Contest Winners 2023

December 2023 - Open Contest 

Theme: The Well Dressed Poem

1 st Place -  Daniel A. Martinez,  Clothes Caption 

2 nd Place -    Vaughn Neeld,  The Straw Hat’s Tale 

3 rd Place -  Ian Hoyman,   The Topper’s Boast 

1 st hm  -      Marcel Duclos,  Sacristy 

2 nd hm  -   Vaughn Neeld,  I Knew She Still Loved Me 

3 rd hm -  Cheryl Wilkie,  Snow Boot’s Tale 

November 2023 - Members Only 

Theme: Change

1 st Place -  Sandi Rhynard White Wash

 2 nd Place -  Marcel Duclos Old Salt Talk, York Harbor, Maine

 3 rd Place - Tracy Mitchell Sweet, Green Icing

1 st hm  - Sandi Rhynard Empty Nest

 2 nd hm  - Nancy Bierman Where Did Forever Go?

3 rd hm -  Tracy Mitchell Peripeteia  

October Contest: 2023 - Open Contest

Theme: Religious or Spiritual Contest

1 st Place  -Guidance, Gloria Viglione

2 nd Place - One, Charles Rakay

3 rd Place - Amen to That, Ann Klaiman

1 st hm -  Have Fun!, Martin Postma

2 nd hm - Signs and Light Susan, Harman

3 rd hm - And He Shall Send His Angels, Cheryl Miller

September 2023 - Members Only 

Theme: Hidden

1 st Place -  Murmurs of Distress,    Ann Klaiman 

2 nd Place -  The Leaving, Charles Rakay 

3 rd Place -  Shakedown,  Charles Rakay 

1 st hm -  Nice Things,  Jean E Sidinger 

2 nd hm -  Unseeing,  Cheryl Wilkie  

3 rd hm -  Flight Delay,  Cheryl Wilkie 

August 2023 - Open Contest

Theme: Heat

1 st Place - Fifth Grade Boys at their Best in 1949, Marcel Duclos

2 nd Place - Among the Dunes, Vaughn Neeld

3 rd Place - I Am Wild and I Am Fire, Susan Harman

1 st hm - Summer’s Welcome Yield to Fall, Martin Postma

2 nd hm - It Simmers, Jean Sidinger

3 rd hm - The Hot Soup of Summer, Gay Williford

July 2023 - Open Contest

Theme: Keys Open Doors Winners

1 st Pl - Open Soul, Susan Harman

2 nd Pl - They Say, Justine Hoke

3 rd Pl - Her Garden, Jean Sidinger

1 st hm -  Untitled, Daniel A. Martinez

2 nd hm - Keys, Jean Sidinger

3 rd hm - Remember, Amie Duclos

June 2023 - Contest Canceled

May 2023 - Open Contest

Theme: Prompt Picture

1 st Place - The Long November Dark, Olivia Rissland

2 nd Place  - The Moment, Marcel A Duclos

3 rd Place  - Broken, Charles Rakay

1 st HM -  The Voice, Charles Rakay

2 nd HM -  Karma, Gloria Vigilone

2rd HM -  The Moon Is Calling, Aime E. Duclos

April 2023 - Open Contest

Theme: Tanka

1 st Place - Anticipation, Cheryl L. Wilkie

2 nd Place - Sunshine so welcome, Jean E. Sidinger

3 rd Place  - Healer, Canna O’Carroll

1 st H.M.  - I wait for your call, Marcel A. Duclos

2 nd H.M. -  Omnipotent Oak, Jean E. Sidinger

3 rd H.M. -  Snowfall In, April Cheryl L. Wilkie

March 2023 -  Members Only 

Theme: Trees

1 st Place - To My Dear Linden,  Marcel Duclos 

2 nd Place - Aspen Sisters, Tracy Mitchell

3 rd Place -  Trees for High Places, Pandora Wilson 

1 st H.M.  -  Birch Trees, Tracy Mitchell 

2 nd H.M.  - Under the Trees, Charles Rakay 

3 rd H.M.  - Haiku-Water, Marcel Duclos 

February 2023 - Open Contest

Theme: Both Sides

1 st Place - Ya Cain’t Have One Side “Thout the Other, Cheryl Miller

2 nd Place -  In Memoriam, Nancy Bierman

3 rd Place -  What I Want to Know, Martin Postma

1 st HM -  How quietly we forget, Charles Rakay

2 nd HM -  Pen Palinode, Nancy Bierman

3 rd HM -  Pending Susan, Harman

January 2023 - Members Only

Theme: Before 

1 st Pl -  “I saw your messages with him”, Olivia Rissland

2 nd Pl -   Cast Shadow, Cheryl Wilkie

3 rd Pl -  b c, Cheryl Miller

1 st HM -  In Words, Gloria Viglione

2 nd HM - On the Perception of Time, II Olivia Rissland

3 rd HM -   This is how I begin to say good-bye to you, Oliva Rissland