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    Blackout Poetry Contest 2019-20

    Hello and thank you for judging! Submissions are separated into the digital poems and the ones done by hand or using digital painting tools. Please let me know your top 2 for each type.
     
    Criteria: Judge based on the quality of the poem and the artwork. The artwork should relate to the poem itself. Decide on first, second, and third place for the digital poems and first, second, and third place for the hand-drawn poems.

    Have fun and let me know if you have any questions. Thank you so much!

    Digital Blackout Poems

    Poem #1
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    Sometimes life
    Really sucks
    I'm holding on
    To the moments that don't suck.
    Smile and know this:
    We can mend each other.
    ​
    Poem #3
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    Burning with curiosity,
    She ran after it,
    Never once considering
    How to get out again.
    Not a moment to think
    About stopping herself
    Falling deep,
    What was going to happen next?
    Poem #2
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    A wish on the horizon
    Never turns away in resignation.
    Dreams mock time and remember everything.
    They don't forget the truth.
    Their eyes open in sundown;
    The time to hear human mouths.
    Their burning statements, questions and words.
    Altogether like harmony in a song.
    Poem #4
    During her short life
    One thing troubled her.
    The place she had known
    She couldn't you go
    A nice house where
    We will grow old.
    Poem #5
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    The sweet scent of raw wood in the still night.
    The sea whistles,
    Heading for the cheerful oysters.
    The commanding sea before them
    Ministers the windburned seamen.
    Ships carved from oak,
    Faded blue backdrops and
    Diaphanous golden shells--
    Open for the sand like offerings.

    Hand-Drawn/Digitally-Drawn Blackout Poems

    Poem #1
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    She thinks of the boy now.
    It is better to search for a clear voice
    That can carry her in a storm
    Made by the devil.
    Poem #3
    Through wind, turnings, and deaths, The sun still moves up and down
    And the stars still shift.
    Listen, believe, love--
    You can be powerful and good.
    Poem #2
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    In a moment
    The world found her wonder
    And it looked at her for fear
    So she thought nothing of it,
    Even if the fall never was over.
    Poem #4
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    A fight is going on inside me,
    It is between two wolves
    Evil and good.
    The same fight is going on inside
    Every other person, too.
    Which wolf will win?
    The one you feed.
    Poem #5
    His pocket
    A cup of delight
    His card
    A very dreadful darkened
    A face pointing
    That waved good-bye.
    Poem #7

    "Apollo & Hyacinthus"

    You're still alive

    but I live in the world

    where you're a funeral

    promise broken

    I'm talking to you as a memory,

    meaningless things.

    I just want you

    the way you left

    I'm reliving all of it.

    History is all you left me.

    Poem #6
    In a world fraught with
    Conflict, guilt, and dismay,
    We discover who we really are.
    We were created to be old frames,
    Building life into a masterpiece.
    Poem #8

    The sacred steps

    The fleets of ships

    Beyond the limits

    of the magnificent river

    A dream that we dream

    Became imbued with understanding.

    Poem #9

    Us--

    A phrase she didn't recall.

    The lying reality,

    She had turned to.

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