Nevi's Contest

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Welcome poets of the world!! Welcome to Nevi's poetry contest! Prepare yourselves for a poetic journey like none other!!! This is round one, Prompt: Write a poem about a flower, any flower. You must incorporate the scientific name of the flower as well as the common name into the poem. Your poems will be judged by three very capable judges, who I have selected PM all poems to me, all submissions are due by Monday, November 7 at 11:59 pm, my time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=745

SCIENTIFIC NAME ?!?!

Nevi...dfkjghzdkfjg.

Ok Nevi, I see your ridulius rules and for some strange reason I agree, count me in

Lol, we gotta cheat, Temps will do great in this, she knows lots of flowers name and symbols. :P

Thanks for this contest, Nevii!

I'll give it a shot.

Hmmmm.

A rose is
a rose is
a Rosa kordesii.

Interesting

Flowers hey, interesting choice.

Good luck all!

Unique. I'll see what I can do, haven't been feeling very poetic lately.

Very neat. Thanks Nevi!
I'll give this a shot....good luck everyone else.

At the risk of sounding like the sciency tosser that I am... how specifically scientific must the name be? Are we talking family, genus and species? Together? Or one or other will suffice?

Way to confuse us simple minded people, Abby.

It would seem to me that the Genus & Species should be enough, unless a subspecies is more commonly used to denote a specific flower.

What say you Nevi?

"It would seem to me that the Genus & Species should be enough, unless a subspecies is more commonly used to denote a specific flower."

^ Agreed. But thank you, Abby, I hadn't really thought about that. Yes, Genus and Species will suffice

I used genus and species. -shrugs-

For the sticklers, Nevi is one hour ahead of PnQ time.

11:59 pm Nevi time = 10:59 pm or 22:59 PnQ time.

[Don't forget!
In the USA, Daylight Savings Time ends on this Sunday.]

Larry

Lol, what? Flowers? scientific name?

my head is spinning right now.

Ah damn. I was hoping I could get away with just saying "Liliaceae" or something. But "Lilium bulbiferum" it is. errrrr........

Sounds so elegant!

O.o

I used Lilium Superbum. :D

LOL is that real? Don't tell people what you used people! Cmoooooon lol

I don't know, Britt. I may go with Astrid gilbertus,
maybe set it on a beach somewhere, like Ipanema.

;-)

THIS IS FUN!

Two more days people!

When's the time :)?

Rally now :p

Where does Nevi live?

is it PnQ time?

I live in North Carolina, Abed. The time is 11:59 p.m. tonight, my time. There's a link to a clock for my time at the top of the thread

Oh ok.

then deadline is over? :)

No, the deadline is tonight.

Abed, it translates to 22:59 PnQ time, but given the server is not on atomic time shoot for 22:40.
good luck!

Even with the time change will it still show right on the site, though?

Nevi is three hours ahead of me and it's currently 4:12pm. So you have about 4 1/2 hours, a little more.

Thanks to everyone who participated! I got some really great entries, can wait to see how the judging comes out

Hey, I posted earlier, but apparently my post disappeared.

To anyone who is wondering where the entries and results for Round 1 are, I'm still waiting on one of my judges!

But Nevi... You can post the poems for PnQers to read, without the judging :)