The ultimate poetry challenge!!!! Come on in. There's lots of space!

*Like poetry? Then this is the challenge for you. The rules are simple. Below is a list of the numbers one through fifty. You pick a number, and pm it to me, and I'll pm you a poem. You must then write a short fic based off of that poem. You can use any characters you want, cannon or OC in any forum and any genre. The only catch is, at least four lines of the poem must appear in the fic (if it's less than four lines, you must use the whole thing). Bold them, highlight them, whatever you want; just make them visible. (And they don't have to be all in a row, or all at once; they just have to be there.)

*When you post your story, put the title, and author of the poem you were given somewhere on your post, and pm me the link so I can put it in an index at the beginning of this thread. I figure about a month is a fair amount of time for this, so I'll give you until March 18th to post your entry (because February's a short month, I'll give you thirty days).

*There will be no "winners" or anything for this challenge: it's not a competition. The purpose is to challenge you and make you a better writer.

*If anything is unclear let me know and I'll do my best to make it clear.

*I'll do my best to read all the entries, but I'll not make any guarantees, because college is hard and time-consuming.

*Warning: For the purposes of this challenge, I am defining a poem as anything from a Shakespearian sonnet to a nursery rhyme; and I'm a big Kipling fan, so ther's a lot of his stuff in there.

*Note: If you want to, you can write another poem based on the poem I gave you. You must still include at least four lines from the original.
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1. GraySaberFreque
2.
3. Tahi
4. VaderLVR64
5.
6. Alexis-Wingstar
7. Mira_Jade
8. earlybird-obi-wan
9. Star-Foozle
10. Divapilot
11. ZekksGoddess
12. Jedi Trace
13. JadeSolo
14. Kestrel_Kenobi
15. General_Kenobi_66
16.
17.
18.
19. furrylittlebantha
20. JediNemesis
21.
22.
23. aurrasingrules101
24. Alexis_Wingstar
25.
26. bmwgurl17[color]
27. Jedi-Ant
28. mastermet_0228
29. SabyneAmberle
30.
31. DarthIshtar
32.
33. TheCrazyRodian
34. DancesWithBlasters
35.
36.
37.
38.
39. Shi-Ann_Kenobi
40. divapilot
41.
42. Darth_Manion
43.
44.
45.
46.
47. Jedi_of_ennth
48.
49.
50. Jade_Max

 

Entry Index:

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Before the Saga:

Alexis_Wingstar: The Eulogy of the Lamb

Mira_Jade: Every Thorn Has a Rose

JediNemesis: To My Heir
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The Saga:

DancesWithBlasters: What I Know
Darth_Manion: Death Star's Revenge

earlybird-obi-wan: Memories

General_Kenobi_66: Dawn at the Edge of Darkness

Rogue_Pilot_2347: Kiatha's Triumph
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Beyond the Saga:

aurrasingrules101: Closer Home

DivaPilot: Seeking Truth

Jade_Max: Solitary In Thought
Jedi-Ant: A Piece of Ambiguous Guidance

mastermeg_0228: Revelations

Tahi: Border Wulf (Scroll down the page)

VaderLVR64: Fuzzy

 

EDIT: There aren't enough slots to need three posts for indexing

Consider yourself added, VaderLVR64!

 

What the hey. I'll put my degree in English to work. Can I have number 10?

 

Number 13, please!

Can we write a new poem based off the prompt poem, instead of a vig?

 

could I have 14 please?

Thanks.

 

Sure, JadeSolo. You can write another poem. Just remember to include at least four lines from your model.

 

Number 1 please.

 

I'll take 47, please.

 

Oooh! Count me in, I love poetry!

I shall take number 29, please!

 

31, please.

 

# 12, please

 

What the heck - number 50 please

 

#27 please!

 

PM sent with a request for #24, please.

This is going to be fun!

 

this sounds great!


#39, please!


~Shi~

 

And I thought we'd get to write poetry....

 

You can write poetry if you want, MsLanna. It just has to stick to the rules in the first post.

 

May I have #19, please? Thank you!

 

Alexis_Wingstar just brought up a good point:

You don't have to use the same capitalization that the poet use in your poem. You can also briefly interrupt the line. For instance, if your line is "He is gentle and He is mild," you don't have to capitalize the second "he", and you can write it like this if you so choose:

"He is gentle," she said. "And he is mild."

However, you cannot separated it by much more than that. It must still be recognizable as a line from the poem.

 

This challenge is hard...may be a little while yet before mine is up...haven't been bitten by a bunny as yet but i'm working on it!

 

Man, this is hard! But it's an awesome challenge! I've got a rough draft written out (Actually, I've written out three, and I'm trying to decide which to go with) now I'm just polishing them up, and tweaking and stuff, but it might be a week or so...

Yeah, I was wondering about that too... I'm having trouble with using my poem with a SW universe But if I can't, it's perfectly fine

 

This is hard! I hope I can finish by the deadline. A question, though: Can we change the grammer/spelling of something from the poem so it flows better? Or should we keep it in the original format?