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First Place 
I hope you are excited. We sure are!
Drumroll please!
First place:
Winter SkinIn Romania, the gypsies wander
the streets, cold and weary.
Seven times the gypsy boy asked me
for the scarf I wore, haggard and old-
the weight of diaspora is heavy.
Each time I refused. His poverty
made him beautiful, and in the cold
of that December I let him freeze,
to wait for bird songs in the ceaseless din
of city noise in winter skin.
by ~penlender
Second place:
Pride of a Nationfear coalesced with doubt, crystallizing in the pit of her
stomach—intestines rotting with hatred, she prayed as
the men passed by, eyes tightened against winter winds
while drums beat to a somber march…her heart dropped,
cerulean blood pooling around the soles of her feet, hidden
from the oxygen filled air none of them could help but breathe
as the torches’ fire filled the sky and knapsacks overran with
precious goods…flee the city, they all did, with the pride of Russia
behind them, their homes lay as ashes and towns known only by
their wooden signs…snow shrouded the land and covered the people
born in a wi
by ~LightOverpowers58
Third place:
Serendipity and SnowfallI am la vie en rose,
a newborn with as many mini bones in my body as possibilities.
Lovelily,
I am potential waiting to be tapped into.
I am a spectrum of light,
serenity in the symmetry of a snowflake.
I come veiled in lace from everlasting love's womb with my budding,
fresh,
goose-flesh tucked tenderly underneath.
I spread my spirit wide,
outstretching my feather-tips &,
supplicated by twizzles,
I catch my ballerina's foot & fly.
In these fleeting,
finite moments of ubermensch suspension in multiple salchows comes clairvoyance,
a kindness beyond the absolution of mundane minds.
With the key to perfection being repetition,
I pray you
by =Sammur-amat
Prizes listed below.
Please allow a week or two for delivery of all prizes.
If you have not received something by then, please contact the person who is supposed to be giving it to you, or me (*RiseandBe). NOT the group.
Prizes:
First Place:
- Feature in the Group Journal
- Features in *RiseandBe's, ~NotenSMSK's, *prettyflour's and ~DearPoetry's personal Journals
- Llamas from ~AnotherPassenger, ~DearPoetry, ~NotenSMSK, =Starija and *RiseandBe
- 30
from ~NotenSMSK- 200
from *RiseandBe- Submission placed in the groups "Featured" folder
- One critique each from ~NotenSMSK, *shehrozeameen and *prettyflour, on poems of your choosing (pending approval from admins in question).
- 5 fav's from ~NotenSMSK
Second Place:
- Feature in the Group Journal
- Features in *RiseandBe's, ~NotenSMSK's, *prettyflour's and ~DearPoetry's personal Journals
- Llamas from ~AnotherPassenger, ~DearPoetry, ~NotenSMSK, =Starija and *RiseandBe
- 20
from ~NotenSMSK- 150
from *RiseandBe- Submission placed in the groups "Featured" folder
- One critique each from ~NotenSMSK and *shehrozeameen, on poems of your choosing (pending approval from admins in question).
- 3 fav's from ~NotenSMSK
Third Place:
- Feature in the Group Journal
- Features in *RiseandBe's, ~NotenSMSK's, *prettyflour's and ~DearPoetry's personal Journals
- Llamas from ~AnotherPassenger, ~DearPoetry, ~NotenSMSK, =Starija and *RiseandBe
- 10
from ~NotenSMSK- 50
from *RiseandBe- Submission placed in the groups "Featured" folder
- One critique from ~NotenSMSK, on the poem of your choosing.
- 1 fav from ~NotenSMSK
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!!!
Thank you all who entered! It was really tough to decide, you all wrote beautifully!
Hope to see you again next time.
- Mo
Thank you all so much!
It's our pleasure! You deserved it!
A Winter Only World Contest Winners!!!by #PoeticalCondition