Dear friends,Got this in the mail just now and wanted to share this happy moment with you all, last month there was a poetry contest organized by
SINGSNAP a karaoke site where I hang out too cos' I like to sing my blues away instead of ranting n ravin LOL !! A poetry contest was so cool I submitted 3 of mine and I came in 3rd out of the scores of poetry that was submitted..I am thrilled and I know you all will be happy for me too!!
Thank you for all your luv n support here that helps & inspires me to do what I do. Thank you most of all for being my friend !
SHYGIRL2008 is my user name :-)
Talk to you all later, have to run to church now..yup its Sunday morning for me :-)
Hugz
Pauline And finally, we’re dishing out the prizes from all the contests featured in the previous edition of Rhythm & News. Yes, that’s right; the long wait is over!
SingSnap is proud of the community it has created, and rightly so. Your continued interest in the newsletter makes the hours we toil over it that much more worthwhile, so thank you to everybody who took part in our little competitions. If you didn’t win this time around please keep trying. Next time it could be you!
ARE YOU A POET AND DIDN’T KNOW IT?
An unbelievable response to our poetry contest; into the hundreds, making this our most successful competition by a long long way! As you can imagine the judging took a lot of time and effort and it was a VERY tough decision. We have included poems that we felt deserve special mention but in the end the three winners came in, all as follows:
SPECIAL MENTION;
VoiceofElkGOLD – SingSnap
annaleaGOLD – Another War With Poppies
AardvarkBbrkGOLD – The Virtuoso
3RD PLACE – WINNING 1 MONTH GOLD:
shygirl2008
Is This You?
We rush here, and we rush there !
chasing a dream, daring a dare !
This world's got us caught up, running around,
chasing a fantasy, keeping us bound.
Bound up in shackles, of life's luxuries,
making us slaves of things so temporary !
When do we stop to realize,
that life's more than this,
and all we have to do, is look inside!
And begin to work on the things that count,
A loving heart, a warm embrace,
a smile that goes around
So where do we start and with who?
I'd say the time is NOW
and the person is YOU !
2ND PLACE – WINNING 2 MONTHS GOLD:
littleleprechaunGOLD
Growing Old
I often wander in my mind to the place where i was born
And think again with pleasure of a sunny summer morn
Fields of green with daisies white and hedges of blackthorn
Spending time with family i no longer have to mourn.
Returning to the present time, life seems so dark and cold
Those summer days, fading now, i wish that i could hold
Not knowing in those days of youth, for it was never told
That only memories are left, in the years of growing old.
1ST PLACE – WINNING 3 MONTHS GOLD:
walkingstickGOLD
Untitled Poem
Before that last confusion
and after the first rush of feeling through my core
knowing your desire for me . . .
I stood in the kitchen door way
breathing in the fresh evening air.
A little red-breasted nuthatch flew
right onto the suet feeder
just a foot from my face.
I could see individual brush-strokes of feathers
and the suet in its wee beak
At the point when I thought
how easy it would be to reach out and hold him
it was as if he read my mind
He stopped feeding
warily scanning the area for danger
for what seemed like forever...
I let my thoughts flow kindly
over this soft and wild creature ...
did he sense my intent then?
for he went back to feeding
When finally he flew away,
I could feel a stir of air on my face
the trailing breath
of his retreating wings.
EXTREME SINGSNAP