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Rules
The rules for the Daily Poem are simple, and are as follows:

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Submissions must be entirely original, and written by a single poet - collaborations are not allowed.

Fan-work is not allowed unless the source material is now in the public domain. Please consult the page public domain explained for details on the term.

Submissions must be in proper English.

Submissions must have appropriate content - no excessive violence, hateful, or adult content.

Submissions must follow the Daily Poem Format.

Submissions must not be more than fifty (50) lines in length, minus empty lines.

Submissions per person must not exceed four (4) at any given time.

If there are spelling and grammar errors in your submissions that prevent them being featured, the Daily Poem bosses will notify you in the comments section of this page and you will be given the opportunity to fix them.

The Daily Poem Bosses will not tell you what is wrong with your submission. The Daily Poem Bosses will not correct your submission for you. If you attempt to fix your submission and ask if it is fixed, we will gladly answer you.

Because of the aforementioned, the comment section of this page should not be used for chatter.

Failure to comply with these rules in two (2) sequential submissions or in four (4) totals submissions will result in an indefinite ban from the Daily Poem. Choosing to violate this ban will result in immediate entry removal as well as a warning from the Elftown Guards. To view a list of members who are not permitted to submit to the Daily Poem, please see Daily Poem Violators.

If for some reason you should be unable to edit this page properly, please contact one of the Daily Poem Bosses with a message containing your submission (in the correct format!) and, barring any issues, they will add it as soon as possible.

Entry Processing
The submissions are processed in the following manner:

Entries are sorted for possible feature candidates.

Feature candidates are chosen at random to be featured on Main Street.

The Daily Poem Bosses reserve the right to not feature poems based upon the quality of work. Those poems which are removed from the list of candidates will be deleted without question. Therefore we suggest that you make sure that you submit your best work as well as make copies of what you do submit!
These rules are very strict. However, it helps cut down on the number of featured submissions, allowing for a faster, more efficient Daily Poem process.

For more details, please see the Daily Poem FAQ.

Please submit entries to the bottom of the page!
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Spring

Spring is a new beginning
with much to do and to see.
New opportunities are waiting
to make our dreams flourish and bloom.

It's such a grand time to plan change,
to begin the new start we may need.
To try something bold and brazen,
to reach for the stars and succeed.

Spring is a new beginning,
a precious new chance sent to us.
We chase our dreams and capture them
with joy in our hearts each day.

Written by [Stephen]

tan lines

let summer brand us,
take a hot iron to parts
we are told to hide

Written by [hannes]

the thing is

the thing is
that when the music
beats at my temples,
when these voices
surge and crash over my head,
I lose myself in the tide;

the thing is
I have been adrift
without a compass,
sans dictionary for
the language of wind or stars;

the thing is
I have been building a shelter
out of my own life-raft
and dressing the gaps
with pieces of my soul.

the thing is—
I have been teetering and now
all of my walls
are coming
down.

Written by [Linderel]

Ascent

I would like nothing
so much as
to quietly dissolve into the rain—
go rushing against
the drops that pass by,
dive up through clouds, back into sunshine;
reach higher, farther,
beyond the exosphere and away
where no sound can enter—
until finally, bewitched, becalmed,
I could grasp at peace
and be one with the stars.

Written by [Linderel]

The Gift of Wings

There are feathers in
your hand when you wake
and from somewhere afar you
can hear the song of beautiful
little birds, beckoning.
You want to join them.
A fluttering on the windowsill, now—
capture it in trembling
fingers and whisper
old memories into ears
that will transform your clumsy
human speech; new melodies
will be born out of your sorrow
and perhaps tomorrow
you will feel lighter.
For today, for now, you can hold the bird gently
fling it onto the sky
and smile.

Written by [Linderel]

Mother of an Ocean

River flowing wildly,
Bold and delicious-
Take me to your Mother.
Take me to your sea.
With the sun in my smile,
  We'll go dancing,
      and dancing-

Light a candle in the temple,
And see what we can find.
There's a fire in the catacomb,
  The spirits run
      Around and around.
They look at us
While they are chanting,
And when they bow
    They kiss the ground.

See the river to the West-
Nurturing like an ancient Mother-
Let's all of us jump in,
And be part of one another.

Written by [kamisch]

I Didn't Make it to the Beach in Time

The morning awakens with fierce fuschia fingers,
      Clawing with a hunger at the tail end of night –
           Blue mystique blushes and melts
             as the spectrum is savaged:
            Bolts of bold color raking the canopy,
              Dripping in the brilliance of halos and innocence
               Refracting with resonance to purple and gold.
Hunkered on haunches,
  The world waits in silence as I watch in awe
     Dazzled as the crown’s glory grows.

A1A never looked as beautiful as it does in this light:
   Dew glittering the scene,
   Glowing embers reflecting the
              might of the majesty rising out of the east;
        Wagging his shining mane and roaring a warning
                      until the stars run aground,
        Poured like shattered diamonds all over the road.
Consumed by their fire and drawn to their grace,
  I ride to keep pace as if scaling a mountain …
     The closest breadth of the ocean is home.

