A Winter Only World Contest Winners!!!

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Published: Nov 24, 2012

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Welcome to the first ever PoeticalCondition Contest winners blog!!!
I hope you are excited. We sure are!

Drumroll please!

First place:

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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 winter only world—she took a single breath and turned away
facing a new fate, one buried in snow no different from where she came.
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 watch me as I molt my flaws away under the wondrous,
winter sun.
I shall soar,
from my axel I shall spiral sublimely on the outskirts of onlookers' smiles-
as well as my own,
& I shall skimpily,
silkily,
glide through the snowflake strata unto the star-studded shangri-la.
I find my freedom in a winter only world.
Let me lease into my
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, Chezzy-Am 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 Chezzy-Am, 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