I’ll start off by thanking all the people who entered the competition, the standard was very high and we had a hard time working out the winners. Nonetheless, here they are:
In 3rd position: TAO, by Bessy
In 2ndposition: Together, by DEB
In 1st position: Eternal Vow, by ChristaPaloma
So, a big to those three, and a Better luck next time to the rest. There’ll be more on this front soon enough so watch out for posts. Anyone who wants to submit their poem to Symposia, please do. The winning poems should be up tomorrow.
The Primate Grumbles
Standards of youth - blind hedonism - ultimate fun
Finding the path - make your direction - when there is none
Cast in the role - dance in the spotlight - exit on cue
And here remain - trapped in the temple - burning for you
You play the game - but the victors know - you make your luck
Zarathustra - in red suspenders - drove the fire truck
What? My poem didn’t win. I was robbed. Those GOPHERS
stole another win by a liberal. I demand a recount.
This is another 2000 election theft. I want to know
where Kathryn Harris is? The hanging chad tells the truth.
I want a investigation by the justice department, no
I want the UNITED STATES Senate to investigate this
travesty of justice. I want the U.S. supreme court to rule on this.
I know I was robbed.
Obviously I had the best poem, my wife told me so.
I was roooooobbed.
I coulda be a contender. Oh, the humanity of it all.
I just got my PM and very happy to hear my submission was well received.
Yay =D>
I’ll look forward to reading the other submissions and sorry to PK.
(especially since the US senate can’t technically investigate the Canadian.)
-cp
Don’t worry, PK. Like Bush in Florida in 2000, it just gives the liberals an excuse to moan (but do nothing about it) for years…
Actually, if my understanding is correct, your poem was one of several I had tied for 3rd - I had a lot of trouble separating many of the poems in terms of scores. I’ll be working on the winning poems in an hour or so and I’ll put links to them in this thread for y’all.
Feel free to thank Mastriani, Tab and Thirst for their roles in this. It did actually run pretty smoothly from where I was sitting.
If I’ve got it right then this is PK’s poem.
I have a Library
I have an entire library
filled with the wisdom of the ages
Socrates and Sophocles,
Jesus and Mohammad,
Nietzsche and Freud,
teachers all
those eternal questions
of God, freedom and immortality.
They are big questions
But are they the right questions?
Are they the relevant questions?
Are those questions means to hide,
hide the fact that our lives
our very existence is exactly as it seems,
no more and no less.
No mystery, no god, no heaven, no hell
just you and me.
Instead of the big questions
perhaps our answers are found
in the little questions?
The personal questions.
The questions we ask each other.
Do you need me?
Do you believe me?
Do you love me?
Questions that get to the heart
of the human condition.
Questions that can shatter
our lives, our being, our very meaning.
Because sometimes,
we don’t get answers
sometimes all we get is silence.
And in that silence
that horrible stillness
we can hear our heartbeat
in the quiet of the night.
And we are left with another question.
Is that all?
Is that silence
our only answer to
the eternal questions?
ChristaPaloma: I just got my PM and very happy to hear my submission was well received.
I’ll look forward to reading the other submissions and sorry to PK.
(especially since the US senate can’t technically investigate the Canadian.)
K: Just wait until bush decides you harbor terrorist and
invades, then shortly after that, you become the 52cnd state,
(Iraq will be the 51st) Then I will have my revenge, hahahahaha.
K: Just wait until bush decides you harbor terrorist and
invades, then shortly after that, you become the 52cnd state,
(Iraq will be the 51st) Then I will have my revenge, hahahahaha.
Ha I’ll look forward to it! I’m so tired of the little lines all over the globe I’m happy to erase them all and I don’t much care how they get erased and who thinks they won, because I’ll be quite sure it was me heh…
Congratulations to DEB and Bessy for some nice work.
Very agreed with your sentiment expressed DEB and Bessy your poem evoked a lot of imagery and feeling. Well done. =D>
To PK: I do not judge the merit of your poem. I had an ulterior motive for entering the competition but I’d rather not enter if we all can’t win.
Your poem evoked in me the feeling I got when I read “Waiting for Godot” almost 40 years ago. Scientists are focusing receivers into outer space with the hope of hearing ‘voices’ that will tell us we are not utterly alone in the universe. I continue to listen in my inner space for the possibility of hearing that “still small voice” which will tell me we are not utterly alone. You are probably right in thinking that possibility is beyond all reason but I am still going to cling to that faint hope.
to those three, and a Better luck next time to the rest. There’ll be more on this front soon enough so watch out for posts. Anyone who wants to submit their poem to Symposia, please do. The winning poems should be up tomorrow.
