A C T C - 2014/09 Entries - Poem Hunter Winners Comments

This poetry challenge game played well- -Found many brilliant poems here on the same topic , different views and reviews.I will come to read again to read these great poems.

Wow.... I feel so thrilled over the acheievement. Let me congratulate Bri... co winner for sharing the trophy...! I grab this space once more to thank Mr. Brian Johnston for providing this forum! He personally invited many of us to take part in this contest and has been consistently doing the follow up and entertaining and encouraging all with his interesting comments. Let me thank him first for voting in my favour (the webmaster's vote ofcourse is special) ! Also I thank Dinesh Nair, Akhtarji, Ramesh Rai and Abekah (though his vote has been declared invalid) whose kind comments and valuable votes made me the winner..... Also thank Savitha, Darlene and Kevin for their favourable comments! Once more congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all who encouraged us!

to quote some of the ritual of the Kappa Alpha Society, a college 'fraternity' known to its members (only after they get initiated i think) as a literary society, formed in 1825, and which i joined at cornell university in ithaca new york in 1967: HIC FINIS EST! congratulations Valsa and Me, and all others who participated as either 'webmaster', poet entrants, readers, 'commenters'/commentators? , or/and voters. see you next month? bri :)

my vote goes (again) to Kanav Justa. i had left a long, nice, comment several days ago announcing my vote and reasons for it, but some Webmaster [who shall, for his protection, remain unnamed] deemed it prudent? to delete my vote/comment (two comments in fact) and send me a message to that effect, telling me i would have to vote again. luckily i received and read and acted on that message soon enough, unless this comment also gets deep-sixed. : ( bri [[ this does NOT make me a happy camper! but life goes on! ]]

It is indeed a praiseworthy job. It is tough to vote for a single poem because each poem is written with full devotion and submission. If I vote for a single poem it does not mean that rest are not worthy. ButI may please be excused. My vote goes to Poetess Valsa George. She has made her best effort to bring down her imagination on the canvas of poetry. Thank you so much Sir Brian Johnston for your wonderful job. Regards.

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I read Bri and Valsa's God's kind of poetry on their site. My vote goes for both of them. One is full of humor and the other full of God's light and love. I think I have read Mandolin's and Kanav Justa' poem too but can't remember. I have to read again to make any comment. I do plan to read them all including Brian's and Diana Hine's. By the time I finish my vote probably will not be eligible for count but I do want all of them to know how much I have enjoyed reading poems at this site. Reading couple of poems at random is almost part of my daily routine. Brian's effort of bringing poets together in such a fun way is commendable. Thank you Brian.

My vote goes to Bri The line about the pig being top dog is a killer line. Well done

YES! it is ME again, Bri Edwards aka bri. not to be confused with Brian Johnston! ! ! please, anything but THAT! ! ! i find i am running out of time; in a few days the voting period will be over. Valsa, won't you change your mind? ? i see what BJ wrote after your 'non-voting' 'non-poems-comment' comment on the competition and the Webmaster. and yes, he IS getting up there in years! yes, Valsa, and all others, you are; lucky i don't have my own computer! and, Valsa, i found no spelling errors in your comment, unless one counts the two words you erroneously (i assume mistakenly) hooked together. :) i NOW plan to comment on My poem and to VOTE. yes, vote! i've already left some comments on all of the competing poems, AND on the two disqualified poems which are accessed through another of BJ's poems in his list of poems. i recommend those other two, by Diane Hine and Brian Johnston, if you have a little extra time on your hands. they are truly unique for more than their length. bri :)

Bri's poem is lovely and nice having thoughts in his own singular style, But as far as poetic beauty is concerned I saw more beauty in Valsa's poem.

I don't want to go into the poems. They are all great in one way or other. I myself being a contestant, I don't think it fair to make comments. But I would like to make a note of appreciation to the Web Master, Mr. Brian Johnston for choosing a beautiful title for the contest and the way he has organized it.... His deeply analytical, humorous and sharp witted comments have made this contest attention arresting! His patience to sit and type so much at this age is remarkable....(oh, I don't mean he is too old.... he is young enough for everything!) Then ofcourse Bri.... the man who adds spice to any bland stuff! This web seems to be his voluminous note pad where he scribbles on and on and is never tired of it.... He cliams that he snatches his wife's laptop! So if he had owned one himself, the readers on PH would have to sit for hours together, reading his comments and syntactic corrections! Remember his hawk eyes are wide open to see if there are spelling errors! Also I congratulate all the contestants who with a variety of poems entertained all and thank those generous minded souls who found time to read, evaluate and make comments!

‘Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen' - Leonardo da Vinci A debate, is poetry a painting or painting is a poetry. The great Milton was blind but he wrote Paradise Lost. He felt God and he felt poetry. Any beautiful poetry that touches the heart and is felt by the soul is a God's kind of poetry. Valsa's poem touched my heart and my soul felt it. It is my favorite poem for the contest. I vote for it.

