UPDATE:
I lost my wireless connection again. It was because of my service; they changed servers without notifying their customers - well, that's not true. They did notify their members on the day they changed servers by e-mail. Yeah, whoever thought that up was really smart, huh?
Anyway, I'll get to the "judging" soon.
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I lost my wireless connection, and haven't been on since I lost it, (2 weeks ago, I believe) and will commence judging either today or tomorrow.
I will try to get this done asap.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
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I lost my wireless connection again. It was because of my service; they changed servers without notifying their customers - well, that's not true. They did notify their members on the day they changed servers by e-mail. Yeah, whoever thought that up was really smart, huh?
Anyway, I'll get to the "judging" soon.
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I lost my wireless connection, and haven't been on since I lost it, (2 weeks ago, I believe) and will commence judging either today or tomorrow.
I will try to get this done asap.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
-Nam
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 25, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100
- Final notes: I made a list for "Finalists", this is minus the three which placed:
(in order of what I liked most to least)
Proof
resuscitation
Butterfly Dance
Revolution
Nostalgia
Red-Taped Destruction
Reverie
Catalyst
There were five other poems on the list. I couldn't locate 4 of them, and I removed one from the list because, though I really liked their piece, they didn't make the effort to correct an obvious spelling error.
Those 5 poems aren't listed above.
My apologies that it took so long to judge, I lost my connection for about a month. It happens.
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Contest Winners
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by Blkwidow77 138 lines, 78 comments, on May 26 8:44 PM 2006. In Adult, Humor, Contemporary
Gold trophy winner
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Put the plaid into perspective, put the girl
inside her boxby Blkwidow77 95 lines, 51 comments, on Jul 30 1:15 AM 2006. In Personal, Dark, Contemporary
Silver trophy winner
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Marching and murder, / infiltration and destruction. / Whatever it takes, / the oil will be ours. / Whoever it costs us, / they are expendaby Cool.Indifference 8 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 3 2:14 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The chemical imbalance of a "healthy life" / Wins the trophy and the burdens as well / The oppression that led us to today / And the transgressions of tomorrow / To hate is to love and to love is not toby Asylaarix 18 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 8 7:33 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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The vampire bats are out to fly / They're up, and ready to suck you dry / I'm following them down the road / We're setting off bombs just tby AutumnsFlame 33 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 1 1:59 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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He tied her hands
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Life is so boring when the server is down. / there is nothing to do... / no one to talk to... / what should i do? / what is there to do? /• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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You were there / I could see you...touch you...feel you... / I was happy. / Darkness came...swallowed everything... / I couldn't climb out!by Saphiria 20 lines, 11 comments, on May 14 7:44 PM 2007. In i don't know...(yes that is a feeling), Thoughts, Hope, Love, Sad, Personal, Pain• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Can you see behind me that girl I Use to be? / That girl I was before Ana called to me. / This mask of perfect beauty mars my small / soul.by please come with me 36 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 25 11:33 PM 2007. In Ana, Sad, Personal, Eating Disorders.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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'A Hopeless Romantic' / Has anyone ever met a hopeless romantic' / an incurable and distinct finatic. / I have,but I mby Shirley Shaw 30 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 8 10:57 PM 2007. In Love, Truth, Hope, Life, Happiness, Fantasy, Thoughts, Beauty B eyond Words.....• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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O pen your heart.
