Thank You, Friend by Becca Lucas

Bernard Colasurdo

Date: 5/8/2013 11:50:00 PM

Ottava Who??? : ) Very very cool write Becca, love the hidden message, well done!

david scott

Date: 2/12/2013 12:15:00 PM

cool idea like alot alot of feeling nice tribute tooxxdavidscott

Lillie Williams

Date: 1/27/2013 9:53:00 PM

This is really good. I love reading, so this is a great piece of work. I enjoyed reading it. Thanks for sharing.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/27/2013 4:50:00 PM

I really really like this. too bad it did not get put into the contest. i had wanted to try this kind of hidden message poem but never made the time for it.

Lucilla Carrillo

Date: 1/25/2013 9:53:00 PM

I don't understand much of this , but this sounds good to me. I have a poem here, you might want to check out. Letter To A Friend. Thanks for sharing. Lucilla

S.Jagathsimhan Nair

Date: 1/23/2013 2:27:00 PM

Amazing, Becca, I love it, but make a note how to decode. I could figure it out only after reading the comments below.!! Jag

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 1/20/2013 6:01:00 PM

I think this would be fine too resubmit it what you need to do is bold the words in the message..if you can't figure out how to do it just do the words in all cap's YOU TOOK AWAY MY HEART LOVE I GIVE and make a note at the bottom saying the message is in the 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8th word. HUGS It's a great entry enter it! Light & Love

Becca Lucas Date: 1/22/2013 9:22:00 PM

"You took my heart, my love I give" ~ Thanks Debbie :)

Suzette Crous Date: 1/21/2013 6:02:00 AM

Thank you Debbie - sometimes two heads are better than one. What is clear to me, might not be so obvious to others. @ Becca (and other entrants): It would help to summerize the actual message at the bottom of the poem. Love, Su

David Williams

Date: 1/20/2013 9:44:00 AM

Becca back for a re-read of this gem, hope you entered it...David

Leonora Galinta

Date: 1/20/2013 9:11:00 AM

This is an awesome write my dear Becca. I love it and has enjoyed reading it. Thank you so much for sharing and your kind visit on my poems. Have a nice weekend! hugs, Leonora

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 1/20/2013 8:20:00 AM

A fine write, content and use of form, Su made that contest so complicated I can't get my head around it yet, maybe before its done, if you can explain it to me soup mail me? Light & Love

Suzette Crous

Date: 1/20/2013 2:13:00 AM

By mixing poetry styles I meant it as in the examples given: ie Do not identify your work as a tanka, but it is an extended haiku... Yours is NOT mixing poetry forms. Employing the device of an acrostic poem (which is usually unrhymed and has no meter), is very creative to hide the message in this nice example of an Ottava Rima. I have extended poetry forms in the past, as in my poem, The ABC of my Affairs. (I had to list it as an ABC poem because soup does not have the option of abecedarian).

Suzette Crous Date: 1/20/2013 2:22:00 AM

I might have contributed to the confusion by stating that your poem is an acrostic poem. That was incorrect. It is an Ottava Rima, with the KEY to the "secret message" being a form of acrostic poem. I hope this sets the record straight now. X

Suzette Crous Date: 1/20/2013 2:14:00 AM

I hope that this clarifies any confusion there still might linger. Love, Su

Suzette Crous

Date: 1/20/2013 1:57:00 AM

You asked my opinion and I responded (hopefully in kind). I regret that the discussion regarding the different forms of acrostic poems which may be found, had led you to remove this entry from the contest. Yes, I do wish to judge blind, but I do not think that there is a single person here on soup who would criticize me or you if you are to win a place in the contest with this supper Ottava Rima poem. Please reconsider. Thank you and bless you for your integrity. Love, Su

Ruben O.

Date: 1/19/2013 1:20:00 PM

Wow! Terrific job, Becca!! It looks easy but I know it's not. Best of luck in Suzette's Contest! It's a winner! Ruben.

Anne Lise Andresen

Date: 1/19/2013 12:49:00 PM

I need not say much Becca: GORGEOUS !!!!!!!!! <3 - Have a lovely weekend. - oxox / / Anne-Lise :)

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 1/19/2013 8:56:00 AM

Soup mail

David Williams

Date: 1/18/2013 9:07:00 AM

Becca great tribute...'you took my heart my love I give'.....David

Becca Lucas Date: 1/18/2013 9:13:00 AM

:) good job david...! I'll post the answer and submit it now :) hugs

kash poet

Date: 1/18/2013 8:24:00 AM

Good one Becca!I am not getting the message!

Becca Lucas Date: 1/18/2013 9:13:00 AM

thanks KP :) yes it was a little tricky

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