night
A fellow Knight ride to the moon
His sword by his side ‘tis clattering clattering
His shadow cast by the dune

My Lovely Horse

Nah... :-)

Well I'll paste it into the Judging Word Pad - your will be the first on i read on judge day :)

Anybody else plan to submit?

I actually think in theory it would be a good poem, because its layout is original and the such, but I just couldn't be bothered to think of good enough lines. :(

'They shouted at you hoarse.'

Corner, now.

Hah! Yes, it is rather... well, I'll not be harsh but I'm not going to defend it :-) I do appreciate, however, that it was a late-night ten-minute job.

Still, the link was quite nice (given the subject matter) and you earn kudos for being the first to whip something up.

Here goes nothing. It's very short, it'll probably get laughed at and once I've recovered from the emotional upset, perhaps I'll enter again tommorow. Please be kind...

You were mine

They named you ‘Maroon Army’
They said you were 6 to 1
They called you an animal,
They would shout at you hoarse,
They rose to shout and cheer you,
They often loudly jeered you,
They did make money from you,
They sometimes laughed at you,
They really despised you,
Then they saw you lose.

But when I saw you galloping down that course,
To me – you were always my favourite horse.