Comments on: DWT Poetry Competition: Fifth Round

By: Tsietsi

Tsietsi — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:51:05 +0000

im in love wt poetry u cnt knw dat unless u col me

By: MOM

MOM — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:16:13 +0000

As a middle aged woman, I found the first line of the Mustache a bit off-putting and couldn’t finish the poem! I’ll try again to read it knowing it was written to a little girl, but it’s gross thinking about women with mustaches.

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:08:09 +0000

As a barroom officianado of smoke-filled rooms of sexual cultural repression from stupors of barley and hops in a frenzied self-fulfilled prophecy of “Whiskey River Take My Mind,” I must admit Ms. Hudelson’s poem takes me back to less interesting days as a U.S. Marine in Barstow, CA’s “California Country” where, not only was I a witness to what she describes, I no doubt (if I could remember as I was in a stupor of barley and hops) was one of the actors. Nicely put in verse.

Christopher T. Winter

By: Gary Moore

Gary Moore — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:45:00 +0000

Garrett,
The Mustache took me back a thousand years… a boy looking at my father wishing that I had my own mustache. Now 40? years later and I have never had one. I am very sad now.

By: DUANE

DUANE — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:35:08 +0000

I noted trish’s comments re the jump in votes and noted that when I voted Garrett had a 2% lead but during the next two hours he quickly fell behind by 90 votes or more. You stated “Personally, I find it difficult to believe that someone can gain an upwards of 60 votes in five minutes–maybe Mr. Burnett has a lot of friends–I don’t know. Statistically speaking, it seems questionable when the next leading contenders are at 20 and 10 votes, respectively.” Since S. Winter-Hudelson is now 2% ahead and made the same jump and %margin, I can only assume that it is believeable and statisically possible.