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Haibun FreeStyle Contest Results

Blog Posted:12/21/2015 9:08:00 AM

Firstly I'd just like to thank you all for supporting this contest and my fledgling form of poetry. With so many excellent examples ot Haibun FreeStyle now on this site, I just might approach PS to ask them for a description of Haibun FreeStyle on the Forms page. Who's with me?

Congratulations to the winners for your superb poems. "Christmas Day" took me back to those Christmas Eves as a child, rummaging under the Christmas Tree in the dark hours of the night, looking for parcels with my name on them. "Grandma's Gift" is a lovely story of an unbreakable bond between two generations. While Lin Lane with "Revelations In Spring" fininshed with a sonnet (oh yeah), on our fav topic LOVE. "Poetically Turning Blue", "A poet Far from it" (who says?), and "Trespasser" continue the brilliance. But shining examples of  sweeping prose, and stunning poetry do not stop there.

Thank you all again for supporting this contest and my dream of a new Poetic form. The photo above is another current dream, our new block of land. This is where my wife and I will build our next home, and the base of my poetry for many years to come.

Merry Christmas all, may your Festive Seasons be awesome.

Now here's a list of great poetry, read enjoy, and be inspired...

Contest Winner Medal 1 Christmas Day Emile Pinet
Contest Winner Medal 2 Grandma's Gift Rhonda Johnson-Saunders
Contest Winner Medal 2 Revelations In Spring Lin Lane
Contest Winner Medal 3 Poetically Dreaming Blue John Beam
Contest Winner Medal 3 A poet Far from it Paul Rochefort
Contest Winner Medal 3 Trespasser Carrie Richards
  4 Summer-colored Andrea Dietrich
  5 Bell the cat, s'il vous plait Anindya Mohan Tagore
  5 Late for marriage Dr. Upma A. Sharma
  7 Beauty of Birds Broken Wings
  7 Flora Crescendo - for contest CayCay Jennings
  10 I And The Eye Balveen Cheema
  10 Moon bathing hija de la luna
  10 Faroese Julia Ward
  10 Forgotten son Silent One
  10 Awesome Sara Kendrick
  12 The Gist of Predestination Rhoda Monihan
  12 Is This Real Jacob Fogel
  12 Reflections david mohn
  15 PARALLEL AUTUMN SURPRISES Olive Eloisa Guillermo
  15 Every Song Tells a Story Jordan Cote
  Honorable Mention Changes Mary Swingler
  Honorable Mention Rainbows Hansteven Selfa
  Honorable Mention Molting Makenzie Mcdonald
  Honorable Mention VISION WARP Manoj Kumar
  Honorable Mention The Visitation Alfred Vassallo
  Honorable Mention Needy-Haibun Free-Style Contest Laura Loo
  Honorable Mention The Last Thirty Minutes Charles Henderson
  Honorable Mention Potbelly Doug Long
  Honorable Mention WHAT IF WE LOVED AND NEVER FOUGHT Andrew Crisci
  Honorable Mention Ho-Ho-Ho Debbie Guzzi
  Honorable Mention Universe Anisha Dutta


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Date: 12/21/2015 1:36:00 PM
hey, I finally got a nice placement! I think last one was HM and before that was N/A. so I am thrilled with my placement this time!! And also, I think having a mixture of prose with poetry other than haiku is a cool idea! Congrats to all your winners. Have a merry Christmas you lucky guy in the sunshine of December!!
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Date: 12/21/2015 11:17:00 AM
Sorry I didn't get round to entering the contest Scott. What a wonderful view you will have to inspire you when writing your wonderful words - do post a picture when the house is completed:-) Merry Christmas and Happy New year:-) hugs Jan xx
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Date: 12/21/2015 9:44:00 AM
What a nice view your new home will have, Scott. May I ask what body of water it overlooks? Thank you for hosting the contest, Scott. I think the Haibun is now my favorite form for writing. It allows prose and verse to be used with one central idea so I'm all for adding Haibun Freestyle to the list.
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Scott Thirtyseven
Date: 12/21/2015 10:57:00 AM
Blanchport Harbour, South Australia. A very small dot, on a very big map.
Date: 12/21/2015 9:30:00 AM
Just one question about placements 6,8,9,11,13 & 14. Were these pissed poets removing their poems or was this just judging freestyle?
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Date: 12/21/2015 10:56:00 AM
FreeStyle judging, not to say that all the poets involved like this Style though.

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