One nine and sixteen

Contest Judged: 5/2/2018 1:50:00 AM
Sponsored by: Viv Wigley |

Place	PoemTitle	Poet
1	A Stitch In Time	Elaine George
2	Weave of Life's Fabric	Nette Onclaud
3	A Forgotten Relic	Emile Pinet
3	Selvedge Edges	Carrie Richards
3	Her Thread	Jerry Hackett
3	When All Seemed Lost	Kim Rodrigues
4	Candlelit Vigil	Line Gauthier
4	One Nine and Sixteen - the Attic	Sandra Haight
4	By the Candle's Light	Fj Thomas
4	All Was Dark	Larry Bradfield
4	One, Nine, Sixteen	Jan Allison
4	A Memory of Reminiscing In the Sewing Room	Andrea Dietrich
5	Seamless Patches - 1,9,16	John Lawless
5	Dust Filled and Windswept 1-9-16	Frederic Parker
5	The Fabric of Two Lives	Carolyn Devonshire
5	Tides of War - One Nine and Sixteen Contest	Seren Roberts
6	Sewing Machine	Susan Gentry
6	The Industrious Stitch	Harry Horsman
6	Hope Brought By Faith In God	Beata Agustin
6	''I Remembered''	Constance La France
7	Sewing Machine	Jean Murray
7	Silent Darkness	Lu Loo
7	Nan	Theresa Stephens
7	When All Was Dark	Subimal Sinha-Roy
7	Distinction Leaves Its Mark 2	Reason A. Poteet
8	Sewing Machine 1-9-16	Charles Messina
8	Mama's Pet Helper	Joyce Johnson
8	One, Nine, and Sixteen	Curtis Moorman
9	One Nine and Sixteen What Are We Fighting For	James Edward Lee Sr.

Contest Description

What to Submit?

Now, here's a challenge.....

Write me a sixteen line poem, and I've already given you lines one, nine and sixteen, which are-

1- ' Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust'

9- 'The war years seemed like only yesterday'

16- 'The candle sputtered, spent, and all was dark'

Off you go, then......

Prizes

Lots of winner placing thingies.

Preparing Your Entry

Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts.

English Language

Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.

A Note to Poetry Contestants

You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests.