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Nature Scene-Orphan Sonnet Contest Finalized.

Blog Posted:6/9/2019 11:37:00 AM

What a tough contest to judge, so many beautiful poems! Congratulations to all the winners and a great big THANK YOU to all the awesome poets who entered the contest! I liked very much what all of you produced with this form. I think because the first and last lines are the same it redoubles reader's focus on the enclosed thoughts. I'll have to hold another one in the future!

1	Obscure Land of Lights	Laura Leiser
2	My therapeutic place	Wendy Watson
3	The Awe Autumn Bestows	Lu Loo
4	The Golden Time of Day	Janis Thompson
5	Nature Boy	Stephen Tefft
6	One April Day	Andrea Dietrich
7	Home Again	Gregory R Barden
8	Memories of a Sapphire Pond	John Gondolf
9	Our Sunshine High	Sandra Haight
10	MOUNTAIN MEMORIES	JAN ALLISON

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Connie
Marcum Wong

Date: 6/12/2019 8:39:00 PM

Congratulations to all you winners. My poem didn't make the list but I sure enjoyed writing for this contest and I agree with all the fantastic poems that Dale chose as his winners. : )

Constance
La France

Date: 6/12/2019 8:14:00 AM

Congratulations to all the winners ~

Gregory Richard
Barden

Date: 6/9/2019 8:19:00 PM

Thank you so very much for my placement, Dale, I greatly appreciate it! I know I took a chance by considering the Universe as "nature", but to me, it is certainly that and more ... thank you for accepting it thus. I blame myself for not remembering to "lose" the italics, lol. Blessings!

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 6/9/2019 5:46:00 PM

Thanks for my win, Dale. I had time to read Laura's, and it is a wonderful sonnet! Congrats, everyone.

Laura
Leiser

Date: 6/9/2019 3:41:00 PM

Thank you, Dale, for my placement in your amazing contest, and congrats to all of the winners! I truly enjoyed writing in this Sonnet form! :)

Wendy
Watson

Date: 6/9/2019 3:38:00 PM

I'm also grateful to be on the list, Dale as there were some great entries. I agree that the novel repetition of the first line to conclude the poem added reinforcement to the theme and rounded the sonnet off nicely. Thank you for the time and effort you have taken to read and give feedback. Best wishes Wendy

Jan
Allison

Date: 6/9/2019 11:54:00 AM

Thanks so much Dale, I rarely write sonnets as I struggle with the form and am delighted to be on your list. my congrats to the winners:-) hugs Jan xx

