2014 ILX Poetry Contest: The Captain Lorax Prize (Submissions Thread)

Just toss it on the pile when you have a chance. At least you can be sure it will get read.

STOP ALL THE CLOCKS

lol I forgot this

yall have the stage

huh, don't we still have until the end of the day on October 1? that's the way deadlines usually work.

oh i didn't mean ~i'm unilaterally stopping the contest now~ i'm just pointing out today's the day

gonna have to bank mine for next year's since it's not quite done and i have approx 20 hrs of work to do today

xpost: ok, gotcha

no pressure now

before i sleep i'm going to type something up directly into this box and submit it (well, if i think it has a prayer against dmac's, otherwise nah)

dmac set a damned high bar, but I say he needs us as foils, so it would only be polite to oblige him by setting his stuff next to our lesser stuff that sets his off to best advantage.

Against Complete Withdrawal

negotiation phase

on soft sunny fading days
and through people
cling on, sour godhead

but in frantic aspiration
and to these events
feign lively boredom

for the mill-ground teeth
of conversations declined
frame instability a corrective

crisis phase

categorical suicide
zones and their gerundive
'must be withdrawn from'

however hover kneebent
for dysphoric relapse:
fire wilts at the joint

thrown down in
my own ash
unwoven loving

renegotiation phase

a little further back
from corneal immediacy
spaceless ambitions

recover absent breath
leave sensors responsive
heart sceneries dead slow

i am here but
there are conditions
and a terminal door

I like that

XP i pity the foil

pity the foil is ace

ok bluds in the next day or so i will put all of these into a new thread with voting opciones

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deems did you miss the voting thread or something?

yeah srsly

grats on 2nd place tho

I've been on a rock with no internet it was magnificent tbh hi btw

Bummer contendo couldnt have caught this year's bus

hi! that's no way to talk about new york xp

8080 rock

hi guys sorry for my tardiness, busy weekend--can work on this shortly!

remember when we used to do these

bring that beat back imo

we useta write things in this country.

now everyones got his hand in the other guys pocketbook.

i'm already running a poll atm. someone else should start a thread!

I'm away from home rn, but when I get back I may launch a 2019 Poetry Contest, if no one has done so already.

^do it! It's National Poetry Day in the UK...

TS: Simon Armitage vs Rupi Kaur

Who pens the trvest poëtree?

always wisest to remember
though rough winds doth shake the darling buds of may
soon comes november
and dont no-one give a fuck about national poetry day

i'm game...!

OK. I did it.

2019 ILX Poetry Competition: Open Division