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Dark Poetry Contest Judged

Blog Posted:8/15/2014 5:01:00 AM

This was quite an easy contest to judge (for once!) as the twelve winning entries just seemed to sort themselves really. Originality of thought counted for a lot in this contest; thus I tended to discard poems with a very predictable take on the theme. I saw something different and special in the twelve winning poems. Some poems were almost too prettily written to be truly chilling, but may have placed anyway for the sheer beauty of the language! Congrats to my twelve winners, and thank you to everybody who participated. :)



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Nette
Onclaud
Date: 8/18/2014 1:58:00 AM
thanks for allowing me to write something a bit dark, charlotte.. been aching to do this as my first poems carried such theme.. congrats to all who participated... you shine!.. huggs
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Andrea
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Date: 8/15/2014 11:21:00 PM
Thanks, Charlotte,And thanks also for inspiring Nikko to write for and enter your contest. I was thrilled to see my good friend on a winners' list just like the old times!!! Congrats to all. I just read almost the whole list and I think you chose the number one poem very wisely.
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Kabuteng P.Ink
K.
Date: 8/15/2014 11:22:00 AM
Oh wow, Charlotte! I was very much pleasantly surprised to see my placement, thank you very much :D! I'm really honored to be among your winners, and congrats to all them! When I saw your contest, I Really wanted to write for it, but took me quite some time to figure out how to write it... I think I was the last one who entered it since there was one spot left when I last checked your contest...as to whether it was true or fiction, I guess you could say that it's a melding of the 2? I wanted to touch on child pornography/trafficking, I find that to be one of the darkest things that beasts can do, & oddly enough, that butterfly bit, came to me because I have been reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" in my class. Bon Iver helped too. Thank you so much for noticing the layers there, but I won't bore you with the details anymore... Again, thank you so much, I'm so happy to be in your list, especially since I hardly enter contests anymore :)!
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