...INAL RESULTS ** \\ 2 winners get 5T each. Prompt 2: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/913962924221206528 Before we get started, some stats. + 48 days since the initial post https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/896629452946108416 + 175 poems have been posted to the minds poetry group. + 42 poets have posted here. + 288 members strong. + more stats (likes, comments, oc/non-oc, avg. wordcount, avg. viewcount) coming soon FORWARD Congratulations for everyone contributing to this group and making it work. I sincerely enjoy the poems being posted. Forget quantity, I'm impressed with the variety and quality passing through here. And these are only the beginning days. Though I did gaze fondly at those stats, as we continue to grow, I want to place an emphasis on quality and engagement -- without the group becoming stiff and formal!! Social media is supposed to be a fluid medium, and it's vitally important we continue to see this as grounds to test new material, think aloud, encourage one another and do so knowing this place is a WIP. We're building a new kind of network here, hopefully one that solves some of the fundamental problems with open, online poetry communities/ problems we're sure to face if we grow. Naturally, as the group continues to legitimize itself as worth investing attention and content in, in using the group to form creative networks outside poetry, more minds will come together to help solve those problems. Let the Prompt be an example of one way to structure a group like this. I want to ramp up the awards offered to winners each round, eventually shortening round time, and further out, have the pot grow via sponsors, which I envision as poets (and other creatives) attempting to sell books and other creative products. I can even so far as imagine a dApp that decentralizes this process so it can work with or without my involvement. WINNERS: .. TIE! 5T: @SatoriD poem: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/908057544333905920 @SatoriD's poem captures the potential of technology and also the hellscape as it relates to consciousness. We have an idealization -- and this is not to criticize -- where the ideas are networks, where new worlds are enterable, the internet as the new reality. With the Web 3, this captured me hard because, it feels like we're on the cusp of a new thrilling chapter to what the internet, and in turn us, are. Even as its a struggle to contend with all the demands it makes on us. The collage technique is very apparent, as this is @SatoriD's signature 'cut-up' method, mimicking the fragmentation of the material he's working with, and opening new doors of association. 5T @moonlit45 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/910891322261786624 @moonlit45's poem, for me, is about voice and plasticity. 'Then it happened. I heard a voice in my heard. Not quite like imagination, and not quite like an actual voice' is a particularly chilling moment. The poem collages pieces of self-reflection and record, teasing apart perception to recognize where 'reality becomes plastic.' Much of the resonance is in the leaps of association juxtaposition asks of us. Take the last couplet: 'Placing things you need in easy reach It's been good work, hard work has been recognized, and the staff are great people.' It threads through ease/challenge. SUBMITTED POEMS: @AndurantKrinn https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/908138859326525440 The collage effect here results in multiple layers like panes of glass passing between the matter and the camera. The poem features @AndurantKrinn's unique, sweeping touch, genuine romance. Bonus: at the center of the poem, he cuts in with Spanish. @LindaDM https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/908723905708085248 This short poem hits sideways, and with power. because the collage turns out to be a kind of warp. starting in one place and evolving somewhere totally different. It's like a poem for Shiva. It's conclusion is final. That's what makes it a warp imo. We begin with an idiom we all know, and extends through more uncommon variations in four lines. The next four lines are taken apart and each step accelerates to destruction. I believe this makes it a warning. @Noyzecat -- https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/910833716954648576 'I've been unraveling' @Noyzecat writes in contemplating the devastations visited in history, specifically of the First Nations peoples of North America. The poem unravels, simmers, twists and curls into knots sharply in process, cutting in two stanzas that 'exhale the smoke', relate personal failure, slant eroticism -- a sublime highlight, throwing such cold statistics into an unusual relief. @TheCryptoPoet -- https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/913183450037063680 I really came to appreciate this beast of a poem in recording a reading of the first section, which you can listen to here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pS7ePztyBorFRQAqLXfFYjgtKQCloIKK/view?usp=drivesdk -- gorgeous, solid meter work and authentic as hell, @TheCryptoPoet spent a long time piecing this together from his journals. It's a journey, and well worth the read. The voice is very distinct and feels great, retains a sense of levity while committing to the piece in a real way. 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