Valentine's Day Contest: SOMEONE CHEATED!

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There is a poem that is so starkly honest, deep, and awe-inspiringly good, I cried reading it.

BUT... It's in the ANTI-VALENTINE'S DAY section, and I submit that it is a poem more rooted in love than most of the poems in the PRO-VALENTINE'S DAY thread.

I gave that poem my #1 vote for anti-valentines, since that's where it's placed, but I think it's in the wrong section, and I'd nominate it for best poem of the whole contest.

So bravo to you, whoever it was who wrote a love poem disguised as an anti-love poem, and endowed it with language so beautiful, and a sentiment so profound. My own words are jumbled letters, meaning nothing, next to it.
 

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Tell us the #. That's allowed. Discussion on specific poems is allowed.
 

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Hey d, check your reps...
 

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Poem #8: The Oak and the Rose. That's a love poem if ever there was one, baby.
 

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*sigh* it was lovely.
how can a simple girl like me compete with that? Amazing poem.
 

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give a title. everytime you give a number I have to go back to the thread and look.
what was number 18 called?

Trish - too lazy to go back to the other thread.
 

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As a card-carrying republican, I vote that Poet just closes the polls right now and declares a winner. We don't need to really follow voting rules, right?

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But I haven't voted yet. I'm waiting til the last second.
 

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Americanos! Crazy Staters!
 

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What did you say, Kevin???

Do you still think you're Jesus?
 

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Back to The Oak and the Rose...

I agree that one is a very lovely poem.
I voted for it too... although it did not get my first place vote. It was a tough decision, but another one appealed a little more to me.

I was caught a little off guard by one of the anti-Valentine poems, but most of them were amazingly touching. Good job everyone!
 

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Yes, hun. I'm still on my Jesus kick. Would you please wipe my brow. The blood it burns the eyes.

I only have 3 apostles so far. I'm 9 bricks short of a wailing wall!