Aridni’s Poetry Contest: Mixing Business with poetry
We are having our first ever poetry contest here at Aridni, but with a little bit of a twist. We want to see poems that relate to entrepreneurs, business, and finance. We want to find out how many Bukowski-Buffets, how many Walt Disney-Whitman’s and how many Ralph Walton Emersons are there out there and reading our little site.
We want to see how funny/creative/poetic you can be about money. Any form of poetry is accepted, so if you call it a poem, so do we! We’re looking for creative expressions on money, business, stocks, and just about everything! If we would talk about it on Aridni, then it is fair game.
The contest will go until the end of March, so if you need time to craft a masterpiece, you have a little. However, there is no limit to the number of entries that you can submit. So let your little poetic heart go wild!
PRIZES!
We’re giving away a couple of Amazon gift certificates to the winners.The winner of the best poem will be given a twenty dollar certificate.
One random entry or trackback will be awarded a ten dollar certificate. Every poem–If you have a website / blog and would like talk about the contest, you’re eligible for the randomly selected price. Make sure to send a trackback to this article.Rules
- 1. Poems must relate to Aridni topics
- 2. One entry per comment… submit as many times as you wish.
- 3. Contest ends Saturday March 31, 2007.
- 4. Tell others about the contest!
Well, perhaps number 4 isn’t exactly a rule, but depending on the response we’ll be able to host future contests, prizes, and events. We will announce the winners on April 4.
Get out your feathered ink pen and a stack of paper and start crafting some rhymes about making those dimes. Oh wow, I’m off to a good start!
Post your submission in the comments section below. Remember to use a valid e-mail address so we can pass over your prize.
My investments were safe, as good as cash.
then the market, it acted quite rash.
Now my whole ‘folio is down in the trash.
March 1st, 2007 | #
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March 5th, 2007 | #
Here’s some bread for some bread at the store.
Bring back change or you’re toast, cause we’re poor.
Get me wheat bread or white.
Then I’ll toast it quite light.
But this dough ain’t for anything more.
March 5th, 2007 | #
The affluent prosper quite well,
As their savings continue to swell.
It is great to be rich.
Destitution’s a bitch.
You might say that it’s taxing as hell.
March 5th, 2007 | #
Aint a poet
I know it
Real estate is about buying
So later you won’t be crying
Still many a souls will a weep
As their empires fall to their feet
Dave
http://businessadvicedaily.com
March 7th, 2007 | #
Haiku 1
I am unemployed—
Cash ebbs and flows like the tide—
Shamed, I call mother
March 7th, 2007 | #
Haiku 2
Jealous of a cat
For she has no money woes
And her food is cheap
March 7th, 2007 | #
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March 10th, 2007 | #
Have money and have time
no time, have to make money
when there’s nothing left
will their be enough to be happy
March 11th, 2007 | #
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March 11th, 2007 | #
I’ve seen many men throw away their money.
I would even point and laugh and think it was funny.
People will buy gold and expensive liquor.
Little do they know, their debt is getting thicker.
I try to explain and tell them you’re way out of sight.
But all they do is shout and want to pitch a fight.
“Stop judging me! I can spend all my cash.â€
Little do they know, it’s gone in a flash.
After mounds of debt, they come knocking for advice.
Know they realize debt is like a bad case of lice.
Stop buying crap and pay down your debt.
Did you really need to buy a diamond necklace for your pet?
You’ll find your retirement money in your shoes to be sold.
Now sell all your stuff like your baseball hat and your mouth full of gold.
Your life is not over. You didn’t soil it.
But stop throwing money down the toilet.
March 12th, 2007 | #
I save my coins for later.
I think a dime a day should do.
The only trouble is–
I add one dime and take out two.
March 13th, 2007 | #
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March 20th, 2007 | #
Great idea! We love investing poems and built our marketpoetry.com site dedicated to the unique genre. Good luck with the contest. Great to see others sharing this wacky interest.
March 23rd, 2007 | #
life is full of want and need
most will suffer for others greed
money earned and money spent
what is life when your content?
money earned and money spent
just make enough to pay your rent
go to sleep
go to work
repeat until you die
March 23rd, 2007 | #
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March 27th, 2007 | #
Jeweller
he is a master of procurement
an author of delivery
he promises to the display window
a stone from the sunken city
set in the reflection
of the galaxy
he sold light years away
to some eccentric patch of the sky
copyright shakir hasnain
March 29th, 2007 | #
I ruined myself
I ruined myself
on strange terms of enuui
I tore off my pieces
and reached the howl in me
guiltily I chased my shadow
I was the master of disguise
counting footsteps of time
a parallelogram of ruinous memory
a diagonal deepening its case shapelessly
a regenerative compromise a killer state
infected with the static atmosphere
slipping into the heart after the scalpel
and coming back overscored
like an uncollected souvenir
i am late, there is work that needs to be done
i am the runaway clock a locomotive moment
cloaked in a scream
complete,canvas and currency
a bystander in the barter paradox
an accountant in love
with my mysterious liability
that damns me to the rack of me to the lack of me
I am muttering away self tearing through skin
an artist of theft in the gallery of symptoms
for those morbid ideals of urgency
copyright shakir hasnain
March 30th, 2007 | #
credit rating revisited
this is the tale of the credit card
sold ultimately to the devil
by the souless bard
the sales figures comply
with the tone of verse
with which deadlines go by
the limit is beyond imagination
he can buy anything from the way back
to the out of prayer settlement
for this sweet pastime that
dies in love with the grace period
one folly short of the minimum payment
copyright shakir hasnain
March 30th, 2007 | #
Used Bills
used bills
in the counterfiet caress
of your absent minded numbness
make up the ransom of love
by invitation only
this then is the designer funeral
for the hostage sentiment
that dies of a kiss
copyright shakir hasnain
March 30th, 2007 | #
Power to the People
Power to us all
Except for our executives
Who skrewed us all.
Enron
(written like the old time Burma Shave Slogans)
March 31st, 2007 | #
A-amazing webpage
R-responsible for
I-inspiring
D-down-to-earth people who
N-nuture
I-insites into self-employed business
March 31st, 2007 | #
over draft
I am a waif
in the shadow of the sky scrapers
going nowhere
a permanent feature
a market constant
invisible and lonely
just some One
in this equation
that glides through life
in search of a strange variable
a pang of hunger jolts my whole being
there is a sushi bar at the corner
and something papery in my pocket
it must be that forgotten dollar
wait
let me check
ah! its only a poem…a first draft
copyright shakir hasnain
March 31st, 2007 | #
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March 31st, 2007 | #
and the winner is ?
April 4th, 2007 | #
congratulations to the winner…the poem from efipo.com was indeed beautiful. i personally loved jane’s haikus. i loved this contest and ended up thinking about expression in more ways than one. please keep organizing such events ..
shakir
April 5th, 2007 | #
Thanks for your kind words, shakir. Todd and I look forward to the next contest in search of different ways to express ourselves and just have some fun. Nice work, all!
April 5th, 2007 | #
todd and katie ! i am so happy ! i just got the voucher
i think i am going to buy ” golem ” or the titus trilogy .. or perhaps .. the book of quesitons from neruda…
thank you so much for this beautiful experience
April 13th, 2007 | #
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This is just what I was thinking. Great idea for a contest.
August 14th, 2007 | #
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