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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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2007-05-07 [Linderel]: Well, the format needs to be what is given to you on the Daily Poem Format page, to the letter. You can just copy and paste until you get the hang of it. Not that hard, really.
And then there are all the other submissions to use as example.

2007-05-08 [((lost))]: is only one poem chosen everyday? or two?

2007-05-08 [Linderel]: Erm. One poem. The only time that several poems are up on the Mainstreet is when we're announcing the winners of a contest.

2007-05-08 [Linderel]: [((lost))]: Please fix the format of your entry (see Daily Poem Format), as well as the grammar and spelling errors in the body of the poem.

2007-05-09 [Linderel]: [Goddess of Night and Death]: Please fix the format of your entry, as well as the spelling error in the body of the poem.

2007-05-10 [Linderel]: [peace4all_monkey]: Please fix the grammar and spelling errors in your entry.

2007-05-10 [peace4all_monkey]: what errors?

2007-05-11 [GoneGone]: [peace4all_monkey], Mistakes: peircing, insure, and two non-capitalized "i"'s.

2007-05-11 [peace4all_monkey]: thanks, it's fixed

2007-05-11 [((lost))]: ummm i think its ok now, what was wrong with the format? i'm sure i checked all the spelling and grammer before i sent it, sorry

2007-05-11 [Linderel]: There are still some errors, I suggest you let someone proofread it. As for the format, it would be quite easy to just copy and paste... But anyway, it's supposed to be "Written by [username]". Precisely like that. Not any variation thereof.

2007-05-12 [((lost))]: but thats exactly how ive written it...

2007-05-12 [Linderel]: No, it's not. You have it "written by".

2007-05-12 [Lin-tastic]: Does mine need any spelling or grammar checks at all?

2007-05-12 [Cascading water lillies]: I seriously don't know how you manage to keep an eye on all these entries AND to pick a winner. (I.e, because most of these are of very good quality)

2007-05-12 [Linderel]: [Lin-tastic]: Not that I can see, it looks fine. :)

[Cascading water lillies]: That's because I sold my soul to DP Boss duties. Elftown is like a second home to me. That said, there are no winners, as this is NOT a contest. This is a feature. There is a difference. Everyone's poem gets featured as long as they follow the rules.

2007-05-12 [Cascading water lillies]: Ah, I see. I kind of thought it was an 'informal' contest, because your'e awarded a badge, and you adhere to rules. But that works as well :)

2007-05-12 [Linderel]: Well, of course you get a badge, since you donate your work to Elftown. ;3

2007-05-13 [Lin-tastic]: Thanks. I hate it when I can't find the errors and other's point them out to me. It's almost awkward. ^_^ Thanks, [Linderel].

2007-05-14 [Linderel]: Some of the submissions have been removed for various reasons. They were the following:
[Master of the Vortex]: Too long, submitted on the top of the page instead of the bottom.
[Olwen]: Grammatical errors.
[((lost))]: Format violation, grammar and spelling errors.
[Goddess of Night and Death]: Format violation, blatant spelling error.

2007-05-16 [Goddess of Night and Death]: what spelling error?i ran it through my spell check and it didnt see any errors.....

2007-05-16 [Linderel]: Well, 'condmemn', as far as I know, is not a word. It was in your last line.

2007-05-16 [Blakkduv]: You know she ment condemn.

Thats a very small typo.

2007-05-17 [Lin-tastic]: Where is your poem, [Goddess of Night and Death]?

2007-05-17 [GoneGone]: Linderel already said what happened to Goddess' poem in bold letters only five conversations above....

And regardless of how small the typo, it still needed to be corrected and wasn't in the given time.

2007-05-17 [Lin-tastic]: Ah. So the poem is gone, correct? I'm curious as to what it said.

2007-05-17 [Goddess of Night and Death]:
The cool green of the forest
The new leaves, the earliest
Of the season, raise their heads
To the Sun, no dread
For the Winter that may slay them
The last to condemn

2007-05-17 [Linderel]: [Goddess of Night and Death], you can re-submit. It's not like it's forbidden anywhere. ;)

2007-05-17 [Blakkduv]: thats a beautiful poem.

