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Winter Guard En Garde

melting snowball Fall-out started with the spring-break competition; Errors were made as team effort slid downhill. Then when name-calling sparked a partition, esprit-de-corps broke to a stand-still. “Butterfingers!” the dig of choice, sabers, rifles drop in flight. “Cretin!” answers a voice, winter guard backbite. “Bozo, Clod, Clown” teenage jeers, meltdown - tears. written March 20, 2018 Line Gauthier's A Melting Snowball contest

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Susan Gentry

Date: 4/19/2018 10:53:00 AM

Congratulations on your win! I like this a lot. Love the humor, dialogue so real. Fave for me.

Reason A. Poteet
Date: 4/19/2018 7:27:00 PM

Thank you, Susan. Yes, indeed the drama was exceptional. One of those phone calls that cannot be deciphered, "Now count to 10; calm down; tell me what happened."

Eve Roper

Date: 4/17/2018 8:06:00 PM

Congratulations on your win , Reason.. Hugs Eve ~`*

Reason A. Poteet
Date: 4/21/2018 2:06:00 PM

My thanks to you, Eve. I welcome your comment and commendation.

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 4/17/2018 12:07:00 PM

- Best wishes and congratulations with your 3rd place in the contest, R.A.P. :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Reason A. Poteet
Date: 4/17/2018 1:29:00 PM

Appreciate the read and reply, Anne-Lise. Likewise I enjoyed your piece on the first harbingers of spring

Jan Allison

Date: 4/17/2018 11:12:00 AM

loved the theme you chose and the rhyme, congrats on your win Reason:-) hugs jan xx

Reason A. Poteet
Date: 4/17/2018 1:33:00 PM

Thank you for your sweet words. Went to seven performances by my granddaughter’s team this spring. By spring break they were ready to kill each other. She loves it for the most part; color guard with the band in the fall is less stress (for her).

Line Gauthier

Date: 4/17/2018 10:36:00 AM

Congrats on your bronze medal finish with this charming snowball fight of a poem, RAP. Well done.

Reason A. Poteet
Date: 4/17/2018 1:42:00 PM

Appreciate the contest, your humerous comment, Line, and of course the encouraging commendation of a bronze placement. Sixteen high school girls can create quite a storm of emotions.