Mirror

Thanks to the judges for their detailed reviews. It was fun participating. Congratulations to the winners. Looking forward to the upcoming challenge.

impactblade

ahh well it was fun to write..even if it wasn't well liked

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Baron

Thanks to all the judges for putting in the time and the work. Perhaps I should also than huni for letting me suggest the theme and for not competing this time

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apple

Contratulations Baron! ( a snap snap snap of the fingers and all I have to say is Far Out, Man.)

And thank you judges for a very thorough and fine job.

Baron

This response is a name I always planned for a band - latin - exitus

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Matthatter

Congratulations, Baron!

Thanks for your time and the careful, helpful and in some moments, really inspiring/"motivating" ( ) critiques, judges!

I didn't agree with all the comments (but that's to be expected), but it's always so great to get so many reactions (by judges who, for the most part, seem to know what they're talking about)! Sometimes it's a bit hard for me to know how others will react to certain things.

Ilasir Maroa

Actually Shawn, the amount was up to the judge. personally, I would have written something more like you if I had had time.


Congrats to the winners. d. b. I admire your bravery... if you meant that as a poem.

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rcallaci

It was an honor and a pleasure to be one of the judges of this competition. Congratulations to all of you for jumping into the fire of competitive poetry and allowing your work be open to critique and judgment.

my warmest
bob

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d.b.potts

My sincerest congratulations to Baron, Cran, Jack and van. This was a lot of fun. It's not often enough that I write something spontaneously, based on a pre-conceived theme or concept. I should be around for the next one, and when I get some more free time I would love to also judge a few. I certainly don't want to half-ass it!

Cran: Imagine that, landing in dead last and getting a mention from atop the podium . I appreciate the acknowledgement of my effort, as I did put quite a bit into it. I guess I just overestimated the nature of the theme and my poetry is naturally not very poetic in the traditional sense anyway, so I was doomed from the get-go. Rhyme and meter are Chinese and German to me; I just try to be free-flowing and creative with my prose so that a style can be born of it.
I was fore-warned by Selorian, as well, that this may not be seen as poetry, so I can't say that I'm surprised by the results. I'm actually quite pleased with them. Everybody gave me really good feedback, and I'm thankful for it.

Congrats Baron on the win. You deserve it.

Keepin' on,
d.b.

surfacetoday

The method of judging seemed strained. Straight rhyme and strict form have not been requirements of poetry since the Victorian era - and even then Walt Whitman was around to break things up. I think that d.b. nailed it when he said that people using irregular form and no rhyme scheme had lost this one from the start.
But congrats to the winners anyways, those were all very good poems.
And thanks, Pete, for looking through the trappings of antiquated formality.

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Baron

With respect to you and to d.b., my entry was the winning submission and it was not "regular form" and neither did it have a rhyme scheme, neither did the majority of submissions.

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Mermaid on the breakwater

It's a right bollocks that I missed this one, seeing as I love writing about theatre but when is the next challenge?

Well done baron and everyone else.

Autumn

congrats to Baron!

enjoyed doing this and wanted to thank the judges for a thorough well done job

also, wanted to thank the British museum for their interesting terracota army exhibtion that was behind my entry

and - don't feel I can log off without saying:
"MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR"

Shawn

Prose is a vast sea of money, the only thing keeping poetry alive is the recognizable form of verse. Strictly speaking, the only formality I would adhere to would be meter; the most important element of poetry.

Theme exists parallel to the poem, the poem is not the theme.

And, in that, I viewed D.B.'s work as prose, because it did not make use of rhetoric or verse.

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