In Phaeton’s name,
        The chariots rage against the horizon,
    Threatening once more to set us all ablaze!
    Fleet feet on my pedals are not gods,
         And the distance to rapture is beyond man’s race -
                Ravaged by the winds embarking the day;
                Mired by the brambles of rambling wheels.
I collapse upon shore too shy on this side of heaven,
  Lost in the excitement of anticipation,
     Under a firmament turned pale.

Written by [kamisch]

I See You Deflecting

I'm hungry,
   Hungry -
And what are you?
       You're just there watching,
                       Scowling,
                        Judging.
   Come here to my arms,
          They're open,
     Come into my heart.
See my life exploding with you in it
            Like the stars about to start.
And maybe I'm just naïve,
    Hanging,
       Dangling
       From the lines of lies that you keep dripping –
Why am I so full of compromise?
                For you, love,
                For you only,
             Will this logic crack and crash and keep me guessing,
                         Doubting everything about myself,
                                            About you and us –
                              Still…no regrets.
Once I saw unicorns there in your eyes.
         Have they gone or am I blind?
               Or are you blind?
      So, we're both blind.
                 It doesn't really matter,
                       It's too late now,
         Our lives entwined in conversations sweetly heated,
                They'll chase you down,
                      Haunting,
                            Panting,
                                 Howling
                                             If you run.
                             Will you run?
            I can't say that it'd surprise me.
Still I'll hold faith by the trigger,
                  Will it to shudder,
                                    Surrender.
Famished, terrorized and seething,
         I'll wait for you,
            Sit here for you.
                 And your rolling eyes -
                     Just there, scowling,
                                Judging
                              Watching.
                      Feel me trembling anxious,
                            All… a quiver.

Written by [kamisch]

Mess You Up With Love

They told me love was beautiful,
      Some fresh angel
         With bright comforting wings
But oh she’s so savage
         The slattern, the whore
       She’ll rape your logic
              Leave your defenses torn:
               Claw right through bone,
                       Through sternum –
                  Your heart is hers.

Did you think I wouldn’t notice?
           The changes made…
   A blush and a panic,
       Inhaling feral flesh
          Through conversations and dreams.
What is it we’ve come to?
           Cue the serenade…
   Touches brought to tantric
                 You were everything.

I’m left here bleeding,
          Soaked and ravaged
    The hungry hunter’s off again.
              I call her ‘cause I want you,
               I call her to come back to me!
       She robbed me, left me cold,
               But she did it all so beautifully.

Written by [kamisch]

The Truth

A rant of epic proportions,
Condensed into a moment of lies,
The feelings swirling up from the ground,
Condensing at the top of my spine.
When did we die?
Thousands of words tumble through the darkness,
Bearing a death grip on my chest.
My traitorous eyes,
Heavy as the world and the words caged behind.
Why do we lie?
The lips of a harlot,
Blood red and sitting slightly awry.
The heart of a succubus,
All withered and dry.
We are the lie.

Written by [Tekkon KinKreet]

The Answer

We all posses the answer,
Or so we think, we do...

What We believe is "rational",
What We believe is "true".

For so the media told us,
And so the politician said;
And those of old who disagreed all somehow wound up Dead..

Yet We would never do that, for We are so "advanced",
Far wiser than our ancestors, in fairy tales, romanced.

To burn a maid upon a stake, believing her: a witch,
To torture young men with machines, so lies, they will confess,
To call an illegitimate son, a bastard, or a female dog, a bitch,
To show preference to our own kind, before all of the rest,
No, these were things we did in times when we all knew "much less"..

We don't debate religion, nor marry based on race,
We barely even bother,getting married in the first place.

People are no longer: "Good", or "evil",
With silly ideals, like "Wrong", or "Right";
Just vexed by "political upheaval",
Caused by "socio-economic" plight.

We don't tell our friends: "You're confused",
Nor insist that they change;
But rather, to spare their feelings,
Our lives, we rearrange..

For tolerance is not enough; no, we must all agree..
That what was reprehensible for many centuries..
Is now, not only accepted; but "beautiful" and "free"
"In fact" the deviant proclaims, "You should all be more like me"..

Written by [NorthStorm]

that kind of a day

if the world was just a little bit bigger,
or slightly smaller,
maybe we'd all be closer.

maybe we wouldn't drown
in surges of longing;
maybe the longest distance
would be an arm's length.

maybe the world is perfect,
and it's just our own
fears
limitations
naive hopes
that keep us apart.

maybe we'll never know.

Written by [hannes]

fall leaves

It is fall
and we are lost
on unknown seas,
on soulless land.
It's our fall
and all is lost.

Spring was green,
the sun exhaled
fallen trees
arose again.
Time was lost,
not found again.