C ontinue to look for his love.by Pollycheck 35 lines, 27 comments, on May 28 7:57 PM 2006. In Spiritual• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
'If I Were An Angel' / If I were an Angel' / I would watch over you, / all of the time. / Not just when you sleep, / but all day and night'by Shirley Shaw 24 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 23 9:06 PM 2007. In Spiritual, 'Gods' Love, And 'Friendship, Peace, Having Something To Believe In.....• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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'Alone In My Mind' / As I sit here, all alone with just my mind' / I envision what new dreams I may have, / or what new things I mby Shirley Shaw 35 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 28 12:52 AM 2007. In Fantasy, Life, Fun Times, Dreams, Humor, Love, Thoughts...• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Many times I'd made this trip
My emotions would hold me backby Pollycheck 59 lines, 75 comments, on Apr 30 4:34 AM 2006. In Personal• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
by myriad-dark 34 lines, 11 comments, on May 17 5:53 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Lost in thought, Fantasy• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by Jessi-desensytized 76 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 27 4:50 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Space enchanted, / Glistening tears, / Nothing hurts her, / Except her fears. / Under bright stars, / A late blackened night, / Her thoughtby Jessi-desensytized 63 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 8 10:23 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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This is me, / I am who I am, / Beautiful outside, / But inside I'm sad. / I'm real / And I bleed. / This is, / Just me. / Outside I'm fine,by Jessi-desensytized 93 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 2 12:26 PM 2007. In Personal, sad, thoughts, life.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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You are so / Similar to a pretty girl / I once knew / But she wasn't as / Messed up as / You / Kiss me because you can / Hold my shaking hand / / I'll promise not to be / Starry eyed / If you promise n• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I wish
Boy stares at me with perfect eyesby KittieLyyn 40 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 23 1:35 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Lets keep this / Hush, Hush / Because I am about to tell you / All my thoughts on / “God”, War, and “love” / And heaven forbid / Anyone but me and you know / That god and love / Are in quotation marks• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The rushing water fills the tub / While bubbles form and gather / Once content the water stops / So now it’s time to lather / The soft and soothing melody / Fills the room with ease / Each note serenely echoeby Twilight4Eternity 36 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 8 11:26 PM 2007. In Escape, Inspirational, Relaxing• Commented on by judge.
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the drug of invasionby polly filla 15 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 5 7:18 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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This one's to someone close to me.... who had to leave............. sorry, but I don't want to reveal more about that chapter of my life...• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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The world is in deep pain.... and so am I ....by arnica karuna 27 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 1 8:34 AM 2007. In Thoughts• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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His music, / floats by my ears / in a stream of tears / like the battered violin / I have a song inside / yet today I cry at its bankby Carly Pop 35 lines, 21 comments, on May 13 7:37 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Bloodshot eyes see past her shores, on children not yet home, And in her eleventh hour watches, standing all alone• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Greed’s Manifest Destiny, a convoy of oil tanks
led by Generals of renown, drunk on the blood of mankind,by Carly Pop 21 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 27 5:13 AM 2006• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
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Through the fog and the mist,
I can see the silhouette,by HpWICKEDangel 31 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 30 8:00 AM 2006. In Fantasy• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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When I was 16 / I wanted to be 21 / So I could do what I liked / And sleep with anyone / But as hard as I tried / My fake ID just wouldn't work / And instead of being in a club / I was left on the pavement• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I can't stand to be next to you.
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I twist in the sun / As it burns without permission / As it burns without day / I give fist to the run / As it turns without water / As itby Plastic Dreams 21 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 27 9:12 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Only dead trees grow here, / Brittle affirmation that life / Is indeed stilted and vague. / Branches jut obtuse angles, / Stubs where leaveby NoUseForAName 24 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 9 8:23 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I've this book of selected poems
by Billy Collins that leaves meby NoUseForAName 25 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 4 7:22 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
I sleep with my windows open / beg summer into my bedroom / turn the fan on and hope tomorrow / will be hot enough to pull my shorts / out of storage. / I drink dark bby NoUseForAName 36 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 1 12:12 AM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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When i can no longer write
