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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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2006-04-18 [Linderel]: [Vameyre]: Please fix your format within a day or your entry will be removed.

2006-04-18 [Linderel]: And [Chrilith of Akhai], I guess it can be allowed. ;) Our pleasure.

2006-04-19 [Vameyre]: Um, may I ask what needs to be fixed?

2006-04-19 [Linderel]: You may, though we prefer you find your own mistakes. You have something extra that does not belong to the format.

2006-04-19 [Vameyre]: I'm sorry I seem to be so dim... Did I fix it?

2006-04-19 [Pillowthief]: Looks alright to me, which leads me to my question. Why so strict on the format? I understand about the spelling and trying to keep them poems orderly, but it may be alittle much... Am I missing something?

2006-04-19 [Linderel]: It's fixed. As for why we're so strict... Perhaps we are just a couple of mean bastards. But personally, my reasoning would be the neatness of appearance. It looks nicer on the Mainstreet if the format is uniform, even though the content is always different. Hmm, that doesn't really answer the question on why so strict, does it? Well, there are very few rules when you think about it, and we want people to go by them, since it's really not that hard - especially since we're providing a copy+paste format. It's just a question of being able to follow simple guidelines. Who knows, maybe I'll get disliked for saying this. Anyway, that's how it is. But [True, plain and simple] and >

2006-04-19 [Linderel]: [Jay Ladlehaus] may express their own opinions on this; I won't speak for them.

2006-04-19 [Vameyre]: Well, I'll remember the lack-of-colon rule for future reference, thank-you ^_^

2006-04-19 [Linderel]: Hehe. You're welcome. :P

2006-04-19 [True, plain and simple]: The strict formatting policy has to do with the appearance on Mainstreet, as [Linderel] said. While we could fix those errors ourselves, the entire point of having the format is to discourage people who are lazy and careless from mustering up the effort required to get their poem into the queue for Mainstreet, thus leaving us with a smaller group of poems written by people who take more pride in their work (which tends to produce a better quality piece). Simply put, it's a quality and population control mechanism that makes our job easier (in the long run)... :P

2006-04-19 [Pillowthief]: But unfortunately creates the illusion that you're all being mean and unnecessarily strict. I understand about neatness though, I myself get stuck on spelling; If I could, I would reach through the computer and slap half of the people on ET with dictionaries. Thank you for answering my question, both of you, I will be less judgemental in the future :P

2006-04-19 [Keseken]: Is one notified if their poem is put up on mainstreet?

2006-04-19 [Nite_Owl]: Yes, it'll be in your guestbook if you're chosen :)

2006-04-19 [Keseken]: Okie-day. ^_^ Thank you

2006-04-21 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Akayume], please fix your submissions with the appropriate horizontal breaks. Thank you.

2006-04-21 [OvisNigra]: i must be like the biggest dumb@ss but how do i post a poem? i can't find the actual box or whatever it is where you post it

2006-04-21 [Chrilith of Akhai]: Use the button "Edit this page" just above the comments. There you can see the page and edit it (thereby posting your poem)

2006-04-21 [Nite_Owl]: [Akayume] and [Elmiira], you need to fix your formatting on the "Written by" part--particularly [Akayume]--or they'll all be removed

2006-04-22 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Elmiira], please fix the aforemention "Written by" and also your title.

2006-04-22 [Knivez]: how do u submit poems on here?

2006-04-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Knivez] - read the Daily Poem Format. [shorty_babe], fix your submission or it will be removed.

2006-04-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Elmiira], your poem was removed for submission and grammatical errors. Please review the Daily Poem Format before submitting again.

2006-04-23 [Keseken]: *points* Your thingy is wrong. Please Removed the Daily poem ect.. ?

2006-04-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: good looking out, thanks

2006-04-24 [Linderel]: [Drowning In A Daydream], please fix your format within a day or your entry will be removed.

2006-04-24 [Drowning In A Daydream]: how do you want it fixed?

2006-04-24 [Linderel]: It's the infamous "Written by" part again. Oh! And you also have a grammar mistake there. A serious one. It's a capital 'I', not a small ('i') one.

2006-04-24 [Drowning In A Daydream]: huh?

