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Blog Posted:11/3/2014 10:03:00 PM

Hellooooo.. all my soup friends!!! Here I give you the winning poems of the contest - Sketch a character! Had a lovely time reading your work. The depiction of the Characters you chose - human and nonhuman.. were all so beautifully done, some pleasingly delightful, some sombre in mood, but all did a tremendous job... Thanks for participating!!!!

1	Zuzuni on the badlands	Giorgio A. V.
2	Mr Moore	Reason A. Poteet
3	Lady Kathleen	Carrie Richards
3	Uncle Jim	Barbara Gorelick
4	BORED BILLY BENNY	Sneha RV The literature lover
4	She Lived in the Moment	Carolyn Devonshire
5	Logan is a Sweet Character	Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
5	The Real McCoy	Jiril Clemons
5	Old Man	joan woods
5	Sketch a Character	Brenda Meier-Hans
6	The Fighter	Andrea Dietrich
6	The Angel Fairy	Anoucheka Gangabissoon
6	My Grandma	Dr.Ram Mehta
6	Poof of Smoke	Carol Eastman
7	THE GOLDEN PEN	cherl dunn
7	I AM HARMONICA DEONTIA BALDWIN	Verlena S. Walker
8	Portrait of a Public Servant	Sandra Haight
8	White Cane	Richard Lamoureux
8	Mother's day	Nehemiah T. Haokip
8	Dear Doctor	Dr. Upma A. Sharma
9	The Pirate's Life For Me	Warner Baxter
9	A Truly Inspiring Story	Maurice Yvonne
10	St Mary the Virgin Angel	Eve Carter
10	Sketch a character	Elizabeth-Dea Shanta
10	Kashmir-The woman	Sandip Goswami

.....CONGRATS!!!!!!

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Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 11/5/2014 7:10:00 PM

Congrats to all! thanks for having me on the list!

Carrie
Richards

Date: 11/4/2014 6:42:00 PM

Thank you so much, Gautami !! I wrote about one of the greatest neighbors I've ever had the pleasure to know....may she rest in peace ! Thank you for helping me honor her!

Gautami
Phookan

Date: 11/4/2014 2:33:00 AM

I'd request, please, when anyone judges, let them judge as they wish to, I've never questioned anybody about my placements. and I don't like my decisions being questioned, gautami

Gautami
Phookan

Date: 11/4/2014 2:31:00 AM

Hi again soupers, an issue has been brought to my notice regarding the results. Why I placed Brenda 5th..!!!! I've been questioned!!! Well her place was 2nd all along,, but going by what I asked for, which many complied with..(a character portrayal, that would transfer the reader to a state of exuberant elation).. I really didn't ask for sad/ sorrowful poems in this contest , if you noticed..So I was compelled to make some changes in the final positioning. Brenda, if you can believe me, to me it is an excellently written piece.. That's all I'll say, I cannot explain now 'bout why I placed the poems where I did, can I,, or shd I?

Brenda Meier-Hans
Date: 11/4/2014 10:28:00 AM

Gautami, you have always been Kind and respectful to me and sometimes we all do things we regret. I have also done this in the short time I have been here, but we are the keepers of our characters and we must at least try in a community to understand and respect everyone else. I have not been here long and don't know what you have done to act oddly but only you can change that. There are a lot of wonderful people here.

Gautami Phookan
Date: 11/4/2014 10:15:00 AM

Brenda I can't tell you, how great a relief that is, hearing it from you.. I don't care about what others might say, but it did matter to matter how you felt! I have to thank you too for reading my poems and for your kind remarks on them, I've not commented or reciprocated on a single poem here for almost months together.. I simply disappear! I myself don't know why these days I behave so oddly here.. Some confession!!!:)) Love you...

Brenda Meier-Hans
Date: 11/4/2014 7:36:00 AM

Gautami, I am not sad. I am happy you placed me. You are right, it does ask for happy. As for my poem, as I started writing I was inspired to write it how it is and am thankful you placed me and thank you for telling me it was excellent. I shall take this as a compliment for a poem my heart is very drawn to. I also take it as a compliment that other dear people also have been drawn to it and thank them for their honest opinions of my poem.

