contest winners, new feature announcements

Wow. What a coincidence! I actually just posted my first “serious” haiku yesterday. But before I get into that, here’s one I wrote to be funny:

Haikus don’t make sense
They seem like random phrases
Hippopotamus

And here’s the one I posted last night.

Haikus for the Violent

A harried nation
Peopled with the ignorant
Winter is coming

We meet stagnation
Acting like we’re sycophants
But we’re just bumming

Standing ovation
March to war like elephants
To sounds of drumming

Bloody vocation
Cheering for the triumphants
While snows are coming

(one of my criticisms with haikus was that–dammit!–they just don’t rhyme! So I tried to “fix” that.)

Cheers

Posted by Santos Discar on 7 November 2009 @ 2pm

Annie,

I was just wondering why you quit posting my poems. It’s been well over a week since I submitted my last two poems and they never were posted on the leader board. Also, I never recieved any notification via e-mail of my daily prizes for Ten Brothers or Come With Me.
Tim I. Brumley

Posted by Timothy I. Brumley on 8 November 2009 @ 11am

Hi Timothy,
Poems are posted on the leaderboard automatically by our system. The leaderboard shows the top poems based on the average rating of the poem and the number of votes it received. The leaderboard is updated daily.

The leaderboard shows poems that were rated the day before. Your poem, The Amber Nicole, was on the leaderboard on Nov. 4th for ratings it received on Nov. 3rd. However, if your poem does not get rated on subsequent days, it will not appear on the leaderboard. Your poem, The Butterfly, is on the Daily leaderboard today for a rating that it received yesterday.

I’m sorry that you did not receive emails for your last two poems that won the Daily Contest. You should have gotten an email on Oct. 30th and one on Oct. 16th. I will check with our support team and ask them to send the emails again.

Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 9 November 2009 @ 10am

Please Rate!

How do some get so many
To rate their poems?
Just where do these people come from?
Some have twenty, thirty and more (to rate theirs).
Seems like I can only get one… me.

So what is thier secret?
I’m losing my mind,
If I haven’t lost it already.
Something’s not right.
Something’s amiss.
Something has got to be shady.

A number of poems are submitted each day.
Anyone read one written by me?
There’s “Hi” and there’s “Bo”
There’s John:3 or 4…something?
And there’s “You’re My Virtual Reality.”

Please rate one of my poems.
Any poem will do,
As long as you rate at least one.
I’ll be checking back soon,
Anticipating a score.
A low one is better than none.

Thanks!

Posted by Rainy on 11 November 2009 @ 3am

My Haiku

There is no disease
As deadly as man’s hatred,
No cure like his love.

Tim I. Brumley

Posted by Timothy I. Brumley on 11 November 2009 @ 11am

Rainy,

I as a matter of coarse do not rate my fellow poets work because I know that I cannot be impartial. So then why try. There is $5,000.00 at stake for the winner, and I don’t believe that anyone can honestly vote impartially against themselves. This is in my opinion a bad practice that promotes stagnation, cheating, and animosities. So I choose individually a higher standard for myself by not participating in that particular process. However, if I knew your work, I would rate it for you as fairly as humanly possible considering the circumstances

Posted by Timothy I. Brumley on 11 November 2009 @ 1pm

Can someone tell me how to access my poetry. I have not been here since they changed and it appears that my poetry has disappeared. and I cannot locate a place to look up poetry by author like the old site. thanks

Posted by LuAnne on 14 November 2009 @ 8pm

Hi LuAnne,
Welcome back to the site! All of your poems should still be available on Lulu Poetry. We have recently changed search so that readers can find poems based on name, title, topics, keywords, and tags. With over 14 million poems on Lulu Poetry, our search gives you wide range of results. This is just the first step in our new search, and we are working to refine and improve it.

The best way to locate your poems is to visit your profile page. After you log in, click the blue “Account” link at the top right of the page. This will take you to your profile and a list of your poems. Since you were a member of http://www.poetry.com before our site update in August 2009, you will need to Claim Your Profile in order to log in. If you have trouble with registration or claiming your profile, please contact our support team at help@poetry.com.

If checking your profile does not return all of your poetry, an easy work around is to copy and paste full_name: “your name” into the search field (be sure to replace your name with the full name you published poetry under and keep the quotation marks), which will pull up all of the poetry listed under the pen name of your poetry. This step will become unnecessary as Lulu Poetry continues to index content and refine the search.

Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 16 November 2009 @ 12pm