2006-04-24 [Linderel]: You wrote "Written by" wrong. First word of that phrase starts with a capital letter, the second with a small letter. "Written by". Not "Written By" or "written by" or "Written By:" or any other variation thereof. "Written by".

2006-04-24 [Akayume]: then shouldn't [™+.fataly . gorgeous.+]'s poem also be warned? (for the "written by" thing)

2006-04-24 [Jay Ladlehaus]: Written by [™+.fataly . gorgeous.+] - why?

2006-04-24 [Jay Ladlehaus]: Perhaps you meant [shorty_babe]...[shorty_babe], please fix "Poppy upon my grave."

2006-04-24 [Linderel]: I guess [Akayume] was confused by my attempts at explaining.

2006-04-24 [Drowning In A Daydream]: are you happy now?

2006-04-24 [Akayume]: becuase that person's is the exact same as [Drowning In A Daydream]'s.

2006-04-24 [Linderel]: [Drowning In A Daydream], no, we're not happy. You still have that grammatical mistake in your poem.

2006-04-24 [Drowning In A Daydream]: what now?

2006-04-24 [Akayume]: ah I see now. I didn't see the last part *blushes* sorry.

2006-04-24 [Linderel]: As said in a previous comment, the personal pronoun for the first person is to be written as a capital 'i', and not a small one.

2006-04-24 [Drowning In A Daydream]: there "I" changed it

2006-04-24 [Linderel]: Why thank you. There's still one left. But anyways... We never claimed to be anything other than strict, quite the contrary, we openly admit to it, and in addition to the format, this is one of the things we are strict on.

2006-04-24 [Drowning In A Daydream]: what's the other thing so I won't feel stressed about it?

2006-04-24 [Linderel]: Well, okay, I guess it's mostly grammar and spelling and the format we're strict on, and on the case of the two first ones, we nag about really bad mistakes.

2006-04-24 [Drowning In A Daydream]: Oh okay, that's understandable...

2006-04-25 [Jay Ladlehaus]: To fully answer your question, though: "and watch when you look into my eyes i'm about to cry."

2006-04-25 [dayah]: can we put more than one poem up...sorry to tired to look through it all again..

2006-04-25 [Jay Ladlehaus]: You may put up to four poems up.

2006-04-25 [dayah]: thank you...soory to be lazy

2006-04-25 [Jay Ladlehaus]: It's not a question of laziness. You would have expended less effort reading the top of the page instead of going to the bottom here and typing. Oh well :/

2006-04-25 [OvisNigra]: I don't get it...where's the spot at the bottom of the page for submitting poems?...

2006-04-25 [Nite_Owl]: Just press the "Edit Page" button just above the comments section to post your poem--just be sure to follow the format correctly :)

2006-04-25 [Drowning In A Daydream]: yeah because you'll get told what to change

2006-04-27 [Linderel]: [Diiwica], please fix your format within a day or your entry will be removed.

2006-04-27 [Diiwica]: Is that any better?

2006-04-27 [Nite_Owl]: Yes, very good; it's nice to have someone listen to the warnings for once :)

2006-04-27 [Diiwica]: I try to do my best to... though sometimes that doesnt always work

2006-04-27 [Drowning In A Daydream]: yah I know but it's worth changing it in the end.

2006-04-30 [Cliché]: Hey, I have a question. Is there a limit to the number of poems one can have featured?

2006-04-30 [Blaithin]: As it says at the top of the page Submissions per person must not exceed four (4) at any given time. :)

2006-04-30 [Cliché]: Not how many submissions, how many times one can be on the main page.

2006-04-30 [True, plain and simple]: There isn't.

2006-04-30 [Cliché]: Okay, thanks. I was just noticing no one seemed to get over 4.

2006-04-30 [True, plain and simple]: Eh? There are a few people with 10 on Master Poets.

2006-04-30 [Cliché]: Oh, nevermind then. I was probably just being oblivious.

2006-04-30 [True, plain and simple]: There are badges for up to 35+ poems, I think. But no one has reached that point yet.

2006-04-30 [Cliché]: Wow...that's impressive.

2006-04-30 [Nite_Owl]: Yeah; someday I hope to get over ten or maybe even fifteen on Mainstreet :D Right now I have five, which is good enough, to me, anyways, heh. Is there a badge higher than Master Poet? I don't know if I've seen it...

