[Week 1] S. Issue 7-3 v. Memento 0-0 (VOTE NOW!!)

[Quriosity]

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[S. Issue]

CHECK! Hopefully I can find the time to get something done.

[Memento]

Here to say hello

[S. Issue]

"Love Thy Self"

Her hands wrap around the helix, doubled
with elbows crooked along the steel stubble
of a gleaming table. The child grows in her hands
with extremities sprouting, teeming with glands
and veins that plan the path early in human life.
Full of strife, the child will battle with all of his might
to break the plight laid for him since the womb
until the tomb. But he has one finger too few
and the missing part is of utmost importance.
The child grows rapidly into a woman, gorgeous
as the block she was chipped from in such haste,
disgraced by the mistake her mother might take
her own life. Or possibly live her life in regret.
But when it comes down to it, she likes her best.
Spitting image, copy of logic and beauty as well,
so she could never end life and be sentenced to hell.
Instead she smiles, and in a few hours the newborn
is fully grown. Taken to the shore dressed like whores
she takes out her camera and begins to insist.
Never thought she would become a narcissist.

Just to show. Goodluck bro.

[Memento]

The Window


Can't you see what our love has done? It left a window in the skies
Braced below the sun, it magnifies, burning incense in what I despise
Hovering through the sky, impessive as a lark's flight... Incandescence,
before the rooster cries, bravely shines in dark nights, singing blessings
Stringent lessons of astronomy peering through the window at the stars
Millions of gas bulbs illumine... I zoom in to see the antares from afar
The earth is suffering, yet single file lines are required to save yourself
We gain much wealth, regrettably secondary is to stay in good health
Taking pride in our intelligence reportedly not as much as our melanins
Striving to succeed as human beings, yet caught up in political shenanigans
All things must come to an end, the great leaders peviously entailed
From the opposite side of the window, they know we won't prevail

A wide-eyed figure loomed over a lens, observing creatures in a galaxy
Through enhanced technology, he heard a preacher citing fallacies
The wide-eyed figure exclaimed in rebuttal that he was what he was
A silence fell over the church as the preacher looked utterly buzzed
Every stained glass window in the church building shattered
The people were amazed when they saw the pieces scatter...
into the form of a dark cloud, which emitted smoke to their sight
And in the cloud, a formed message that appeared in bright lights
"And in case I don't see you: Good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!"

[J o o k]

Upping for votes!

[Everest]

Issue-- Great flow and some sophisticated writing.,, and very poetic.. maybe too much so as sometimes I was lost..and it wasn't until the last line that I understood why you chose "love thy self" as the title.

Momento-- Got confused how each verse played into eachother..lol.. I mean the first verses I was like "whoah, this guy took "the window" and flipped it to hole in the ozone"
second i was just like" uhmm? i don't understand how we got here"


however, Momento, your first verse pleased me so much, that in all thing considered.. I'ma hand my vote to =MOMENTO..

thanks guys,, good work on both ends

[Lucifa]

short battle ..

Iss - I tipped you to win this one .. maybe you didn't have much time this week or thought he'd no-show .. but this felt unfinished .. and considering the lengths your pieces were last season it's the only reasons I can think of as to why you only gave this short piece .. for what it was it was good .. just underwhelming, undersized and ultimately underachieved ..

Mem - kinda creative .. nice abstract work on this topic .. this was again a short piece .. but it did have a more "complete" feel to it .. maybe the topical approach helped with that feel ..

Vote = Memento .. both shared a fairly equal ground in terms of 'mechanics' .. but Iss let me down by either rushing/half hearting/thinking he had a freebie/or just plain not giving a damn .. his verse didn't feel complete or overly cohesive .. so I gotta go with the verse I felt read more solid ..

[S. Issue]

Yeah guys, sorry to disappoint. Had no time this week and didn't want to give away a freebie by no showing. So, you got my 16ish. Good verse though Memento. Definitely nice to see some skilled cats rolling through the league. Good luck in the future. I am out for a bit.

[Got Life?]

eh i unno...

s.i... you're constently disappointing me, always never coming to your full potential and I feel had you wrapped this piece up that you would have won easily, but instead you just left it hanging...

mem - i know you haven't been around for a while, but cut down those bars, they're brutally long and the flow is painful to catch especially in an abstract piece...

mem had a more "complete" feel to his verse so i'll give him my vote.

[Insanevillian]

vote memento

i have to agree with the consensus here

standard issue

your verse was okay but i nkoe you, i originally brought you here to this league and this wasn't the SI of old... if you woulda took just a little bit more time and perfected those 16 bars youcoulda took this

memento - very abstract piece and your lines are really long to the point twista would have to catch his breathe to rap this piece...

i really enoyed what you tried to do in the begining however as the piece pushed along and you finished the piece...

[-Sephiroth-]

S. Issue - I thought you should have wrote more to it, other then that it was ok for what it was.

Memento - The bars were kinda stretched, too wordy. This was also kind of short but you did more with your topic then your oponent so just for that you got this.

vote - Memento

[Bonnie Bathory]

Again, only voting cuz I have to I don't mean to kick the dead horse er w/e but vote goes to Memento...

S.I. this could've been a really great piece I was reading it thinking there was another verse under the picture and when there wasn't I was kinda just like "..." like "uhh... ok" yuno what I mean... flow good, choice of words good, abruptly ending short story bad

Memento... your piece wasn't much longer but you at least had a start a middle and an end that were all pretty consistantly well-written and engaging. Your vocab was great, flow good, story unique and I didn't walk away feeling unsatisfied

[Memento]

[Week 1] Lucifa 10-4 v. Alias2 0-0 (VOTE NOW!!)
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[Lost Prophet]

S, I was stuck in the middle about this verse. It really had the potential to be a good verse, but you obviously didn't give it your all. I enjoyed it for what it was, but there was a huge lack of depth, in my opinion. I found myself getting into the story, then suddenly, it ended. I know you can come harder than that, and I expect you will next week.

Memento, this was nice. I never even knew you wrote, but this was a pleasant surprise. Your vocabulary was on point, and the flow was smooth. The creativity was evident within this verse also. Good writing.

Vote - Memento

[Quriosity]

Memento wins 7-0 in votes