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    Welcome to Iron Poet, Round Twenty-Two!

    Rules

    1) Only the first 16 respondents expressing a desire to compete will be the contestants. It IS a first come, first served basis.

    2) The contest will consist of a number of rounds pitting 2 randomly determined poets against each other until only one contestant remains (winner).

    3) Each match-up will be given a theme, picture, article, subject, or other criteria to write on, and the poem submitted must match this as much as possible. Stricter following of prompts may help you win. Prompts that are words may be interpreted in any way (and any form of the word can be used), but keep in mind the judge may not see the connection if it's too ambiguous.

    4) The winner as determined by a panel of judges will advance to the next round.

    5) In case of a judge or judges not posting judgments in a timely manner, Vaynor will adjudicate and determine the winner.

    6) The poems will be limited to 1000 words with a 50 word minimum

    7) The entries will be poems. All forms of poetry are acceptable, as long as they meet the required word lengths. If your chosen style is too short, you are free to make two of them, e.g. you may make a limerick with 48 words, then add another limerick, still following the same theme, to reach the required word length.

    8) All posted deadlines will given in as much time zones as possible, as labeled.

    9) No late entries will be accepted. If you don't post or fail to post by the deadline, you will be disqualified. A 15 minute grace period is allowed. You have one freebie per contest, use it wisely. This allows you to be up to half a day late (12 hours) with your poem (no more).

    10) If your entry does not include the article(s) and the picture(s), you will most likely lose because of it, however this will not disqualify your poem, as poems are judged on best use of the prompts.

    11) The judgments are final. What the judges decide is how it is.

    12) The entries will only include content suitable for the Playground.

    13) Anything not clear will be decided by me.

    14) The contestants will have 1 week (roughly) from the bracket posting to get their entries posted.

    15) Post your poems in spoilers. Judges: do not read poems before the round ends.

    16) Feel free to edit the post with your poem in it until the round ends. After that, any additional edits will disqualify you (barring a use of your half-day extension).

    17) Judges have 1 week to complete judgments. If not all judges respond by this time, the round will be decided as if the late judges were not a part of it (i.e. if there are 5 judges to begin with and only 3 are on time, the round will be decided with 2 votes as opposed to 3). If there are only an even number of judgments, I will cast the remaining vote. If the first round has 16 contestants, the time for judgments to be posted will be increased to two weeks.

    18) At the end of each contest, everyone still reading the thread will be able to anonymously vote on their favorite poem of the entire contest (encompassing all rounds). The poem with the most votes will win the "Best of Show" award!

    THE IRON POET HALL OF FAME
    1. Ravyn
    2. Rubakhin
    3. Elvaris
    4. Alarra
    5. Truemane
    6. Devigod
    7. Alarra
    8. Devigod
    9. Alarra
    10. Elvaris
    11. Rutskarn
    12. Alarra
    13. averagejoe
    14. Asthix
    15. truemane
    16. Techwarrior
    17. Halberd
    18. Alarra
    19. Dr Bwaa
    20. The Extinguisher
    21. truemane

    Contestants:

    1. FinnLassie
    2. Benthesquid
    3. Szilard
    4. SaintRidley
    5. SeptimusFabrius
    6. Duck999
    7. Jormengard
    8. Elvaris


    Judges:
    1. CWater
    2. Lethologica
    3. Vaynor




    POTENTIAL APPLICANTS FOR THE JUDGE POSITION TAKE NOTE: THESE CONTESTS LAST A LONG TIME AND THIS IS NOT A FLEETING RESPONSIBILITY. IF YOU SIGN UP I EXPECT YOU TO POST JUDGMENTS ON TIME. IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO POST JUDGMENTS, TELL ME. THANK YOU.
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    I'd like to compete.

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    Mmm, yeah, Vaynor, gimme dat sweet, sweet Iron Poetin'

    ... I'm competing, is what I'd like to say.
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    I'll have a go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FinnLassie View Post
    Mmm, yeah, Vaynor, gimme dat sweet, sweet Iron Poetin'
    ...I don't know if I want to anymore.
    “Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him
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    and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the
    little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
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    I'd like to compete.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaynor View Post
    ...I don't know if I want to anymore.
    Too late to escape now...
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    There once was a poet named Lassie
    Whom Vaynor did think of as classy
    But with a position
    In his competition
    He found she was truly quite sassy

    ('scuse me if the pronouns don't fit)
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    I was about to pronounce you the winner of this competition and post the thread for Iron Poet XXIII, but then I realized you were under the 50 word limit. Too bad.
    “Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him
    the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read;
    and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the
    little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
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    Sure. Let's give it another go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaynor View Post
    I was about to pronounce you the winner of this competition and post the thread for Iron Poet XXIII, but then I realized you were under the 50 word limit. Too bad.
    Spring turns to summer
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lethologica View Post
    There once was a poet named Lassie
    Whom Vaynor did think of as classy
    But with a position
    In his competition
    He found she was truly quite sassy

    ('scuse me if the pronouns don't fit)
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    immortalized, huzzah

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lethologica View Post
    Spring turns to summer
    As competition thrives on
    Technicality
    I appreciate your attention to the often forgotten attribute of a haiku: the seasonal reference.
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    I'd like to compete (and believe I am improving).
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    I realise I'm bad, but I'll give this a go.

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    Oh buh, people should stop lounging in their summer feels and get into some poet feels. We needs dem people!
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    Come on guys, we need 8 more contestants and some judges!
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    ...would it help if we said we had cookies?

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    Depends, do we?
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    Well, the cookies were only expressed within the hypothetical, so I guess we don't. Pity.

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    I, for one, have cookies.

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    Will write for cookies.
    Ahthankya, thankyaverymuch.

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    Could we lure people in with Finnish slaps on the ear? It's, it's just a literal translation of the Finnish cinnamon buns, I swear!
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    Consider me lured!

    Wait...

    they look really yummy tho

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    Quote Originally Posted by FinnLassie View Post
    Could we lure people in with Finnish slaps on the ear? It's, it's just a literal translation of the Finnish cinnamon buns, I swear!
    Aagh, don't post such links, now I have the craving for one! And just today when I wouldn't have needed to walk to the shop for lunch... XD

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    Since this is taking so long to get contestants, I think that we should just do a contest with 8 people starting. Would any of the contestants mind dropping out and judging instead? I'll be the third judge if that happens.
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    Well, since I've already won and all that, I can magnanimously concede my spot to judge. and avoid dropping out in the first round of the actual contest but shut up

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    Thanks Lethologica! Let's get this show on the road.

    Iron Poet XXII: Round One

    This round's theme is going to be biographical poems. You will be receiving a portrait of a person, real or imaginary, and they must be the focus of your poem. Your poem doesn't necessarily have to be biographical in a literal sense, just as long as that person is the focus. They could be the object of the poem (a lover of the narrator, perhaps) or the writer, or anything along those lines. In the cases of the portrait being of an actual person whose life is known to you (likely a famous person in this example) you are free to base the poem on the actual person. It can also be based on a hypothetical person that is simply inspired by the portrait itself and not the actual person, if you wish. If you need any clarification just let me know.

    Jormengard vs. FinnLassie: Self-Portrait
    Elvaris vs. Szilard: W.B. Yeats
    SaintRidley vs. Benthesquid: Sir Nicholas Throckmorton
    Duck999 vs. SeptimusFabrius: Dreaming child

    Deadline: Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 at 11:59pm EDT (UTC -4).
    “Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him
    the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read;
    and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the
    little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
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    Question: are we allowed to use formatting for effect in our poems, or should they make sense as plain text?

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