A C T C - 2014/09 Entries - Poem Hunter Poems - (Disqualified But Noteworthy) Comments

ok, brian, i've just added this one to MyPoemList. happy now? i think i would vote for brian johnston's poem, over diane's, but i don't know how either would fair against the non-disqualified poems. p.s. brian, i foresee members having trouble and becoming frustrated while looking for a particular poem in your Poem List, because PH does not show the whole title until one clicks on a title. and since some of your extended titles have exactly the same wording for the first portion, members can not at first distinguish one from another in some cases. perhaps at least putting the month/year closer to the front of the challenge poem titles would help a lot of us. :) bri

up next: BRIAN aka Webmaster: We are dreamers who woke one day to discover that once fixed stars.... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [copied from online]: English verb wake conjugated in all tenses. Bookmark and Share Nominal Forms Infinitive: to wake Participle: waked; woken Gerund: waking Indicative Present I wake you wake he wakes we wake you wake they wake Perfect I have waked; woken you have waked; woken he has waked; woken we have waked; woken you have waked; woken they have waked; woken Past I waked; woke you waked; woke he waked; woke we waked; woke you waked; woke they waked; woke Pluperfect I had waked; woken you had waked; woken he had waked; woken we had waked; woken you had waked; woken they had waked; woken Future I will wake you will wake he will wake we will wake you will wake they will wake Future perfect I will have waked; woken you will have waked; woken he will have waked; woken we will have waked; woken you will have waked; woken they will have waked; woken Subjunctive Present I wake you wake he wake we wake you wake they wake Present I have waked; woken you have waked; woken he have waked; woken we have waked; woken you have waked; woken they have waked; woken Imperfect I waked; woke you waked; woke he waked; woke we waked; woke you waked; woke they waked; woke Pluperfect I had waked; woken you had waked; woken he had waked; woken we had waked; woken you had waked; woken they had waked; woken Conditional Present I would wake you would wake he would wake we would wake you would wake they would wake Perfect I would have waked; woken you would have waked; woken he would have waked; woken we would have waked; woken you would have waked; woken they would have waked; woken Imperative you wake we Let´s wake you wake ETC. ETC. ETC. .................... BRIAN, I WAS THINKING YOU COULD/SHOULD HAVE USED awoke, but i give up on finding fault with you here! DARN! =================== well, i had to look elsewhere; i couldn't help myself! verb 1. a simple past tense and past participle of awake. awake [uh-weyk] verb (used with object) , verb (used without object) , awoke or awaked, awoke or awaked or awoken, awaking. 1. to wake up; rouse from sleep: I awoke at six with a feeling of dread. 2. to rouse to action; become active: His flagging interest awoke. 3. to come or bring to an awareness; become cognizant (often followed by to) : She awoke to the realities of life. ========================== LANGUAGE IS TOO DIFFICULT! ! ! ! BRIAN, i especially enjoyed the following lines: Sharing a nice glass of Merlot with God in front of His Big Screen, (The miracle of buttered popcorn always tender, hot, and fresh! Yum!) , Looking back to times when even laws of physics had not matured yet, Laws, which, perhaps, like human beings, still evolve, biding their time. make mine un-buttered; i'm watching my wife watch my weight! - - - - - - - - - - - the last stanza sounds good, but, if i understand it at all, i don't buy it! not that whatever you mean isn't so. i don't know, and i doubt anyone will ever prove it scientifically. - - - - - - - - - - A living poem, universally true, surfeit*** of God's imagination, i believe that, according to the copied definition of surfeit, below, you could have typed: ....true, buttload of God's imagination, ..........AM I CORRECT? ? :) :) :) bri - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ***SURFEIT: sur·feit 's?rf?t/ noun noun: surfeit; plural noun: surfeits 1. an excessive amount of something. a surfeit of food and drink synonyms: excess, surplus, abundance, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, glut, avalanche, deluge; overdose; informalbellyful, gutful, buttload a surfeit of apples antonyms: lack archaic an illness caused or regarded as being caused by excessive eating or drinking. he died of a surfeit ============== thanks, pal, for sharing. better luck next time with holding your length in check, OR were you afraid to compete? ? ? ? bri :) p.s. are you holding back on announcing the title for OCTOBER? it IS october. or did i overlook it.........the announcement? ? ? curious, ya know.

re DIANE'S: Did the grave Sexton sende ye? ' asked an old woman. ‘He did Goody Bryte', replied Widow Croak. ‘Where is the Bodie? ...............Crock=Croak? i assume the odd-looking letter which seems to replace s in several places is some once-used letter s? then why do some words in quotes use the 'regular' s? i'm needing guidance here i guess. ‘A fowl murther indeed Lotta', replied Widow Key. .........fowl, not foul? guard'd for fourty days' .....forty? yes, english is a strange language, but is it stranger than the others? maybe fourty is an earlier spelling? The widows stood well back and prodded the corpse with their sticks. ‘Now we mu?t con?ult', said Widow Crock. .............this gave me a good, though not huge, laugh. but every laugh is welcome! ! ! all in all, an amusing story. this may be one reason the Plague ran through so much of the population of Europe years ago. let's hope the u.s. at least avoids Ebola. not that i wish it on anyone anywhere. i could explaterate**, but i'll stop here. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i only remember hearing the word explaterate used during some of the 'secret goings-on' in my college fraternity about 50 years ago. explaterate Web definitions to talk continuously without stop; to run off at the mouth ============ thanks, Diane, for sharing. maybe if they had skipped one body, the poem would have qualified for the competition. :) bri

Brian, you have disqualified your own poem and that speaks of your genuine parameters of judgement here and I appreciate you. The topic of the poem is quite conventional and if Diane has gone against the stipulations, you have have the right to disqualify her submission.... Bri Edwards deserves all praises for taking great pains to read everything with utmost patience..

But Diane`s submission is logical.... How can it be rejected?

God's kind of poetry a window in to infinity, a great work shared in this forum. Beautiful ever.

Difficult one this. A choice between an Englifh hiftory leffon and a lesson in astrophysics. I enjoyed Diane's story, was wondering where God was hiding. Nice twist at the end Diane. Brian's poem I also enjoyed, more for the scientific aspect (not being a religious man myself) . A lot of effort, obviously, went into both and I equally enjoyed reading both. I'm afraid I'm going to have to declare this contest a tie. Score: - 10 apiece.32127