The world is cold
around us now
but fires burn
where skin meets skin.
Nothing between.
All is lost.

Written by [hannes]

i'm gonna run

i'm gonna run

drain my
thoughts, muscles, guts

of this
accumulated tension
unintensional frustration
indefensible elation

drain it all
into a big wooden cup
to savour, keep warm

until the day
my mind is clear
my muscles worn
my stomach prepared

to drink the wine,
ruby red,

of your touch.

Written by [hannes]

A Dream Revisited

The sun, golden, flowed down the world,
Beams, glowing, bent and curled.
The oceans gleamed, brilliantly blue,
That sparkling, twinkling, cerulean hue.
It filled my mind, my purblind sight;
I saw it, felt it, every night...
But my eyes opened and light streamed in;
My sunshine gone until night again.
Lately though, it won't rise for me,
My dreams give way to reverie.
It's gone now, nevermore to be,
So live on, dear, in poetry.

Now the sun, dark, flows down the world,
Beams of red bend and curl.
Up the valleys, down from the ground,
That sparkling, twinkling, shimmering brown.
It fills my mind, my purblind sight;
I see it, feel it, every night...
But my eyes open as light streams in;
My sunshine gone with the night again.
And no more will the sun rise for me,
My dreams are sickened heresy.
It's gone now, no more warmth to be,
Left only with cold idolatry.

Written by [Mortified Penguin]

Continual Renewal

The flowers unfurl their petals
fresh as young women in their spring dresses
the birds chirp bouncing from flowery branch to budding tree
the leaves unfold waxy and new in the warming breeze

This is a beginning that happens every year
and yet each year is new
it is a promise we all hope to see fulfilled
by the sight of the robin
home from a long journey south

Each new blossom tells my heart
that I can be created anew after trouble
after short, cold, dark days
bare and empty like the winter trees
there is a way to grow back again

Though the world is so old
Still it dresses each year for spring
Healing is in my spirit's design
a pattern written in its core
I breathe deep of the wild scent of the heady rose
and hope

Written by [daydreamer]

Living The Dream

"How are you?"

Oh...

[There were once words of worth to write but where they went only the road weary and weather worn will reckon, beckoning as they do with silence pained enough to ignore. With sword of Sharpie and shield of cardboard the unwanted, unfortunate, unloved take to corners for loose change, standing their respective vigils for their respective dreams as blind eyes burn holes everywhere.

Everywhere save them.

...

I long to die. Physical pulling want. Once sweet kisses, now cessation, stir my remaining butterflies. Alas I am lashed to this life as a rider fallen from his horse in all respects save his ankle so as to be dragged against stick and stone until all life leaves or some miracle frees him of his shackle. As am I in my arrow of time, scraping this flesh marionette against the concrete ground until one succeeds the other.]

... living the dream: one day at a time. Yourself?

Written by [Company Awesome]

Help me

I am inconsolable.
I feel beyond repair.
Everyday, decaying spiritual leprosy.
If there is hope, it is larger than life.
If there is, it is bigger than I.
What will become of me.
You might find me in my epitaph.

Written by
[Erin go Bragh]

(im)Personal

Yes I'll throw away my friendships.
I'll throw away my past.
I'll spend my days in trances
Staring into crystal plasma glass.

In some dreams I'm flying;
In others I fall into the grass.
Sometimes I lose my teeth
Or my lungs turn into ash.

As I near the end of summer
My toes will itch for home.
My mind will grope my heart
For even a glimmer of backbone.

I can't say what I'm thinking
Because I still don't know where it is
That tongues can meet on civil streets
Just to share their bliss.

I am sorry when I wake you.
I am sorry when I don't.
I'm not trying to say sorry
I'm just pointing out my moat.

I have three hands for anchors
When I'm trying hard to float.
I wish someone would kiss me
And lead me to their boat.

written by [pelv13]

Chthonic Shore
He comes on the wind, day or night
To embrace you, blood and dark,
With all love, joy, sly and might
For all kin who speak and hark
The will and wants of chaos.
A perfect cloudless night sky
A pound of flesh and seance,
Then whispers of the wicked cry.
Daylight smolders and brings down
The fates wished upon others.
Saved not by a scarf nor crown
Upon your head, nor brothers
Who share your blood or pay more...
All float to the Chthonic shore....

written by [wicked fae mage]

Ode to ET

Hello again, old friend - old friends,
Still a quiet delight to find
We can reach into each others' minds.
And though they be not young, not new,
Neither have they aged between
Lines of code and poetry.

Ode to Elftown, where spirits began
To crawl from flesh and ink and pen
Across the wild internet - and then
To home to rest again.

