View Poll Results: Beginnings and Endings

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  • A Recital

    1 5.00%
  • It's Time to Get Up!

    0 0%
  • Between

    5 25.00%
  • Signs

    4 20.00%
  • Laura

    2 10.00%
  • Don't Sweat It-Just Dim the Lights

    0 0%
  • She

    3 15.00%
  • Gastric Beginnings

    5 25.00%
  • 23 and Parting

    0 0%
  • The Window

    0 0%
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    Beyond the world aliengirl's Avatar
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    Congrats to Prince and to Delta! Love you my friends and thank you for sharing your poems.
    Thanks Qimissung for running this contest. This was such a challenging contest and a tie in the end made it all the more interesting.
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    So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson

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    I just KNEW Prince wrote Between. Such wonderful wisdom in every line. Who else on Lit-Net could have penned them? Congratulations Prince!
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    Congratulations, Delta40 and PrinceMyshkin!

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    congratualtions to Prince and Delta!!!
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Quote Originally Posted by AuntShecky View Post
    Robert Graves once said in an interview:
    "A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written the world would end."
    Surely not - if one lived in a perfect world!

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    Quote Originally Posted by qimissung View Post
    Congratulations to the winners of The Beginnings and Endings poetry contest:

    Between, by PrinceMyshkin AND Gastric Beginnings by Delta40.


    Between

    Between the beginning and the end
    is the part we cannot bend:
    the living and the loving,
    the being and becoming.

    Picture yesterday;
    picture tomorrow:
    one has hope,
    the other...



    Gastric Beginnings

    Autumn leaves
    might sweep across
    the old jarrah floors
    of tumble down houses
    while chickens get blown
    around the yard
    but we still cluck, clack and
    laugh together
    through the seasons,
    as each new,
    fresh laid egg
    is brought to the table.
    the other...
    Congratulations, Delta40, on a beautifully visceral poem - but surely there's a typo here in that my last line got stuck on to the end of your poem!!!
    Last edited by qimissung; 04-26-2012 at 10:16 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    Congratulations, Delta40, on a beautifully visceral poem - but surely there's a typo here in that my last line got stuck on to the end of your poem!!!
    We've been bonded together on Lit-Net!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Delta40 View Post
    We've been bonded together on Lit-Net!
    Talk about safe sex!

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    lol. Shhh. Don't tell anyone!
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    lol, I fixed it.

    Hey, thanks again, everybody for the marvelous participation. We'll do another one in June, if you are interested.
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    Congrats to Prince and Delta! Both of those poems were amongst the ones I had narrowed down my voting for. I have a few quibbles I could make with both, but they're very good poems that I certainly have no objection to winning... although, you know what they say a tie is like. I think we need a system around here for breaking ties. Maybe from now on when a vote is tied we start another thread where voters choose just between those that are tied?
    "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." --Carl Gustav Jung

    "To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." --Neil Gaiman; The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists

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    No, Morpheus, what do they say about ties?

    I wasn't entirely happy with the situation, but I'd asked around a lot, and extended the contest for over a week. Now I kind of like it. Why won't more people vote? We have tons of members.

    Well, what does everybody think of Morpheus' idea?
    "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
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    "A tie is like kissing your sister," was the phrase I was thinking of.
    "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." --Carl Gustav Jung

    "To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." --Neil Gaiman; The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists

    "I'm on my way, from misery to happiness today. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh" --The Proclaimers

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    Qim, I have found the contest only now as it's all over... enjoyed all the poems and like the idea of two winners especially because both winning poems are differently, but equally excellent! Bravo Delta and Prince! Please keep me posted about new contests, if possible... cheers to you all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by qimissung View Post
    No, Morpheus, what do they say about ties?

    I wasn't entirely happy with the situation, but I'd asked around a lot, and extended the contest for over a week. Now I kind of like it. Why won't more people vote? We have tons of members.

    Well, what does everybody think of Morpheus' idea?
    I would say it is a good idea.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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