The Life Before Her Eyes Poetry Contest: Enter to win $500!

Enter your poem by May 8th to win the grand prize $500 Amazon.com gift card or be one of five runners up to win a $100 Amazon.com gift card!

Moving poetry is about capturing glimpses of life on paper in an imaginative way. On April 18th, one film will show us how an entire lifetime can be encapsulated by a single, fleeting moment. In conjunction with Magnolia Picture’s The Life Before Her Eyes, SheKnows presents the “Defining Moment” poetry contest.

Please submit a poem that captures a moment in your life in which you had to make difficult choice and how that choice impacted the course of your life. Please email entries to poetry@magpictures.com.

Starring Academy Award®-nominee UMA THURMAN (Kill Bill) and EVAN RACHEL WOOD (Across

the Universe, Thirteen), The Life Before Her Eyes is the new film from Vadim Perelman, the acclaimed director of House of Sand and Fog. The Life Before Her Eyes is an intense and visually evocative drama about the loss of youth, investigating how a single moment in time can define an entire life. Based on Laura Kasischke’s visionary novel, the story hinges on a pivotal confrontation: two high school girls held captive by a gunman and forced to make the terrifying choice as to who will live and who will die.

The Life Before Her Eyes explores the reverberations stemming from the collision of past and future, reality and dream. Life can end in an instant—yet the echoes of possible futures remain inescapable. Moving backwards and forwards in time, it combines the dramatic intensity of Sophie’s Choice with the eerie mystery of a ghost story like The Others.

The grand prize winner (1) will receive a $500 gift card to Amazon.com. Five (5) runner ups will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift card. Please submit entries to poetry@magpictures.com by May 8^th.

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Prize:	$500 and $100 Amazon.com gift cards
Number of prizes:	1 Grand Prize and 5 Runners Up
Contest start date:	April 14, 2008
Contest end date:	May 8, 2008
Open to:	US/Canada residents 18 & over

Comments

Would love to win this.

you have to see it!

I submitted my poem...the movie will be interesting.

cant wait to see it!

cool win

so many comments,how sad that so many people are not out and living, thinking that a mere story or make believe idea are real when so many people has so many stories that are real and true.Tv and movies has made life so less enjoyable and adventurious and lacking the splender of romance.so sad so sorry

So it's a tear jerk flick?

A Life is merely moments Interconnected Like the links of a chain Just moments Some fleeting Some lingering Sometimes singular Sometimes strung together One upon another To make experiences In turn making a life whole Life consists only of moments Moments that comfort Moments that elate Moments of sadness Moments of joy Moments of pain Moments of ecstasy Moments to cherish Some moments are finite Others radiate through a life Like ripples on a pond Left by a rising fish Others remain rooted in the past Becoming distant memories Yet some are perfect moments And are easily recalled In perfect clarity You are my most precious moments

great movie

Looks like a thriller!

that is right

looks like a great movie

Looks very interesting

I can't believe that a story so true to life wasn't placed as a movie years ago.

great movie

Twenty High... Does life hold to a pattern or is there some element I’m failing to see... Does life indiscriminantly order happiness as well as misery... A leaf is enjoying it’s day in the sun. A catipillar happens by and after inflicting misery moves on to the next one. We were. We are. Is what we were and what we are, really what we were meant to be..... The leaf now tattered, life drawn out and dry, ever so wearily clutching to it’s sanity falls from 20 high. Floating on a gentle breeze of mortality, it’s turn has come to die. Is where it stood basking in the sun, where it was meant to be.. Is where it landed from twenty high where it’s was destined to be... Living and growing between indignity. Are they neccesary ingredients or just potpourri... Please, you tell me. Are we suspended twenty high... I was contemplating suicide when I wrote this poem. Shortly afterwards I took 190 pills. I felt that my life at 53 in 2003 had been pointless, without meaning. The woman with whom I was in love with rescued me that day. Then I thought because of our family dynamics we had no chance of ever being together. Now, 5 years later we have been together for four years. Yes my kids abandoned me when I pledged my feelings for the love of my life. They until now have denied me visitation with my grandkids. But Therese gives meaning to my life and a reason to live. I have found contentment.

Life supreme; Life Divine; No Life at All leaves Me Sublime

Love the movie.

Love the movie, so intense, so dramatic,it was filled with love understanding and real life time happening that individuals go. through.