2007-05-18 [Goddess of Night and Death]: awww thank you i have some others if you would like to read them
and the reason i didnt edit the peom in the amount of time was because i wasnt on

2007-05-18 [Lin-tastic]: Wow...I like it, a lot! ^_^

2007-05-18 [Blakkduv]: Remain
I always remain the same.
Through moves and changes,
Through thousands of read pages,
Through inspiring events,
Through trials of repent,
Through sicknes and health,
Through noticing I'm an empty shell,
I always remain the same.

this is mine that I posted

2007-05-18 [Lin-tastic]: Again, {quoted} Wow...I like it, a lot! ^_^ {/quoted}

2007-05-18 [Blakkduv]: haha

2007-05-19 [Lin-tastic]: Yep...

2007-05-19 [Linderel]: [Subject37]: Please fix the format of your entry.

2007-05-21 [Danno]: i'm not sure if i was supposed to put it here, it says it's getting full but i couldn't edit the extension :)

2007-05-21 [True, plain and simple]: To [cgart], [Danno]: Please fix the format of your entries or they will be removed. All entries must adhere strictly to the Daily Poem Format.

2007-05-21 [Linderel]: [Danno] should also fix some grammatical errors in 'The Bewilderbeeste'. ... I'm supposing that 'beeste' is an alternative spelling of 'beast'... :P

Also, [cgart]: 'thru' is not a word.

2007-05-21 [NukleaЯ EveЯgloW™]: actually according to define:thru on google
http://tinyurl.com/238qrw
it is a word, see for yourself ;)

2007-05-21 [Linderel]: [NukleaЯ EveЯgloW™]: Well, it shouldn't be. And either way, in this case, it was not appropriate.

2007-05-21 [Linderel]: [cgart]: You still need to fix your format. Oh, also, 'happen' should, in fact, be 'happened'.

2007-05-21 [Danno]: [Linderel]: Not really. Obviously it's a play on the words wilder beast, but the Bewilderbeeste isn't an animal. it's a disembodied face :P

2007-05-21 [Linderel]: Alrighty then... But, might I remind you. Your format is still wrong. ;3

2007-05-21 [Subject37]: OK, is it acceptable now?

2007-05-21 [Linderel]: Erm, no. First of all, you had no need to put it up again, as the original is still on the page...

2007-05-21 [Blakkduv]: thru: Provides a pass of what is received on the IN socket to allow multiple items to be connected.

Ya thats what you ment?

2007-05-22 [GoneGone]: [Subject37] Fixed your format 'cause it was driving me nuts.

2007-05-22 [Danno]: i can't see anything wrong with my format

-ah, caught a random empty line :)

2007-05-22 [Linderel]: [Danno]: Well, you should. It's what most people stumble on... the 'Written by' part.

2007-05-22 [Danno]: oh good, we got there in the end

2007-05-23 [Subject37]: ok, thanks... *hits head at stupidity* *hits head again with a ten pound book*

2007-05-24 [Linderel]: [Danse Macabre]: Your entry was removed for not only violating the Daily Poem Format, but also the rules. Quoth the very first of the rules listed on the top of the page: "Submissions must be entirely original." Should you want to submit something, make sure it abides by all the rules.

2007-05-24 [Cascading water lillies]: YouarethePetalsoftheReincarnation if anyone is interested.Didn't want to take any apace up.

2007-05-24 [GoneGone]: [Cascading water lillies], I suggest poetry discussion for that sort of thing.

2007-05-24 [Danse Macabre]: I am sorry if I did something wrong but can I have some clarification please.
Can I ask how I violated the entirely original thing as I moulded someones answers to a quiz into a poem? surely that is original I did not actually steal the poem!!! Afterall if taking preexisting statements and making them into a poem is counted as unoriginal surely you are stipulating that all poems be written in brand new languages? Could you just clarify this to me please. Also I could have just lied and not given [fire opal] the credit for inspiring my work and then presumably my format would have been correct. I am sory if I am barking up the wrong tree but if you could explain what was wrong I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

2007-05-24 [Cascading water lillies]: Okay, thanks. I didn't want to be breaking any rules or anything.

2007-05-25 [Linderel]: [Danse Macabre]: Well, the problem here is, the poem consisted only of things taken off this person's page, and there was nothing of your own there. I admit that there are only so many ways in which we can write things, but still, you took another person's phrases and merely rearranged them. Also, giving credit means nothing if you don't have permission. Did you have permission? Furthermore, personal notes don't belong to the format either way.
My point is... write your own poem with your own words, not with something taken off someone else's answers to a quiz.

