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Posted By: SpecialK, 10-04-2015, 08:55 AM

The contest will run through 6 PM Sunday the 11th of October - votes will be counted that night. Submissions can be in any written form (no video or audio files) — caption, limerick, motivational, poem or prose — whatever inspires you to describe the photo or catch attention. Submit by replying to the thread.

Contestants may submit more than one entry but it must be in a separate post.

Important: Even if you do not submit an entry, please “like” any posts you feel deserve it as this is how the winner is chosen! And if you DO submit an entry, please also find a comment that you like from among your competitors' efforts and "like" that one as well.

The "thread starter" is the moderator and must post an original photo at the start of the thread.

In case of a tie the moderator will choose one to break the tie. The winner of that contest will be notified ASAP after marking by the current Thread Starter/Contest Host and will become responsible for posting the next original work to be captioned.

Enter often, vote more often. and most important: Have fun !

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10-04-2015, 09:19 AM   #2
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Three monks & a telescope

In winter, three monks, good friends conspire
To climb uphill, to meet at mountain top
where clouds, tumultuous, in a haze aspire
to kiss, embrace and condense in rain drop

Three atop, in ochre, in orange saffron robes
With matching caps, black sandals, varied sock
Discussing dhamma, launching ethereal probes
Three busybodies, alone on a morning rock

A lonely telescope, forlorn, they look, taking turns
Fingers numb, the mind, ceaseless inquiry of the truth
In the mist, revealing little, the fire feeds and burns
The answer lies, perhaps, in the Temple of the Tooth

Lo behold, by heaven’s sake captured, a shot so rare
Three monks in a contest, must be captioned fair.


PS: excuses for my faulty iambics

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10-04-2015, 01:42 PM   #4
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Divining the meaning of life

Three fine monks make good company, I am sure
after sleepless nights, after sparse rice and lentil diet
when the relentless search of truth, is in want of a cure
the early day, spent delinquently in discovery of quiet

Looking through a telescope, idling on thin mountain air
contemplating existence, lost in the kaleidoscope of maya
despairing, making meaning, in the mist, their fair share
ochre robes, on a dull morning, echoing the song of gaia

The search for life’s meaning, so human it is, so humbling
creeping up like the fog, from the lower reaches, always
promising a glimpse, of sunrise, of a luminous beginning
Can it be found in monasteries, in high walled hallways?

But a telescope, yes, surely, if you look well, in a fog
Just as the lotus blooms, in the smelly pond by the bog.


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Does this thing have film?
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Will this fit on my K-3?
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Mid-week bump for entries.
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Whooee Abdul, take a look, this will near knock your socks off.
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Tomorrow is the last day for entries. Don't forget to vote!
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