I think that’s a worthwhile suggestion - next month, I’ll try a poll with multiple options and we’ll see how it all turns out.
I still have absolutely no idea what I’ll do in the event of a tie - so far, it’s been close but it’s never turned out that way by the end…
And I absolutely agree - I think this is the best month yet.
New run-off poll for the tied ones? (Or the top three?)
I like the run-off poll for tied poems. Perhaps, if we do the multiple choice voting, making the run-off poll a single choice poll would work, too.
Excuse me, I think I have something in my eye
Very interesting to compare the poll results to my picks. No resemblance! Anyway, at least four that I really liked and I agree with others that for me to pick one really wasn’t representative of how I felt.
Now I can see it’s just as well I missed out on participating this time around; I would’ve been 'way out of my league. Again.
Psh, I remember liking your stuff before!
Seriously? I remember one of your poems really sticking out. Are you going t make me go back and look it up?
:: thinks for a moment ::
Yes. Yes, I am.
lol. This one. I recall thinking this felt like a classic anthology poem, and reading it again I still like it.
ETA, on ties: I think I said this elsewhere before, but I’d vote for co-winners. In fact, I might even vote for no voting at all, particularly if anyone finds the whole process discouraging…I’d rather see more submissions than fewer.
Well, in particular, the one about Cortez and the Aztecs (something like Tenochnolatan; I can’t remember exactly without looking it up…) had that particularly strong finish about teaching them a new form of sacrifice, which to me evoked the Wilfred Owen poem about Abraham and Isaac.
I also remember the one where ‘a spider is always welcome’, and I very much enjoyed ‘Old Man Quill’ with its juxtaposition of the down home folksy and the creepy secret.
I’d say as a general note that I hope all of the poets who participate in the Sweatshops are gaining in confidence. The poems being written are beyond being just an idea developed on the fly - these are gems worth polishing. For me, at least, I still write my other things through a process of gestation/creation/editing/lather, rinse, repeat, but I find it tremendously inspiring to know that an hour is enough time to develop something beyond just a ‘spark’ of an idea…
ETA - Tenochtitlan was the title.
Thank you! Always nice to be appreciated.
I vote for multi-votes; and I think this month has the most votes cast ever since, right?
First of all, I’d like to thank all of the poets for participating this month. Crowbar of Irony +3, jjimm, Yllaria, In Winnipeg, Maserschmidt, AppallingGael, pandoranoid, Serenata67, mauxlicious - please take a well-deserved bow.
And with the closing of the poll, I take great pleasure in congratulating Maserschmidt, our Poet Laureate of the SDMB and our first repeat winner - December 2009 and now March of 2010.
I’d also like to once again thank the Mods and Admins for their support - it is greatly appreciated. Thank you as well to those who took the time to read and vote. It has once again been tremendous fun, and I look forward to the next one sometime in late April.
Thanks Le Ministre de l’au-delà for taking the time and effort to organise this; the system has really been smoothed out.
Yes, indeed. And congrats to our repeat winner, Maserschmidt. Huzzah!
Thanks, and a big thank you to Le Ministre de l’au-delà for both the organizing and his ongoing attempt to make the format better every month. It’s clearly a labor of love, and we’re all benefiting from it.