View Poll Results: For Love of a Place

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  • The Greatest Light

    2 10.53%
  • Kiawah Island, SC

    4 21.05%
  • Love of a Place

    3 15.79%
  • The Breath of Home

    2 10.53%
  • Home

    5 26.32%
  • Green Mountains

    3 15.79%
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    Sancho voted, even though there wasn’t a bawdy limerick in the whole shebang.
    Uhhhh...

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    OK, the poll will really, truly close at 5 p.m. Central Standard time today. I swear.

    If not a tie, I like a close race, and it looks like we have one! Woot! Thanks for voting, Gilliatt and Sancho-even if there weren't any limericks.
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    All are at the crossroads qimissung's Avatar
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    This poll is now closed.
    "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
    "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai
    "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka

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    All are at the crossroads qimissung's Avatar
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    And the winner of the For Love of a Place poetry contest is


    Home by MystyrMystyry!


    Home

    Deep in the forest and under the bridge
    Find a boat and ride the river on and on
    And eventually you will arrive at a ridge
    Overlooking a vast jungle-filled canyon

    Get out at the pier and peer all around
    Start out toward the imposing mountain
    Board a funicular carriage which is bound
    To the snowtop, and a natural fountain

    Look to the East and you'll see blue sea
    Green in the West, different but the same
    Grab a snowboard and glide down easily
    You find an old mine, but the lode is lame

    Been shut down for years due to danger
    A little way in a million mushrooms bloom
    Pick some but run for it - no park ranger
    It's rickety and dusty, and anytime doom

    Nearby there's an old abandoned shack
    Abandoned by someone, though not by me
    It's still standing by magic and hard yakka
    Cloaked by oak trees from a distant country

    Where is this wonderful place you wonder
    Such natural beauty still exists somewhere?
    Land of Long Cloud, the islands Down Under
    And as in Iceland geisers, and purest of air
    "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
    "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai
    "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka

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    You Little Beauty! Bonsa! Ripper! Good on ya mate!
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    Can I guess? Did Delta write Kiawa Island?
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    Sorry. I didn't enter this time but I'm cheering on the Aussies Oi Oi Oi!
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    What the- How the- What the-!?!

    Thankyou Qimi and Delta, and everyone who voted for it!

    They were all of a high standard, and were I able to vote I would have had as tough a time as most of the comments suggest.

    Thanks again!

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    Congratulations my friend! You're poem had such skill. Lovely!

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    Quote Originally Posted by qimissung View Post
    And the winner of the For Love of a Place poetry contest is


    Home by MystyrMystyry!


    Home

    ...Pick some but run for it - no park ranger
    It's rickety and dusty, and anytime doom...

    ...It's still standing by magic and hard yakka
    Cloaked by oak trees from a distant country...
    A couple of lines that tipped the scales for me^

    Congratulations.
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    This poem I voted almost without a doubt. I too liked the others, but Mystyr's poem follows a stylistic structure that often appeals to me more than other styles. I can't quite give a plain reason, considering that these days most acclaims often go towards free verse. Maybe the only explanation is that I can never go with the flow. I have nothing against free verse, but I can't help leaning on the fence of artistic rhyming

    Back to topic, very many congrats Mystyr!!


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    Congratulations, MystyrMystyry!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry View Post
    What the- How the- What the-!?!

    Thankyou Qimi and Delta, and everyone who voted for it!

    They were all of a high standard, and were I able to vote I would have had as tough a time as most of the comments suggest.

    Thanks again!
    Congratulations! It's a very fine poem!
    "I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche

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    Congrats, MystyrMystyry! Can I pick a winner or what!

    Thanks to those who voted for Love of a Place, which was my entry. A tie for third isn't so bad, and I did vote for the winner!
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Congrats MystyrMystyry!

    It was a wonderful poem.
    I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake

    Captivity is consciousness,
    So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson

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