2007-05-25 [Danse Macabre]: Ok I do apolagise and I understand your reasoning although I maintain that ultimatly all [fire opal] provided was inspirationa afterall I am sure we all come across things in daily life we go on to use artisticly and though I took my word base from his quiz answers if you look I combined the words very differently to how they were used by [fire opal]creating a range of new as well as old phrases and giving them completley new context. Whilst also trying to tie in as much as possible with his answers to keep my poem true to a friend. However I also understand your viewpoint and apolagise for entering the poem I merely wanted to try and get soemthing dedicated to a friend up. I am sorry though as I would never dream of plagiarizing another's art. *hangs head in shame*

2007-05-25 [Linderel]: You may put something dedicated to a friend up, but why not do it in your own words, not his/hers? ;)

2007-05-25 [Danse Macabre]: Well that was sort of the next plan perhaps! It was just the answers to that quiz struck me as being particularly appropriate and a great base as a means of capturing the person's essence in poetic form. Oh well back to the drawing board I guess....

2007-05-26 [Danno]: you touched me, [Blakkduv]. right here. *sobs*

2007-05-26 [Doormat]: I wish I could write like that at 12. Someone should nominate that in daily poet's choice. I have never seen such mature and meaningful work. I love the onomatopoeia, "poop." Clearly, [Blakkduv] is setting the bar for free verse poetry.

2007-05-26 [Blakkduv]: Thank you for your support! Truly it is my best work yet!!!

Nominate away thats what I say!

Made it up on the spot!!!

Amazing huh

2007-05-26 [Blakkduv]: It truly captures the importance of the angel cake.

2007-05-26 [Linderel]: All nice and dandy, but this conversation is not relevant for the submissions page.

2007-05-28 [Bring The Synth]: I recently submitted work on this page... Breaking Into Something.... Please tell me what you think =]

2007-05-28 [Linderel]: [Bring The Synth]: First of all, that kind of formless poetry isn't allowed. In its current shape, your entry is in fact more prose than poetry. Meaning you should use more Enter.
Second of all, you have several grammatical and spelling errors, plus your formatting isn't right (see Daily Poem Format). Please see to these issues or the submission will be removed.

2007-05-28 [Linderel]: Also, this comment area is meant mainly for the notifications of us Bosses, so if someone starts telling you what they think aside from such technical details as I just pointed out, I'll ask you to move it to either Poetry Discussion or private messages. ;)

2007-05-28 [Bring The Synth]: such nice people these days.... delete it. cuz i dont feel like sharing any of my poetry to any people that have to be half assed bithces about everything... so cool cuz you got all them badges... thanx =[

2007-05-28 [Linderel]: I'm not being 'cool', I'm being generally annoyed at the world which unfortunately reflects in my notifications. Sorry about bitching.
Anyway. If you want your poetry to be featured, you should fix the things I pointed out. If you, however, don't want to do that, you should remove the submission yourself, as I will mark down a violation if I remove it.

2007-05-28 [Tyrana]: It seems he accidentally deleted [Blakkduv]'s poem, as well. I'll restore it. ^_^

2007-05-28 [Linderel]: Hmm. Seems so... thanks. :P Though s/he has a tiny little format error.

2007-05-28 [Tyrana]: What error is that, praytell? I can't find one, and I'm just a little worried that I may be responsible, due to error in copy/pasting. *Constantly paranoid about screwing things up*

2007-05-28 [Linderel]: Nope, it wasn't you, it was there all along. It seems he's dropped a 't' from his 'Written by'.

2007-05-28 [Tyrana]: Aha! Totally missed it. :P

2007-05-29 [Danse Macabre]: There went back to the drawing board and wrote a poem about friendship dedicated to all my friends. Its all my own words (though I maintain that my last entry was my own words as well and that I merley used inspiration from a set of quiz answers which I credited so hardly plagiarism... but still)and should be in compliance with all the rules. Cheers.

2007-05-29 [Linderel]: Looks fine, yeah. You're missing one little apostrophe in the first stanza, though. :)

2007-05-29 [Danse Macabre]: ahhhh thanks punctuation was never my strongest point :P

2007-05-29 [Cascading water lillies]: My poem I have just added is not complete, just to point out. I might re-work on it and re-submit if that's okay. This is definately what I call a 'quick' poem.

