winner :)

temerity · Apr 17, 2008

I was so happy I was crying on the phone
god

http://www.bordersmedia.com/odp/contest.asp

click on "teen poem" (one of the only ones I didn't post here for critique)
mark strand reads mine!!

this is ridiculously unbelievable

dobiwon · Apr 17, 2008

Congratulations! Great poem. I really enjoyed hearing it.

davids · Apr 17, 2008

yes i did as well-great work!

skelly · Apr 17, 2008

WOW!!!! Awesome Tem. I loved it. Many mucho congrats to you

seaaircarol · Apr 17, 2008

Wow. Excellent poem! Many, many congratulations!

:snoopy:

Perks · Apr 17, 2008

No surprise there. Excellent news, madame! You deserve it. Congratulations!

Writer??? · Apr 17, 2008

Marvelous! Absolutely beautiful poem. Congrats on your honor. Hail and praise to your talent. It was a joy.

temerity · Apr 17, 2008

thanks, everyone!!!
I'm still floating

ddgryphon · Apr 17, 2008

It is an incredibly beautiful and complex poem. You deserve every accolade it receives.

William Haskins · Apr 17, 2008

congratulations, temerity. an honor well-deserved.

JoNightshade · Apr 17, 2008

How awesome is this? Great job!!!

BTW is there somewhere on that site you can see the actual text of your poem? For some reason I am utterly unable to absorb poetry in spoken form. (Listening to it, all I hear is the rhythm of his voice.) I would really like to read your poem.

Appalachian Writer · Apr 17, 2008

Congratulations! I love your work and now my confidence in your talent is justified. Hurrah!

A. Hamilton · Apr 17, 2008

very well done-congratulations!
gotta love his commentary on the poem.

Keyan · Apr 17, 2008

Fabulous!

temerity · Apr 17, 2008

Jo, there should be a link next to the video--you can select either "read" or "play"
...I'm the same way!

thanks for the congrats, everyone

and thanks for critting my writing!!

JoNightshade · Apr 17, 2008

temerity said:
Jo, there should be a link next to the video--you can select either "read" or "play"
...I'm the same way!

Apparently I'm blind as well as deaf. Yay! I read your poem... I'm not a big poetry person, but I thought it was really good.

LimeyDawg · Apr 17, 2008

Thank god you didn't post it here. We'd have judged it a winner before they did...and I, for one, wouldn't want to spoil the surprise.

LimeyDawg · Apr 17, 2008

You should have entered it in the adult section. Christ, sometimes it's embarrassing to find myself commenting on a talent that is so vastly superior to my own. It sure as hell was better than the mandolins and fruit poem, by several degrees.

LimeyDawg · Apr 17, 2008

...and...and...AND...if this is the last award your poetry earns you, I'll kiss my own rear end. Seriously, Mer, you are exactly what the poetry world needs. Talent without the shackles of education or preconception. Is it Escher's work that shows hands drawing hands? That's you, but it's poetry writing poetry instead.

Dichroic · Apr 18, 2008

I'd agree with LD that there's absolutely nothing "teen" about this; it is the work of a mature poet, no matter what said poet's chronological age happens to be. One of the things that makes that seem true to me, is that this doesn't look like a poem written in a vacuum by a natural untutored talent. Talent, certainly (emphatically!), but I think this reads like something written by someone who's read a hell of a lot of poems, knows what makes some of them great, and builds on what has come before.

...I feel like I should send my congratulations to Borders, instead of Temerity, for judging so well.

kdnxdr · Apr 18, 2008

How so utterly wonderful!

Much congratulations, it is a very beautiful poem.

kid

William Haskins · Apr 18, 2008

a shout out to temerity in friday morning litlinks:

http://authorscoop.com/

temerity · Apr 18, 2008

LD--okay, to-do list: save world of poetry. find a date for prom.
haha...thank you for the praise!!

D--thanks for the sincere compliments! I don't know if I've read a hell of a lot of poems yet, but I'm definitely working on it

William--ahh thank you!!! I'm honored

Update: creative writing teacher called it "offical Merit day" and passed out copies of the poem / played the video for all of his classes!--random people stopped me in the hallway to congratulate me--I feel lightheaded; I couldn't stop laughing

...no, I haven't come down yet

thank you all for the congrats!! now I'm just afraid the next thing I write will be horrible, haha

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Perks · Apr 19, 2008

Now it is sometimes an exercise to call one poem superior to another, but I can easily say that your entry worked for me far above the other winner. I thought it was more sophisticated. It's gorgeous work.

Stew21 · Apr 19, 2008

Well done and so deserved, Temerity! You're a true talent. I'm so happy for you.
Excellent poem too.
I also loved hearing Mr. Strand's commentary on your poem when he was finished reading it.

winner :)

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