Sneha
Rv

Date: 11/4/2014 1:10:00 AM

Congrats to all the winners!! Thanks a lot for the placement, Gautami!

Sneha Rv
Date: 11/4/2014 7:43:00 PM

Of course I won't stop writing! I will follow your advice - Thank you!

Gautami Phookan
Date: 11/4/2014 10:24:00 AM

You're welcome sweetie,, your poem so deserved to win,, You know when I began writing, not that I've written very many,, but I began with such poems.. rabbit poems,, snow poems and kids out playing,, I remember a wicked witch poem :)) Don't stop writing,, what you feel most write that, and write from your heart! Lots n lots of love.. gautami di

My Past Blog Posts


Sketching.... Date Posted: 11/3/2014 10:03:00 PM
The Winning Poems of 'The Sweetest Touches of a Verse' Date Posted: 10/15/2014 2:58:00 PM
Contest Judged - The Poet III .. Funeral/ Death Date Posted: 10/1/2014 7:25:00 AM
Contest Judged- The Poet II Leave you a kiss/Leave my tears Date Posted: 9/14/2014 4:10:00 PM
Dabbling in Poetry Forms - Contest Judged Date Posted: 4/1/2014 7:15:00 AM

My Recent Poems

Date Posted	PoemTitle	Form	Categories
7/26/2016	I Gather the Sound of Leaves	Free verse	allegory,love,nature,woma
7/26/2016	Pink Dust, a Rose	Free verse	allegory,deep,love,night,
7/26/2016	The Path	Free verse	beauty,silence,solitude,t
7/26/2016	Cold Ashes	Free verse	allegory,heart,love,muse,
4/30/2015	And She Lies Sheltered Beneath the Oak	Ekphrasis	allegory,flower,food,meta
4/9/2015	The Dark Wood	Blank verse	dark,death,flower,girl,sl
4/9/2015	Through the Winter Cold He Rode	Villanelle	gothic,horse,love,night,w
4/9/2015	Her Swan Song	Verse	flower,heart,love,sorrow,
4/9/2015	''You'Re the Girl In My Heart''	Free verse	angst,girl,heart,love hur
4/9/2015	My Old Blue Jeans	Free verse	clothes,fun,garden,girl,
4/9/2015	The Night	Tetractys	boat,night,river,
4/9/2015	Just So Fishing Tale	Free verse	fishing,
4/9/2015	Luncheon of the Boating Party	Ekphrasis	art,beauty,boat,people,
4/9/2015	The Bird and the Moon	Diminished Hexaverse	bird,fairy,fantasy,girl,n
4/9/2015	And Crowns Crumbled To Dust	Verse	celebration,death,gothic,
4/5/2015	Cold Winter Mornings	Free verse	snow,winter,work,
4/5/2015	The Maiden's Song - a Poem By Giorgio Av	Iambic Pentameter	analogy,heart,imagery,met
4/1/2015	The Sleepy Woods	Free verse	lonely,mystery,rainforest
3/2/2015	June Bells Flowering Under the Trees	Verse	beauty,death,
2/11/2015	Apollo and Daphne	Free verse	deep,desire,love,mytholog
2/11/2015	The Girl Bohemian	Free verse	girl,sea,
2/11/2015	Scatter'D Over Her Robes	Free verse	earth,girl,love,
2/11/2015	Inside the Crystal Night	Iambic Pentameter	analogy,love,,western,
2/7/2015	A Broken Dream	Free verse	analogy,assonance,sad lov
3/23/2011	Revelling In the Rain	Lyric	dance,nature,passion,roma

