FOR HUGH WYLES FAVOURITE’S GROUP ONLY # 11
For our 11th Contest I want you to write about GHOST’S and SPIRIT’S
1.Poems about Ghosts: I love to hear spooky ghost tales
2. Poems about Spirits: souls who return to Earth visiting loved ones-OR
Native Legends: Maori, American Indians-Australian Aboriginal dreamtimes, etc
3. Any style of writing: poems or stories, rhyming preferred but not a rule.
4. Can be funny, creepy, make our hair stand on end.
5. Mild language is OK but nothing vulgar
6. I’ll allow pre writes as some of you may have a poem about ghosts. But fresh ones too please.
7. Enter up to 3 entries allowed.If you enter 2 prewrites your 3rd MUST be a new one!
8. No gory ones please
9. Have you seen an Apparition? Felt someone touch you and there’s no one there?
10 Walked through a cemetery at night and know you’re not alone?
11. Have you heard someone call your name and there’s no one around?
12. Have you visited a haunted house or Castle?
So come on all you huguenauties, get cracking and give us some great poems to read.
Freak us out with stories about GHOSTS and SPIRIT’S
Rewards: Gold 500 Silver 200 Bronze 100 and 2 HM’S
For our 11th Contest I want you to write about GHOST’S and SPIRIT’S
1.Poems about Ghosts: I love to hear spooky ghost tales
2. Poems about Spirits: souls who return to Earth visiting loved ones-OR
Native Legends: Maori, American Indians-Australian Aboriginal dreamtimes, etc
3. Any style of writing: poems or stories, rhyming preferred but not a rule.
4. Can be funny, creepy, make our hair stand on end.
5. Mild language is OK but nothing vulgar
6. I’ll allow pre writes as some of you may have a poem about ghosts. But fresh ones too please.
7. Enter up to 3 entries allowed.If you enter 2 prewrites your 3rd MUST be a new one!
8. No gory ones please
9. Have you seen an Apparition? Felt someone touch you and there’s no one there?
10 Walked through a cemetery at night and know you’re not alone?
11. Have you heard someone call your name and there’s no one around?
12. Have you visited a haunted house or Castle?
So come on all you huguenauties, get cracking and give us some great poems to read.
Freak us out with stories about GHOSTS and SPIRIT’S
Rewards: Gold 500 Silver 200 Bronze 100 and 2 HM’S
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 12, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: The King and I are very pleased to see the amount of entries we received in this our 11th contest. The quality of the poems is excellent and I imagine everyone had a hard time choosing. I know I would’ve.
Votes were received and counted from 14 entrants.
The winners are:
GOLD 1st. Graveyard Ghost by Mary K
SILVER 2nd Embalming room by Hinemoa
BRONZE 3rd The Phantom Canoe by Heathcote
HM Visitation parts the veil by shewolfnative
HM Waiting by Crystaldust
Thankyou to all who entered and helped make our contest such a successful one.
Joan and Hugh.
Contest Winners
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Upon the hilltop waiting, still
neath willowed canopy of moss• Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
As they weren't collected,
they were buried by the prison people, unloved.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 2923324, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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She speaks and veil moves softly so I can hear• Viewed by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Honorable mention
Entries [18]
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The moon shines brightly,
from behind patches of cloud.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
My granddad is a sorry ghost
and now he’s getting bored..• Viewed by judge. -
where lonely people bed themselves
and lovers share each other in the night• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Sweet breath of an angel
In perfect harmony and peaceby Janice M Pickett 41 lines, 25 comments, on Apr 29 11:49 PM 2005. In Spiritual• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
They gave me the key / said go take a look and tell / us what you think / It's available for rent / if you like it / / I asked my Mum to come with me / and we drove to the street / with the funny name and theby Janice M Pickett 85 lines, 15 comments, on May 1 3:31 PM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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The Legend of Fisher’s ghost / / / Born in London, seventeen ninety two, / Fred stole some cash while working in a store; / was given fou• Viewed by judge.
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I remember former days when we all stood around the piano;
arms would go around each other, old songs we would sing,• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Amelia Rose is my name
I am trapped between two worlds.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
One dark night, as I lay sleeping, / an invader came a-creeping; / he grabbed hold of both my hands, / (almost made me wet my pants). / /• Viewed by judge.
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The swing still moves and if by unseen hand,
And voices whisper in the trembling leaves,• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Don't ever go a walking / Into a graveyard at night / For skeletons bones will rise up / In the pale moonlight~ / / Those bones will go st• Viewed by judge.
