{"id":247,"date":"2010-06-15T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2010-06-15T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T21:02:44","slug":"why-not-to-win-a-poetry-contest-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2010\/why-not-to-win-a-poetry-contest-part-ii","title":{"rendered":"Why not to Win a Poetry Contest Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, pressure ruins poetry.\u00c2\u00a0 Poetry needs time to take form, a bit like it takes time for crude oil to form from fossil trees.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks to me like the closer I write to the Phi Kappa Phi deadline, the worse the poem.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue&#8217;s winner, who wrote a slightly modified <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Villanelle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Villanelle\">Villanelle<\/a> on the topic of recovery and used the form and meter to good effect certainly deserved to win more than I did.\u00c2\u00a0 I doubt my submission on the topic of &#8220;Scare Tactics&#8221; will do any better, written as it was the day of the deadline&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But when has mediocrity kept a blogger from publishing?\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my poem on recovery &#8211; yep, an absence of rhymes is a pretty good indicator I didn&#8217;t spend enough time on the poem.<\/p>\n<p><meta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" \/><title \/><meta content=\"OpenOffice.org 3.1  (Win32)\" name=\"GENERATOR\" \/><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> \t<!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } \t--> \t<\/style>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\"><strong>The Next Dive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">I fall, stiff with disbelief,<br \/>\ntoward what looks like<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c when I can see it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<br \/>\na gun-metal whipped-cream froth<br \/>\nthat hurtles closer, closer<br \/>\ndespite my wishing it away<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">The cold slap of water<br \/>\nagainst my fingerbrowtorso<br \/>\nstrips me of illusions<br \/>\nrobs me of breath<br \/>\nto force my focus upward<br \/>\nfor pain can wait<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">I pierce the waves<br \/>\nand fresh air fills my lungs<br \/>\nand old doubts fill my mind<br \/>\nwith every stroke of tingling arm<br \/>\nthe shore draws closer, closer<br \/>\nbut only the shore<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">My hands grab rock and shrub<br \/>\nand grope around for more<br \/>\nmy heart beats in my throat<br \/>\nstraining ahead of my body<br \/>\nto climb back up so he can<br \/>\npush me off again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, pressure ruins poetry.\u00c2\u00a0 Poetry needs time to take form, a bit like it takes time for crude oil to form from fossil trees.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks to me like the closer I write to the Phi Kappa Phi deadline, the worse the poem.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue&#8217;s winner, who wrote a slightly modified Villanelle on the topic of recovery and used the form and meter to good effect certainly deserved to win more than I did.\u00c2\u00a0 I doubt my submission on the topic of &#8220;Scare Tactics&#8221; will do any better, written as it was the day of the deadline&#8230; But when has mediocrity kept a blogger from publishing?\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}