November Challenge Winner


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Thanks to everyone who voted!

The winners of the December Challenge are:

1st Place - Eyes of an Endless Spring by Batmanswiss.

2nd Place - Circumstantial by ginger_bits.

3rd Place - tie Kirara's Purr by planetgal471 and Ever After by alterfano.

Congratulations, everyone!

I'll be posting the Best of 2007 poll now...

Thanks for the participation, everyone!

To vote, please respond to this screened post with the letters of your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place choice poems.

Voting Deadline: Thursday, January 3rd, 11:59 PM

A) Kirara's Purr
B) The Hunt
C) Circumstantial
D) Eyes of an Endless Spring
E) Ever AfterI hope we see lots of votes, so that we can move on to the ( Read more... )

Title: Ever After
Genre: Angst
Rating: G+
Pairings: Naraku and his Victims
Warnings: It's rather abstract.
Summary: Believe it or not, this was an attempt to combine all three of this month's theme suggestions: Naraku, Happily Ever After and Free Verse. Loosley inspired by the current story arc (Manga Chapters 530+). I plan to repost it on my own ( Read more... )

Title: Eyes of An Endless Spring
Genre: Romance
Style: Free verse
Rating: K
Pairing: InuYasha/Kagome

Eyes of An Endless Spring

I looked into her eyes one day,

and found myself staring into spring.

I fell into her earthen gaze,

I lost myself to her innocence.

She smiled as I stared at her,

a welcoming smile,

a warm smile,

like the sun just after winter' ( Read more... )

Title: Circumstantial
Author: Ginger Bits
Genre: Free Verse
Warnings: Allusions to events in Chapter 534, “Arrow of Shouki”
Character: Inuyasha
Summary: He fears the worst.

Circumstantial
by Ginger Bits

They said I killed her:
     Her blood on my hands,
     Her life at my feet,
     Her death on my head.
          How could they think that?

They thought it ( Read more... )

Title: The Hunt
Genre: Drama/Free verse
Characters: Naraku/Onigumo?
Rating: K+
Title: The Hunt
A/N: You can interpret this with Onigumo as the "prey", or any of the countless demons Naraku has absorbed.

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Title: Kirara's Purr
Genre: Free Verse
Rating: K
Pairings: Kirara|Sango (gen)
Warnings: None
Summary (optional): Not a pet, but something more or less or in between

( Kirara's Purr )

Your challenge is to write a poem based on one (or more) of the following themes.

Stylistic Theme:

Free Verse

Character/Pairing Theme:

Naraku
You may write Naraku singly or pair him with anyone you wish.

Word Theme:

Happily Ever After

You may interpret "happily ever after" any way you wish.

Guidelines:

*You may enter as many times as you want.  You may ( Read more... )