"Healing" Voting Thread

[Firemajic]

This was sooo hard to chose just 3 poems....The talent is stunning..I have voted, good luck , all you brilliant poets!!! Jul

[candid petunia]

I've voted for
Rainbow, because of the innocence of the child. A really sweet poem.
Chemistry, because we all need a mother's hug. Also, it was written in the cutest way.
Scars. A true story, something we all experience.

[TheFuhrer02]

Gah, this is highly difficult.

After much thought, I voted for these three poems:

Astroannie's Scars, whose play on the folds and creases of straightened out paper reminds us of the painful memories left behind;
bazz cargo's Chemistry, whose simple and rather innocent approach to asking a mother's hug tells us that we all need one;
and toddm's Healing Rains, whose picture play on the clouds touched something in me.

A job well done to all the participants.

[Martin]

Wow Cindy (Nellie). What a lovely poem. It's simple, true and flows magnificently off the page, especially those last lines.

Fuhrer, I really enjoyed your piece. Essentially, our poems are about the same, that nature is healing at its core. You threw in some human contemplation, I keep mine descriptive. A little crit would be the wisdom of the child seems a little far fetched, too disney if you know what I mean, but you had my vote anyway.

Feralpen, I honestly think you deserve to win this one. You address one of the most obvious associations - a healing potion - and you set the fairy tale ambiance so wonderfully with your mini legacy, but best of all; the very amusing recipe.

I voted for you three guys.

[Baron]

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

Votes have been discounted for breaking both of these rules.

[candid petunia]

Aw it's sad when that happens.

[bazz cargo]

Aw it's sad when that happens.

2nded

I found the instructions didn't read all that easily, and can understand how a few pollsters got confused.

Is the voting restricted to entrants? or can anyone register an interest?

[Baron]

How could "VOTE FOR THREE POEMS" followed by a clear instruction that votes for less than three, or that people who vote for their own poem, will be discounted be any clearer? Perhaps it should be written in Klingon and Romulan as well.

Voting is open to all members.

[bazz cargo]

Perhaps it should be written in Klingon and Romulan as well.

Amazingly, my spell checker knows the the word Klingon.

My votes were for Martin
Astroannie (Great name)
Feral Pen (Great name)

I enjoyed all the entries. I didn't catch much in the way of relevance to the subject in a few of them. And one should have been put through the 'advanced' post for a final check, cos some words got mashed together.

I am not a poet, but every now and then I dabble. It is nice to know there is a place where I can dabble and not be on my own.

[Ghost]

How could "VOTE FOR THREE POEMS" followed by a clear instruction that votes for less than three, or that people who vote for their own poem, will be discounted be any clearer? Perhaps it should be written in Klingon and Romulan as well.

Voting is open to all members.

Poets not following rules?? Whoever heard of such a thing?

[Baron]

Poets not following rules?? Whoever heard of such a thing?

Most of those people who write lousy poetry and call it art.

[Ghost]

Most of those people who write lousy poetry and call it art.

Very true. Very true.

But then, the great ones (and even the really great ones) sometimes broke the rules,
too. I think, at least in my opinion, that, in certain instances, it's what helped make
them great, that disdain or flippancy for the rules, the guidelines, the traditional, the
standard, the known, the accepted.

Still, though, I know it can be irritating for the rest of us--perhaps even more so when
we can't ever really be certain in our lifetimes whether we were Salieri or Mozart.

Luckily, the poetry we write doesn't matter enough to the world for it to be something
about which to get overly upset.

Then again: a poet getting upset, irritated, angry? Whoever heard of such a thing?

[bazz cargo]

Most of those people who write lousy poetry and call it art.

There is a time and a place,
For each of us to face,
The question we all fear,
Are we artfully lousy? (As in infested with lice?)

[bazz cargo]

Maybe we could hold a competition to see who could write the rules in a poem. That way even (Scratch) us lousy poets would read them.