[b]The NeoGAF Poetry Corner - Challenge #: [/b]

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[b]Theme[/b]: 



[b]Secondary Objective[/b]: Prose Poetry



[B]Poetry thread Rules version 1.2:[/B]
1. This thread is not merely for winning or losing, but for critiquing and improving your own craft.
2. This poetry thread 'contest' will end on a Friday, and voting will last until Sunday at midnight. You cannot win unless you vote. Although you don't have to submit a piece to vote.
3. The winner must then provide the next challenge theme for the following two week period. Some weeks like during E3, this may not be possible, so we will have an interim one week period until normality is resumed. As a general rule, we like to keep this on the alternate week to the Creative Writing Thread.
4. There are no word count limits, make it as long or as short as you want. 
5. Optional secondary objectives are not mandatory, you can include them or not.
6. Further addition to rule five: you can also try the secondary objective as a secondary piece. Just make sure you label it as such. 
7. Vote for your favourite poems. Voters should award first, second and third places to their favourite three poems.  Don't vote for the same author twice. And watch out for pieces that are labeled ineligible - comments on these pieces labelled as such are welcome but you just can't vote for them. Incidentally, feel free to vote even if you haven't submitted a piece - the more the merrier :)
8. During the count, First place is allocated three points. Second place is allocated two points. And third place is allocated one point. 
9. In the event of a tie, the tally will be counted again with first place being allocated three and half points. If it isn't resolved then, it will be up to the OP (most likely the previous winner) to decide to how to go about things.
10. Winner gets a round of applause and will have the records stating it as such. After which Rule 3 is in effect and we start a new thread. 

Submission Deadline: (PST)


Voting Deadline: (PST)


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[B]The NeoGAF Poetry Society: Previous Challenges: [/B]

[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=392061"]Poetry Challenge #01: Reflection[/URL]
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=394843"]Poetry Challenge #02: Making the Blind See (+ 5W poems)[/URL]
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=395649"]Poetry Challenge #03: Interior (+ Incorporate a song or album title)[/URL]
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=396831"]Poetry Challenge #04: History (+ Dream Song poems)[/URL]
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=398612"]Poetry Challenge #05: A View From Afar or Within (+ Clerihew poems)[/URL]
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=22113024"]Poetry Challenge #06: The Surreal and the Fantastical (+ Haikus)[/URL]
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=401039"]Poetry Challenge #07: Expectations versus Reality (+ Ode)[/URL]
[url=http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=22751443]Poetry Challenge #08: Mirror's Edge (+ Rhymes)[/url]
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=22751854"]Poetry Challenge #09: Look on the Bright Side (+ poem must end with _________________ as it's last line)[/URL]
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=405016"]Poetry Challenge #10: Obsolete (+ Ink)[/URL]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=406427"]Poetry Challenge #11: Pride (+ Kanye West)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407940"]Poetry Challenge #12: Passing By (+ Allegory)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=409258"]Poetry Challenge #13: Take this Society (+ Ballards)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=410760"]Poetry Challenge #14: The Dark (+ Add Zombies to taste)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=415791"]Poetry Challenge #15: The Great Winter (+ Elegy)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=417418"]Poetry Challenge #16: What Nature Reclaims (+ Lay)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=418313"]Poetry Challenge #17: Storm Clouds Rising (+ First Person)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=419736"]Poetry Challenge #18: The Phoenix (+ Enjambment)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=421110"]Poetry Challenge #19: Psychopomps (+ Assonance)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=422444"]Poetry Challenge #20: Death in the Family (+ Limericks)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=26619482"]Poetry Challenge #21: A Night on the Town (+ Didactic Poems)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=425008"]Poetry Challenge #22: A Letter to the World (+ Inside Outside Poetry)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=426516"]Poetry Challenge #23: The Blues[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=427803"]Poetry Challenge #24: Space, Above & Beyond (+ Prose Poetry)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=429287"]Poetry Challenge #25: Futurism (+ Avoid Technology)[/url]
[url="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430591"]Poetry Challenge #26: Prove You Exist (+ Lyrical Poetry)