Old friend - old friends - I dream of thee,
I sleep and find rest fitfully,
Green screen of vine and text and leaves,
Upon it left our memories
To be collected digitally

Here, somewhere, the sun is setting
Here, someone finds peace in resting
Here, we grieve, we love, hate, create
Ode to Elftown, our dear friend and friends,
Ode to Elfwood, none to ends,
Here, our fate, cacophony silence,
Against the grain of social violence

Here, we gather, here we stay,
Between the trees and Wikipage,
In inboxes and comment sections,
In forum:junk for useless digression,
And of course not to forget, endless wiki invitations
From our heathen Mort the Penguin

written by [Rainbow Dragonflies]

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2006-05-25 [The real life Bella Swan]: [Blakkduv] just bold your title and you'll be golden

2006-05-25 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [KnightAngel], you've been given more than enough lattitude with your rant. Kindly cease or move it to a more appropriate wiki like Official Chat so that we can continue the real business of this page: poetry. Thanks.

2006-05-25 [Jay Ladlehaus]: This matter is closed. Future comments on it will be deleted.

2006-05-25 [Blakkduv]: ok thanks

2006-05-25 [Blakkduv]: i'm sry this is my first daily poem entry. please forgive my ignorence of the way to post it.

2006-05-25 [Jay Ladlehaus]: No problem, thank you for correcting it.

2006-05-25 [someelf]: Is it really spelled 'as well' I always spelled it together o_O Mehh I corrected it. I don't know about the first one =/

2006-05-25 [Linderel]: Yes, it is spelled 'as well'. Really. 'Why was this creature, so pure and white/Fallen down from such height?' <- this part seemed a bit strange to me, but then again, my English isn't perfect either... As for the first line, I would try to help, but I'm not exactly sure what you want to say. But I do know that 'drawling' isn't the right word... it's a manner of speech.

2006-05-25 [sequeena_rae]: "From such a height" I think it should be :)

2006-05-25 [Linderel]: Not only that. The combination of 'was' and 'fallen' somehow seems a bit off. I think it should be 'has'.

2006-05-25 [sequeena_rae]: Oh yes *nods* has...Drawling...That's more for when you speak isn't it? "she drawled..." Yeah o.O

2006-05-25 [Linderel]: Like I said, a manner of speech. Or... well, verb. Whatever. (Whoever said that I'm out of it lately? <_<)

2006-05-25 [sequeena_rae]: Blah, sorry, my eyes aren't working today XD

2006-05-25 [Zab]: Wouldn't.. err.. no idea how t is spelled.. ''swirling around" be better in that poem? Or is that just something I just made up? O_o

2006-05-25 [sequeena_rae]: No, swirling is a word xP

2006-05-25 [Zab]: ..but not the one I'm thinking of? >_o

2006-05-25 [sequeena_rae]: No, I think it would fit :)

2006-05-25 [Zab]: Yaaay! *does happy dance* Oh.. right.. no chatting here, I'll shut up untill I got something better to say. Thanks Squeena :P

2006-05-25 [Linderel]: But it's for the poet, [someelf] to decide. I think we should stop cluttering the page for now, and if they ask for help, only then continue. :)

2006-05-26 [The real life Bella Swan]: Just one note. [someelf] could always change was to has, that sounds a bit more agreeing . . .

2006-05-26 [LittleEmoGirl]: yea i agree with [The real life Bella Swan]

2006-05-26 [~Lady Morgana~]: Sorry my poem sucked. I removed it.

2006-05-27 [Linderel]: Okay. o.O Well, your decision.

2006-05-27 [someelf]: I guess I could =/ *Blinks* I feel that I should but also shouldn't >_< o.o'

2006-05-27 [someelf]: I've updated it.

2006-05-29 [Blasphemy]: Linderel, you are on here too?

2006-05-29 [Linderel]: *giggles* I'm one of the Bosses. ;)

2006-06-09 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [-dot-], fix the format of your namesake poem or it will be removed.

2006-06-10 [Linderel]: Good news for everyone, in case you didn't notice... The line limit has been upped to 50, so even though the XXL page didn't get opened after all, you have a bigger chance of posting longer poems. :)

2006-06-10 [someelf]: Yay!

2006-06-10 [The real life Bella Swan]: Yay! This makes me happy! *dances*

2006-06-11 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [-dot-], your poem was removed for format errors. Please review the Daily Poem Format before resubmitting.

2006-06-11 [Diiwica]: hmm, that could make for interseting tings. Fun but interesting

2006-06-11 [Blasphemy]: *gulp* I don't think I even have a poem that goes to 50 lines

2006-06-11 [Diiwica]: I have had a good many that reach that and go beyond that.

2006-06-11 [The real life Bella Swan]: Me too!

2006-06-11 [DeadSockMonster]: Yeah I have a reeeally long poem too, about 6 typed pages. I guess that would be more than 50 lines though ^^ THANK YOU SO MUCH Linderel!

2006-06-11 [Linderel]: Thank [True, plain and simple]. :) He was the one who decided to raise the limit - I'm just the messenger. (Though I did poke at him about it many times.)

2006-06-11 [Nite_Owl]: *sigh* when I right an XXL poem, it really is extra-long heh I don't think the ones I wanted to post fit still....hmm....