2007-05-29 [Linderel]: Well, if it's not complete, and you're going to edit it, then wouldn't it be better to just... not submit now, and only put it up here when it is ready?
Oh yeah... It's spelled 'divine'.

2007-05-29 [Cascading water lillies]: Yes, I know it is spelled devine 0_o.. I was in the middle of 'fiddling'.

It's finished now, as it can be. Sorry if I irritated you.

2007-05-29 [Linderel]: You didn't exactly irritate me, it just seemed weird to me to submit something you regarded as incomplete.

No... Not 'devine'. 'Divine'. Devine is nothing but a town somewhere in the US.
Oh, and here 'From the posion hung' I think you mean 'poison'?

2007-05-29 [Cascading water lillies]: Oh, right you are ^^

I can be careless sometimes. Or, maybe I just cannot spell correctly. Maybe I'm an idiot :)

Yes, it's simply that i can be a bit lazy, myself. Or, just busy. If I didn't correct it, then I still had the bones of it up.

2007-05-29 [Linderel]: Ah well, mistakes happen to everyone. :P

Heh, I guess that makes sense.

2007-05-30 [Cascading water lillies]: Yep, they certainly do ;)

Nice poem, author of 'Prism mind'.

2007-05-30 [Blakkduv]: Thanks! I always appricate... appriciation? haha well thanks anyway.

2007-05-30 [Blakkduv]: nice poem yourself!

2007-05-30 [Linderel]: [Blakkduv]: Please fix the format of your entry to abide by the Daily Poem Format, as well as the grammatical and spelling errors in the body of the poem.

2007-05-30 [NukleaЯ EveЯgloW™]: fixed: [the green strip kid]'s format.
should've been Written by [>name here<], Not Writen by [>name here<]

should've been Written by [>name here<], not By [>name here<]

2007-05-30 [Lily~]: hello I placed a poem in here a few months back and have been keeping an eye on it lately. today I looked and it was not there. I was about 48 poems from the top a day or two ago. I was wondering if you guys put it up and I just didn't see it..?

2007-05-30 [True, plain and simple]: It likely got moved to the queue for featuring at a later time (a transfer which I did the other day).

2007-05-30 [Lily~]: why were they taken from the upper portion of the wiki and will it be placed back in this wiki or will I have to resubmit my poem?

2007-05-30 [Linderel]: They were taken from the upper portion because those are older. No, and no. They will stay in the feature queue and one of them will be chosen daily to be featured. This is all information you can find in the Daily Poem FAQ, by the way.

2007-05-30 [Lily~]: ooh.. okay. Sorry to bug you guys..

2007-05-30 [Akayume]: I have a question: let's say that someone submits a not-that-great-poem. Do you leave it on this page forever? Do you delete it? Or what do you do?

2007-05-30 [Linderel]: Assuming that it abides by the rules and format, it will most probably be moved to the queue and perhaps featured at some point. Depends on how not-so-good it is, and from whose perspective.

2007-05-30 [Linderel]: [Cascading water lillies]: Small typo there. 'refelect'
Also, you might want to fix your poem 'Manufactured Happiness' if you want it to survive to the queue.

2007-05-30 [Akayume]: Alright!! ^-^

I was just wondering.

Sorry for troubling you.

2007-05-30 [Cascading water lillies]: Fixed. Thanks for letting me know, hon.

2007-05-30 [Linderel]: The format's fine now, but you still have a couple of typos. Namely 'phsyce' and 'Pharmectuticals'.

2007-05-30 [Cascading water lillies]: Again, fixed. Anything else?

2007-05-31 [Linderel]: Nah, 'tis fine.

2007-06-01 [Linderel]: [AnamCara]: Please move your submission to the right place or it will be removed entirely. Please also fix the spelling errors in the poem.

