I knew you'd be back before Monday.
There's internet everywhere.
how did you know my real first name is er,?
Congratulations, entrants, on an excellent array of poems. And thank you, all you readers and voters, for your interest and support. We ended with fifty-nine voters altogether, twenty-one of whom were contestants. So the volunteer turnout was strong indeed!
Particular thanks to you who carried the banner throughout the forums. Spare a thought for dear, departed VOTE_BOT, who worked so tirelessly to drum up interest. (Well, robots wouldn't get tired, but you know.)
I've added the authors' usernames to the contest entries, for the besotted and the merely curious.
And now, the winners:
Sixth place: #22, Space, by Stylo
Fifth place: #24, The Journey Back, by Steppe
Fourth place: #10, The Infinity of Minutes, by William Haskins
Third place: #8, Give Me Space, by Ambrosia
Second place: #5, Finding Ancestors on the Internet, by Demeter
And First Place...
#18, Dear Sir, by Katol
Congratulations to all the winners. See you all at the next contests!
ps: when is the next contest?
I think my favorite part of this contest has been the banter, back and forth, about it. I love how we have managed tomake spectacles of ourselvesdraw a lot of positive attention to the poetry forum and our work. I thought the breakdown on the people who voted was interesting and I was surprised that some who entered chose not to vote, summarily disqualifying themselves if I read the rules right. Love to know who those folks were. Anyway, I voted for the winner...it seemed obvious. Leapt right off the screen at me. Congrats to everyone who placed and all of us who participated. It was a blast and I look forward to our next poetry contest. Rob, love ya bro for all your effort on this, and thanks to Steppe for his gentle guidance as well. Well done you guys and congratulations to all the winners!
I knew you'd be back before Monday.
There's internet everywhere.
Exactly. All of the top six made my initial and subsequent cuts. And even those cuts were difficult. I took a couple extra drags on the smokes tonight, thinking about those I couldn't vote for. And I don't even smoke. Regularly...But I had no arguments with the poems that made the top six. Like I said before. It was hard to narrow down the choices.