2006-06-11 [Linderel]: Can't have everything I suppose. True said that if fifty lines isn't enough, you can always go find a contest. I think I actually might host one after I get the current contest in voting over with. Of course, I'll only do it if there are enough people interested. But I'm getting off-topic here. Poke at me with a message or something if you want to have your say on the matter. :P

2006-06-11 [*--KeeZ--*]: hey

2006-06-11 [RiddleRose]: nice! now i can put in more of mine!

2006-06-11 [DeadSockMonster]: Linderel I'm interested ^^ Maybe with XXL poems, we can just use excerpts from it, post the whole poem on a separate wiki-page, and link to it or something.

2006-06-12 [Linderel]: [DeadSockMonster], and everyone else here that might be interested, as I said, let's move the contest matter into messages, because it's kind of off-topic.

2006-06-12 [Blasphemy]: why is it that I know like half the people that message here lol, ok anyway to help out Lin and to get back on this wiki's point and topic I did have a question about the process of this wiki, do poems just stay on here indefinetly or something until chosen?

2006-06-12 [Linderel]: [Blasphemy]: As it says right there on the top of the page *points up* the submissions are moved into a queue, we scrap some that don't fit the quality criteria that have somehow managed to slip through, and then from the queue we select semi-randomly which poem to feature. So, they don't sit here indefinitely; they sit indefinitely in the queue until featured. :P

2006-06-12 [Blasphemy]: oh ok, thank you for clarifing, I have read the top before but I did not know what it meant

2006-06-12 [Linderel]: You are welcome. :)

2006-06-14 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Almond Eyes], please fix your submission or it will be removed.

2006-06-14 [Linderel]: [Lily~], please fix the format of your entry or it will be removed.

2006-06-14 [Lily~]: did I fix it? This is my first time doing this...

2006-06-14 [Linderel]: Err, no. Look at the other entries. Or better yet, look at the Daily Poem Format, which your poem should follow to the letter.

2006-06-15 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Subject37], please fix the format of your entry or it will be removed.

2006-06-15 [Lily~]: #.#< I'm sorry. I really don't know what is missing! I looked and I didn't see what was wrong. I'm sorry.

2006-06-15 [Nite_Owl]: Well, you must have done something because it looks fine now :)

2006-06-15 [Linderel]: Actually, [Lily~], someone fixed it for you. :)

2006-06-15 [Linderel]: Oh yeah, regarding that... If you do fix someone's format, any of you, I would prefer you left a note in the comments saying what you did. Less confusion that way, and less confusion equals less work for us. ^.~

2006-06-15 [Magic is in a Sunrise]: this page says 50 lines... but the format thing says 35... which one?

2006-06-15 [True, plain and simple]: The format says 50 too. The example poem was just not changed, and still says 35. If you read the rest of the page it mentions 50 lines.

2006-06-15 [Magic is in a Sunrise]: ok thanx... just curious cuz it contradicts itsef on both pages and i was like ummmm... lol

2006-06-15 [Lily~]: Thank you! The person who helped me messaged me.

2006-06-18 [Ghost Lilly]: Do I submit my pome on this page, becuse it says at the top its full and to go to the other page, but when I go there, there isnt a edit button?

2006-06-18 [Linderel]: [Ghost Lilly], yes, you submit on this page. Make sure to follow the rules and the format. That text up there says "If this page is full..."

2006-06-18 [Ghost Lilly]: lol, how foolish of me. I totaly missed the if part. ^-^;

2006-06-19 [Nite_Owl]: Hmmm....I'm wondering if I've already posted one of my poems up here, because it's only 33 lines so I might have posted it before...is there a way to check?

2006-06-19 [Diiwica]: Look at older pages, just click the button that says pervious version on the wiki title box

2006-06-19 [Nite_Owl]: Well, yes I know that much, but I might have posted it a long time ago. I'd have to go through almost a year of page versions.....maybe I'll just repost it

2006-06-19 [Nite_Owl]: Ah, nevermind, I remember now. It was the very first one posted after the DP moved :) I got it.

2006-06-19 [Linderel]: [Oddjob], please fix the format of your entries or they will be removed.

2006-06-19 [Linderel]: [Nezeb], watch the format.

2006-06-19 [Nezeb]: Sorry.

2006-06-19 [Nezeb]: I followed it. What is my mistake?

2006-06-19 [Linderel]: A period behind your username. It doesn't belong there. :)

2006-06-19 [Nezeb]: Oh. I didn't even notice that there. Thanks.

2006-06-19 [Oddjob]: what did I do wrong?

2006-06-19 [Linderel]: Look at the Daily Poem Format. You need to follow that to the letter. Without any extra.

2006-06-19 [Moonshdow13]: "who has realised she writes too much poetry sometimes...¬_¬" I think it might be that bit.

2006-06-19 [Oddjob]: that any better, I've just noticed my italics as well do you want them gone too?