2007-06-01 [Dark Side of the Moon]: I moved [AnamCara]'s poem to the correct place. Spelling errors are hers to fix. Also, my submission is intended to sound Shakespearean. I've gone over the spelling a few times to make sure it is correct. The way it is posted is entirely what I have intended. :)

2007-06-01 [Teufelsweib]: you're not supposed to correct people of their errors, but to let people do that themselves so they'll learn from their mistakes ;)

2007-06-01 [Dark Side of the Moon]: Absolutely true. Shall I put the poem back in the wrong place? Just joking... ;)

2007-06-01 [Linderel]: Vorkje, I've given people permission to fix others' errors as long as they state what they did. It's what I used to do before becoming your very own Bitchy Boss. :P

2007-06-01 [Teufelsweib]: wouldn't it be more practical to let people learn from mistakes? =/ oh well, woe is me :P

2007-06-01 [Linderel]: [Hereby Deleted]: Please fix the format of your entry to abide by the Daily Poem Format as well as the grammatical errors in the body of the poem.

2007-06-02 [Linderel]: [dark starlight]: Please fix the format of your entry, as well as the grammar error in the body of the poem.

2007-06-02 [Hereby Deleted]: is that better?

2007-06-02 [Linderel]: Only slightly. If you really can't see what more is wrong with your format (you should, though) just copy+paste it from Daily Poem Format. There are also still grammatical errors (hint: apostrophes).

2007-06-02 [Hereby Deleted]: done but my English teacher always taught it as "its" rather than "it's". thankyou

2007-06-02 [Linderel]: Well, your English teacher is right. I meant in the last verse. And your format is STILL wrong.

2007-06-02 [Hereby Deleted]: YOU CORRECT THEN

2007-06-02 [Linderel]: No, I need you to do it yourself. But to save time, I'll point it out to you.

"Together in each others arms
Until the worlds last scream."

Both of these lines need an apostrophe. You should also remove the one you put it the first verse. As for the format, just do as I said in the comment before my last - go to Daily Poem Format and use copy+paste.

2007-06-03 [Linderel]: [little flag]: Please fix the format of your entry.

2007-06-03 [Linderel]: [Tyrana], [FlowerGirl21], [Robert Mischief]: Please fix the format of your entry.

2007-06-03 [little flag]: Sorry, but I don't see what I did wrong...?

2007-06-03 [Linderel]: Colons. Colons are not part of the Daily Poem Format.

2007-06-03 [Tyrana]: Whoops! I think they, like me, followed the format of the person above them without thinking so much. :P I'll fix the colons.

2007-06-03 [FlowerGirl21]: Lol, just like sheep hehehe

2007-06-03 [Cascading water lillies]: Better than lemmings, I guess..

2007-06-03 [GoneGone]: Baah!

2007-06-03 [Linderel]: Shush, offtopic. :P

2007-06-03 [dark starlight]: Nothing horribly wrong with my English, then?

2007-06-03 [Linderel]: In the second-to-last verse, you have 'i' where you should have 'I'. Otherwise it seemed alright...

2007-06-05 [Akayume]: Wow. I'm so stupid XD My badge wasn't in color before, and I was freaking out because I didn't realize mine had been chosen for mainstreet >.> (It stinks being tired, no?)

Anyway, thank you you guys! ^-^

2007-06-06 [Akayume]: Zagar, why are there boxes after and before some of your words? O.o

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: [Akayume], that's just your browser being weird. I see no oddities in there.

2007-06-06 [FlowerGirl21]: I see them too, if it helps :p

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: Doesn't really. <_<

2007-06-06 [~blue~wolf~]: i see question marks :P

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: Hrm. Well, I can hardly do anything about it. Let's see what [Chimalus] has to say whenever he notices the comments.

2007-06-06 [Cascading water lillies]: I see them too. I could not before. Can you not see them [Linderel] ?

2007-06-06 [Tyrana]: I just see a bunch of random question marks throughout the poem. This has happened to me before when I pasted something from a word document into a wiki, or like, received an email from someone with a font my computer doesn't entirely recognize. Perhaps that is it.

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: I already said that I can't see them, why must I state this again? Anyway... I'll let [Chimalus] deal with it, as it's his poem. I would appreciate it if everyone would stop talking about it until then, because it really isn't of any use.

2007-06-06 [Cascading water lillies]: Perhaps it is some form of spyware? If so, does that mean our pc is infected? I hope not. I'll be pretty annoyed.
I don't know enough about this though..so.. -[Linderel] Okay, you do not have to be rude or impatient- because I asked you once..neither am I going to apologise. You are meant to be a small authority are you not, so please don't be short with me, I'm not trying to annoy you, or be ''ignorant''..

