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( )> The poem must also include two words from the word list (below)
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And for anyone that is worried about the Horrorcorn Trio contest don't fret. This contest will be judged after the unicorn contest so you can enter both without fear.

Username: [X]Natty-Chan[X]

Poem Style: Anaphora

Poem Title: It's Everywhere!

Your Poem:

Horror creeps within the night,
Horror slithers through the grass.
Horror lurks among the shadow,
Horror bathes in soquili's fear.
Horror looms in the sky,
Horror hunts for new prey.
Horror is more than ghosts,
Horror is pure terror.
Horror oozes through the blood,
Horror takes control.
Horror feeds off your fear.

Additional Comments: Yay for horror.

EDITED 11/12/11 - now complete!

Username: Sabin Duvert

Poem Style: Trochaic Octameter, with AA,B,CC,CB,B,B Rhyming Scheme ((AKA, the format of "The Raven"))

Poem Title: Kalona's Night

Your Poem:
Those in my village fear this night, terror spreading this fevered blight:
The veil that parts life from death dissolves to make all borderland.
What once was dead now is alive, wicked spirits this night can thrive,
They say if one hopes to survive, Kawani must closely band.
But as sun sunk beneath the sky, not all went as I had planned
On this night, alone I stand.

As I cower within my room, wond'ring what lurks behind the gloom,
On this night that spirits, ghosts and demons roam about the land.
On raven's wings they come, taunting, Kalona's spirits come a haunting,
And their presence is so daunting, surely more than I can stand!
When a murder of kalona set to flight, I am outmanned.
Until dawn I must withstand.

On hearts the grizzly murder feeds, their dark god draws life from the deeds.
Into hidden, twisted hollows Nightmare shadows doth expand.
From the darkness I hear flapping; Closer, closer they are trapping,
at my walls they begin snapping, "Come to dinner!", they command,
"Keep back, native horrors! Go and roam the night of this dreamland!"
But I doubt they understand.

These walls around me seal my doom; I fear that they shall be my tomb
What once I thought was santuary is now no holy land...
In my breast, my heart fluttering; on my lips, prayer uttering
And now my candle guttering; No other weapon at hand,
Wav'ring candle my one shield 'gainst baleful eyes and spectral hand.
Held aloft like burning brand.

Then the walls begin to splinter, letting in the chill of winter,
In my head I still hear strongly words of mother's reprimand:
"Our village never leave your sight, On the eve of Kalona's Night,
If ever hope to reunite." ... But I dismissed her command.
Lunar moonlight in comes streaming, gleaming over wicked band.
Now before my death I stand.



Additional Comments:

Structure of the Poem
Given the theme of the pet, and the fact I've been itching to stretch my poetry fingers to try out a style such as this, I'm choosing the form, Trochaic Octameter, as made famous by "The Raven".
Troachaic meter is a strong syllable followed by a weak one.

Analyzing the Raven (inspired by the beautiful mare), I'm following the pattern through the poem of the same number of syllables per line and rhyming scheme pattern.

For each stanza:

The rhyming scheme is:
AA,B,CC,CB,B,B
And the "B" rhyme remains consistent across the whole poem.

The syllable pattern is:
8/8,
15
8/8
8/7
15
7


Concept
For the story of the poem, I'm blending the concepts of the traditional All Hallow's Eve/Halloween with the shop's/Native American Kalona figure.

The idea being that one night of the year, from dusk till dawn, the veil weakens between this world and the darker one, allowing evil spirits to roam the land. Many of these spirits would be tied to the dark god, Kalona - who appropriately enough is associated with the Raven. They feast on the hearts of the living, adding their victim's remaining life energy to Kalona's own.

In this poem's narrative, a Kawani man was trying to make it back to his vilage before night fell, but got stuck out alone. He found a shelter, but isn't sure if it will be enough to keep the demons at bay till dawn.

Other
Whew! This was more difficult than it looked to follow this scheme, but I'm really happy with how it turned out - and I also used all the words smile

And also, OMFG Nevermore is gorgeous ;_;

Thanks for the opportunity!

Username: Ileatea

Poem Style: Free Style

Poem Title: A time for Soquili's past

Your Poem:
The lunar shadow casts it glow
Haunting light's float ever near
Here raise the spirits starting their show
The phantom faces of those held dear

To see thier loved ones or to cause fear
Before Hallow's Eve falls to dawn
Here we wait for another year
To see those spirits who have passed on.

Additional Comments:

Username: Andranis

Poem Style: Haiku

Poem Title: Shadow on the moon

Your Poem:

Raven casting form
Kawani watching with fear
Lunar eclipse full

Additional Comments: Some info from here - "The Serrano Indians of California believe an eclipse is the spirits of the dead trying to eat the Sun or Moon." It seemed a good fit or the Halloween theme biggrin

Also, the Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, with three lines in the pattern of 5/7/5. I kinda fudged some of the specifics on how it works, I admit... xd ; More info can be found on this Wiki page

Username: elfstar89

Poem Style: Rhyming chain

Poem Title: The Raven-Thief

Your Poem:

The wind sighs through the trees' leaves,
Leaves through which the Hippogryph roves.
The Hippogryph roves, silent as thieves--
Thieves approaching the Ulun'suti's treasure troves.

The Ulun'suti's treasure troves of old knows the Raven,
The Raven in shadow cloaked 'gainst the Ulun'suti's eyes.
The Ulun'suti's eyes flutter toward's the Raven's tiny haven,
Tiny haven hidden from the coming lunar rise.

Rise, oh, arise phantom thief in the night,
Night, whose cloak is with stars pinned.
Pinned in terror is the Raven-Thief, steed of great might,
Great might of the Ulun'suti forgotten as she flees, riding the wind.

Additional Comments: I fondly remember my first creative writing class. The teacher taught us chain poems, a style of poetry I've never seen elsewhere after that class. It's tricky to make it all make sense, since the next line needs to begin with the last word or phrase of the previous line. You get a bonus if the end of the poem ends with the beginning, making it a loop. Bonus again if you can make the mess rhyme. Getting all three to work together is a trick and a half and inevitably sounds like something that would only come out of a Wonderland poet, but go figure.

The motif of the Raven-Thief is loosely drawn from a combo of Native American and Norse myths. Ravens are sometimes painted as tricksters in Native American lore, and dragons and their hoards pop up in the Nibelungenlied. As for the Ulun'suti...the Ulun'suti look sooo much like dragons to me, so even though I know using an Ulun'suti that way is weird, when pitted against a raven-looking Hippogryph...it all fell into place, especially when momentarily thinking back to the introductory event for both breeds this autumn. ^^;

Not a Halloweeny poem, and not much of a Soquili-esque poem, aside from breed usage and centering around two Soquili, but it was interesting. ^^;