"Sports" Voting Thread

**Baron** · 09-11-2011, 03:00 PM

Please take a little time to read the entries for this month's challenge and vote for the THREE poems you consider most deserving.

It's important that you use ALL THREE VOTES.

Those who vote for less than three entries or who vote for their own work will be regarded as "spoiled votes" and discounted.

As well as the usual "Laureate" title and FoWF subscription, the winner of this challenge will get a $25.00 Amazon voucher.

Please leave comments in this thread.

**Nick** · 09-11-2011, 04:42 PM

I voted for If He's Sporting a Jersey, Don't Even Date Him, Sonnet on Death..., and Nightly Games.

Lisa, your humour is always perfect, mixing wordplay, rhyme and care to be melodramatically comedic throughout. Once again, you hit a mood perfectly and round it up with a satisfying seal that doesn't wipe the smile I had after reading it or even dull it. I don't think you can possibly lower the expectations I now have when I see a poem written by you on these boards - only exceed them.

Prof, I liked that you took a nostalgic approach to death, rather than explaining feelings of sorrow or anger, and the repetitive references throughout work to - like with Lisa's - seal the poem with a bow. I liked it, good job.

Farah, the rhyme scheme in this reminds me of a song I love, which has the last line of every verse rhyming so subtly that you don't notice it at first, and as always when you do pull the words apart and see it, then the poem suddenly gains a lot more value. It seems like this month perfect endings was another theme, because your decision to reveal a metaphor in the very last line changes the whole poem, and does the best thing a poem can - makes me want to go back to read it again in new light, which then makes me pick up more subtlety from the piece.

Thanks for the reads, everyone.

**astroannie** · 09-12-2011, 01:39 AM

Nice work everyone. How I voted and why.

...Death... because yes. it is.

I like Sporting a Jersey ... though I disagree with the title, there are extremists in everything and this is an example of that

Soccer girl for personal reasons.

**candid petunia** · 09-12-2011, 12:23 PM

Thanks for the kind comments, Nick. I'm honoured.

Have voted for If He's Sporting A Jersey, Don't Even Date Him, The Olympian and Stripper.

Edit: I don't get it. 2 people said they've voted for Sonnet on Death but the poem has only one vote.

**Prof** · 09-12-2011, 03:36 PM

My votes went to Rookie, Jersey & Soccer,

**feralpen** · 09-12-2011, 11:02 PM

DANG! Choosing was difficult. I'm voting now before I change my mind AGAIN!

Nightly Games
Rookie in the House
If He's Sporting A Jersey, Don't Even Date Him

Enjoyed everyone's efforts.

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**Bruno Spatola** · 09-13-2011, 12:12 AM

^ ^ ^ Same

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**Firemajic** · 09-14-2011, 12:24 PM

I voted for--If he's sporting a jersey,don't even date him.
The Olympian
and Candid Petunia's poem-Nightly Games--hard choices to make---they were all winners...

**Nacian** · 09-15-2011, 09:17 AM

I have voted for
The Olympian
Stripper and
Soccer Girl.

**Baron** · 09-18-2011, 07:56 AM

Please keep to the voting rules and vote for THREE poems. It's already been necessary to discount one voter who voted for only one poem.

**Baron** · 09-21-2011, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Baron

Please keep to the voting rules and vote for THREE poems. It's already been necessary to discount one voter who voted for only one poem.

Congratulations to Candid Petunia for a clear win.

**candid petunia** · 09-21-2011, 08:17 PM

Thank you, Captain.

**Nacian** · 09-21-2011, 08:20 PM

Congratulations candid

a very well deserved win

**feralpen** · 09-21-2011, 08:43 PM

Congratulations candid petunia. Great write. Tip O' th' hat to all the entrants, man this was a tough one to pick winners from. Every entry was wonderful.

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