Metal Reviews

Is there a length limit? I wasn't aware that I was going to have to write a fucking play! :shock: I wrote a poem. I didn't realize that you had made up an amendment to the rules stating that an entry had to be at least 500 words long.

There's lots of song texts that are of similar length or even a little shorter still. Good poets know how to say a lot with as little words as possible.

My vote goes to Eyesore.

Ken for the wild card slot.

He joined to write his brand of poetry, I assume, which comes off as simplistic, straight to the point, with a bit of a moral for the open mind.



Length isn't the key, as long as you think Eyesore really out did Sir W with his poetry.



You're right. That doesn't mean the poem has to be short. Wanksalot illustrated a magical fantasy world of humour. A novelist would have spent many more words and pages writing the same thing...



Making people think, cry, cringe, smile AND laugh is the point of the contest! Many perspectives!



Haiku is one style of poetry. Don't forget Sir. W used free verse AND a rhyme scheme. And really, word economy was used in both.





Well, Shakesphere wrote plays as well. Luckily, people can see the excellence in your poem, both for it's obvious content, and relevance of this post.




I'm not trying to say anyone should vote for anyone. I just don't want this to turn into David and Goliath. Someone losing because they're bigger or smaller.

Both conveyed excellent poetic minds, on two VERY different plains. If anyone passes judgement upon either of the two, in regards to the level of effort put in (something you can't judge) or in terms of poetic ability, no one's gunna stop you. But, just remember from here on out, ANYTHING GOES! :twisted:

Worlds collide, man, worlds collide.

6-5

It's tight!

Don't get me wrong, I think Wank's entry is great, I had just not expected something so epic. With time constraints obviously that made my entry a bit daunting so instead of trying to take him head on, I busted a sneak attack. Short, poignant, to the point. My style.

Win or lose. I like the poem, so I'm cool with that.

This is really hard... but my vote goes to Kenny...

You got "IT," man.

That's awesome.

6-6!!!

Now if only one of you would get 60 unanswered votes in a row, we'd be in business.

Eyesore.

Eyesore. I mean, it really spoke to me man. I was like whoa! This is like applicable to my life, man.

I simply vote for whoever seemed to put the most effort into their writing. Obviously Sir Wanksalot had a lot of fun doing this, and while it is completely silly, you can't help but like it. In the last round I voted for Zad even though I didn't really care for his poem, but in my humble opinion it seemed like he pushed himself a little more than Kathariaan. So, Eyesore, like has been said already, I would have liked to have seen something more. Where the hell are the rap skillz man?

Ken's poem is concise and contains no more than it already has because it needs no more.

I envision it as the lyrics to a Discordance Axis song.

Sure that's one way to look at it. But judging from his comments I think what happened was he saw Wanks epic story and didn't think he could compete with it, so he just threw something on there and said "well I'm too busy." I'm not trying to be mean or anything, I just don't think that one minimal verse was his original intention. I guess it boils down to humor vs. serious. I personally prefer serious writing, and I understand that "this is all that it needs to be" argument for Eyesore's one verse, but like I said, I think Wank spent more energy on his writing so I voted for him.

Again, not trying to be a dick, I like both of these, just explaining my vote.

No, no. I didn't just throw something up there. I actually put some work into that poem, but you're right, I didn't have hours to spend on something as long as Wanks' entry. But see, had we simply PM'd each entry to NFAE then you would likely have gotten a poem similar to the one I did enter, as my style is often like this.

Wanks did spend a lot of time on it and I didn't have time to go head-to-head, so I simply wrote something in my style. You can't fault me for that. =)

This is hard.....

Sir Wanksalots was the first one to really make me laugh, and the first one where ive actually sang the lyrics in my head and tried to imagine the music accompanying the words. It coiuld be dismissed because its not serious, but it had great energy and di flow very well. I'd say the most song like rather than poetic so far.

But Kens was really good poetry. It was short, but as long as it needed to be to make its point. Not full of imaginative metaphor or anything, but the message is great, and its use of poetic techniques is satisfying enough for me to like it.

So the vote is for Ken! Best poem ive seen yet.

All of you are saying that Wanks spent a long time on that, yet the guys hasn't even posted since. Maybe he whipped that sucker up in the same amount of time as Ken's poem, eh? Which would be pretty fucking cool if you ask me... Yeah I know, yadda yadda yadda... My vote goes for Eyesore... When I first saw Ken's poem I didn't even get it. I was so smacked in the face by "Fortress of the Foetus Eater" that I didn't even consider voting for that tiny poem!!! After reading it again & understanding the meaning, the fucker actually hit me pretty hard & I almost fucking hate Ken for ever creating it!. So in other words. THANKS KEN, YOU'RE FUCKING BRILLIANT!!! And also Sir Wanksalot!!! You, my friend, are extremely talented & have this spontaneous & uncanny ability to make people laugh & like/fall in love (with) you. :mrgreen: [/u]

Ken, although I'm sure he's put that up before...

Actually you're right on the money there. I wrote that monstrosity in about 20 minutes because I'm in the middle of assignments and couldn't really devote much time to subtlty. I really don't expect votes just on the sheer size of it, I just tend to ramble when I get an idea going.

It was either that or a punk song called "I Was a Teenage Handbag".