Unforgiving Sea

Just Describe!  (13+) Describe With A Twist! #999337 by Max

This is a poem I comprised for entry in the "Just Describe" contest shown above. It gives you a choice of three pictures. You choose one to describe, and the catch is you cannot use a list of likely words.

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Thanks to help from concrete_angel

The words I was to avoid were:
Japan, Wave, Boat, Wood, Blue, White, Brown, Mountain, Storm, Mad, Rage


         She originally feigned an amiable clemency, gently caressing the hull with her warm milky billows. Her hypnotic undulating motion lured them in, possessing a seemingly conscious sapience, granting safe passage. Above her vast body swirled sociable gusts of crisp ocean air. They advertised their gregarious nature, lightly playing with the semi-lackadaisical seamen; tempting them with false promises of a serene voyage.

         The prodigious Norse vessels forced the tumultuous cerulean sea asunder, revealing her murky sapphire underbelly. This once placid entity, which flirted with the Vikings, massaging them with her silky cream wisps, was well-nigh to turn the tides. She flaunted her might, threatening to engulf the vacillating ships, relentlessly heaving large menacing swells of aphotic brine. Her massive frothy tendrils shot out indiscriminately, in an unyielding effort to rend her now un-welcome guests. They were bombarded by a spate of ominous surges. Just as her tender embrace became a ferocious onslaught of wanton battery, so too the light wafting breeze, became a fierce tempest of insanely strong gales. Ghastly cusped hands jutted sporadically from the sea’s immense steely chassis, grasping for them without mercy, desperately attempting to drag them beneath her violent surface, certainly to keep them eternally imprisoned. What had they done to incite such unbridled scorn?






OK OK... This might make me out to be a bad person or a sore loser, but it is now the 25th of September, so I got to wondering... What ever happened with this contest, why was I never informed, I won? I went and checked it out. The winning poem that was of the image I selected is sub par at best, in my opinion, when compared to mine. I realize I possess a certain Bias as the author of the piece I am supporting, but how about you make the call.

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There it is, and if you want take a look at the other winners of the contest as well, by clicking on the link I have to this particular contest on the top of this thread, I suggest you do so. It is laughable I suppose. I may not have such a strong problem losing this contest, if it was to a somewhat worthy adversary. I do not feel like I wasted my time entering, because I enjoyed writing this poem, and I am glad I did. However, that being said, the judging of this contest has severely warded me away from ever partaking again.