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Friday
Sep302011

Title Poetry Contest Finalists & Winner (!!) 

Okay, guys! We have finalists for our Title Poetry Contest! Hope everyone had fun with this.

 

Finalist #1

On the twelfth night,

Harry Potter (spilled) the goblet of fire

On Dante and caused the inferno of a lifetime,

Which raged on through an eclipse

That happened after twilight

--From Hollie in Fort Wayne

 

 

 

Finalist #2

Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

Went to Treasure Island

Looking for the Wizard of Oz

And the Merchant of Venice,

Who they found in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

-- From Sam in Austin

 

 

 

     Finalist #3

 

 

Alice in Wonderland

Went on Gulliver's Travels

By hitching a ride with the Lord of the Rings

     And teaming up with Harry Potter & his deathly hallows

     To complete the Canterbury Tales on time

   -- From Morgan in Dayton, Ohio

 

 

Finalist #4

In the Vatican Cellars,

The woman with the Scarlett Letter

Read of Memoirs of a Woman in Pleasure

and imagined the worlds of Grimm's Fairy Tales

And realized she was not so Wicked, after all.

-- From Joe in Seattle

 

 

 

 

And our winner-- drumroll, please!

 

Singing from the well,

The Ginger Man underwent a

Metamorphosis

From one of the Beautiful Losers

To Lady Chatterly's Lover

-- From Katie in Seattle

Congratulations, Katie! We'll be in touch about your prize. Thanks so much to everyone who participated!

-- Kristen D.

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