POG Poet Laureate - Top 9- Vote Now Open!!

[Nicholasp27]

Here are this round's entries. The poem style was Acrostic, which means the first letter of each line spells out a word. Please read all 9 and then post ur vote, on a scale of -5 to +5, for each of the 9 entrants by 3pm Tuesday. The lowest total score will go home this round [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]


1:

Spent
Afternoon
Theorizing...
Understanding...
Reading...
Deliberating...
Allllmoooost...
YES!

NOW
I'M
GOLDEN.
HOLD'EM
TIME!

...

Playing
Omaha?
God.
Gottabluffgottabluff...
All-in!!!...
Motherf*cker.
Eh.
Next
Time.


2:

Blood on the walls, I don't know why
Rage perhaps, a troubled soul am I
Another penis on my back will make me cry
No, I really don't want to die
David, do you see why
I can fly


3:

Bunch of guys sit down
Ante up
Deal the cards
Bet and raise
Everyone calls
And the moran catches the runner runner gutshot straight!
Trips on the flop die again.


4:

bit by bit the chips go away
under pressure i start to sway
before i get blinded
bounced out before the money
let me see if i can pull off an
extremely desperate move

praying to the poker gods that
u will not have the foresight
seeing it's +ev to call my
hail-mary


5:

Next to act with a pair of Jacks
Open the betting; 100 blind stacks

Loose guy calls, then I flop a J
I bet, he raises - I push, way hey!
Money piles up when we get it all in
I’m way ahead, he’s drawing pretty thin
Turn blanks & the rive- YOU GODDAM LOSER FISH I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU HIT A 2 OUTER I’M GONNA COME KICK YOUR FAT ASS YOU CLOWN - let life tilt begin.


6:

Pensive, I tap my fingers against the table and hum along to the music
Of suited junk in the big blind.
The dealer says "Option", hitting a note sweeter than the Shania Twain melody I sing
- in a low voice so no one can hear me, of course. "Check."
Cyclones in my head
Oscillating, revolving, contorting and twisting, strumming
Minor chords, even as the events of my life seem to play
Me...as arbitrary as the fall of the next card. "Raise."
Is there nothing for which I will take a stand?
Test myself against the path of most resistance? Defy normalcy and safety?
Tell me, what do I represent but mediocrity, mediation, appeasement?
Endlessly accepting the hand I am dealt- in this case a missed flush
Draw- and my opponent is all in. "Call."


7:

do not worry about skill
u can play crappy cards and win still
relying solely on luck is the way to win
relying solely on skill, you'll take it on the chin
only the fishies do well for sure
not those who play tight, because they always do poor
i played in a pogament the other night
seriously, i played well, agressive and tight,
and i came in 5th place, which would not be so bad
but durron came in 3rd, while away, which is sad
i cannot believe i lost to a person who wasn't there
got damn blinds should have eaten him up, this just isn't fair
flopped a good draw, turned the the nut straight
i got it all in, but the river was hate
so the moral of the story, the moral of this poem
has to be if you are not lucky like durron, don't play, just stay home


8:

By the river, my cards were quite lackin'
Looking down, I considered sending 'em packin'
Under significant strain
Folding might look to be sane
For someone else as I push my whole stack in.


9:

OMG, I made the nuts.
Must pot it now against this putz.
A scare card hits the turn, just float.
He bets the pot, did he hit his boat?
A re-raise and he just calls, my flush was good afterall.


votes due by 3pm Tuesday

link to original thread with rules/prelim rounds: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...=0#Post11301258

[Stephen H]

Just to make sure my votes aren't lost in the original thread:

Vote early, vote often! (okay just early. And vote for mine more.)

1) 4
2) 1
3) 2
4) 3
5) 5
6) 5
7) 3
8) 3
9) 2

[VoraciousReader]

1. Very cleverly done. Succinct, says a lot without wasting words. Clever and Expressive. I can almost see the poet reacting and emoting with each new line. +5

2. Not really poker-related, and something about the rhythm was a bit off, but very poignant ending. Nice choice. +1 (would have been +2 if it wasn't so peripheral to the assigned subject).

3. I like it. I'm knocking off for "moran". One of my pet peeve words. +2

4. I like almost everything about this except the second line and the "u". The second line rhyming, especially a kind of questionable use of the word "sway", leads me to expect the rest of the poem to rhyme also. Lovely alliteration though and very nice phrasing. +3

5. Perfect rhythym, nice rhymes, and conveyed a lot with a very limited number of lines. Funny and surprising. +5

6. I wish you'd echoed the music metaphor in the last couple of lines. I like the "music of suited junk". More serious than the others...not bad, just different. Overall, nice imagery. Phrasing and structure seem a bit awkward. +4

7. LOL. +2

8. Rhythm is somewhat off. Very clever word use and choice. Comical. Fun. Nice relationship to the acrostic word. +3

9. Nice rhythm and phrasing. Love the rhyme of nuts and putz. +4

[Stephen H]

[ QUOTE ]
1. Very cleverly done. Succinct, says a lot without wasting words. Clever and Expressive. I can almost see the poet reacting and emoting with each new line. +5

2. Not really poker-related, and something about the rhythm was a bit off, but very poignant ending. Nice choice. +1 (would have been +2 if it wasn't so peripheral to the assigned subject).

3. I like it. I'm knocking off for "moran". One of my pet peeve words. +2

4. I like almost everything about this except the second line and the "u". The second line rhyming, especially a kind of questionable use of the word "sway", leads me to expect the rest of the poem to rhyme also. Lovely alliteration though and very nice phrasing. +3

5. Perfect rhythym, nice rhymes, and conveyed a lot with a very limited number of lines. Funny and surprising. +5

6. I wish you'd echoed the music metaphor in the last couple of lines. I like the "music of suited junk". More serious than the others...not bad, just different. Overall, nice imagery. Phrasing and structure seem a bit awkward. +4

7. LOL. +2

8. Rhythm is somewhat off. Very clever word use and choice. Comical. Fun. Nice relationship to the acrostic word. +3

9. Nice rhythm and phrasing. Love the rhyme of nuts and putz. +4

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I can't even compete with this critical review, much less actual poetry.
My goodness.

[shortline99]

1. +4
2. +2
3. 0
4. +2
5. +3
6. +5
7. +4
8. +3
9. +3

[aaronk56]

1. +3
2. +1
3. +1
4. +2
5. +4
6. +4
7. +3
8. +2
9. +3

[Shrug]

1) 5
2) 3
3) 3
4) 2
5) 3
6) 4
7) 2
8) 3
9) 4

Contestants - Please always take my scores with a grain of salt.
My Mama always told me my taste was all in my mouth. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[FCBLComish]

1) +5 Golden
2) +1 (sorry Mets, not poker related. Well, sort of, but not really)
3) +3 Hastily put together
4) +2 (use of "U" was a little lame)
5) +4 Nice
6) +3 I can relate to this one
7) +3 Somehow reminds me of The Fresh Prince
8) +2 Not terrible
9) +2 Average.

I apologize in advance to the people who I offended with my scoring.

[metsandfinsfan]

lol @ thinking mine is #2

[metsandfinsfan]

i mean brandi is my girl and everything but that's not mine