2006-06-19 [Moonshdow13]: Im not sure Im not a guard person i was just trying to help. You need to add another ] after your name cause its gone pink. Pinkness :P

2006-06-19 [Oddjob]: Thanks for helping and stuff ^^ I'll jsut wait to see if that's okay

2006-06-19 [Moonshdow13]: Its kool :)

2006-06-19 [Linderel]: Italics are okay. But did you read the format? I recommend you really do that. But here, I'll tell you. It needs to be 'Written by [yourusername]'. Nothing else. Note the capital letter at the start.

2006-06-20 [Nite_Owl]: [Chetleon], I've fixed you poem for you--you didn't finish the bold tag (there needed to be a / there) and there was a <hr*> tag where it shouldn't have been. Not much of a problem though, so no worries :)

2006-06-20 [Viperess]: I hope I posted those right. Have not tried doing that before.

2006-06-20 [Linderel]: [Viperess], no problem, they're fine. :)

2006-06-20 [Viperess]: Thanks :)

2006-06-20 [DeadSockMonster]: [CrimsonDarkness] I fixed a missing space in your poem ^_^

2006-06-21 [Linderel]: [Viperess], this time there was a little mistake. Please fix the format or I'll have to remove your latest entry.

2006-06-21 [Viperess]: Did I get what you meant fixed? If not please let me know what I need to fix.

2006-06-21 [Nite_Owl]: Looks good to me

2006-06-21 [Linderel]: Yup, it's fine now.

2006-06-21 [Viperess]: ^_^ Thanks..To many hours up writing leads to crossed eyes >.<

2006-06-25 [Linderel]: [GoneGone], please fix the format of your entries or I will have to remove them.

2006-06-25 [DeadSockMonster]: If the semicolons were the problem, I just edited them out ^_^ I hope it's fine now.

2006-06-25 [Linderel]: Yup, the light is green.

2006-06-26 [GoneGone]: Forgive me, I am not computer literate, and I'm not exactly sure how they have been improperly formatted. I will fix them immediately upon knowing what exactly is wrong.....I have copied the instructions, and they look no different from the other poems....

2006-06-26 [Linderel]: They were fixed for you, so there's no need to worry anymore. You just had colons after 'Written by' and that was improper format.

2006-06-27 [GoneGone]: eek! oops...I'll remember for next time. Thank you.

2006-06-28 [Rambert]: I haven't posted on here in a long time... I hope the format's okay.

2006-06-28 [Nite_Owl]: Looks alright :)

2006-06-28 [Linderel]: [Rambert]: Your format is fine. The one before you, however... [EmeraldGrizzly], please fix your format and the grammar error you have in your entry or I will have to remove it from the submissions.

2006-06-29 [Linderel]: [jonayla88]: Please fix the format of your entry or it will be removed.

2006-06-29 [EmeraldGrizzly]: Ok, my computer (and none of the programs) have spell check, so i did the best i could. If there is still a problem could you please tell me the error.

2006-06-29 [dayah]: you had a ( : ) before your name which I belives they don't want there, and I fixed your whats into what's but other than that, it looks fine.

2006-06-29 [Linderel]: Yea, it's fine now, thanks.

2006-06-29 [EmeraldGrizzly]: Thank you much you two, it's so much of a pain to only have wordpad on here.

2006-06-29 [addicted to the drug of lust]: ok can someone tell me if my poem got deleted and if so y?

2006-06-29 [Linderel]: [addicted to the drug of lust]: Since there has been no note made in the violation sheet, your poem most likely was transferred to the feature queue and later deleted because of a format error/poor grammar/too many spelling errors.

2006-06-29 [addicted to the drug of lust]: i had it on here for months and i had everything up to standard so idk

2006-06-29 [Linderel]: Sometimes, we miss things. We're only human, after all. Anyway, you can always submit it again.

2006-06-30 [Viperess]: once you meet the 4 only rule can you go in and change them out so thre is only 4 poems up?

2006-06-30 [True, plain and simple]: Yes.

2006-06-30 [Viperess]: Thank you ^_^

2006-06-30 [Linderel]: [Captain Rachel Black], please fix the format of your entry or it will be removed.

2006-06-30 [Captain Rachel Black]: what did I do wrong?

2006-06-30 [Jay Ladlehaus]: You need to capitalize "written" and lose the dash between "by" and your name. Actually now that I'm looking, [jonayla88], please capitalize "written" in your submission.

2006-06-30 [Captain Rachel Black]: Thanks!

2006-06-30 [Jay Ladlehaus]: No prob

2006-06-30 [Jay Ladlehaus]: errr...[Captain Rachel Black], you fixed one problem and created another. You need to bold the title and lose a space between the end of your poem and your by-line.

2006-06-30 [True, plain and simple]: To [jonayla88] - Your poem has been removed for not following the Daily Poem Format. Review the format before considering resubmitting. You were warned yesterday by [Linderel].

