Hi all,
I'm one of those half a million folks who jumped on the bandwagon, last minute, and just about managed to beat the deadline, and i really feel guilty about entering the competition this way! Never mind. I am quite excited to see so much talent in a single forum. Glad i joined this list! Nothing turns me on like good poetry.
There are some outstanding pieces, some bits of poetry that i wish i had written myself. But - i also noticed a tendency on many sides to imitate the lyrical meanderings of LSD-ridden metal songwriters, which means that if you can't get a decent rhyme, you think of something random to fill up the poetry and it sounds so abstruse that it passes off as "poetry". The guys who began the trend didn't know what they were doing - LSD the excuse - but it's sad that such styles should catch onto a sober public.
Nevertheless, such incidents are more than made up for by the great songs. There are songs that i can feel myself singing even as i read the naked lyric - that only proves how powerful they are. Way to go, yall!

Pramod
19 years old, and all the way from Bangalore, India

I used to have an open mind, but my brains just kept falling out...