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Upon her varandah she waits / He will be home very soon / Her love will not abate / As she sits beneath the moon / Memories fill her mind / So many yeas they've been together / Never angry always kind / There fo• Viewed by judge.
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This is sure to be fun, Joan!
Best of luck to all who enter - I hope to be one.
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GOODONYA Sweetpea.
Will look forward to an entry from you.
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Although I am up to my eyeballs in work trying to repair (Yet AGAIN) the parts of my web domain that get daily use, trying to get internal links working, feeling stupid when former ways do not work--even with much gnashing of teeth.
Absolutely deadline May 6. On May 7 I am in hospital in Toronto getting my left knee replaced by a newfangled metal contraption, one of the very few ever to get one.
No guarantee, but I'll try. I know you will get many worthy entries and will be reading.
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Awwww Terry, sounds like you're having a rough trot with your PC.
Good luck with your knee replacement! WOW the newfangled contraption sounds beaut.
Hope you can enter but will understand if you can't. All the best with your operation.
Joan
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Ah hah, I found yah..you wuz tryin to hide..I jsut knows it.
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YAAAY! Ya found us Carol so now that you have I know you're gonna enter a beaut poem.
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Sounds like a great contest. I've had some of those experiences. Can we only enter once?
Dee
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No Dee, you can enter up to three poems, so get the Castle catz to help you write some beauties.
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I'll start my entry today. This sounds like FUN!
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If Margaret is Sweetpea I want to be something like that! I know, call me "Sour Puss!"
Ghosts? I've never seen a ghost, and never hope to see one. It would shake the foundation of everything I believe. I like being right.
Alas 80 percent of my pre-writes are fiction...deleted fiction.
Ghosts huh, I'm sure I can think of something odd.
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I EXPECT an entry from you Yem. Make one up! You have a great imagination. You entered mine, so enter Joans.
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I usually enter something.
Actually I found two or three poems that fit but they are sort of serious and people fall asleep when I try to be serious. I'll see.
Ooh, a ghost kangaroo....
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A ghost Kangaroo! YESSSSSSSSS make it a bewdy.
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Dear Bea, (HoH),
Sorry I haven't been much help to you in setting up this contest. This awful cold which started last week kept me in bed over the weekend and has developed into a bronchial and lung infection.
Luckily I had my Non-Entry already partly finished
so have completed and posted it today.
I hope we get lots of splendid entries.
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Dear Hugh,
No need to apologize I know how sick you've been and you still are, so take it easy and do what the Doctor says.
You've had lung problems in the past so you have to be careful. Rest as much as you can and come back to us when you're better. And your entry is great.
Love Bea
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How about Sweet-potato or Sweetyams sweetyems Sweet-dreams? Take your pick.
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Dang, ghosts brings them out of the woodwork! Remind me if I ever win again to have a contest about ghosts.
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Everybody please note!!
Angelica and I have viewed, read and commented on ALL entries!!
The statements: "Not viewed by judge" are entirely fictitious, bogus and spurious, being due to some malicious, slanderous, perfidious glitch in the system which Kevin will no doubt attend to within the next 18 months.
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This sounds too intriguing to pass up. I will be working on my entry and hope to have one soon. Work has been grueling this past year and I so miss writing and being here.
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ATTENTION-Contest closed
Attention huguenauties: Hugh Wyles Favourites Group contest # 11 has closed
Please choose 1st 2nd and 3rd and get your votes in PROMPTLY within 24 hours.
Please send ALL votes direct to huguenauties by IM
DO NOT SEND VOTES VIA HUGH WYLES FAVES GROUP OR TO ME OR
ANY OTHER POET IN THE CONTEST they MUST go directly to huguenauties by IM.
# (If voting for an Author with more than one entry, please specify title of poem as well as AP name of Author you are voting for. Otherwise your vote will go to that Author’s earliest entry.)
Good luck to all who have entered.
angelica
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Terrific contest
Well done everyone, there are so many wonderful poems that it will be a task to decide the best! Good luck to all!
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This is gonna be hard to choose, there are so many great ones. I'll vote tomorrow I'm off to bed now. I've been out dancing. Boy my feet hurt.
Jen.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER'S AND HM'S
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Thankyou to everyone who voted for me. and congratulations to the other winner's
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ty for the great contest and new stories for my campfires. *shudder* I was joking when I said I woudln't go camping with you all...I would follow you anywhere.
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Thank you for the gold! It is an honor. There were so many wonderful entries.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
To All Five Winners of the shiny trophies! It was very hard deciding who to vote for...all the poems were so good!!!
Maureen
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