I won the Barnes & Noble poetry contest!

[astro]

First Place even and with a Teemings poem! Yay me!

Odd thing is that it was shortest and tiniest poem and I’m still not really happy with it. But the Judges liked it and that all that matters.

Congratulations (Astro), your poem “Eulogy” has won First Prize for the 2006 Barnes and Noble Poetry Competition. There were many excellent entries this year for me to judge. The reading will be Saturday April 8th at Barnes and Noble at 7pm. Please bring two dozen copies of your winning poem in case others would like a copy. There will be prizes and refreshments.Henry Wilson will be your host. I will be away on mandatory work training. I’m sorry I’ll miss hearing you read your superb poem.

Prizes? Oh my! Maybe a free latte? Who’s Henry Wilson?

So now I need sensitive, brooding poet togs… and a soul patch. I don’t have time to grow a decent soul patch! Damn!

The winning entry

Eulogy

the arc of her life
spiraled out
a flickering
stutter of fate
tossed back down
into the black
foaming static
yet
singing softly
she arose
her love radiant
defying transcendence
to a pointless
quantum smear

[Improv_Geek]

Very cool! Congrats

[Nic2004]

You’ve made us all very proud! Well done. Do we get to read it and what did you mean by the “Teemings” referance?

[twickster]

Congrats!

And I think you look adorable in the beret – go ahead and wear it.