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Tracy Mitchell
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Colm Wins Poetry Contest!!!

Post by Tracy Mitchell » Mon Feb 24, 2020 12:29 pm

A very large congratulations to the first ever

Winner of TTB Poetry Contest -- Colm Roe!

Take a bow, Colm!


Congratulations to all who participated.  The runner-up poem was incredible as well.


Here is the reprise of the winning poem:

Family

We don't wear shoes
so you can't 'walk a mile'.
No point in giving us a typewriter either,
we could do it
but it's getting warmer
so Shakespeare can wait,
he has eternity.

We sometimes wonder
what we taste like,
only because you eat us.
Do you wonder how you'd....

Apols for 'borrowing' your camera
and the fuss it caused,
but we had fun
and hope we looked
as sexy-cool as we felt.

We will come down from the trees
when you're gone
or
when they're gone.

We're family, and we break things,
it's what we do.

But you evolved too quick
and you've broken them too fast.

Nice pics though.


 

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Colm Roe
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Re: Colm Wins Poetry Contest!!!

Post by Colm Roe » Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:27 pm

Aw shucks T :oops:
Hopefully we'll get more entries next time :)
Kudos for providing such a fab photo/story to inspire us.

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Re: Colm Wins Poetry Contest!!!

Post by Tracy Mitchell » Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:44 pm

You and the other author wrote wonderful poems, C.

No obligation to rush into the next contest.  Your choice.  

T

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Re: Colm Wins Poetry Contest!!!

Post by Gyppo » Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:13 pm

I enjoyed the whole thing, but my four favourite lines, a mini poem within the whole, were these...

We're family, and we break things,
it's what we do.

But you evolved too quick
and you've broken them too fast
.

Gyppo
I've been writing ever since I realised I could.  Storytelling since I started talking.  Poetry however comes and goes  ;-)

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Colm Roe
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Re: Colm Wins Poetry Contest!!!

Post by Colm Roe » Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:55 pm

Thanks for dropping in, and for your comment Gyppo :)

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Re: Colm Wins Poetry Contest!!!

Post by Deb » Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:35 pm

Hi Friends,
Begging your pardons, I've been wandering around out of sorts for a bit and it's obvious I missed something special but I'm so happy that on my way back, I first stumbled onto this. 

~Hope everyone is well.

~Deb

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Re: Colm Wins Poetry Contest!!!

Post by Colm Roe » Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:26 am

:)

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