We are thrilled to announce that the winning poem from our 1000 Tweets Contest is “When Her Father Died” by DannyPoet.
Many thanks to our Poetry Editor, Rose Auslander for running the contest. Heaps of additional thanks go to our judge, Matthew Lippman.
We hope you have enjoyed this poetic event. We certainly have:-)
The winner of the unFold 1000 Tweets Contest will be announced this week. Stay tuned!
Huge congratulations to the ten finalists in our 1000 Tweets Contest, listed below in the order in which their poems appeared on the unFold blog:
Nathalie Boisard-Beudin, “Bridge”
Dorothee Lang, untitled
Peg Duthie, untitled
Bud Smith, “Pale Blue Eyes”
Debbie Feller, “Essentially Bare”
Howie Good, “Night in the Country”
Julie Corbett, untitled
Elizabeth Lara, “The Amazing Box of Used-To-Be”
Ivo Drury, “Decades”
DannyPoet, “Where her father died”
We hope you have enjoyed reading these poems on our blog. This week, the winning poem selected by Matthew Lippman will be announded and posted on the unFold Twitter stream. Stay tuned!
She moved the rocks in our garden
shuttling back and forth
letting the hauled stones
pull her hands
to the ground
© 2013, DannyPoet
Also visit DannyPoet at http://www.DannyPoet.com
Sixties next
Father’s last
Still hoping
to shake
his shadow.
© 2013, Ivo Drury
Ivo Drury workshops words in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
