2015 ILX Poetry Contest: The Captain Lorax Prize Redux (Submissions Thread)

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It's been rather more than a year since the poets of ilx* foregathered to commemorate he who spoke for the trees. Lest we forget. Should auld acquaintance and all that.

THE RULES ARE SIMPLE:

"The poem must be 4 - 40 lines. That doesn't include line breaks or the title. One entry per person. Post your entry here. I'll move them all later when the poll starts."

To which I shall add that tradition permits two entries per poet, but no more than that. The deadline is nominally Dec. 31, 2015, but sweet reason rules the day, so these details could change if it proves necessary.

* entering a poem automatically earns one this epithet

Aimless, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 06:03 (nine years ago)

bit o' bump

Aimless, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:01 (nine years ago)

Oh cool

MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:49 (nine years ago)

Or you and I could just cyber-arm-wrestle for the trophy.

Aimless, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:02 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

no interest this year? would it be a good idea to extend the deadline?

(I'm trying to write a poem *just for ilx* but am not really getting anywhere)

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Sunday, 27 December 2015 21:45 (nine years ago)

I have no problem with extending the deadline. I knew that squeezing it into what was left of 2015 was dicey, but symmetry demanded I make the attempt.

Seems to me like a new deadline of March 1, 2016 is a better bet. Even then I am not sure we can get this off the ground unless someone posts a poem. I'll work on mine this week, if time permits.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 27 December 2015 22:01 (nine years ago)

:( I promised myself I'd make time for this but alas my time making device is fucked from overwork this year

The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 December 2015 23:18 (nine years ago)

It is now OFFICIAL. Deadline: March 1, 2016.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 2 January 2016 18:49 (nine years ago)

Or, alternatively, whenever the poets of ILX wake up from their holiday-induced comas.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 2 January 2016 18:50 (nine years ago)


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