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December 2003 Contest Entries
Open Theme

1. Hello, Yes First Smile
2. Untitled
3. Untitled Poem #1
4. The Beauty Of Your Heart
5. Our Soft Smiles
6. Throughout Life
7. Remembering You
8. Shy Only With You!
9. Untitled
10. The Presence Of Your Absence
11. Save Me
12. Faded Eyes
13. Remembrances of Tomorrow
14. Lonely Tonight
15. Faded
16. Love’s Final Plea
17. My Joy
18. The Secret Within
19. Feelings of Despair
20. Neon Christmas
21. Gwen
22. Sweet Simplicity
23. Only You Can Choose Your Song
24. A Toast
25. A Warm Wind
26. Unconditionally My Mother
27. I Want Your Name
28. Forget Your Goodbye

November 2003 Contest Entries
Open Theme

1. Lonely
2. After the Fight
3. You
4. A Moonlit Song
5. Ed, Our Dance
6. Rebirth
7. Tides of Emotion
8. Cut Me
9. Heart’s Refuge
10. Winter's Peace
11. Look
12. Void
13. My Last Day
14. My Light
15. Untitled
16. Twinkified Half Notes
17. Superfluous Comma
18. Coconut Aftershock
19. Yellow Jellybeans
20. To My New Love
21. Lonely
22. Dueñas De Nada
23. In Silence He Comes

October 2003 Contest Entries
"Double Award" Open/Things That Go Bump In The Night

1. The Closet
2. The Dream
3. Friends
4. When I Stop Loving You
5. Journey
6. Day of Delight
7. My Life, My Fate
8. Power, Politics, and Greed
9. Alone
10. Blacken
11. Abortion is Homicide
12. New Beginnings
13. Tough Tears
14. Why
15. The "Sunrise"
16. Indigo Moon
17. Grandpa
18. Succumb the Dark

September 2003 Contest Entries
Open

1. Don't Know Better
2. A Life Alone, Sonnet #1
3. The Wedding
4. Best Friends
5. I Know It's Not So
6. Time
7. Reactor Core
8. Love Is Strong
9. Fountain Of Love
10. One Last Time
11. Breathing Alone
12. The Dance
13. The Competition
14. God's Magic Paint Brush
15. Once More For Me
16. Escape
17. Falling
18. Gone Without a Trace
19. Cocaine
20. Wonderful Smile
21. Gone... Without a Trace
22. Lanalorien
23. Fears and Tears - A 9-11 Tribute
24. Cinderella
25. A Single Son
26. A Questionable Fate
27. Maybe
28. Essence
29. Her Last Day
30. I'm Okay
31. Welcome Sun ( a letter of trees )
32. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

August 2003 Contest Entries
6th Annual Guilds Awards

1. Babel for "The Coat" "Poet Of The Year 2003"
2. Darth Budzy for "Galactus" "Best New Poet 2003"
3. Babel for "Beowulf Essay" "Best Poetry Biographer of the Year 2003"
4. Leeta for "Cockney Rhyming Slang" "Best Poetry Resource Writer of the Year 2003"
5. Aussie Lore "Best Participator of the Year 2003 for 11 entries"
6. Matt Russell "Best Second Place Participator of the Year 2003 for 8 entries with 2 HM"
7. Amanda Sielu Paris "Best Third Place Participator of the Year 2003 for 8 entries"

July 2003 Contest Entries
Open

1. Only The Truth
2. Jack And Me
3. Grass Child
4. Shades Of Gray
5. How Can I Love Her?
6. The Valentine
7. Un-heard Voice
8. I've Got A Life
9. On My Knees
10. Jesus Freak
11. Never Know
12. Surreal Feelings
13. Will You?
14. Unloved
15. Abandoned
16. Conflict Of Belief
17. Forever Shall I Remain
18. Chatroom
19. Mystic Breeze
20. Shattered by Lead
21. Salvantresi
22. Disposable
23. An Empty Smile

June 2003 Contest Entries
Dragon/Medieval Times/Fantasy

1. King Or Country
2. Elven Poem
3. The Dragon
4. The Tie Dye Heart
5. Death Of A Planet

May 2003 Contest Entries
Sci-fi

1. Galactus
2. Heroes And Dreams
3. Pain
4. The Things You Do

April 2003 Contest Entries
Open

1. Freedom
2. The Bend
3. What I Feel For You
4. Love Believed
5. Thoughts
6. Roses
7. Who Is That?
8. Thoughts
9. Seed of Evil
10. My Flag
11. The Old Oak
12. I Only Miss You When...
13. Light Of My Life
14. Ginger Ale
15. A Requiem of War
16. Twilight’s Nightmares
17. In Memory of ~Joseph Wright, USAF

March 2003 Contest Entries
Luck/Being Irish/Open

1. The OTF Irish Drinking Song
2. Mt. Washington
3. The Storm
4. And Then She Was Gone
5. I Can
6. The Awakening
7. Enemy or Ally
8. Envy of A Child
9. The Spyder
10. The Dream
11. Pumpkins
12. Their Messages

February 2003 Contest Entries
Love

1. Don't You See?
2. I Love You So Much It Hurts
3. A Vision of My Love
4. The Essence of My Soul
5. In Path of Life
6. The Coat
7. Here and Now
8. Aurora's Ardor
9. A Time For Love
10. Look At Me
11. You're Irresistible
12. Tanquil Luminenscence
13. Mission of the Butteryfly
14. Love Hurts
15. Another Lonely Night

January 2003 Contest Entries
Haiku

1. Fire
2. Brainfarts 1 and 2
3. Flies
4. Rubbish
5. A New Born Baby
6. Beginnings
7. Home
8. Resolutions

Previous Years Contests

• Contests for the year 2003.
• Contests for the year 2002.
• Contests for the year 2001.
• Contests for the year 2000.
• Contests for the year 1999.

Rules and Guidelines
Monthly Contests

1. Each month there will be a Poetry contest.
2. Each month Poetry Guild will set a Designated Theme or Open Theme.
3. All entries must be original work.
4. Do Not Plagiarize:
   transitive senses: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
   intransitive senses: to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
   Taken from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/
5. If you are caught taking using (stealing) another poets or lyricists work or submitting work that is not original then the piece will be removed from the Guilds without notification.
6. Once a poem is submitted it can not be resubmitted a second time
7. There will be one winner per month chosen by an impartial judge unless otherwise stipulated.
8. The winner each month will receive an Award.
9. The judges also decide on Honorable Mentions.
10. The number of Honorable Mentions each month will be left to the discretion of the judges
11. At the Anniversary Ceremony each year there will one winner chosen from all the monthly winners for the year for the conveted title of "Poet of the Year".

If you have any questions please contact Poetry Guild

Thank you.