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Date Posted	PoemTitle	Form	Categories
11/20/2023	Had Coffee	Footle	word play,
11/20/2023	Purloined Punctuation	Footle	word play,
11/20/2023	Hunt for Oatmeal	Footle	word play,
11/11/2023	I Stole it from the Scriptures	Footle	word play,
11/11/2023	Love-Sick Glove	Footle	word play,
11/11/2023	Ill-Tempered Kleenex	Footle	word play,
11/7/2023	Tiny Feline Town	Footle	word play,
11/7/2023	Mona Lisa Loses Consciousness	Footle	word play,
10/24/2023	Bulldozer Cleaning Up After Cows	Footle	word play,
10/24/2023	Neglect	Imagism	age,image,
10/21/2023	Jamaican Ballet Dress	Footle	word play,
10/20/2023	Rubber Horse From the Sooner State	Footle	word play,
10/20/2023	Organized Crime Crustacean	Footle	word play,
10/20/2023	Paranoid Woman	Footle	word play,
10/20/2023	Stupid Pyramid Relic	Footle	word play,
10/19/2023	Ted's Boxer Briefs	Footle	word play,
10/16/2023	A Bigger Eel	Footle	word play,
10/16/2023	Ridiculous Horse	Footle	word play,
10/16/2023	Gone With the Wind Heroine Works the Streets	Footle	word play,
10/16/2023	Drunk Vagabond	Footle	word play,
10/16/2023	Vital Organ From Down Under	Footle	word play,
10/16/2023	Dental Hygienists Bridge	Footle	word play,
10/16/2023	Soup Heard Above the Rest	Footle	word play,
10/16/2023	Confused Flower	Footle	word play,
10/10/2023	Dying Laughing	Footle	word play,
10/8/2023	Political Parties	Limerick	humor,
10/5/2023	A Letter To Santa	Limerick	humor,
10/5/2023	An Angry Man	Limerick	humor,
10/5/2023	A Pair of Old Glasses	Limerick	humor,
10/3/2023	Wildflowers	Free verse	metaphor,nature,
11/25/2022	Blood Moon	Free verse	fantasy,love,sensual,
11/5/2021	Burnished Bouquet	Free verse	autumn,
8/3/2021	Cocktail Frank	Footle	word play,
7/30/2021	Well-Spoken Absentee	Footle	word play,
7/24/2021	Unrequited Love	Footle	word play,
7/24/2021	Cheap Caucasian	Footle	word play,
7/24/2021	Big South Paw	Footle	word play,
7/24/2021	Repetitive Conservative	Footle	word play,
7/24/2021	Hick Taxi Driver	Footle	word play,
7/24/2021	Political Organization With Flatulence	Footle	humor,word play,
7/24/2021	Make-Up For Your Car Engine	Footle	word play,
7/20/2021	Odd Beef Product	Footle	word play,
7/20/2021	Bay-Front Hair Stylist	Footle	word play,
7/20/2021	Quickly-Applied Nipple Cover	Footle	humor,
7/20/2021	Moldy Thread	Footle	word play,
7/20/2021	Smart Fowl	Footle	humor,
7/20/2021	Alcoholic Beverage Buyer	Footle	word play,
7/20/2021	Foul-Tasting Social Media	Footle	humor,
7/20/2021	Polite Agriculture	Footle	humor,
7/20/2021	Steel Magnolia	Footle	word play,
7/20/2021	Terrible Breakfast	Footle	humor,
7/19/2021	First Sexual Experience	Footle	humor,
1/23/2021	Pterodactyl Fling	Limerick	humor,
7/15/2020	Blighted Statues	Free verse	flower,garden,nature,soli
3/5/2020	A View of the Vineyard	Rhyme	nature,
1/15/2020	Butterflies and Snow Flakes	Free verse	flower,nature,
12/18/2019	Monarchs	Rhyme	butterfly,nature,
10/26/2019	Indian Summer	Sonnet	autumn,imagery,metaphor,n
9/18/2019	Pixie Dragons	Quatrain	butterfly,fantasy,nature,
9/14/2019	Summer As It Grieves	Rhyme	autumn,
9/9/2019	Planning For Retirement	Crystalline	humor,
9/9/2019	Autumn's Silent Verse	Quatrain	autumn,color,metaphor,nat
8/28/2019	A Big Gain	Limerick	humor,
8/24/2019	Honey Bees	Rhyme	flower,word play,
8/2/2019	I Am Not Brave	Blank verse	color,flower,metaphor,nat
7/21/2019	The Orpheus Kiss	Free verse	anxiety,dream,hope,night,
5/25/2019	A Walk In the Park	Rhyme	color,nature,summer,
5/10/2019	The Rowboat On the Marsh	Sonnet	death,imagery,metaphor,
5/3/2019	Lily Bells	Triolet	color,flower,image,
5/2/2019	Summer's Love Lost	Free verse	imagery,metaphor,summer,
4/28/2019	A Streamlet	Crystalline	image,nature,
4/27/2019	Personification	Haiku	metaphor,nature,tree,
4/20/2019	Effulgence	Rhyme	image,
4/14/2019	A Tarot of Amulets	Free verse	nature,spring,winter,
4/5/2019	Swans	Free verse	bird,flower,nature,spring
3/31/2019	Orange Blossoms	Free verse	flower,metaphor,spring,
3/28/2019	Bougainvillea	Free verse	flower,metaphor,spring,
3/26/2019	Desert Bloom	Personification	flower,metaphor,spring,
2/25/2019	Mister Custer's Blister	Limerick	humor,word play,
2/22/2019	Sly Boys	Free verse	childhood,imagery,nostalg
2/22/2019	Birth Control	Monoku	word play,
2/21/2019	Mortal Prose	Free verse	metaphor,poetry,
2/7/2019	A Fondness For Flowers	Limerick	flower,humor,word play,
2/4/2019	A Man With a Passion	Limerick	humor,word play,
2/4/2019	A Man's Wife	Limerick	humor,word play,
2/3/2019	Verse In White	Crystalline	love,rain,silence,
1/30/2019	A Man With a Plan	Limerick	humor,word play,
1/26/2019	Dealing With Drought	Limerick	humor,
1/26/2019	Late January	Sapphic stanza	hope,spring,
1/24/2019	Betsy Ross Lied	Limerick	humor,satire,
1/24/2019	Gorgon Calling	Limerick	fantasy,humor,
1/18/2019	Oz: the Untold Story-Collaboration	Limerick	fantasy,humor,satire,
12/31/2018	A Wild Rose	Free verse	death,memory,winter,
12/30/2018	A Cold Winter	Limerick	humor,
12/16/2018	At a Lake In Winter	Free verse	imagery,nature,winter,
11/29/2018	Footprints In the Snow	Free verse	hope,nature,winter,
10/22/2018	Green Hills	Sonnet	nature,spring,
9/23/2018	I, In My Consternation	Free verse	imagery,introspection,lif
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8/27/2018	That Summer On the Lake	Free verse	color,imagery,nostalgia,s