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: *sigh* Sorry. I hate being snappy, but I currently have a really short temper because of heat and stress. Not that it would really excuse me, but... yeah. It seemed like you weren't reading the previous comments if you needed to ask.

2007-06-06 [Cascading water lillies]: That is okay. I appreciate your apology. I can understand that then. And, I did read your comment, but I thought that perhaps, like myself, the first time I looked, there was nothing there on the said poem, and then, after another comment was placed, the mysterious symbols appeared. That's all. I thought the same might have happened with you.

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: I actually might have caused that. I poked at the poem a bit after it was first pointed out, deleted some extra spaces and hoped it just might be miraculously solved with that... Apparently not. :P

2007-06-06 [Cascading water lillies]: Hha! Love the hope-it-fixes-itself- attitude ^^ Not all too unfamilliar with that myself, actually :P
One of those days I guess?

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: Brain fried with heat, one entrance exam yesterday and another one tomorrow, a third one coming up next week... Yeah, one of those days indeed. But that's offtopic. <_<

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: [Bulma]: Please fix the format of your entries.

2007-06-06 [Little Victories]: I don't know who I ask about this but two of my poems have been removed to the list that is not displayed as they have been up for a while. I would like those two poems deleted please. Many thanks in advance.

2007-06-06 [Cascading water lillies]: Am I right in thinking that the longer your poem (s) wait to be moved to the list, that reflects in the quality of the work? 0_o

2007-06-06 [Linderel]: You are in fact wrong. :P When True moves submissions to the queue, he takes them from the upper part of this page and he takes a random amount - enough for me to have stuff to feature for a month or two. Nothing to do with perceived quality. Unless I'm misinterpreting your question. <_<

[Little Victories]: Noted. Can you tell me the names of those pieces?

2007-06-06 [Cascading water lillies]: Nope. I think you interpreted my question pretty well ^^ Thanks for answering.

2007-06-07 [Bulma]: plz explain what I need to fix and I will fix it okay. Question: Whatever happened to my other poem? "The Bleeding heart"? did it get deleted or something?

2007-06-07 [GoneGone]: [Bulma],Just make the By into "by". Try ctl. F and look for your poem that way. If is isn't there, it's been removed and placed in the lineup for Mainstreet. It should show up there in the next few weeks.

2007-06-08 [Papa Don't Preach]: btw i deleted the "?'s". it made no difference to everyone elses view of the poem.

2007-06-09 [Linderel]: [Blakkduv]: Please remove at least one of your submissions as you currently have five placed on this page.

2007-06-09 [Blakkduv]: there ya go

2007-06-09 [Cascading water lillies]: Naughty! ^^

2007-06-09 [Bulma]: Well u see I had 2 more poems up there for 2 months they where put up there at the same time. My other one got put up in Main street and I have no idea what happened to my other one

2007-06-09 [Linderel]: It's in the queue.

2007-06-14 [Akayume]: I have a question..why is my poem up again on the daily opem slot on mainstreet when it's already been featured? O.o And two were featured after it too...

2007-06-14 [Cascading water lillies]: It seems as though it will take an absolute eternity for any of my poetry to go to (omnious voice) the other list.

2007-06-15 [Linderel]: [Akayume]: Whatever do you mean? [Cascading water lillies]: They will be moved eventually. Do have patience.

2007-06-15 [Linderel]: [Relphien]: Please fix the format of your submission to abide by the Daily Poem Format.

2007-06-15 [Akayume]: I mean that a while ago....my poem was featured. Then maybe two or three were featured, then mine was featured again. O.o Same poem was featured...like, twice.

2007-06-15 [Relphien]: [Linderel] what do you mean?

2007-06-15 [Tyrana]: It's little, so it's hard to find. But your "W" in "written by" is supposed to be capitalized. Happens to the best of us, m'dear. ^_^

2007-06-15 [Relphien]: sorry, my first poem... I will try to get better.. I hope..

2007-06-15 [Little Victories]: the names of my pieces are bath of milk and the joke is on who?

2007-06-15 [Linderel]: [Akayume]: Nope, hasn't happened. I checked. 'Dream On' was featured June 3rd, and I haven't updated since, as I have been busy with real life. (And before anyone asks about that, I'll commence with featuring normally tomorrow.)

