Vote for the poet of the year
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- Marginal Value
- Gamble
- Ben Bernanke
- He Didn't Like Ground
- Ian Davies
- Cork all Star
- Triptych
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“Chezza for being the inspiration behind it”
Chezza hadn’t thought about THAT!^
On second thoughts, poetry is the literature of the GODS (and evidently GODDESSES), wonderful words about wonderful subjects.
Like Chezza!
This puts an entirely different complexion on things!
An outstanding result, an outstanding winner (and, err, an outstanding subject!)
Even when Chezza loses, Chezza wins!
Well done, Triptych/Jac!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Well done Jac, great poem!! And thanks Nathan for running this, the threads have provided me with many many laughs!!
Thanks to all as well actually who contributed, it’s amazing how much a bunch of people you’ve never met can add to your happiness, love you all! Even the dastardly Chezza!!
A lot of sour grapes from me as per expected. I did rave about Tippi’s recreation of the flowerpot men with its modern clever storyline, and without doubt, its appeal caught the imagination of the people that matter in here.
Dare I mention them the clicksters !I felt so sorry for DAAVID bottoming out I was almost tempted to vote for him myself but in the end after a lot of humming and hawing I voted for gamble at about 420 am on Thursday morning in a sneaky pre-dawn balaclava exercise. I had hoped evidence of my crime would lie undetected but gamble’s name gave me away to Ben and Big G who were up at that ungodly hour.
I think the new poster of the year should not be running this compo as they are still reeling in cloud cuckoo land from their big win. I thank Nathaniel for his good spiritedness but really ‘ as many as you like ‘ was an excellent hors d’oeuvre, but surely one poem should have been starred for selection before the vote started and in the final the poems pasted up to mimick Booker in rhyme.
All that said and done he did have the nous to do it and it got a huge audience this year and multiple entries so 🤔 thank you for creating that, and I’m being a bit hard on him as me grapes truly are sour.
Jac sat on the mouse and won
The Jills couldn’t do the hill their words run !Jac won
I’m done 👍Another Father Ted video , we should just start a Father Ted thread , the world’s a better place for Father Ted
“sneaky pre-dawn exercise balaclava exercise”
Classic gamble covert operations strategy: https://youtu.be/DVJkfXeTs9Q
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"The Groundsman off his rocker again.
Well done Tippi and
the merry men and women
from Meydan
( Sour sour 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇)
Congratulations Triptych. I hope you have a well-deserved, splendid party to celebrate.
Taking a small leaf out of Gamble’s book: I have always loved the concerto party that goes with Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto; the second movement, the cool, calm and beautiful bit. It must be wonderful to play such a beautiful tune like the one in the first four minutes of that movement. So, having the composer snatch it away from the virtuoso pianist, and give it to the the string section of the orchestra, and make the poor soloist just sit and wait and listen to the splendour of what, in other peoples’ hands, would be a pianist’s dream. A good concert party, celebrating a splendid work of art.
Gamble I appreciate your thoughts as always…
mine were that there was no prize money involved so rules were relaxed
getting everyone together and the more poems posted, more for people to read etcCharles Darwin to conquer the World
Gamble I’m a mere amateur in madness terms in comparison to your Einstein level of lunacy , I leave here Gamble official theme …
I first discovered Bill in a book left by a kindly soul at the top of Camden Town tube station’s long down escalator thirty off years ago. Call it madness or good fortune I picked up the freebee and it started me on a journey.
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to’
And, as soon as Bill was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn’t hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Truffle, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set.
Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by LOOKALIKE PEOPLE the grey crowd, the clicksters who would believe anything and with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states – united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity – he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and menace shows; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land and it was at this extremely low nadir that Bill so longed for The little weed he’d left behind and even the big boots of the man who had had his dinner.
Yet it was then at his lowest point, that his eyes filled with words that were so hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet at the same time tinged with heartache that they staked Bill as a man that had truly escaped his pot and the whining of little weed imploring him to mosey on ol’ home, and he had definitively proved himself – with his selfless journey of discovery – as far better than his old stick in the pot compatriat Ben.
WHO WAS IT WHO HAD WON THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF LIFE CHILDREN ?
IT WAS BILL !
IT WAS BILL !!
IT REALLY WAS BILL !!!
First and foremost, sincere congratulations to Triptych for a terrific poem and a ‘Lady Aurelia in the Queen Mary’ style win 🏇🔥🔥🔥
A hearty salute to Gamble for runner-up considering he was a bit out-of-sorts in the early stages of the competition.
Big thumbs up to Nathan for his commitment. organisation and patience.
As for me, I contacted a Medium and have been told that Gobjob is to be reincarnated from the great biscuit tin…
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Gamble that made me laugh the thought of BigG and myself catching you out, I like to think we’d made a good army patrol us lot on this forum (or maybe more dads army), there seems to be at least a couple of us logged in and posting at literally all hours of the day/night!
Hob Nobs and Cherryade in the Lounge for all competitors MV
kindly paid for by Nathaniel unfortunately Gamble can’t attend as he has no socks to wear after treading so many sour grapes last night as his feet have turned purple.Thanks to Gladders, Rummy, Ben, HDLG, Gamble, Chezza, Marginal Value & Cork, Ghost and Father Ted of course.
Like Ben said it has been a laugh all the way through.Ghost will be back next year with re-inforcements courtesy of…..
‘The Bride of Gobjob’ A mariage of Hob Nobs and Fox’s Creams but that’s as sweet as it gets.
Best of luck with that Ghost I think Nathan will have you 1/5 for that one.Thanks again Nathan like Ben said it’s been great fun with some wicked humour.
I think if it had gone on another 12 hours Gamble would have sneaked in and stolen it when Big G and Ben were
off their guard…so extra Hob Nobs for them if Chezza hasn’t got there already and scoffed the lot..
Jac
PS..I actually voted for HDLG’s the ballad of Chezza and Nathan I thought he adapted it so well from Victoria Woods Ballad Of Freda And Barry which always has me in stitches…Couldn’t believe it didn’t make more votes in the Final, well played Ground. Wasn’t she fantastic
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Triptych im half way through her biography just now , 2 books for a £1 bargain at my local cancer research shop , seems she very much had a screen persona , off screen she was very quiet and shy , suffered depressions , loved reading which she used to source her material , I’ll leave this here for you , while there’s no official prize for winning you can have this from me
Well done on the win Jac and thanks to Nathan for running this comp. Although I didn’t take part it’s been fun reading and can almost see Chezza clicking every 5 minutes to see if he has another vote, whilst the biscuits quickly disappear as each deadline looms.
As if Chezza could ever wait as long as five minutes between increasingly-frustrated visits!
Frantically checking for votes, which fail to materialise, while binge biscuit eating, is a stressful business for any narcissist!
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