LET THE CONTEST BEGIN

[shirofoxes]

News!!

I think I'll let the contest go until this Friday. I think that will be sufficient time for others to try it out, and even if there aren't any more applicants, I think we have enough to nominate two or so finalists. 3nodding

Also, to my crew:
How shall we pick the winner? By poll or by crew vote? (I'll pick the finalists, but it's totally not fair for me to choose winners). Poll vote sounds tempting to me, but I'm afraid people will just pick an option instead of acutally reading the poems.  

[the grey seer]

i say the crew does it but the contestensts who enter (me and aoi etc.) can't vote 4 themselves  

[Tsubaki Aoi]

Jariah sorry about the joke sweatdrop . shino what ever you pick i will follow 3nodding sorry if i make it difficult for you by not making a choice sweatdrop but in either choice i get to vote for the one i liked the most so I'm fine. i would never nominate my self because mine is the worst one of them all 3nodding .  

[the grey seer]

it's cool i was kidding 2 but what will it be  

[Tsubaki Aoi]

sorry shino-sama but i want you to pick the way you want it done, by poll or crew vote.  

[pj-narise]

I'm a newbie here but i do have a poem for the contest. Though i thought since all of us are from different places and enjoy different periods of history i should add a premise.
This poem is based on the stories of captives from the French and Indian Wars that took place in the mid 1700's in New England U.S.

STOLEN:

I am a stolen man
held captive by the natives
of this land.

Not holy word, nor prophets, nor God
could loose these bonds
to which I've been thrown.

I am the beast of burden.
My wife I carry on my back.
In hopes to save the babe just borne
whose future I may never know.

We came here to save ourselves
but took the lands of others
instead.
Unknowing I meant no harm
Until that nigh they came
along.

Stolen were we.
Little clothes,
no shoes
Our choice a hatchet blade
or move.

To where and whence I do
not keen.
All stolen hope
to become
Our children's dreams.  

[Tsubaki Aoi]

sorry to tell you this but could you re-post the poem in the contest forum this is not the contest it self.  

[the grey seer]

don't worry ur not the 1st