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A child’s voice broke this morning in two- / like a fist through a board or a God through His world. / Me and my mocha cappuccino heart. / Laces weave into your whitest façade, and / black reeds poke out of baskeby samueldouglas 26 lines, 24 comments, on Jul 3 8:16 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Black eyes watching me, / Red heart beating on the floor boards, / Crimson blood dripping from your mouth, / Ice cold rose stabbed throughby icequeen101 28 lines, 2 comments, on May 21 9:54 AM 2007. In Sad, Love, Life, Fantasy, Dark, Angst, Pain, Other, Weird, Thoughts, Emo• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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This tastes just like the perfect tragedy, / With it's bittersweet butterfly kisses. / This feels as if she's on the verge of self-destruct• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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She sang songs to her coffee cup of soup
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What makes you think I can help you, / What makes you think I want to know, / I do not know where you want to be, / I do not even know wherby adarkling 13 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 16 7:10 AM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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You are a father, / to those who are fatherless. / You are a role-model, / to those who need someone to look up to. / You are a guider, / tby killerxwishes 50 lines, on Jul 21 9:20 PM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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I just wanna hear you / hear your voice in my ear / I'd take stars down for you / I'd set the moon on fire / I'd give you my everything / jby LadysDragon 19 lines, 2 comments, on May 10 10:21 PM 2007. In Love• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The wounds bleed out, / the air sucks in / the breath never comes / the vision fades. / The heart slows, / the dreams end / feeling becomes numb / minds' thoughts' freely flow. / Shock ensues and enby Dark Dreamer 33 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 1 11:01 AM 2007. In Pain• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Hysterical echoes of bitter laughter
allude to lingering thoughts of sanityby Dark Dreamer 27 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 6 8:21 PM 2006. In Dark• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
A feeling like pain rises up in me,
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I have not cried in over 3 years. / I continue to think this as a good thing / Although my eyes keep on watering / Everytime they shout atby Megalodon 31 lines, 13 comments, on May 16 10:43 AM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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He climbs up through my window / Within the silent night / He never speaks a single word / And holds his camera tight / And as I lay, he ciby AutumnsFlame 33 lines, 19 comments, on Jul 16 12:17 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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I had almost healed. / Almost, but not quite. / It is very hard to mend a broken heart. / I wouldnt expect you to understand. / You dont ge• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Erasing traces from stained memoryby AnotherName 40 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 30 2:00 AM 2007. In Thoughts• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Those words he spoke / Those words I heard / Cut deep into my skin / Into my soul,into my heart / Hurting me with with every vengence in itby lexie like woah 24 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 19 4:14 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Well I am looking for a "critique" for a poem of mine However it has recently won gold.. can i enter it?? Or I can enter it and u remove it if u don't like it or if u don't like the idea of having a poem that has won before..
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I am a masochist, and I don't expect to place.
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I bet you have a better chance than 95% of those who posted already.
of course, in an "anonymous" contest: you never know.
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I logged out and looked, and I've heard of or read before, at least 9 of thsoe who entered.
See, the thing with those people (at least a few of them) I wish they'd enter the ones that I actually take time to think up. But, no, "they" are getting just as lazy as the rest of the idiots on here.
This is why I stopped reading/commenting on peoples work. Because if you GIVE lazy, you're going to GET back lazy, from me.
It's too bad, too. I used to come up with really good "contests". But, it seems people are just too lazy for those.
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Lazy is boring in art of any form. I'm with you on that one.
Mine aren't lazy, they're all first drafts, though and that's why I put them here. I figured at best, you'd point out what I've missed and at best, I'd place. It's a win-win for me.
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my 3 entrys
i am wanting a critigue on my pieces...thank you!!..its been a while since i wrote any new poems..i seemed to have lost something..i love poetry...i hope to start writing again..thnk you for any critgue you have for me . -
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Well, before I get to them, it's spelled: critique - with a "q" not a "g".
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Regardless of how I do at the end of this mess, I hope you find a few that make it worth the reading. (hands you a paddle).
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Am I to spank you with the paddle?
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It was actually to help you wade through the bullshit, but whatever works.
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I just got home from work and it seems I've offended someone. They left me 5 IM's saying the basics:
"I have [number here] books that says my poetry is good [I bet it's all self-publishing] and you do not know what you're talking about."
Then she said in the same breath with many misspellings and all in capital letters (all her IM's were CAPPED) "God bless you."
The next IM said:
"Perhaps you just do not understand "my" poetry. Perhaps you just do not understand who I am. And I really do not care [...even though I left you 5 IM's that obviously states I do] but who died and made you [sic] President?"
That last part: never heard that one before, I must place that on my list (I don't have a list).
The next IM said:
"You write your poetry, and I'll write mine."
And the one thing I mentioned above:
"..if you do not have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all!"