2006-06-30 [True, plain and simple]: To [Captain Rachel Black] - I removed your extra spaces (and everyone elses), but you still need to fix other formatting errors (previously mentioned) or your poem will be removed.

2006-07-01 [Captain Rachel Black]: ok sorry I logged off

2006-07-02 [Linderel]: [Fetish Dolly Koneko™]: Two of your entries are of improper format. The other also has a quite glaring typo. Please fix them, or they will be removed.

2006-07-02 [Fetish Dolly Koneko™]: any better? -__-;;

2006-07-02 [Linderel]: Get rid of the colon in your second entry and you'll be fine. I mean, after the 'Written by'.

2006-07-02 [Asalli_Angel]: -_- I am worried that the B in by is capatilized in my poem and it will be removed, but I cannot change it as I have changed other errors already...

2006-07-02 [Linderel]: Uh? You can change it. You can keep fixing your errors, either they be pointed out to you or you notice them yourself. Now go fix it before it gets removed. :P

2006-07-02 [Asalli_Angel]: Thanx~

2006-07-03 [Rambert]: Question: Are we allowed to use either bold, italics, underline or capitals? I don't see anyone else using them, and wanted to make sure before posting.

2006-07-03 [Linderel]: Italics, at least, are fine. I don't particularly see anything wrong with the others, either. Just use them in moderation.

2006-07-03 [Rambert]: Ok, thanks :D

2006-07-03 [Rambert]: Sorry if my poem is in the improper format, but I will not be back until tomorrow. If it has to be deleted I don't mind.

2006-07-03 [Linderel]: No worries, your format is fine. I'd prefer you used the Enter button a bit more in the formatting of the actual poem - in thinking of the Mainstreet, mainly.

2006-07-03 [Viperess]: I hope I did that right. I added one poem and took on off so there are still only four of mine up.

2006-07-03 [Linderel]: Bold the title, bold the title!

2006-07-03 [Captain Rachel Black]: we can put more than one up?

2006-07-03 [Linderel]: Like it says at the top *points up* you can have four submissions at a time on this page.

2006-07-03 [Captain Rachel Black]: erk! Must have missed that, oh well

2006-07-03 [Viperess]: Opps sorry, going to bold now.

2006-07-04 [Rambert]: Ok, I made the lines shorter... lol and made about twice as many of them XD but if my counting is correct, it's still under fifty.

2006-07-04 [Linderel]: *nod* Looks fine.

2006-07-10 [Morningstar Rising]: I put up 4 poems, one right after the other, I hope that is okay.

2006-07-11 [inazuma]: Threw mine up, hope the format's right. :)

2006-07-11 [Rambert]: [inazuma]: I just deleted a space for you, but I think you're fine other than that.

2006-07-11 [Rambert]: Do I need to capitalize all the words in my title?

2006-07-12 [Linderel]: [Dil*]: Please fix the format of your entry or it will be removed. [Rambert]: Not necessary. As long as the title is bolded, you can type it however you want.

2006-07-12 [Rambert]: Ok, sweet.

2006-07-13 [Dil*]: Uhm, I can't see what's wrong with my format.. I checked twice.

2006-07-13 [Diiwica]: Oh yeah srry about that.... I was reading over things and fixed it Dil...

2006-07-13 [Linderel]: I repeat what I said some time ago: If you fix something, please say so in the comments right after doing it to avoid confusion. :P

2006-07-15 [Linderel]: [Nikkin]: You posted the same poem twice, please either remove one of the two copies, or replace it with something else.

2006-07-15 [Dil*]: I didn't fix anything... Unless you somehow saw my poem in the miraculous gap of 1 minute while I posted it in two edits.

2006-07-15 [Linderel]: Gah. [Dil*], that comment was meant for anyone who might fix someone else's format or spelling errors, etc. And as [Diiwica] said, s/he fixed your format.

2006-07-16 [Linderel]: Please please please people, if you do anything to a submission that is not yours, say about it in the comments! >_<

2006-07-26 [Grandamelf]: Call me stupid, but where do I submit a poem, Help?

2006-07-26 [Silver Phantoms]: if you go up above the comment box you can edit the page and submit your poem to the bottom of the page.

2006-07-26 [Grandamelf]: Thank you Shadow Hawk, but page was too full so I will try again later.

2006-07-26 [Silver Phantoms]: You can still add, You'll just get the message that the page is too full but it is still possible to add to it.

2006-07-26 [Dil*]: gah....I get it now.

2006-07-26 [Linderel]: [{*Suna's Kazekage*} Gaara]: Please fix the format of your entry or it will be removed.

2006-07-26 [{*Suna's Kazekage*} Gaara]: What is wrong with it?

2006-07-26 [Linderel]: Before I tell you, take a close look at how the other entries on the page are formatted and try to figure it out yourself. Hint: it's at the bottom of your entry. Oh, and if you could fix the typos, too, it would be nicer to look at. :)

2006-07-26 [{*Suna's Kazekage*} Gaara]: Is that better?

