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National Poetry Month Book 2016
#768909 added December 27, 2012 at 3:19pm
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The Finales!!!
Round 1 - Pusnog a Tanka
Prompt: "Finale round 1"  Open in new Window.
Something of the body (in this case toejam,) winter or a winter holiday (Hunnaka or Christmas or Kwanza.)


Pus rushes from you,
that milky stinky substance
I think while I drink,
is like the eggnog I chug.
"...We have no eggnog," you say....

WINNER! "Finale round 1 winner"  Open in new Window.
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Round 2 - Fibonacci Rodents
Prompt: "Finale round 2 "  Open in new Window.
You may write your poem of at least six but no more than eight lines (34 syllables.)


ick,
dead
rodents,
mom rushes,
guinea pigs are down,
one jumped, broke legs; Gomez dying
one was an idiot, the other pure misfortune;
Holidays are a time for thanks and repurposing, yay for this years mystery meat!

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Round 3 - An Asian Christmas
Prompt: "Finale Round 3"  Open in new Window.
You will start with a haiku (5/7/5), Next you would write a Lune 5/3/5, And lastly the Tanka 5/7/5/7/7 or 5/7/5 7/7


The procession is
sick, the reindeer delights have
succumbed to rude noise.

Donner has the lice,
his new name:
'Dander, Itchs Thrice'

All have the farts and
huge diarrhea problems;
Santa's bowl of jel-
-ly is sick, wading through brown
snow on rooftops, he moves quick.
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Round 4 - Triolet Holiday Adultery
Prompt: "Finale Round 4"  Open in new Window.
Topic: Something round that can roll. (Marbles, balls, some sugarplums, your heads, etc.)


She had a feeling balls would roll,
When she heard noises from their room.
She carried with her a Christmas bowl,
She had a feeling balls would roll.
What she saw took its' toll,
She snipped the balls from her Groom.
She had a feeling balls would roll,
When she heard noises from their room.
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Round 5 - Freeverse Hobbit
Prompt: "Round 5"  Open in new Window.
Write a holiday poem in the voice of any character from Lord of The Rings or The Hobbit. Bonus points if it rhymes!


No Entry = Fail ;'(

Roscoe Author IconMail Icon WINS!
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Round 6 (For 2nd Place and Honorable Mention)- Freeverse Figure
Prompt: "Finale Round 6 - winner get's 2nd place, honorable mention 3"  Open in new Window.
Four stanzas made up of two rhyming couplets. The goal here is to be funny and be awful. Take any figure (it must be a real human, alive or historical) and an event related to them as your starting point.


His feelings for horses,
described by sources
to be, most unnerving
and of judgement, deserving.

He was 17 years old,
so young, yet so bold;
ready to be naked
his "I'm a big boy now" ego sated.

In 2007,
he created a heaven;
a white horse he laid abreast,
awkwardly displaying his chest.

"Harry Potter" no more,
Radcliffe had bigger plans in store;
Equus only the beginning,
a young actors dreams are unyielding.

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