Thank you to everyone who supported my contest. I really appreciate it!
There were a few poems that exceeded the line limit, or did not use an ABAB rhyme scheme, so those poems could not be placed.
CONGRATULATIONS to all of the winners!
1 Dorian Grey Abridged - Craig Cornish
1 Cold Salute - John Lawless
1 Melody Rules - Sara Kendrick
1 A Dream Revealed - Robert Lindley
1 Suncatcher - Carrie Richards
2 Tonight I Cry - Frederic Parker
2 One More Day - Joyce Johnson
2 A Tangled Beauty - Mystic Rose
2 Rising From The Ashes - John Beharry
2 Ravaged - Paul Callus
3 The Role of a Lifetime - Abdul Malik
3 A LEGACY SPAN - Olive Eloisa Guillermo
3 TRACING YOUTH'S GLEE - Nette Onclaud
3 Calming My Fears - Rora Onna
3 Watermelon - Faye Gibson
3 The Darkness at Noon - Dr. Upma Sharma
4 Prisoner - Tim Ryerson
4 A Church by the Ocean - Dr. Ram Mehta
4 UP AND AWAY - Sidney Beck
4 Ask Her To Dance - Richard Lamoureux
4 'Love Beyond the Pale - Debbie Guzzi
4 Being Three Years Old - Casarah Nance
5 A Dog's Domestication - Keith Merritt
5 When Marbles Fall - Earl Schumacker
5 Your Hand - Tim Smith
5 Some Dogs - Ilene Bauer
5 Soaring Kites - Mohan Chutani
5 The old rocking chair - Seren Roberts
Honorable Mention - The Phantom Horse - Andrea Dietrich
Honorable Mention - I Dreamt of You Last Night - Arlene Smith