Poetry Contest: Tip your favorite poems

[Peter Lambert]

Hey Everybody, let's try something different!

The contest is over now, but you can still post your poems with an address. Send tips to the poems you like.

Poetry Contest

How creative and poetic can you be, BitcoinTalk? Post your poems for a chance to win at least 100 mB!

Make them happy, make them sad, write about bitcoins or write about something different, just write a poem, post it in this thread and you will be entered to win the grand prize.

Rules:
The Overall Best Poem will win the prize of 100 mB (0.1 bitcoin) (plus any tips from other readers). Depending on submissions, additional prize categories may be added (funniest, most eloquent, best love poem, most creative, etc.)

I will select my favorite submission in one week, so the judging will happen on Thursday, June 6th 2013. Anything posted by the time I read to the end of the thread will be eligible to win.

Judging will be done by me. Posting of a poem shall constitute acceptance of these terms and nobody is allowed to complain about my choice of winner.

Poems must be your own original work.

Multiple entries are allowed, but users will only be eligible to win in one category.

Poems can be in any form, language, whatever you want. I only read English, so I doubt any other language will win, but you can go ahead an post  it if you really want.

Along with your poem, post a bitcoin address. Anybody who likes may send tips to the poems they like. Tips sent will in no way affect the selection of the prize winner.

If you would like to help fund this or future contests, send bitcoin donations to: 1HboPPSM9UDanTm75Q1LY6W7bNjnv8gzHP

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If you start reading this thread after the prize date, you can still contribute and possibly receive tips if your poem is good.

[Foxpup]

A grocer once sold lots of oranges.
Alas, his slippery floor injures.
  When the customer sued,
  The grocer was screwed.
He lost everything, even the door hinges.

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[Foxpup]

I hope a limerick is ok, it's a bit wordy but this is my best shot:

There was once a man whose life couldn't be finer,
Until one day he decides to build the worlds biggest miner,
He ordered 100 units from butterfly labs,
After seeing all those pre-order ads,
Now he is eating scraps from the dumpster outside the diner.

jimmijames was quite a funny man.
But his limerick just wouldn't scan.
  He put up a good fight,
  But try as he might,
It just wouldn't work. But it can:

A man whose life couldn't be finer,
Decided to build the world's biggest miner.
  He called Butterfly Labs,
  After seeing the ads,
And now he's a poor dumpster diner.

1D2TJttBqgpaRphbxC5swpdRymSpJyHAa1
(Please only judge the first verse, as the second is (obviously) not my original work.)

[Este Nuno]

six confirmations
now secure in the blockchain
gift from Satoshi

1HmTGYq8YbroqpRmKBZ5XUpzbsF94PiseL

[No 1]

Deep riveting black darkness!
Shivering cold the light cascades in dim fashion.
Then came btc..

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[acs26]

I usually do sad, dark, or tragic poems. So here's a try at a happy one:

There once was a man named Dank,
He wanted to buy a Hookah Lounge,
Yet he had no money at all,
So he asked for over half a million dollars online.

Because you see, Dank was a scammer,
He scammed tons of people.
He scammed my dad,
And my mother.
That dirty, dirty scammer.

Though it was obvious,
I cannot say,
My mom and dad didn't have enough money left for the three of us.
So there was a man,
A man named Felix,
Living at another place.

But that's okay,
Because now Dank will wonder,
Yes he'll wonder,
Why nobody else was stupid enough to fall for his scam.
But one day I'll find him,
And I'll surely scam him,
And then I'd get my half a million back.

But so far that's only a dream,
So if you see a man named Dank,
Find the man named Felix and tell him,
Because then,
I'd give you immortality,
And also ten BitCoins.
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[SgtSpike]

A white horse fell into the mud.

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[Este Nuno]

Are we allowed multiple entries?

[Peter Lambert]

Are we allowed multiple entries?

Yes, you can enter multiple entries. I will update rules.

@SgtSpike: You forgot to add a bitcoin address.

@acs26: You call that happy? It is downright depressing!

[SgtSpike]

Are we allowed multiple entries?

Yes, you can enter multiple entries. I will update rules.

@SgtSpike: You forgot to add a bitcoin address.

@acs26: You call that happy? It is downright depressing!

My bad!

[moxiefoxie31416]

one hundred million
satoshis to a bitcoin.
small steps toward fortune.

[moxiefoxie31416]

OOPS forgot my address: 1QEG4HwcgH3i6M9fAVtsYtk2voygz1Dku8 -moxiefoxie31416.

[ganabb]

We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that's the burden of being alive.

[ganabb]

  ;Dforgot my address: 1GsyyS3cJb1DfpBSCi1boSAKWs6kdmDgqi

[alchimista]

Once upon a time i was mining with luck
then with Difficulty, i got stuck
i pray and wait for my ASIC truck
but seems i've lost my money, what the fuck!

164Z6E6caSvRVXMgmdoemXYdJkCk6dhmYZ

soz, i'm not from an english language country

[flavius]

cocks in my ass
poop in my swash
piss in my ear
not a spic in sight

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[acs26]

Shudder with me,
Under the sea,
I see you clearly,
Blue as me.
If only I could tell,
You how much you mean to me,
You'd be bluer than me,
And any shad in the sea.
Shudder with me,
Under the sea.

Third Entry:

Tell me what,
Tell me where.
Tell my why,
Tell me there.
I'll be with you,
As you see.
I'll spring within the flowers,
Every single little tree. (Yes, I know 'baby' trees are called saplings.
(Yes, I was lazy with this poem.)

Fourth Entry:

I am a skeleton.
I am a leaf.
I am the dead,
You better believe.
I am a yowl.
I am a scream,
And every growl.
I am everything,
Yet I am nothing.
Please wake me up from my delusions;
I became bankrupt this morning.

1HPmaY55bYmK6CzkBBXPgyWim7rdtVn7Ne

[flavius]

cock in my ass
dick in my mouth
white whales abound
pregnant children around

[acs26]

Mistaken I am,
Of the soft calm sea.
The water it tickles me,
And cradles me within it's arm.
The sea is smooth,
So loving,
So much.
So big the sea is,
Yet smaller than me.
I wish I could take the water,
And the seven seas,
And hold them in my heart,
But that cannot be.
I can only do one thing;
And that's love the sea.
Yet it's so comforting.
I just can't say goodbye.
But with my strength,
And one last whisper,
I say, "Goodbye sea."
And then I glide in the endless blue.

1HPmaY55bYmK6CzkBBXPgyWim7rdtVn7Ne

[dancupid]

The internet's a landscape made of dreams,
a place where freedom's always guaranteed.

But freedom at this price is not worth paying,
it's not freedom when life becomes a plaything.

A dalliance through emptiness, a cipher,
the children all just following the piper.

Children need a lesson to survive
but bitterness will never let them thrive.

Hope in sun and air now long forgotten,
the human race finally at rock bottom.

Hope in a box in a small child's hand,
Rats running fast across the sand,

the water pushing hard against the shore,
the future as enticing as a gaping jaw.



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edit: late edit