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Fav Poems

PoemTitle	Form	Categories
I Am Nothing But the Color Red	Free verse	angst,anxiety,red,
Like You	Free verse	art,life,love,
Touch -Sharon's Acrostic Contest	Acrostic	spiritual,
The Flavor of Our Love	Free verse	good morning,
Briar and the Dragonfly	Rhyme	fantasy,good night,
Swan Ballerina Pages	Personification	poetess,poetry,
Heavenly Body - Limerick Collaboration - Bawdy	Limerick	body,humorous,
Roses Are Red - Collaboration With Ralph Sergi	Rhyme	flower,nature,romantic,
The Sowing	Free verse	devotion,
To Blossom Gold	Sonnet	poetry,
Take Me, Oh This Soul Does Plead	Rhyme	love,poetry,,sweet love,
Three Year Old - Thinking	Couplet	humor,kid,
Displaced In Kathmandu	Haibun	anxiety,fear,war,,western
It's You - It's Me	Free verse	love,
Playing Possum Poker	Dramatic Verse	corruption,political,trut
The Eyes Have It	Acrostic	love,memory,
Glass Memories	Sonnet	age,image,memory,
Tears From the Sun	Sonnet	character,devotion,fear,s
At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration	Limerick	betrayal,body,humorous,
Down Fall	Italian Sonnet	beautiful,miracle,nature,
Hideaway Nights	Free verse	love,
Knock Knock	I do not know?	funny,poets,word play,
Flip Me Over	Rhyme	care,courage,friendship,
You Never Know Till You Get To Know	Light Verse	funny,humor,humorous,imag
Autumn Haiku	Haiku	autumn,nature,tree,
The Eyes Have It	Sonnet	beautiful,romance,
American Dreams Smashed To Smithereens	Free verse	america,baby,death,murder
Square Talk	Quatrain	celebrity,funny,
What's In a Name	Limerick	humorous,inspirational,
Colours of Parisian Nightlife	Rhyme	kiss,life,night,paris,rom
Writing With Weeping Words	Sonnet	lost love,memory,
My Love	Rhyme Royal	love,
Summer Rain	Ottava rima	rain,
To Sleep	Light Verse	cool,dream,winter,
Stop Right There	Free verse	appreciation,hope,poetry,
Houston	Ottava rima	rain,storm,
Poe and I	Rispetto	lonely,lost love,
Summer Rain	Ottava rima	rain,
Dark Earth Folds In the Heart's Red Bloom	Classicism	art,creation,deep,humanit
I Only Have This Pen	Free verse	feelings,
Beautiful Solitude	Free verse	beauty,
Fleeing Irma	Prose Poetry	car,people,religious,stor
King Arthur - a Collaboration With Darren White	Couplet	art,friend,friendship,
Melted Ice Cream Promises	Rhyme	allusion,metaphor,perspec
Obsession of Soaps	Light Verse
The Wintered Soul Among Wisteria	Sonnet	grief,
It Is Not	Rhyme	heart,inspiration,love,
Leaf	Sonnet	memory,nature,
One Regret	Sonnet	introspection,life,
But It's Time	Free verse	fate,
Coffee Colored Memories	Sonnet	memory,morning,
Stunning Spring	Sonnet	beauty,daffodils,humor,na
Two Pair of Killer Heels	Pantoum	imagery,lust,sexy,
Autumnal Days In America	Dramatic Verse	allusion,autumn,perspecti
- Evil Deeds -	Alliteration	dark,deep,
The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the Collaboration	Limerick	age,body,humorous,men,
Maniac President's Song	Rhyme	funny,humor,humorous,ment
Christmas Mourning	Rhyme	sorrow,
Cinder Girl	Rhyme
Has Anyone Seen My Pussy - Bawdy Limerick	Limerick	humorous,pets,

