Announcing our Small Moments poetry competition

I have a concept of a poem...

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I have a concept of a poem...

I had a concept
for a poem
But then I slept
and it did roam
Now notes unkempt
I'm barren at home

Well, is there an award for weirdest entry? Maybe a Canadian boy toy?

Coming soon… to ruin a poetry category near you… 😈

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/a-witch-with-a-hawk-on-her-hat

I shall throw something together with the best that my limitations allow. I believe that's in the spirit of things, as opposed, perhaps, to other ways this environment has been hijacked. Time and place for it? Not for me to say.

Do competition rules require a novel piece or an earlier published one and possibly modified can be submitted for the contest?

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Do competition rules require a novel piece or an earlier published one and possibly modified can be submitted for the contest?

It has to be a new story.

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It has to be a new story.

My bad, just found the rules.

Here’s my entry into the competition https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/hearts-desire-2

I'm in! Tender Mercies is my entry for the Small Moments Comp. Please check it out! Thanks! 😘

I admit it, I wasn't going to enter this competition with poetry not being my thing. 🙄

However, after reading a few of Elliot's poems and seeing that he had amassed nearly 500 stories, I felt compelled to give it a go... So here is my competition entry: Sleep

I would have called it a celebration rather than a competition if it had been up to me, but it wasn't and isn't. It's just a word, and an opinion about what it signifies, but there you have it,

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after once more being accused of mod favoritism, I have decided not to enter this or any future comps. thanks very much for finding a way to fuck up my day. sincerely, Rachel.

No, fuck them. Write what calls you.

Glad to have been able to put my modest effort out there, Sometimes it isn't the expertise with which you do something that matters, it is the feeling you did it for the right reasons that counts.

Got mine in: The Test. Fair warning: solidly in the Erotic Poems category! Love is an important part of it, though.

Ape is in!!

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/she-lies-there

Seven days left!

Flex that big poetry muscle! 😎

Immortalize a loved one with a poem! ❤️

I actually have no clue as to the rules of poetry or its fucking punctuation, but maybe there are no rules. I just know I’ve read some entries that affected me in a very nice way!

Best wishes to all who entered! 😘

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Seven days left!

Flex that big poetry muscle! 😎

Immortalize a loved one with a poem! ❤️

I actually have no clue as to the rules of poetry or its fucking punctuation, but maybe there are no rules. I just know I’ve read some entries that affected me in a very nice way!

Best wishes to all who entered! 😘

I wish someone had told me fucking has its own grammar rules. Never too late to learn though and I'll do some research. (on the punctuation, not the fucking, sadly.) 🤣

As end date approaches,

The poems keep flowing;

Full of fucking and sucking,

Cunts cumming and blowing,

Tales of Dommes, sluts and subs

And those tasty wet nubs,

Bi-curious and straight folks,

Daddy's girls and breeders,

But what we authors love most

Are our horny old readers.

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As end date approaches,

The poems keep flowing;

Full of fucking and sucking,

Cunts cumming and blowing,

Tales of Dommes, sluts and subs

And those tasty wet nubs,

Bi-curious and straight folks,

Daddy's girls and breeders,

But what we authors love most

Are our horny old readers.

Haha. Very nice. Can't say that mine fits into any of the above, but I think Hallmark might be giving me a call at some point!

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/small-riches

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As end date approaches,

The poems keep flowing;

Full of fucking and sucking,

Cunts cumming and blowing,

Tales of Dommes, sluts and subs

And those tasty wet nubs,

Bi-curious and straight folks,

Daddy's girls and breeders,

But what we authors love most

Are our horny old readers.

Can we just give the prize to this one?😁

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Haha. Very nice. Can't say that mine fits into any of the above, but I think Hallmark might be giving me a call at some point!

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/small-riches

I'm looking at you WW. Worthy of Hallmark or not, I'm glad you made it in.

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Can we just give the prize to this one?😁

No prizes required, but thank you.

Been a very busy few weeks at home - didn't think I was going to be able to submit an entry. But I somehow got there 🙄 (with some encouragement from a friend - thank you, Kimmi 😊). I never claim to be a poet, but I wanted to give it a go in honour of Elliot's passing. So here it is: Still Waters Beckon.

With luck, an audio version should be available soon.

have i won yet?

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have i won yet?

Yes. The check cleared this morning.

Been reading through a lot of the entries. Y'all are so talented. Some are funny, some are really sexy. A few pretty sad. Great collection over all.

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Been reading through a lot of the entries. Y'all are so talented. Some are funny, some are really sexy. A few pretty sad. Great collection over all.

I think many have stepped up, acknowledging the debt owed to his spirit and artistry. It's a comp that sits a step above the usual slip and slide.

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after once more being accused of mod favoritism, I have decided not to enter this or any future comps. thanks very much for finding a way to fuck up my day. sincerely, Rachel.

As I’ve only just read this thread (& can’t message directly), I had to post to say what a shame. I’ve written here in various guises long enough to have heard suggestions of favouritism before, and whenever it's raised I think it's mean-spirited and untrue. But it must bludgeon your confidence if you’re the target.

I’ve always seen competition winners as a great standard to aim at. Competitions are a prompt, a chance to push yourself – sometimes in an unfamiliar genre –  and there’s always something to learn from the stories that come out on top. I mean I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’d like to think that Elliot also saw the journey as the reward, irrespective of his talent and popularity.

I suppose if there were ever an occasion when we were convinced our writing deserved more acclamation, we could reassure ourselves that others’ opinions and comments are just an expression of their particular taste. That’s a positive thought when writing flounders – how arid life would be if our creative efforts were reduced to certainties: this good, this bad. The only audience that you absolutely have to satisfy is yourself.

Anyway, I’m droning on like a distant car on a motorway. I only meant to write to encourage you to reconsider for future competitions. I can’t imagine that Lush is short of writers, but it can never have enough really good ones.

...er, I know the competition is over and everything, and I'm quite happy with my RR but didn't we also receive coins in the past for making it into the top ten? Is this still a thing? Thank you.

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didn't we also receive coins in the past for making it into the top ten? Is this still a thing?

That was a one- or two-off event recently because a kind benefactor sponsored the top 10.