Each poem is wonderfully composed, and incorporates interesting facts about the authors own spiritual identity through the written word. Some were funny (Darlene Walsh) thought provoking (Mandolyn) slightly proselytizing (Kanav Justa) or contemplative with beautiful imagery (Valsa) they all had something to contribute, and considering the topic of an omnipotent agent, I cant support choosing a monotheistic monopoly of this message. There all special

I cast my vote for the Bri Guy. I also appreciated Mr. Nobody. I like their questioning and satirical point of view. I also liked, kind of, Kanav Justa just a bit!

Hmmmmm.Great and Powerful poems are abundant on this page..trust me....I have read all and the comments by the Commissioner Of Elections.......equally nice and powerful....not forgetting funny..ha! Voting is ongoing folks, be patience for the results.ha! Are polling agents at work? ... Well, came to say good morning to you all. Have a nice day.....

brian (and others) , i just perused your updated bio. thanks for the clarification/explanation of your poem list categorization/titling method! ! ! ! how's THAT for a sentence? now i wish to add, for readers, a NEW CHALLENGE 'ENTRY-OF-SORTS'. this is a poem i found today on Achill Lad's site on PH. he happened to vote for me, but i had never heard of him before, that i recall. i liked his comment on my God's poem and today i decided to look at his poem list for the first time. to my surprise i found one submitted in early October with the same title used by (some of) us in this Sept. Challenge. here it is. i think it is grand! i left a comment on his poem's page and sent it to MyPoemList. i did tell him i planned to submit it in a comment on this site, but he had not even mentioned to me that he had written one; i just stumbled across it. fate? ? by ACHILL LAD God's Kind Of Poetry I'm just a simple little man. I live a simple life, In this simple little home I share With my simple little wife. I'm just a simple little man, And simple though I be, I have a simple little thought That I will share with thee. I've read 'God's Kind of Poetry', And it took me quite a while, Though I respect what most believe, Genuflection ain't my style. So I'll write 'God's Kind of Poetry', And you may think that it's absurd, For the greatest poem of all time Is wrapped up in just one word........... ..........NATURE. ======================== p.s. yesterday i ran across a poem by Kanav Justa, The Egg. it is eggstra good as well. :) bri | Delete this message

i see TWO Abekah Emmanuels listed on PH. hmm?

the question marks at the start of my comment on Abekah Emmanuel's poem were NOT put there by me. i honestly believe that they weren't. a ghost i think is haunting my stuff on PH.

ok, brian, i see you made the correction and added two or more references on me. good for you. but i'm unclear, from the wording of this month's 'rules', as compared to the 'rules' of last month's contest, as to when the voting ends and the outcome is announced. my lawyers are keeping a close eye (or two) on you, sir! do we have until one minute after 11: 59 p.m. on the 12th to vote, or on the 11th? and is that Greenwich Mean Time? or South Dakota (u.s. mountain time?) time? [[even though Greenwich is in England, i don't think it is mean.]]

next poet: VALSA GEORGE, another PH friend. (well, valsa isn't really next. i am, but ladies first. i'll come back to me later) I may never view a sunset quite the same anymore! “sallow”………like a sick patient? yuck! but I guess it may fit……..’yellow or pale brown’. I’m looking across the valley now; yes, dull brown/(ochre) over the mountain tops! and FOUR “d” words in line 5 of stanza 1. I like it. [VALSA, I’ve sent you a private message about you-know-what.][oops! my mistake] I know you meant “plain” when you typed “plane”. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - when I read “star spangled sky”, I immediately thought of my “beloved “ u.s. flag aka ‘the star spangled banner’, immortalized In an American Revolutionary song, The Star-spangled Banner. OOPS! now I’VE made another mistake. that song commemorated a victory over the vile British, BUT it was during the War of 1812, which came about 30 years after we booted the British out of “America” during the Revolution; they came back for another beating. in case any readers has never seen the u.s. flag, it does have a ‘field of stars’, one for each of our states, in the upper left hand corner………….depending on which way you hold the flag of course. I just KNOW that the flag-makers in China are hoping we add a state so more flags will be ordered, as the numbers of stars will change again, as it last did for the additions of Alaska and Hawaii.? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I “love” stanza 5, especially the lines: “The moon has begun her stately round In flashing dress, she swaggers past the clouds” I see you have referred to the Moon as “she”, as I sometimes refer to God as She. I think I’ve always thought of the moon as a he. I’ll have to get my telescope out and take a better look. oops (again) ! you are correct, and she is wearing a sari! especially in the latter half of the poem, Valsa has stuck close to the “assignment” of “God’s Kind Of Poetry”. I think I will have to disagree some with Leonardo’s thoughts on Poetry and Painting. I think each has some relationship to the other, at least for some people, but I think Painting is painting and Poetry is poetry. Besides the fact that Valsa uses so many big words (she must be an English professor) , I do like this. sometimes I, or my wife and I, step out onto our deck and gaze up at the stars at night. now I suppose I’ll always be looking into the corner of the deck, expecting to see Valsa step out to join us. welcome, Valsa. thanks for sharing. bri