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Re: The Rose That Grew From Concrete ( 2pac Shakur)

...I thought it said The Rose That Grew From Concentrate. I was so confused...

Re: The Ghost of a Flower

...Yeah. It's kinda...not good. That random blob thing in the corner is supposed to be the soul of the flower...

Re: The Ghost of a Flower

I was gonna do The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot, but I can't draw scarecrows...

Re: 10 000 stars - e.e. cummings

VERY awesome bird. Just sayin.

Re: The Rose That Grew From Concrete ( 2pac Shakur)

I loooove this design. Stuff like this makes me realize I really need to work on composition!

Nice design but, Beowulf is literature, not poetry.

danbodenstein wrote:Nice design but, Beowulf is literature, not poetry.

It's an epic poem, I think that counts

Re: The Rose That Grew From Concrete ( 2pac Shakur)

Awesome! This is definitely print worthy.

Re: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Ah, the memories of ninth grade English class. That's a vote from me.

Yep, it may be epic, but it is a poem.

stm027 wrote:It's an epic poem, I think that counts

Re: Air Quoth

First woot shirt in ages that I've really wanted to buy. Voted, and hope it prints!

Re: Miles to go Before I Sleep

love it

Re: He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

I had to look it up to see what this was from, so I thought I'd do the copy/paste work for anyone else who was interested.

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven - William Butler Yeats

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Re: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I love this so much! I'm really rooting for this one.

Re: The Writer

This is my favorite derby. Not only is it inspiring so many beautiful shirts, but I am getting to read so many beautiful poems I never had before.

This is my first derby entry. I would appreciate any comments or advice you might have for me.If you like it, please vote!

Re: The Unicorn

I really like this design. It's simple, but it conveys everything it needs to. I also really like the colors.

Re: The Tyger

Re: The Falling Flower

This is based on the poem by Arakida Moritake;

A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought-
But no, a butterfly.

I was just sketching while thinking of this poem and a cat kind of ended up in there... not sure how that happened.

Re: Beowulf

A little something with not so much froo-froo!

Re: Beowulf

Nice one! Great translation of the poem :D

Re: Do not go gentle into that good night

great idea, great poem

colinlepper wrote:Thankyou guys! i wish I knew how stuff worked better though... i have no idea how to get a link to my design in my posts, and I'm trying to send the hi-res file to derby@woot.com but my emails keep failing! arg!

Did you zip the file?

You can post images in your signature once you've bought something from a woot site. Then it's pretty easy.

Very nice work, I'll say again. +1

Re: The Writer

Thanks for all the comments, guys!

@HeartlineTwist - I've seen them do it once, but it was a daily.

@missmissa07 - Glad you enjoyed it. I ended up taking a handful of poetry classes for my creative writing minor... I uhh, of course, remember everything, but this one is definitely the first that jumps into my head when I think about pretty words and meter and stuff. .....................Caesura!

I had to read this poem in high school. My teacher made me read it with a Scottish accent and everything.

GMV

Re: Trees by Joyce Kilmer

I like how this is portrayed- the way they are growing together reminds me of this wedding I went to where the minister was speaking of "mutating trees" as a metaphor for the growth of love... =)

[quote postid="4935213" user="Dolemite"]If you like Humpty in all his forms, check out this year's winner for Best Animated Short. I will warn you, my wife cried through the last 5 minutes.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Ahhh, thank you! I'm not the only one who cried. REALLY wasn't expecting the ending, and amazing with or without the words!! Can't wait till my son's old enough to appreciate it.

Shaneremail wrote:great idea, great poem

Thanks

Re: Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

Looks like a scene from Scorcher IV: Global Meltdown. "Who left the fridge open." "Here we go again...again."

BTW love the shirt and love the artwork. Well done.

Re: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love your ideas. And also the use of space! I hope it's not too tiny on the women's tee. ;-)

nadine624 wrote:I agree! Blur the edges and put it onto grey maybe, something so it's not so harsh. I love the design but it's too "confined" like that.

I agree. I think this is beautiful, but the harshness of the edge bugs me for some reason. this is the first time I'm looking at the derby contests and i'm fascinated. But I really like this.

Re: Air Quoth

Just when I thought The Raven couldn't been done any other way on a t-shirt. Excellent job! I will be voting for it in the hopes that it will be the final nail in Nevermore's coffin.

Re: Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

Thanks a lot for all those nice (and some weird) comments. I'm very happy to know you've all liked it this much.

BTW, I love A Game of Thrones too. Who's ready for Sunday's season premier?

Re: The Tyger

Oh man, I saw the title and really hoped it would somehow relate to "The Stars My Destination."

Still cool thought.

Re: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

aww i think the sushi bunny is really clever!

Re: A Poison Tree by William Blake

A Poison Tree

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine.
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

~William Blake

except there's a line in the poem about chalk arrows...sorry, I'm a dope! whoops..

Re: Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

This shirt is so well done. My favorite by far.

Re: I am the Autumnal Sun

My take on Henry David Thoreau's poem



I am the Autumnal Sun
Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature
-- not his Father but his Mother stirs
within him, and he becomes immortal with her
immortality. From time to time she claims
kindredship with us, and some globule
from her veins steals up into our own.

I am the autumnal sun,
With autumn gales my race is run;
When will the hazel put forth its flowers,
Or the grape ripen under my bowers?
When will the harvest or the hunter's moon
Turn my midnight into mid-noon?
I am all sere and yellow,
And to my core mellow.
The mast is dropping within my woods,
The winter is lurking within my moods,
And the rustling of the withered leaf
Is the constant music of my grief...
--Henry David Thoreau

Re: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Thanks everyone!

@Spiritgreen-cheers, I hope so too!

@janesko-thanks, glad you like it!

Re: Beowulf

Epic, I would wear this so hard