Competition: Serenity before Calamity

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Serenity before Calamity

The moment before a breaking storm. The stillness prior to an unraveling cataclysm. A lingering pause, soon yielding to violence.

Explore what these things mean to you in a poem of at least two stanzas long. Valid submissions accepted in .pdf, .doc or .docx formats, as well as the submission text box. Most insightful entries awarded Fourth Level Crescents.

Participation and placement will also result in earning points toward the parent competition:

1st place will receive 4 points
2nd place will receive 3 points
3rd place will receive 2 points
Participation will earn 1 point.

Competition Information

Parent Competition: HQD Vacation Series
Organized by: Aedile Tali Sroka
Running time: 2019-06-17 until 2019-06-24 (8 days)
Target Unit: House Qel-Droma
Competition Type: Poetry
Awards: Fourth Level Crescents
Participants: 3 subscribers, of which 3 have participated.

Results

1st place

Blade Mistress Alaisy "Aphotis" Tir'eivra

Member

Blade Mistress Alaisy "Aphotis" Tir'eivra

Textual submission

The Gathering Storm

I was uneasy, troubled and my mind stirred.
Prepared, outfitted and weapons readied.
There was a stillness, nothing could be heard.
Meditation steadied nerves, I had studied.

There was no peace in the gathered crowd.
The pressure of a tempest about to burst.
Stop. Stay your ground and be proud.
Get ready, for they will give us their worst!

Placement

1st place

2nd place

Magik

Member: Magik
Submission: Magik opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement: 2nd place

Blade Master Aiden Lee Deshra

Member

Blade Master Aiden Lee Deshra

Textual submission

Tempest Winds
Bellowing in the distant sky
I feel your pain
Rain streaming, a tear in your eye

Fear not
The destruction you are prone to bring
In your way
Nothing is safe, peasant or king

Until the End
The silence before windbreak
Serenity is a mistress false
A peaceful thought I just can't shake.

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Placement

No placement