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Gwendolen R.'s Blog

About Gwendolen R.
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Bloggers Photo Greetings fellow Soupers! For most of you who don’t know me, my name is Gwendolen. I have been enjoying this website since February 2011. Really, I am just a big kid at heart who enjoys a vast array of poetry ranging from Shel Silverstein, Ken Nesbit, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, to  Jewel.  As a matter of fact, my father told me when I was in fourth grade that he even named me after his favorite African American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks. This news meant little to me at the time, but when I shared it with my class during show and tell, my teacher was quite impressed. (Apparently she liked Brook’s poetry too, as she read one of her poems aloud the next day. Imagine how red my face was?!!) If Mrs. Goolsby thought poetry was cool, then it must have been true because she had a glass eye, and everyone thought it was the neatest trick when she took it out to clean it during the day. From that day forward poetry was cool, I was cool, and a little poetry spark grew inside me!

Much of the poetry I write has to do with personal experiences in my everyday life.  For example, meet the new neighbor who visits my yard daily. I haven’t given this rascal a name yet, but just to be nice,  I wrote a poem about her called, The Polite Ground Hog. Writing a poem was the nicest gesture I could do after this “little princess” ate my cucumber plants. (Yes, this is sarcasm!)

Peace to you guys! You are the best! Thanks for your encouragement and your friendship.

 

Most Recent Blog Post


THE GUN O KU Poetry Contest Results are in!
Blog Posted:2/25/2013 7:23:00 PM

 
Hi Soupers! Please excuse the tardiness of posting the winners from my latest contest. I printed the entries a few weeks ago and have been reading and rereading some of the best entries EVER submitted in one of my poetry contests. What I was looking for in a winning entry was EMOTION--no matter where a poet stood on the gun issue.

Please take the time to read through each and every entry. I don't believe I have  enjoyed judging a contest MORE than this one. Hats off to everyone who put his or her pens to work expressing their first amendment right regarding the great gun debate. 

GREAT WORK, POETS!

Your friend,

Gwendolen
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    olusegunArowolo
    Date: 2/26/2013 11:26:00 PM
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    Thanks for the placement,great friend.Great and good people are hard to find.you are one in a few.

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    DeborahBurch
    Date: 2/26/2013 2:42:00 PM
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    Big Thank you Gwen!!! I am honoured to be included and that you like my poem. Miss you 'sis' !! Lol. Huggsss love you deb

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    AndreaDietrich
    Date: 2/26/2013 2:03:00 PM
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    wow, you are HERE, gwen. Please email me, I am dying to hear from you and what you have been up to, and thanks so much for this contest and my placement. Glad you loved your contest so much. Congrats to all.

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    kashpoet
    Date: 2/26/2013 10:17:00 AM
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    Hi Gwen I am very glad that you liked my haiku.Thanks for my placement.Congratulations to all the winners.

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    DebbieGuzzi
    Date: 2/26/2013 9:29:00 AM
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    Thanks Gwen hope you're having a great day. Light & love

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    CarrieRichards
    Date: 2/26/2013 9:05:00 AM
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    Thank you Gwendolen, it is so nice to see you here again, and your contest was eye opening with such a timely issue for your theme. We all have the gun debate in mind these days....this is a peaceful way to express our thoughts. Thank you!

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    RubenO.
    Date: 2/26/2013 8:37:00 AM
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    Im glad you like my entry, Gwendolen! Who's in the picture above? Congratulations to all the winners. Ruben.

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    JoannGrisetti
    Date: 2/26/2013 8:03:00 AM
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    I have missed reading your poems lately. Hope to see more.

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    Maria PazSamelo
    Date: 2/26/2013 8:02:00 AM
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    Thank you so much my dear Gwendy for my placement...(^__^) Congratulations to all the winners..I love my PS Family..Cheers to all!!

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    MandyTams The Golden Girl
    Date: 2/26/2013 1:55:00 AM
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    Hi Gwennie luv , thanks for my place in your contest, been missing you around the site and it's lovely to see you back....congratulations to all the winners and writers

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    DavidWilliams
    Date: 2/26/2013 1:14:00 AM
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    Hi Gwen, Congratulations to all winners, I did post one but forgot to enter it, sorry Gwen, nice to see you back mucker, hope you stay a while....David

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    TaheraMannan
    Date: 2/25/2013 10:52:00 PM
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    I agree with you Gwen. Each and every poem on the list is great. So enjoyed reading all of them.

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    yasminkhan
    Date: 2/25/2013 10:42:00 PM
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    No way I am gonna talk to you Gwendy..I miss you sas..I knwo you been busy but take a lille time out to write your brilliant stuff..now I am lost for inspiration and you got to help.. am going to read all the entries Gwendy..aw..a first place win made me happy..congrads to all the winners..so special..

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    RussellSivey
    Date: 2/25/2013 9:13:00 PM
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    You have blessed me with my placement in your contest, I am honored to earn this placement! I've missed you around my friend, your good nature feelings you send out to everyone is greatly missed when you are away. I hope you stick around for awhile and post new poems for us to read. I look forward to them. Again thank you for everything!

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    SerenRoberts
    Date: 2/25/2013 8:26:00 PM
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    Thank you Gwendolen for honouring me with a placement ....Seren

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    SKATAces-
    Date: 2/25/2013 7:33:00 PM
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    nice to see you here~SKAT

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    :) u big sweetie!

My Past Blog Posts

 
THE GUN O KU Poetry Contest Results are in!
Date Posted: 2/25/2013 7:23:00 PM
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Date Posted: 6/28/2012 12:39:00 AM
It's Ground Hog Day---NOT!
Date Posted: 6/18/2012 11:02:00 PM

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3/1/2013Heaven's ScentRhymehope,
12/30/2012Baby's First Poetry Slam- Unrated VersionDramatic monologueangst,baby,me,
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12/30/2012My Christmas Wish for SantaDramatic monologuechildhood,christmas,chris
12/26/2012Chuck NorrisClerihewchristmas,courage,christm
12/22/2012Twas the Night Before ChristmasQuatraininspirational,spiritual,c
12/21/2012Monet's Poppy FieldFree versefor children,summer,
12/12/2012Her Spouse's Cell Phone-Tanka ContestTankaangst,marriage,
12/9/2012Emerald Tipped LeavesDodoitsuautumn,imagination,
12/5/2012I Belong to You, LordFree versedevotion,
12/4/2012tons of toastersHaikuangst,funny,
12/4/2012His Last Dying WishCoupletchristian,father,
11/29/2012A Marriage EpigramEpigramhappiness,
11/29/2012Writer's BlockTail-rhymeimagination,
11/25/2012General GrantClerihewpeople,
11/24/2012Dennis the MenaceClerihewchildhood,
11/21/2012Joe BidenClerihewpolitical,
11/21/2012Kermit the FrogClerihewchildhood,lost love,
11/20/2012Winter's BlanketCoupletimagination,nature,
11/7/2012Hurricane HaikuHaikunatural disasters,
11/1/2012A David for DavidClerihewchildhood,funny,
10/30/2012Autumn AirDizainfriendship,happiness,frie
10/29/2012Tonya HardingClerihewsports,
10/29/2012Lance ArmstrongClerihewsports,
10/28/2012Mary Lou RettonClerihewsports,
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BelongingsRhymeloss,love,mother,peacewor
THE SUNKEN CATHEDRALFree versedeath,fantasy,imagination
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Eleven WordsFree verselifeold,tree,old,tree,
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AuschwitzTankaloss
My African SisterNarrativefamilyfamily,class,class,
The Wood NymphSonnetfantasy,naturelight,light
Lights OutQuatrainfather
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