2006-04-30 [True, plain and simple]: Grandmaster Poets

2006-04-30 [Silver Phantoms]: Someday I want to get my poems featured on mainstreet, they are pretty good, really intense but I also don't have the patience to enter them.

2006-04-30 [haldirrox]: hi!

2006-04-30 [Moonshdow13]: How long do these poems stay here until there taken down?

2006-05-01 [DeadSockMonster]: I was wondering that myself, Moonshdow13 ^^ I dunno...

2006-05-01 [The real life Bella Swan]: Usually a few months or a month or . . .something like that

2006-05-01 [Moonshdow13]: kool

2006-05-01 [Linderel]: They stay here until one of us feels like transferring them, sometimes a bit at a time, to the feature queue. There is no real standard by which to do this.

2006-05-01 [Moonshdow13]: does everyones peo go on the main street then or just random ones?

2006-05-01 [Linderel]: All the poems that meet our standards will end up on the Mainstreet - eventually. But we choose pretty randomly; whatever catches our eye at the time.

2006-05-01 [Moonshdow13]: thats kool. Its the first time I have put up a poem so I wasn't quite sure. Thanks anyways.

2006-05-02 [Blakkduv]: i love submitting. its fun...... i don't care for the badges as mutch as the story or lesson behind the poems. My compliments to all of you who have the guts to show your talent here ^.^

2006-05-02 [Nite_Owl]: Will there ever be a page for the longer poems, or can I simply consider it no longer existent?

2006-05-02 [Linderel]: [Blakkduv]: That's very nice, what you say, but you should still follow the format. Fix it within a day, or your entry will be removed.

2006-05-02 [Linderel]: As for the page for longer poems... I shall poke at True (again) the next time I see him.

2006-05-03 [Silver Phantoms]: Finally wrote some more poems, and posted them, amazing!

2006-05-03 [Linderel]: [Blakkduv]: Your entry has been removed due to violating the Daily Poem Format. Please take a careful look at it before resubmitting.

2006-05-05 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Doso], please fix the format errors in your poem or it will be removed.

2006-05-06 [Doso]: what are they ??

2006-05-06 [Akayume]: true is spelt wrong in the third line, uh, the next group has alot of mistakes....

2006-05-06 [Doso]: ok forget it...take it down i will re wright it

2006-05-06 [Linderel]: You could also take it down yourself. If a Boss removes it, a violation will be recorded.

2006-05-06 [Linderel]: [Diiwica], you have a pretty nasty grammatical error in your submission. Please fix it, or it will be removed. (Three small 'i's when it should be a capital one.)

2006-05-06 [OvisNigra]: but i still don't get how to put a poem up in the first place...due to the fact i just joined elftown...i had an account before but forgot everything and now no-one will help me

2006-05-06 [Linderel]: It's explained pretty thoroughly on the Daily Poem Format page. Just read that carefully and you should be able to submit.

2006-05-06 [Doso]: ok i took it down...

2006-05-07 [Diiwica]: Sorry about that,

2006-05-08 [Linderel]: [RiddleRose], please fix your format or your entry will face removal.

2006-05-09 [RiddleRose]: what did i mess up?

2006-05-09 [Nite_Owl]: [Sheshe], you should review the format and repost your two poems or the Bosses will remove them.

2006-05-09 [Linderel]: [RiddleRose], seems like you figured it out yourself. :) Now it's good.

2006-05-09 [Sheshe]: o0o, Ok whats up with them though?

2006-05-09 [Linderel]: I'll repeat what [Nite_Owl] said: Review the Daily Poem Format. You should be able to figure out what's wrong with your submissions yourself.

2006-05-09 [Sheshe]: Hmmm I fixed it I hope heh

2006-05-09 [Linderel]: Nope, still wrong. The trick is to read the format carefully, since it is to be obeyed to the letter. I could swear this is the last time I'll tell someone this, but I think that statement will prove itself false soon enough, so I won't bother. Anyway... It's "Written by" not "Written By".

2006-05-09 [RiddleRose]: lovely! thank you!

2006-05-11 [Linderel]: [Sesil], please fix your format within a day's time or your entry will be removed.