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Poet	Country
Tim Smith	United States	Read
Jan Allison	Isle Of Man	Read
Kim Rodrigues	United States	Read
Andrea Dietrich	United States	Read
Keith O.J. Hunt	Canada	Read
Sunlite Wanter	United States	Read
Agnes Krampe	United States	Read
Gary Bateman	Germany	Read
Joseph May	United States	Read
Eve Roper	United States	Read
Daniel Turner	United States	Read
Dean Wood	United States	Read
Heidi Sands	United States	Read
Anne-Lise Andresen	Norway	Read
Lim'Rik Flats	US Minor Outlying Islands	Read
Janis Thompson	United States	Read
Connie Marcum Wong	United States	Read
Jean Murray	Ireland	Read
Freddie Robinson Jr.	United States	Read
Carrie Richards	United States	Read
Vladislav Raven	United Kingdom	Read
Joanna Daniel	India	Read
Robert Lindley	United States	Read
Pat Adams	United States	Read
M. L. Kiser	United States	Read
Frances Schiavina	United States	Read
Maureen Mcgreavy	Canada	Read
John Anderson	Australia	Read
Charlie Smith	United States	Read
Russell Sivey	United States	Read
Larry Bradfield	United States	Read
Susan Ashley	United States	Read
Justin Clason	United States	Read
Gary Smith	United Kingdom	Read
Vee Bdosa	United States	Read
Mike Gentile	United States	Read
Vijay Pandit	United States	Read
Patricia Cresswell	Canada	Read
Jake A.	United States	Read
Darren White	Netherlands	Read
Gregory Richard Barden	United States	Read
Rick Parise	United States	Read
Michael Vacek	United States	Read
White Wolf	Australia	Read
Jackie Elston	United Kingdom	Read
Line Gauthier	Canada	Read
Carolyn Devonshire	United States	Read
John Lawless	United States	Read
Nette Onclaud	Philippines	Read
Kurt Ravidas	Russian Federation	Read
Craig Cornish	United States	Read
Hilo Poet	United States	Read
John Hamilton	Canada	Read
Mark Massey	United States	Read
Brian Strand	United Kingdom	Read