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Fav Poems

PoemTitle	Form	Categories
From My Porch	Pastoral	summer,
I Heard Mother	Light Verse
Footsteps From Above	Quatern	childhood,love
Sunday Morning	Rhyme	happiness,inspirational,l
A Day's Farewell	Crystalline	nature
The Bougainvillea Tree	Sonnet	natureold,old,
Loosening the Air Bag	Free verse	adventure,
A Farm Yarn	Limerick	adventurefish,fishing,
A Leaf Falls	Haiku	life
The Wedding Rehearsal	Dodoitsu	love,wedding
Sparrow	Rhyme	love
Enough With the Chitter Already	Personification	animalsbird,bird,
Cheep Sweet Talk	Rhyme	funny,passionmay,me,
Stifle	Rhyme	angst,
It Is Springtime In Heaven	Lyric	love,mothermissing,missin
Forty Today	Free verse	brother,dedication,family
Lifeless Eyes of Ted Bundy	Villanelle	people
The Cherry Blossoms Will Bloom Again	Rhyme	caregiving,hopepeople,hop
Feeding Horses	Free verse	animalshorse,
Suzie Haus	Rhyme	adventure,animals,happine
Peace Signs On Denim Pockets	Rhyme	lifepeace,peace,
My Barefoot Girl	Rhyme	daughter,father
My Lady of Summer	Verse	love,nature,passion,
Bury Me In My Jeans	Rhyme	me,old,
Weight of Stones Unturned	Rhyme	faith,inspirational
Daddy's Overalls	Rhyme	childhoodme,
Rock, Paper and Scissors	Limerick	family,happiness
Rock - Paper - Scissors	Limerick	time
Rock, Paper, Scissors	Limerick	hope,satire,sportstime,ti
Old Pet	Narrative	friendshipwater,heaven,he
Rock Paper Scissors	Limerick	girlfriend-boyfriend
Rock-Paper-Scissors	Limerick	funny
About Her	Rhyme	daughter,lovechild,life,w
My Children	Free verse	family,love
Campfire	Free verse	analogy,animal,earth,fire
Where Shadows Refuse To Dance	Free verse	abuse,childhood,moon,soci
Butter Me Not	Senryu	allegory,
Glacial Heaven	Verse	nature,peace,,Lullaby,
Empty Mirror	Dramatic Verse	art,
The Brown Tree	Dodoitsu	family,funny,history,life
A Cold Winter's Breath	Haiku	fear,life,nature,sea,
The Ring Around	Verse	history,children,children
See the Daffodils	Haiku	nature,daffodils,
A Guinea Fowl	Haiku	animals,nature,on work an
Yellow Ribbons	Sedoka	hope,war,
Before Dementia's Final Assault	Sedoka	life,loss,
Wear Your Green	Haiku	funny,
Snowbound Xanadu	ABC	imagination,places,
A House Divided	Elegy	angst,
Sorrowful Unto Death	Elegy	angst,nature,beauty,beaut
William Shakespeare and Me	Couplet	funny,on writing and word
As One Together	Tanka	happiness,love,uplifting,
Wounds That Won'T Heal	Sonnet	faith,introspection,life,
Time In the Sand	Couplet	visionary,
Empty Boots	Rhyme	funeral,loss,sad,,memoria
Refolding the Paper Crane	Free verse	dedication,life,recovery
Wingless Angels	Rhyme	angel,care,caregiving,day
For Eduardo	Sonnet	lost love,
A Diamond's Remnants	Haiku	love,nature,romance,
Westward Movement	Free verse	devotion,love,peace,
Jungle By Night 1	Personification	dark,nature,
Laughter That Never Grew	Dramatic Verse	absence,love,,Lullaby,
Comin' Hame - Coming Home -Scottish Dialect	Terza Rima	absence,culture,faith,far
Where the White Rose Blooms	Quatrain	death,funeral,garden,heav
Water Portraits	Crystalline	image,nature,
White Roses	Free verse	farewell,father,
Death's Courting - Constanza	Verse
Art and Ownership	Diminished Hexaverse	art,
Myriads of Umbrellas	Rhyme	happy,hope,love,
Layers	Rhyme	life,
I Think of You	Sonnet	appreciation,love,romance

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