2006-05-11 [Sesil]: [Linderel], sorry about thats, also thanks for telling me! :)

2006-05-11 [Linderel]: No problem. But you didn't fix it. I meant the "Written by" part. :P

2006-05-11 [Sesil]: oh ok sorry, im a bit dumb lol

2006-05-11 [Linderel]: You're not the only one to have problems with that part. It seems to be the thing most people stumble on.

2006-05-11 [Sesil]: i understand, is it ok now?

2006-05-11 [Linderel]: Yup, it is.

2006-05-11 [Sesil]: cheers, another thing, im new on this so i apologise if this is dumb question but when are the winners going to be annouced?

2006-05-11 [Zab]: They chose a poem to be featured on mainstreet every now and then, this isn't a contest. :)

2006-05-11 [Sesil]: oh ok, sorry

2006-05-11 [Linderel]: Hehe, you've got it a bit wrong. This isn't really a contest with winners to be announced, but a daily (or bi-daily, more like) feature. All submissions that meet the rules go to a feature queue and are then selected randomly to go to the Mainstreet. Just like it says on the top of this page. The poet will be noted with a guestbook message, and they will receive a badge.

2006-05-11 [Sesil]: lol sorry, i told you i was new on this, but im sorry and hopefully i wont say anything stupid like i did before, thanks!

2006-05-12 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [LittleEmoGirl], please fix your submission or it will be removed.

2006-05-12 [LittleEmoGirl]: oh like fix it how??

2006-05-12 [Jay Ladlehaus]: There needs to be a space between the title and text of your poem.

2006-05-12 [Linderel]: Hmm. There seem to have been quite a few instances where we didn't care about the space that much and left it alone... But, anyway, it would be good to be there, yes.

2006-05-12 [LittleEmoGirl]: oh okay, that better now?

2006-05-12 [Jay Ladlehaus]: Yes, thank you

2006-05-12 [LittleEmoGirl]: your welcomed!

2006-05-13 [sequeena_rae]: Not sure if I should do this, but thanks for putting my poem up on Mainstreet ^^

2006-05-15 [DeadSockMonster]: ^^ *dances with joy - she loves poems* Eh, I hope my last poem about Humpty Dumpty is okay...

2006-05-15 [Jay Ladlehaus]: Creative adaptations of a sufficiently satirical nature are fine.

2006-05-15 [Songwriter's Cramp]: haha, it's funny

2006-05-15 [Dark Side of the Moon]: That Humpty Dumpty poem is awesome!!! Good work [DeadSockMonster]!

2006-05-15 [Moonshdow13]: lol I like it =)

2006-05-15 [Songwriter's Cramp]: I especially like the last line!

2006-05-15 [Linderel]: It is indeed a good poem. ^.^ But I'm afraid that further chattering will have to be moved somewhere else: this comment section is mainly meant for the Bosses' notices. Sorry. :)

2006-05-15 [Songwriter's Cramp]: No problem!

2006-05-20 [Linderel]: Whoever submitted the piece 'What Happened to the World', who I suspect is [Doso], please fix your format and grammar. Otherwise the entry will be removed.

2006-05-20 [Wes Foxx]: Hope you like my newest submission; Its a song I wrote that I adjusted to fit the DPF.

2006-05-20 [Doso]: better?

2006-05-20 [The real life Bella Swan]: Fix your spelling and grammer(capitalize "I") and you'll be golden

2006-05-20 [Doso]: yes, thanks

2006-05-20 [Akayume]: and change cant to can't......unless cant is alright...

2006-05-20 [Doso]: this is not fair...i have to check my work ten times and still make mistakes

2006-05-20 [Akayume]: just put it on word and it'll correct everything for you..or at lest, point out mistakes

2006-05-20 [Doso]: i tried that doesnt work as you can see

2006-05-20 [Akayume]: It should.

2006-05-20 [Doso]: i have such aproblem word cant fix it ither. lol

2006-05-20 [Doso]: boss is it ok now?

2006-05-21 [The real life Bella Swan]: Looks good.

2006-05-21 [Linderel]: Yup, it's fine. (Thanks for helping out, people. ^.^)

2006-05-21 [Doso]: aye, tnx

2006-05-22 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Citrine], please fix your submission or it will be removed.

2006-05-22 [Citrine]: Very sorry. Better?

