This Poem was Submitted By: James C. Horak On Date: 2010-03-08 21:10:50 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Outcome to Date in Contest

With only seven voting, here are the compiled votes for February for the top 11 poets. Please note this month is tabulated differently. Once I've accorded the best of each poet, and I've run out of contending poets, I will start over again until I have the top 11 poems. So there just  might be more credit given one, two, or more poets for more than one poem of theirs.  54 points for MAH's splendid, Base Camp equaling 10 points in the contest                                   combined with his 1 point from last month totals          11 points 34 points for MSS's wonderful, Torn Pages equaling 9 points in the contest                                   combined with his 8 points from last month totals         17 points 24 points for TEW's highly evoking, Tenured equaling 8 points in the...                                   combined with his 5 points from last month totals         
 points 22 points for Terry's excellent, At the Self-Defense Class for Ladies (7 pts.)                                   combined with her 91/2 from last month                    16.5 points 20 points for Cheyenne's, accomplished, To Write Like Poe, for 6 points                                   combined with her 91/2 from last month                    15.5 points                   
.5 points for Duane's solid, Gardener equaling 5 points for the month                                   combined with his 6 points from last month                15 points
 points each for Dellena (The Gloved One) and Lora (Ghost Winds)                                   splitting seventh and eighth places. (3.5 points each)                                   combined with 6 points from last month for Lora            9.5 points                                   combined with 4 points from last month for Dellena        7.5 points 23 points for TEW's, Life's Sentence for over-run points (2)                                    pushing total score to                                                                                           15 points 17 points for MSS's, Utopia for 1 over-run point pushing total score to                      18 points points                                                                                 Mr. Patton retains his Â½ point from last month and I hope               Â½ point                       he wins points this next month. Anyone finding a mistake in these figures let me know and I'll go back over my tabulations. I wanted to find a way to give poets some credit for multiples and this seemed fair...to allow for over-run points this way.                                    

Copyright © March 2010 James C. Horak


This Poem was Critiqued By: DeniMari Z. On Date: 2010-04-01 03:43:54
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.90000
Looks good to me. Thank you for putting in extra effort to stimulate, and pick the lack luster site back up. Wishing the best to everyone here - true talent is more than obvious, it what holds this site up. blessings, Deni


This Poem was Critiqued By: claire currier On Date: 2010-03-10 23:34:59
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
So much time and energy you contribute to TPL each month James.....thank you again for being such an important part of the link. God Bless, Claire
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