The Poetry Comp. Winners

[jaked]

Tiredsome stuff

[mickey_one]

Tiredsome stuff

that's the spirit!

[Joney]

When will the identities of the entrants be revealed or will they remain a mystery forever?

[mickey_one]

When will the identities of the entrants be revealed or will they remain a mystery forever?

all confessions are voluntary, so if you entered, Joney, go ahead!

[Mr. Sunshine]

I think that the author of poem #6 should receive an apology from the judges for the poor manner in which this whole thing was handled, and for the offhanded derogatory comment regarding "coasting".

Cheers.

Rudolf

[Manna]

Dear Mr. Sunshine,
Of course, you are right.

I hereby officially apologize for the lack of seriousness with which Mickey handled this entire poultry competition. Every chicken, turkey and duck-duck goose that was put up for bidding was of Class A quality, and deserving of all the corn, free rangedness and flight that all real birds seem to possess in the world. I would also like to (brush away tear) say that I had such a wonderful time being involved with this year's event. All thoseinvolved made it such a very special poultry competition. This one will be talked about for years to come, I am sure.

[~greg]

jaked wrote: Tiredsome stuff

One ought not talk when one is a past participle.

will the identities of the entrants be revealed or will they remain a mystery forever?

...not mutually exclusive.

But why rush the inevitable?
All too soon, they will all have to remain revealed forever.

... coasting

that's the spirit!


~~~
Michael,
I am amazed at how vindictive those poems are!
All for the prosecution, none for the defense.

They remind me of when I read about how the public gloated
whenever Charlie Chaplin got in trouble.
I could not imagine how anyone could resent Charlie Chaplin.
My father had to explain to me that it was simply because
Chaplin had many beautiful young women, and lots of money.
(So naturally he was accused of being Jewish:

For Chaplin's entire career, some level of controversy existed over claims of Jewish ancestry. Nazi propaganda in the 1930s prominently portrayed Chaplin as Jewish (named Karl Tonstein) relying on articles published in the US press before, and FBI investigations of Chaplin in the late 1940s also focused on Chaplin's racial origins. Paranoia about Jewish domination of the film industry was probably the root cause underlying this controversy. There is no documentary evidence of Jewish ancestry for Chaplin himself. For his entire public life, Charlie fiercely refused to challenge or refute claims that he was Jewish, saying that to do so would always "play directly into the hands of anti-semites". Although baptised in the Church of England, Chaplin was an agnostic for most of his life. [6]
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ch ... troversies

)

[Alan Alda]

that's the spirit!

yeah...ghostly even.

No worries, Mikeee. Jaked is a non-entity posing as a bee-dreaming, god-fearing prisoner on death row. Not even interesting enough to be funny. He will probably still be believed by some when he comes back from his execution, posting as the entity-formerly-known-as-jaked-from-the-grave.

L

[Alan Alda]

Manna~

There is a fine line between being funny and being disrespectful. A contest, even one based on a funny premise deserves some sense of having the judging been done with respect to the authors and their efforts.

IMHO
L

[~greg]

Manna,
As chance would have it!
(This is true!)

Every once in a while I eat a whole bird, because
this is Perdue chicken-factory country
and the smell of freshly roasted poetry has got to
be in every single store you can go into around here,
and there is something primitive in human nature
that sometimes simply can't refuse the thick sweet smell
of poetry. (Perhaps it's a pathetic superstitious attempt
to acquire flight).
So anyway as chance would have it, I just swallowed
a bird-bone! The whole breast (or "wish") bone I think.
I tried vomiting, but I have not been able to voluntarily
do that in, -well, -in ever, actually. Then I thought of eating
a whole bunch of bread, to buffer it, but apparently I'm
"out of bread".

So anyway, I just wanted to thank you for your kind words
about this, because, somehow! - they make me feel quite
confident that everything is going to be all right.

[mickey_one]

I think that the author of poem #6 should receive an apology from the judges for the poor manner in which this whole thing was handled, and for the offhanded derogatory comment regarding "coasting".

Cheers.

Rudolf

As a long standing member of this forum you certainly deserve a response. I didn't intend the "coasting" observation to be critical. I felt the writer showed some talent but offered us a fairly "easy" and light-hearted effort. It all depends on what level you take this comp. Elsewhere the phrase "glasses dark" would be critically slaughtered but here we are all nice to each other.

[mickey_one]

I love Greg's writing and I ask for a written undertaking that he enters our next comp.

[Alan Alda]

Isn't there a: "rivers dark" phrase in a Cohen song?

That is why I thought that line was okey doke....

[Mr. Sunshine]

I think that the author of poem #6 should receive an apology from the judges for the poor manner in which this whole thing was handled, and for the offhanded derogatory comment regarding "coasting".

Cheers.

Rudolf

As a long standing member of this forum you certainly deserve a response. I didn't intend the "coasting" observation to be critical. I felt the writer showed some talent but offered us a fairly "easy" and light-hearted effort. It all depends on what level you take this comp. Elsewhere the phrase "glasses dark" would be critically slaughtered but here we are all nice to each other.

I would suggest that writing "light-hearted" does not necessarily reflect a half-hearted effort.

I would also suggest that your sarcasm towards my forum stature (or lack thereof) is in poor taste. Certainly not a welcoming attitude.

[Mr. Sunshine]

Alan Alda, thank you for your support of my point.

Rudolf