2007-06-15 [Akayume]: Ah, I see...

I could have sworn that there were others featured afterwards...

sorry about that ^^''

2007-06-16 [Linderel]: [Vampire Akis], please fix the format of your poem to abide by the Daily Poem Format.

2007-06-17 [Linderel]: [Ravendust], please fix your format.

2007-06-20 [Vampire Akis]: OH. OH! Sorry. :-O Can't believe I didn't copy the title. :-| Sorry [Linderel]

2007-06-21 [Linderel]: [frogster]: Please fix the format of your poem to abide by the Daily Poem Format.

2007-06-21 [Linderel]: [~~Butterfly Angel~~]: Please fix the format of your entry to abide by the Daily Poem Format, as well as the numerous grammar/spelling errors in the body of the poem.

2007-06-22 [frogster]: Sorry about that! I hoped i fixed that

2007-06-22 [Linderel]: You didn't. Tell you what, the easiest way to get the format right is to copy+paste it from Daily Poem Format and then just put your poem in.

2007-06-23 [Doormat]: Interesting...The word hate got deleted from my poem...3 times.

2007-06-23 [Linderel]: Someone probably has that nice little piece of software that deems some words 'offending' or 'bad' or something and removes them when that person edits a wiki. If I recall correctly, there has been an issue with this at least once before.
That someone seems to be [.Anti-Juliet.].

2007-06-23 [Teufelsweib]: yes, and I understood that they were thinking that such people shouldn't be allowed on elftown >_>

2007-06-23 [Linderel]: I'm pretty sure that was a statement made at least half-jokingly... maybe. :P

2007-06-23 [Teufelsweib]: I hope so, but what I do know was that [Hedda] was kind of pissed off at the people who have that function on the computer =p
something I can understand though, for I dislike that function too >_>

2007-06-24 [Cascading water lillies]: That's a bit rude, isn't it? Having software to censor people??

2007-06-24 [Linderel]: I have a feeling they don't often even realise it, themselves. They could be accessing Elftown from a school computer that's programmed to censor words that are somehow deemed 'bad' or something. I don't really know what it's all about. Anyway... [True, plain and simple] has fixed the page now. Everyone say thanks. Or don't, because that will take space, but... yeah. :P

2007-06-25 [Blakkduv]: Where do you guys keep track of how many poems people have submitted?

2007-06-25 [Chetleon]: May I ask how long it takes before you decide you like a poem?

2007-06-25 [Blakkduv]: First glance?

2007-06-25 [Linderel]: [Blakkduv]: Erm, we don't? The amount of poems as a whole is quite inconsequential - this is the page we worry about. From time to time, I check how many poems a person has on this page if I suspect they might have more than four.

2007-06-25 [Linderel]: [Captain Rachel Black]: Please fix the format of your poem.

2007-06-25 [Cascading water lillies]: You can check how many poems you have up if you forget, by pressing ''ctrl'' and ''f'' together.

2007-06-25 [Linderel]: Yeah, and another way is keeping count from the start, titles and all. That's what I used to do.

2007-06-26 [~~Butterfly Angel~~]: thanks Linderel but I'll sumit another poem,sometime whenever I get it finished,I didn't like that one anyway.

2007-06-26 [Blakkduv]: I was just wondering. Like how do you know when some one has enough poems to be a centapede?

2007-06-26 [Linderel]: Centipede? There is no centipede badge for poetry. All poetry badges are robins.

2007-06-26 [Blakkduv]: oh ok

2007-06-27 [Captain Rachel Black]: I'm sorry, I can't find the mistake I made in the formating. Could someone help me find it?

2007-06-27 [Tyrana]: The "w" in the word "written" should be capitalized. ^_^ That's all I can see!

2007-06-27 [Dark Side of the Moon]: If you're curious as to how the badge system works, see The Badge Reward System.

2007-06-28 [Captain Rachel Black]: Thanks [Tyrana] :D

2007-06-28 [Linderel]: You might want to actually fix the entry before I remove it.

2007-06-30 [Nite_Owl]: I changed the "their" to a "there" in [Blakkduv]'s last poem :) It was bothering me a bit heh

2007-07-01 [Blakkduv]: I always do that.

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