Hello All!
This is the first opportunity I've had to get online since Joe posted the poems from the competition last night and I'd like to say a few words, as well as offer some thanks.
When I came home last night, I idly checked my inbox and there was an email from Joe saying that we were ready to announce the winning poems, now. Joe was online, we exchanged emails and then I watched as each poem came up. I instantly recognized it, I knew its content and the author. I re-read each poem with a fresh perspective and it was a truly incredible experience. I had lived with these poems and knew them almost as well as the authors themselves. When Joe announced the winners, even though I had already been informed of which poems they were, it was like watching the winning lottery numbers come up on the screen. When I tried to utter a few words of thanks to Laurie, I am quite certain that what came from my keyboard was not sensible English.
If there have been any mix-ups, mistakes or confusion, Blame it on Midnight, Blame it on the Moon, Blame it on the Bossa Nova or blame it on linda_lakeside, the intermediary, but please, don't blame Joe. He has done a wonderful job. A more honourable judge you could not hope to find. He is a man to be admired.
To all the board members, thank you for showing me, each day, how powerful and beautiful language is. To those that entered the competition, I am honoured to have been the temporary custodian of your fine poetry. Thank you all for the experience.
Linda
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A Few Words from the Inter-thingy
~ The smell of perfume in the air, bits of beauty everywhere ~ Leonard Cohen.