2006-05-22 [Jay Ladlehaus]: yes, thank you

2006-05-22 [Citrine]: good stuff.... sorry there... new at this...

2006-05-23 [Angelic nightmares]: I used to <pre> tag that it showed on Daily Poem Format. If I wasn't supposed to use it, please tell me. Thank you.

2006-05-23 [Wes Foxx]: No, the <pre> was only there to indicate what section of that page was the actual format, not including the format.

2006-05-23 [Angelic nightmares]: Oh ok. Thanks. I'll change it right away then

2006-05-23 [Angelic nightmares]: I left the Note From Author: part though, becuase thats a part of the poem. There's more examples at My Morbid Pleasure

2006-05-23 [The real life Bella Swan]: [Angelic nightmares] just so they don't have to tell you, you've got a slight format problem you might wanna clear up.

2006-05-23 [Wes Foxx]: they're stingy about leaving semicolons before your name

2006-05-23 [Angelic nightmares]: o.O oh ok. Its fixed. Thanks for the help.

2006-05-23 [DeadSockMonster]: Midnite - there also weren't any spaces between your poems and their titles, I fixed it ^^ Good poems.

2006-05-23 [Angelic nightmares]: Oh ok. Thanks [DeadSockMonster]

2006-05-23 [someelf]: I wonder if my poem is quite.. Okay(?)

2006-05-23 [Angelic nightmares]: I liked it El

2006-05-23 [someelf]: :) Thanks

2006-05-23 [Nite_Owl]: [Angelic nightmares], you have the same problem as before with the colon--best fix it before the Bosses start warning you :)

2006-05-23 [Linderel]: [someelf]: There is a period after your username that doesn't belong there. Remove it, or your submission will be taken off due to format violation. You also have some spelling and grammar mistakes that would be much more nicer elsewhere, that is, gone. (To anyone who might disagree: Yes, we are that strict. Deal with it.)

2006-05-24 [Jay Ladlehaus]: [Blakkduv], fix the submission errors in your poem or it will be removed.

2006-05-24 [someelf]: What do you mean.. I don't understand..?

2006-05-24 [Wes Foxx]: 1. Title is not bold. 2. the proper ending is Written by [**your username**] and possibly 3] poems cannot be submitted on behalf of someone else, if you put the poem there [someelf]

2006-05-24 [someelf]: Okay.

2006-05-24 [Moonshdow13]: I think its because you have a full stop after your name. I was just looking for yours but I couldn't find it.

2006-05-24 [Wes Foxx]: Thats why I asked if the poem by [Blakkduv] was submitted by [someelf], which will get it promptly deleted unless the author posts it directly.

2006-05-24 [someelf]: It's because I deleted it.. It's back now.

2006-05-24 [someelf]: O_O I made it myself. I made it because I was angry on someone.

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: Now I remember why I hate the people in authority on Et..... Not meant for everyone but some is just bullies and use their high position to terrorize other people

2006-05-24 [Wes Foxx]: ... e_e anyhow. I have no problem with people actually enforcing rules.

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: I don't have problem with people who are upholder of law but there is difference between upholding order and beeing direct bullies and terrorize people -_-

2006-05-24 [someelf]: What do you mean..? o.o I had my poem first inbetween's Midnite's. but I removed it later on when they said they would remove it.

2006-05-24 [Wes Foxx]: I have never seen any ET official bully/terrorize. I have seen people push and prod them until they forced moderator hands before, however.

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: And one thing... Incase you suffer from dyxlesia that means your not allowed here, éh? That's at least what I so far have understood... Now if you can write better then just say what's wrong so the person can correct it... What you are doing here is not fair to people...

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: Yeah well people with blindfold is not an uncommon sight in this world... Meaning both this internetworld and in the actual world where we actually live

2006-05-24 [Zab]: (Elfy: they'd remove it IF you didn't fix the problems ;) // We all can have a bad mood and maybe snap at some innocent soul sometimes, but I don't know of any official that has bullied anyone. :) If you have proof (messages, wiki comments) on being unfairly bullied by a crew member maybe you should ask one of the guards about it or something? Or ask the crew member that bullied you why he/she acted that way?

