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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367721" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Peculiar Poetry Competition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The £10,000 prize attracted numerous contributions, <br>Some national and some as distant as Australia.<br>All poetry submitted by email for a specific purpose, <br>So that the emails could be filtered upon their arrival...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Folders had been created and incoming filters, too, <br>With keywords like God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit.<br>Other folders received names or places or events.<br>Other folders received specific topics or famous causes.<br>Other folders received swear words or hate words...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then there were extra folders for specific spelling errors, <br>Punctuation queries or historical interpretations...<br>Finally, the hundreds left in the Inbox were considered...<br>One human judge had been selected to read these.<br>Usually, with his or her decision being final...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a published poet, he was truly determined to do well.<br>This was his golden opportunity to find something precious.<br>Using his own poetry-reading filters as to what pleased him, <br>Vibrant themes, exquisite rhymes, rhythms and romance...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dividing the surviving poets into men, women, boys and girls, <br>He searched for something profound beyond the norm...<br>Something that didn't involve the mere commonplace, <br>Something that didn't rewrite poems already done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty poems remained from the hundreds he'd read.<br>Each impossibly wonderful, yet there they were...<br>All by the same poet, with each meriting special regard.<br>The judge cautiously informed the competition organisers, <br>Who, at first, were amazed, for they couldn't believe it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The winning poet lived in the same street as he did...<br>She had known the poetry judge for several years.<br>She was well aware of all his poetry preferences...<br>She'd written each rhyming poem as if for him alone, <br>Using time-tested sage advice to write-what-you-know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had no inkling of these actions behind the scenes, <br>He just knew her poetry was truly magical, wonderful...<br>The organisers heard him read these powerful poems out, <br>Nodding their immediate winsome approval at each one.<br>Without a single doubt, her poems were awesome, lovely.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for the life of them, nobody could select a winner.<br>The poems were so special they enhanced each other.<br>They had to be joint winners, no other choice possible, <br>Each worthy, receiving its rightful share of the prize.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brenda Burton received her well-deserved winnings.<br>She donated it all to the Oxfam charity to help save lives.<br>Along with her gift aid entitlement, the blessing increased.<br>Her photo was in the papers, pictured next to the judge.<br>Yes, many thought there was a secret romance behind it all, <br>Yet the only romance was in the poetry itself... honest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q>
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All poetry submitted by email for a specific purpose, 
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