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Voting time! All members.

All members, you don't even have to have been a participant , go to
http://www.neopoet.com/workshop/view/15115
read the submissions and vote for who most successfully created a serious, emotional, philosophical, political or whatever poem out of what is basically by form a humorous form. It is very, very hard to do. Read them and vote, with a very, very short explanation of why it worked so well.

I submitted my own but hey are clearly disqualified as workshop,leader.

Cone one, come all. This is a serious example of form versus content, nature versus nurture, and whether there is any real purpose in reading other people's poetry or if we are all just a bunch of wankers,
with a jolly cheerio, Please vote, with the URL, name and author for your preferred limerick at
http://www.neopoet.com/node/15115

Comments

My Vote is for the following limerick submitted by Jess

My entire life is full of strife
the violence is unbearably rife
the scent of the blood
has become a flood
more than a gun or a knife.

War Hero by Gemma Stoner was a close second

There was a war hero from Fife
who found himself stuck with a knife
and a blitzkreig of boots
and without two hoots
his killer gets on with his life.

However since Jess has already withdrawn from the race being WS Leader, obviously my vote for Gemma Stoner be counted..

Thanks Jess for organizing this WS

Regards,

raj (sublime_ocean)

MY limericks are not part of the competition. I could not possibly accept them as workshop director, but thank you for your vote.
So I take your vote for Gemma's "War Hero"
http://www.neopoet.com/workshop/poems/war-hero-inheritance-limerick-ws
(please include the URL, it is the address at the top of your browser)

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

author comment

I have already mentioned that since you are not part of the competition, my vote for Gemma for her War Hero Limerick should be accepted as my vote...

Regards,

raj (sublime_ocean)

this comes with working after too long without sleep. Story of my life. Thanks anyway.

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

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