She didn't say it like that but I cleaned it up.
The next IM said:
"You're just jealous!"
Misspellings in that one line she said with extentions of exclamation marks. I cleaned it up.
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Well, maybe it was 4 and not 5. Still, that's a lot for nothing.
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hahahahahhaahahahahahahahah.
I'm so going to do that when you critique mine. hahahahhahahahah.
Because I KNOW you don't understand my poetry or who I am. I also know you're jealous of me. How could you not desperately want to be a five foot tall female with the writing abilities I have?
I also know you're super mean and personal in your critiques, my feelings will get hurt, and it will take months for me to put up more bad poetry and get REAL critiques like, "Nice rite! Keep pemming" before I feel good about myself again.
Hurry up and get down the list so I can do that!
Oh yeah- fuk dixshunaries!!!!
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I just read a piece that received a gold trophy in another contest. If the judge of that contest based her/his judgement solely on the emotional impact of the piece then perhaps it's deserving of a bronze - but not a gold.
It's the 5th poem I've read in this Contest that is not very good poetry and it has received a gold trophy. Sort of makes me think that "anyone" shouldn't hold a Contest, don't care whether it's for fun or not.
I say this 'cause there are people here, mainly the "bad writers" who take winning any sort of trophy as recognition that they are a good writer and will showcase it on their myspace or other websites etc., as being an achievement when it really isn't. A pixelated icon means nothing to publishers outside the e-world, and to some in the e-world that are serious publishers - it means nothing to them either.
It just makes the website that allows such idiocy to become a joke to the rest of the so-called "serious" literature websites out there.
At least that's what I'm thinking right now.
I think judging this contest will be longer and more strenious on my brain than I thought.
I do not care if it takes me a year, the other Contests I hold will be of a more stricter accord and if I get zero entries or just 5 entries it'll be better than seeing people with badly written poems with gold trophies.
I can stand badly written poems (to a point, I have removed 3 already that I just couldn't stand at all) but with a gold trophy attached to them - that's just too much.
I mean, I've had bad poetry of mine win trophies, but, they were purely out of sarcasm on my part and sarcasm on the judges part.
This place is seeming more like a joke than anything else.
Anyway ..
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Five feet tall? Maybe in 5 inch heels
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2 inch heels.
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I guess I didn't comment on any of your submissions. If I didn't find anything that I felt was in error or I just didn't care for at all, then there most-likely isn't anything wrong with it.
I noticed you and onerios13 didn't place in my final list (or perhaps one of those missing 4 I couldn't find belong to you two?) - that's weird.
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Nostalgia is mine. I made it to the "nod in your direction" list which is good.
I always take no comment as a good sign. It at least means I didn't fuck up the grammar or spelling.
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Well, see, there ya go.
If Morgan (JustBe) didn't remove his two pieces "Yellowed" and "Spin Cycle", they probably would have taken 2 of the 3 trophies above.
I really liked "Yellowed". That would have taken 2nd and "Spin Cycle" probably would have taken 3rd.
Eh, that's how it goes.
I removed 19 entries myself, 14 of which were just "shoot me in the head" bad.
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REALLY??? TRULY??? OH My!
I won a trophy? Dancing and thinking I am so lucky because look how many entries there are here! Thank you! 
And hey everybody, you are so cool, everyone! 
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I rarely care for rhyme by contemporary writers. But, there were a few in this Contest that didn't make me want to gouge out my eyes.
And your piece was the first piece I've read in a really long time that used Middle English well.
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I thought you'd never judge, so I removed my entries. That saved you the trouble from removing them...
Great pick though!
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Then if I didn't view them before you removed them. You didn't make the list.
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Hmm... I am glad?! *eyes rolling*
Yeah you didn't. I removed them a few days back.
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Okay, I found out who wrote "Yellowed" and "Spin Cycle". They were written by JustBe (Morgan). He removed them because he entered them in for publication.
The person who wrote the other one must have changed its name or deleted it from the website - I can't find that one anywhere.
Oh well.
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I don't remember being removed But I remember removing two of my poems which you didn't view.
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Ah. Thank you for the nod.
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