RESULTS -- 'Odes to Poets' Contest

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The results of the Odes to Poets contest:

1st place: Pat~
for poem #6, Ode to Seuss


2nd place: Annie O
for poem #5, Moral Worth and the Idle Pursuit of Metre and Rhyme (response to a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

3rd place: Writer???
for poem #1, Ode to Langston Hughes
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Congratulations, everyone! You took on a daunting challenge and produced astonishing works.

THANK YOU to
- everyone who entered; your poems have entertained and inspired us.
- everyone who voted; your efforts and participation reward us.
 

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More good news

I'd like it to be known that:
- Twelve people voted
- EVERY poem received AT LEAST two votes from people, not even counting people voting for themselves

That, I think, is testament to the high across-the-board quality, and appeal, of all the entries.
 

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Congrats Pat!
And everyone.
Fun contest.
 

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I'm now updating the poems with the author's names.
 

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I'm flabbergasted, y'all. Thank-you--thanks to everyone who read and voted! :) And congrats to Annie O. and Writer. All of the poems were such a delight to read, and now I'm going to enjoy re-reading them with the author's names! Thanks, Rob, for another fun contest.
 
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Thank you Rob for having the contest and all your hard work.

Congratulation Pat~ and Annie! Great work!

And thanks to all who read and those that voted, it was a pleasure to participate in this and I appreciate your time.
 

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Congratulations, everybody!
 

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Hey, wait a minute...what contest????lol. Don't Annie and Pat seem to win them all? Darned professionals...
 

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Sorry, I was out of town for the results. Gratz to all the winners, but just participating is a form of winning--you just don't get Robert Frost.
 

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Hey, wait a minute...what contest????lol. Don't Annie and Pat seem to win them all? Darned professionals...

LOL. I WISH I was a professional - with loadsamoney - and my name in lights... or plastered on some freeway billboard...oh well, one can only dream! :sleepy:
 

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:D And here I was thinking, well, SHE might be a professional, but I'm just a professional dabbler...