Prizes and Stuff

N.B Before I start this post my post labelled Lamentations of the Living now has a poem in it. Please go read it.

Well I'm approaching 5000 views on my blog. YAY! According to calculations on average views a day and stuff it should be about a week until I reach 5000. Which is an awful lot of views. So as a prize to you guys whose views have contribued to this total, I will be posting 10 new poems. And you get to choose! Huzzah! Before joining this blog I'd written 62 poems over about 5 years. From the age of 10 or so. And I was rereading some of them and I thought I'd share 10 with you. Now 22 of them I won't be sharing until I get published *fingers crossed* as if I do ever get published and for some reason you may actually buy it *puppy eyes everyone* then I need some poems thatv you haven't read. So the 22 best of those poems I'm keeping for myself. So the 40 that remain are I suppose my early attempts at poetry, when I wasn't as good a poet as I am now.

So what will happen is I'll post the titles of the 40 poems, the age/date I wrote them and a little fact about each poem. You guys then choose 10 and vote for them in the comments and when I reach 5000 views, the 10 most voted for I'll share with you all.

1. A Cento- written aged 13/14 I think. This type of poem is when you take one line from a poem by other authors and make your own poem from those lines. This one is my only attempt at this poetry form.

2. Ancient Wonders- written 09/02/2009 (aged 14)- This poem is about the 7 wonders of the world.

3. Call of the Morning- written 31/05/2009 (aged 14)- This poem is about the world when it awakens.

4. Darkness- written 16/06/2009 (aged 14)- A rather gloomy poem about darkness and destruction and stuff.

5. Epilepsy- written 22/01/2009 (aged 14)- Written in the style of Roald Dahl's Oompa Loompa songs from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this poem describes my experience of epilepsy.

6. Eye of the Storm- written 20/01/2009 (aged 14)- This poem describes the calmness in the centre of a tornado.

7. Finding a Nutterjack- written  20/01/2009 (aged 14)- This extremely short poem is the first of 4 poems about nutterjacks.

8. I Dreamt About The World's Destruction- written 16/06/2006 (aged 11) This poem is the first poem that I had published. The content is self explanatory really.

9. I wandered lonely as a fish- written 10/06/2009 (aged 14)- A parody of Wordsworth's Daffodils. A rather humorous poem.

10. Inferno- written 16/06/2009 (aged 14)- This poem is about a phoenix.

11. Lexicon Elixir- written 08/06/2009 (aged 14)- This uncompleted poem was really me just trying to use loads of fancy words that rhymed.

12. Light- written 16/06/2009 (aged 14)- This poem is the opposite to the poem Darkness.

13. Lost for words- written 22/01/2009 (aged 14)- Another attempt to use lots of sophistacated vocabulary. Only completed this time.

14. Meteor- written 21/01/2009 (aged 14)- My description of a meteor.

15. Mud- written 16/06/2009 (aged 14)- This poem is about mud. And people suffocating in it. Lovely.

16. No Rules For Me- written 13/09/2006 (aged 11)- This is the only poem that I had to write for homework that is in the 40. It was also the first poem I had to write for homework (the other 2 being in the 22 I'm not sharing).

17. Nutterjacks Forever-  written 20/01/2009 (aged 14)- This is the fourth and final poem in the Nutterjacks series.

18. Ode to a Nutterjack- written  20/01/2009 (aged 14)- This is the second poem in the Nutterjack Quartet.

19. Over The Edge- written 29/08/2009 (aged 14)- This poem is about a waterfall

20. Ozymandias- written 11/11/2009 (aged 14)- This is a clerihew about Ozymandias.

21. Poppies- written 29/05 2009 (aged 14)- A poem about poppies.

22.  Power of Ice- written 09/02/2009 (aged 14)- A grim and mysterious poem about frozen wastes.

23. Sapphire- written 22/01/2009 (aged 14)- A poem about sapphires and how they came to be.

24. Seven Wonders- written 10/02/2009 (aged 14)- Another poem about the 7 wonders of the world. But shorter and less descriptive.

25. Spy of Evil- written 26/04/2009 (aged 14)- Ummm this was written during my let's take over the universe and destroy it phase.

26. Sunrise- written 20/01/2009 (aged 14)- A poem describing sunrise

27. Sunset- written 21/01/2009 (aged 14)- A poem describing sunset

28. The Child and the Witch- written 22/01/2009 (aged 14)- A poem about a witch eating a child.

29. The Iceberg- written 20/01/2009 (aged 14)- Iceberg meets Titanic

30. The Misty Valley- written 29/05/2009 (aged 14)- A poem about valleys. And mist.

31. The Nutterjack- written 20/01/2009 (aged 14)- The third poem in the nutterjack quartet.

32. The Obvious- written 28/09/2005 (aged 10)- The second earliest poem that I still have- this poem is based upon A Guinea Pig.

33. The Shark- written 10/06/2009 (aged 14)- A poem about a shark- but with a twist at the end.

34. The Treacherous Brother- written 29/01/2010 (aged 15)- A poem I wrote about Pyro when I was very very very mad at him.

35. The Tree- written 18/01/2009 (aged 14)- A humourous poem about an undefeatable tree.

36. The Winkle Wonk- written 28/08/2005 (aged 10). This poem is the first poem I ever wrote. Yes. The FIRST ONE EVER. It's a nonsense poem inspired either by Spike Milligan, Edward Lear, both combined, or neither of them. I can't remember anymore.

37. Veni Vedi Visa- written 11/06/2009 (aged 14). A poem about Julius Ceasar and his famous quote.

38. Violets- written 22/01/2009 (aged 14)- A poem about the sweetness of nature.

39. Wind and Cloud- written 16/06/2009 (aged 14)- A poem about castles in clouds.

40. Wind and Waves- written 16/06/2009 (aged 14)- A poem about the sea in all its many moods and tempers.

Phew. There. Done. Now all you need to do is choose 10 of them. That's a quarter. Am I evil for making you choose such a small amount? Yes probably. And the majority were written when I was 14. Only 5 of them weren't. Anyway. Get voting :P