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Smoke & Mirrors
Epic Poetry
Inspirators Contest
Gift of Poetry
Villainous Villanelle Contest
Humour Contest
Timeless Contest
Critique Contest
Epyllion Contest
Foreshadowing Contest
Spirit Contest
Diamante Contest
Pi Contest
Workspace Contest
Haiku Contest
Balance Contest
Photo Contest 3
Erotic Contest
Deadliest Sin Contest
Holiday Contest
Addiction Contest
Night Contest
Fire Contest
Licentious Contest
Photo Contest
Bread Contest
Society Contest
PoetryPlease Contest
Halloween
End of Summer Contest
Photo Competition
<a href="poetryplease.deviantart.com/ar…>Childhood Contest
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Challenge Archive #2
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Challenge #46
People annually make a New Years resolution and struggle to stick with it. I often find myself debating about whether or not I want to make one each time New Year's Eve rolls around. I think asking you to write about your own resolutions would be a bit cliche. So instead I want you to make a broader resolution. If you could choose a resolution for a collective group (i.e. public education, your country's government, your family, the world) - who would you choose, what would you choose, and of course why. There's a
=PoetryPlease: Inside The Glass House Contest.
Imagine if you will, being locked inside of a glasshouse alone, you are surrounded by nature and people, loved ones come visit you, strangers walk by you, seeing your every action, yet they are completely unable to make any contact with you. You can see the world around you, you can’t escape it and you can’t experience it.
All you have is your glasshouse.
What would you do, how would you react, would you cope? PoetryPlease (https://www.deviantart.com/poetryplease) wants to find out exactly how you would cope with such a strange predicament.
So, what are the details?
PoetryPlease (https://www.deviantart.com/poetryplease) wants you to write about how you would react to being locked inside a Glasshou
Smoke and Mirrors Poetry Contest
PoetryPlease dug into its archive to come up with a great new contest concept:
:spotlight-left:Smoke & Mirrors:spotlight-right:.
"Smoke and mirrors" refers to a deceptive or inadequate explanation/description of something, the source of the expression being based on a magician's illusion of making objects appear or disappear using mirrors and a confusing burst of smoke.
So, what does any of this have to do with poetry?
We want you to write a poem where the main topic of the poem is cleverly concealed. The point is to write about one thing while you're really talking about another. There should be no obvious hints as to what the real subje
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for some odd reason I can never click the links of current contests, only previous ones. What's that about?
Is it just me?
When my mouse moves over it I see a capital i.
Is it just me?
When my mouse moves over it I see a capital i.