2006-05-24 [someelf]: _> ^^'

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: What good would it do? I don't go to the guards here because I don't trust them... Proof? People would claim it is to fraim some "poor innocent soul"

2006-05-24 [someelf]: I think we shouldn't 'chat' in here o.o'

2006-05-24 [True, plain and simple]: We're harsh on the poems because there are over two hundred or more of them between this page and the queue. If we allowed everything then there would simply be too many. It's a pretty basic concept, I think. And [someelf] is correct; please don't use the comment section for chatting. :)

2006-05-24 [someelf]: Can I ask a question trough? >_>

2006-05-24 [True, plain and simple]: Questions are fine. Go ahead.

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: The thing with her poem *points to [someelf]* What is wrong with that poem? Only possibel spelling mistake would be drawling and in that case... Tell what's wrong and what word if it only matters about a few words... Tell the person and maybe even if those who has such a hard time about it has any actual "human" friendly side then ask if they should do it or they want to do it themselves... That way it's done is just pure unfair and directly rude

2006-05-24 [someelf]: Can you spell check it? o.o And tell me what is wrong and what isn't I already asked people in my diary put I would like to have diffrent openions.

2006-05-24 [True, plain and simple]: [KnightAngel] - It's not rude. If people actually want to be able to get the poem featured, they'll figure out what the problem is for themselves. I don't have the desire to play spellcheck for everyone, nor should I have to. If you want to get a badge for your work, you should earn it by following the rules.

2006-05-24 [True, plain and simple]: [someelf] - There is a spelling mistake in the first line depending on the intended context, and one in the last line as well. I don't see anything else wrong with it right now.

2006-05-24 [someelf]: Okay. Thank you.

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: So incase they don't really notice it or like I said earlier suffer from dyxlesia that means that just because you are to lazy they are not allowed to give their idea for the poem of the day? So only those "capabel" of spelling "perfectly" is allowed... Well you know what? I still don't see what that is not rude in that... I thought the idea of this place was that people where allowed to express their artistic side, may it be with drawing, poems, roleplay or what do I know? Just something I believe that there stands before you log on and also what is both unspoken and spoken idea of this place

2006-05-24 [True, plain and simple]: If they don't really notice it, the other bosses give them adequate time to fix the error. I personally just remove them on sight; people can resubmit them afterwards, but I don't do work with the format too much right now, since people like their approach better. I think that it's ridiculous to expect us to deal with five million poems that are poorly put together. I'm not going to feature something unpresentable, nor will I fix it to make it acceptable. I could silently remove it when I migrate poems to the queue, but it's better to give people the chance to learn for themselves so that they know they need to pay more attention (or get help, in the case of dyslexia) next time around.

2006-05-24 [Wes Foxx]: [KnightAngel] - Dislexia makes it harder to spell correctly; it rarely makes it impossible. A quick spell-check should be able to fix it, and if that is for some reason not an option, you could always ask a friend to double-check it. If you want to be on the main page you have to be willing to put that kind of effort into it.

2006-05-24 [Akayume]: you could always use 'word' to correct yourself..

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: And what if your computer doesn't have that? I have tried plenty computers who doesn't have that... Some people can't afford latest design and either way... Even if you do have it it doesn't mean it is complete... I have meet many that are extremely basic.... And then of course the possible fact that you maybe don't really got any friends you can ask... You might think that's "impossible" but yeah well maybe to you but there are people with great difficulties approaching people or simply don't trust people enough due to for example traumatic experiences.. And thereby rely on those poems which maybe is poorly written due to for example dislexia and by the way people with dislexia can (Continu

2006-05-24 [KnightAngel]: Easily not be able to either write or read..... I know cause my mother has it and she can't! So don't try and play smart with me buster!

2006-05-24 [True, plain and simple]: I haven't seen any one that has posted here who has been in such a situation, suggesting to me it isn't something that I should really be worried about. Everything can be challenged with a "What if...", but most of that is not reasonable at all. The policy won't change; it's pretty fair right now. There are even people here who try to help other members when we point out that something is wrong, so that "no friends" bit doesn't qualify either. I think that we'll stop commenting about this now, since it's not very productive. Comments after I made this edit will be removed.

2006-05-25 [The real life Bella Swan]: Oh, and, [Blakkduv], you need to fix your format otherwise your poem is gonna be taken down