2006-07-26 [Linderel]: Quite so, thank you. The typos are still there, though. :P (Two missing apostrophes and 'she' probably should be 'see'.)

2006-07-26 [{*Suna's Kazekage*} Gaara]: I'm really not having a good day... and now I cant type... great... I fixed it.

2006-07-26 [Linderel]: Everyone has those days, I guess...

2006-07-26 [{*Suna's Kazekage*} Gaara]: Yeah... I guess they do.

2006-07-27 [Linderel]: [Xx sαяαн-ιоυιѕε мαч..x]: Please fix the format of your entry or it will be removed.

2006-07-28 [Dark Side of the Moon]: I added a "d" to the word "friend" in the title of [Alleria]'s poem. I also fixed the format for [Xx sαяαн-ιоυιѕε мαч..x]'s poem. I don't know about the capitalizations in that piece so I left them alone.

2006-07-28 [Moving on in Life]: IS this where I post up a poem that might possibly get put up on mainstreet?

2006-07-28 [EmeraldGrizzly]: Yep, jus' follow the same format as the rest of us and you in the running :)

2006-07-28 [Moving on in Life]: Alright, thanks :)

2006-07-28 [Moving on in Life]: Alrighty, got it up!

2006-07-28 [Linderel]: [Moving on in Life]: You'll need to fix your format, I'm afraid, or your entry will be removed. In case you might wonder what your errors are, I'll give you hints: something needs to be done to the title, and then there's something that doesn't belong in the poem itself. Anything that doesn't belong in the poem must be taken off. Oh, and I'd appreciate if you didn't use all that much Enter. ;)

2006-07-28 [Moving on in Life]: Ok, I understand the last parts, but what needs to be done with the title?

2006-07-28 [Linderel]: You'd probably figure it out by yourself if you looked at the other entries a bit more carefully... But, alright. It should be bolded.

2006-07-28 [Moving on in Life]: Ok. Thanks.

2006-07-28 [Moving on in Life]: Alright, I got it fixed. Thanks for lettin me know :)

2006-07-28 [Linderel]: *nod* Yup, looks good. And no problem.

2006-07-28 [Xx sαяαн-ιоυιѕε мαч..x]: Whats wrong with my format?

2006-07-28 [Linderel]: [Xx sαяαн-ιоυιѕε мαч..x], if you would read the comments, you would see that it was already fixed for you.

2006-07-28 [Xx sαяαн-ιоυιѕε мαч..x]: I have read the comments, but I would like to know what I did wrong

2006-07-28 [Linderel]: Then stop confusing a poor, tired Boss and use the correct tense! :P Anyways... You had the 'Written by' thing all wrong, and you also lacked some spaces. Of course, you could have gone through the previous versions to try and find out your mistakes for yourself...

2006-07-28 [Xx sαяαн-ιоυιѕε мαч..x]: Ok I'm sorry! Won't happen again

2006-07-28 [Linderel]: Sorry, didn't mean to sound snappy or anything. Heh, well, as long as you correct your possible mistakes, or at least are aware of them in case someone corrects them for you, all is well.

2006-07-28 [Xx sαяαн-ιоυιѕε мαч..x]: Nah you didn't sound snappy :) It's nice to see that people still care about presentation and stuff :)

2006-07-28 [Moving on in Life]: Indeed

2006-07-30 [Moving on in Life]: So, will you notify us if our poem made it up on Mainstreet? :D

2006-07-30 [Mödi]: They usually do. You get a comment in your guestbook.

2006-07-30 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Mödi] - please fix the format on all three of your submissions or they will be removed.

2006-07-30 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [rozethourne] - please fix the format of your poem or it will be removed.

2006-07-30 [Moving on in Life]: okay! Thanks

2006-07-31 [Black Rat 1214]: wahey! my first poem's up!

2006-07-31 [Linderel]: [Black Rat 1214]: Otherwise, all well and good, but the formatting of your entry makes it more prose than poetry. We don't accept prose poetry. Why? Well, for instance, it would mess up the frontpage.

2006-07-31 [Black Rat 1214]: Ah, well, that's how i write my stuff. Is there anyway i can change it?

2006-07-31 [Linderel]: Yes, you can change it. I'd recommend that, otherwise it gets removed by one of the Bosses. The simplest solution, if you still wish your work to be featured, is just using a bit more Enter. :)

2006-08-01 [Black Rat 1214]: Hmmm, i've had a look at it myself and it doesn't seem to flow properly. I'll change it anyway.

2006-08-01 [Black Rat 1214]: Ok, i've changed it, let me know what you think or should i just take it down completely?

2006-08-01 [Linderel]: Sorry, still too many long lines... :/ If you could get all the verses to look approximately the same as the first and the fourth verse, line length -vise, it'd be good.

2006-08-01 [Black Rat 1214]: I'll just delete it and try and come up with something new.